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At the end of Hitchin' a Ride, is it "don't know where to go" or "don't know where I'm going"? I've tried looking this up, but that part of the lyrics are never written out for some reason.

My mom also heard the N word in St. Jimmy at the Edgar Allan Poe part. I was never sure why until now. Haha.

I'm almost sure it's actually "Don't know where I'm going" :)

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The biggest fail was when I listened to Nuclear Family for the first time.

I heard "I just want some action, so give me Mike Dirnt" instead of "give me my turn". Omfg :wacko:

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The biggest fail was when I listened to Nuclear Family for the first time.

I heard "I just want some action, so give me Mike Dirnt" instead of "give me my turn". Omfg :wacko:

That ones being going around for a while.

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That ones being going around for a while.

To be quite honest it's become the actual lyric in my mind. I don't even think of the right one anymore. :lol:

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really unimportant and not green day technically but

In Mother Mary i first heard "There's a garden in the bog there", then "There's a garden in the fog there". Now i know it's "There's a garden in the park there" but i cant stop hearing the lyrics i thought it was.

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I thought that "Thinking out loud and acting in vein" in Walking Alone was "Thinking Back Now, How on earth did it fade?"

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I thought that "Thinking out loud and acting in vein" in Walking Alone was "Thinking Back Now, How on earth did it fade?"

Oh..... So that's what it says......

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I thought that "Thinking out loud and acting in vein" in Walking Alone was "Thinking Back Now, How on earth did it fade?"

It's actually "vain", might just be you misspelled it but the two words do have different meanings.

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Okay, I know this sounds really stupid, but when I was three years old, I remember my mom playing "When I Come Around" in the car... And we driving past a friends house, and I knew that the lady that lived there was named Lauretta. For some reason, that just got in my head, and I thought that the song went "Here I come, Lauretta" instead of "When I come around"... :P

Of course I eventually learned the right lyrics, but looking back on it, it's kinda funny.

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This bit in my Favourite Son; "So where's your fucking champion? On a bed you laid" Instead, I hear; "On a pantie raid!"

I will never hear it the right way. :lol:

Omg - I do that too and am SO amazed our way is not the right lyric!! *rolls eyes, shakes head, grins*

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I used to sing: "and I'm sick and tired of" instead of "on a steady diet of" in JoS

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I noticed that in Stop When The Red Lights Flash, "I'm not the hurting kind" sounds like "I'm not the herding kind". Now imagining a dog being asked what kind of dog it is and replying "I'm not the herding kind" when listening to that line.

I have a corgi (a herding dog) and a hound.....and I always imagine that the hound is doing just that very thing.

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I was listening to Insomniac and Nimrod lately and can't help but think how Billie actually pronounces some words rather...I don't know how to say it, oddly, I guess? I mean, when he's not slurring them.

And not exactly Green Day, but I'm pretty sure people have already commented how "I walk alone" in BoBD sounds too much like "I wore cologne," especially when Billie is singing it. Kind of funny though because there's this Pinhead Gunpowder song where the lyrics are exactly that. "I WORE COLOGNE! I WORE COLOGNE!"

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My 7 year old nephew heard Welcome To Paradise and started singing along. Thanks to Billie's pronunciation of "paradise", he thought he was singing "pair o' dice" :lol:. Forever going to hear this now.

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Walking Contradiction - I swear I thought the lyrics were "I shit so deep I can't run away." Turns out they weren't.

Nuclear Family - I thought it was "Baby, baby, it's a blowjob."

I must have hearing issues.

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Nuclear Family - I thought it was "Baby, baby, it's a blowjob."

I must have hearing issues.

In your defense, plenty of other Trilogy lyrics are just like that one. :P

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In your defense, plenty of other Trilogy lyrics are just like that one. :P

Hah yeah they are. Admittedly, I do have a soft spot for the trilogy. Some of those songs really hit home, and I really like most of them musically very much. Lyrically, they definitely are not American Idiot-quality. But I must confess, I did like the very juvenile and childish feel some of the lyrics had, possibly because I'm still in high school.

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Hah yeah they are. Admittedly, I do have a soft spot for the trilogy. Some of those songs really hit home, and I really like most of them musically very much. Lyrically, they definitely are not American Idiot-quality. But I must confess, I did like the very juvenile and childish feel some of the lyrics had, possibly because I'm still in high school.

Me too! And I like those lyrics as well so being in high school isn't a requirement :D

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Me too! And I like those lyrics as well so being in high school isn't a requirement :D

Really? That's awesome! I thought I was the only one who liked the trilogy, to be honest.

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Really? That's awesome! I thought I was the only one who liked the trilogy, to be honest.

Not at all! There's people who dislike it here but plenty who like it as well, if you have a look around you'll find both.

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Hahah it got me almost a year to figure out that "arms" in 21 Guns are not the arms you got on the side of your body, but weapons ooh I feel SO dumb about this :,) BUT i was like in primary school and didn't got the meaning of the lyrics anyway.... In general, when you get to really understand the lyrics the song gets an entire different meaning.

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Hahah it got me almost a year to figure out that "arms" in 21 Guns are not the arms you got on the side of your body, but weapons ooh I feel SO dumb about this :,) BUT i was like in primary school and didn't got the meaning of the lyrics anyway.... In general, when you get to really understand the lyrics the song gets an entire different meaning.

I was like 12 or 11? Thought the same thing and was like "WTF is it about?!" :DDD

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I know that I'll think of more later but I used to think that "Know Your Enemy" said " Do you know your enemy, know your enemy, the color of the enemy, ohhaa."

(And I was just like,"wow that's racist") :P

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Not at all! There's people who dislike it here but plenty who like it as well, if you have a look around you'll find both.

...and people who pretend to dislike it but secretly listen to it nonstop under the covers. :toocool:

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