Chevelle - self destructor

*Go fight yourself" I somehow heard “go bite your tongue” Which is a form of suicide requiring extreme will. It made sense that the person in the song is so dead set they’d rather die than fail/admit they are wrong.

Blinded by the light, revved up like a “douche” another runner in the night

Had no idea what they meant by that

Ever since I was a kid I thought in Bon Jovi’s “Dead or Alive” he sang “on a stale horse I ride”. I figured he had been riding his horse out in the desert a long time, it’s all tired, no water… yeah it’s a stale horse. My partner will never let me live it down.

When I was a kid I heard The Go-Go’s Our Lips Are Sealed as “Alex the seal”.

Doesn’t matter what they say

In the jealous games people play

Alex the seal

I thought it was about a sad bullied seal.

Billy Jean is not my lover

She’s just a girl that thinks that I am the one

But

The chair is not my size

People are Strange by the Doors “Streets are up when you’re going down.” I.E. “The whole world is happy when you’re depressed.”

George Thoroughgood’s Bad to the Bone. Thought the line was "The head nurse spoke up. She said, leave us alone. " Instead of “Leave this one alone.”

I thought, damn, that new born is gonna screw the head nurse. That IS bad to the bone!

FYi, these are called Mondegreens after a famous song that was mis-heard by pretty much everyone. I think it was Welsch.

Mine is England Dan and John Ford Coley’s I’d really love to see you tonight.

Thought he sang, “I’m not talkin bout my linen.”

Instead of, "I’m not talkin bout movin in "

Made up a whole story in my mind about how they met in a Laundromat.

“Sharp dressed man” always heard it as “Shy best man” this may have had a minor counterproductive impact on my behavior when I was a teenager.

Jeff Davis of Who’s Line is it Anyway has a story about a friend of his mishearing “reach down, ease the seat back” in Van Halen’s Panama as “reach down, ease the seed bag”, as in adjusting his nuts. Always cracks me up when I think of that or hear the song

I… Didn’t listen well to the flip in Valhallalelluja and misheard the whole rest of the song for like 6 years until I saw the videoclip. If you know, you know. I didn’t even hear the word IKEA.

I thought “Teen Spirit” was about Imitators and mashed potaters

I used to think the KISS song went I wanna rock and roll all night… and part of every day.

It’s far less hard core that way.

When I was about 10, instead of “smoke two joints”, I thought it was “spoke to Joyce”.

I spoke Joyce in the morning
I spoke to Joyce at night
I spoke to Joyce in the afternoon
it makes me feel alright

I spoke to Joyce in time of peace
and too in time of war
I spoke to Joyce 
before I spoke to Joyce 
and then I spoke some more

I spoke to Joyce when I get up
In the car I spoke to Joyce
I spoke to Joyce 
when I play videogames
and at every 10,000 points 
I spoke to Joyce!

My mom laughed for 5 full minutes when I told her.

My roommate used to think Jimi Hendrix sang “excuse me while I kiss this guy” until I explained it was “sky”.

Although in his defense years later I heard a live version where I’m pretty sure he changes it for a verse or two to “kiss this guy.”