Some songs can really get stuck in your head. They play over and over until maybe, you don't even know what the rights words are anymore. These questions contain some of the most often misheard song lyrics of all time. How well does your memory serve?
Justin Timberlake sang 'Sexy Back' with the lyric "Come here, girl, ______."
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"Come here, girl go 'head get gone with it" might not have been the lyric you heard, but that's the one that Justin was singing all those years ago...
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"Come here, girl go 'head get gone with it" might not have been the lyric you heard, but that's the one that Justin was singing all those years ago...
Taylor Swift's song 'Blank Space' had the lyric "Got a long list ___."
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"Got a long list of ex-lovers" was famously misheard by tons of Swifties. However much of a Starbucks lover she is, she did not write that as a lyric.
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"Got a long list of ex-lovers" was famously misheard by tons of Swifties. However much of a Starbucks lover she is, she did not write that as a lyric.
TLC's song Waterfall's contains the lyric "Don't go ___ waterfalls..."
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TLC sang a lesson that everyone needs to learn at some point "Don't go chasin' waterfalls..."
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TLC sang a lesson that everyone needs to learn at some point "Don't go chasin' waterfalls..."
"Don't be afraid to catch ____" is a lyric from the Calvin Harris song "Feels".
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It shouldn't be surprising that the lyric is "Don't be afraid to catch feels" but man, it really does sound like fish...
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It shouldn't be surprising that the lyric is "Don't be afraid to catch feels" but man, it really does sound like fish...
When singing the song Bennie and the Jets, finish the lyric "Oh Bennie, she's really keen, she's got electric ____, a mohair suit..."
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"Oh Bennie, she's really keen, she's got electric boots, a mohair suit" is the actual lyric, but it's not nearly as funny.
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"Oh Bennie, she's really keen, she's got electric boots, a mohair suit" is the actual lyric, but it's not nearly as funny.
The lyric from Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' goes "Here we are now, entertain us! A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, ___..."
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"Here we are now, entertain us! A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido" are the correct final lyrics to this song.
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"Here we are now, entertain us! A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido" are the correct final lyrics to this song.
"Is this more than you bargained for yet? Oh, ____ I'm watching you two from the closet..." is from Fall Out Boy's song 'Sugar We're Going Down'. What's the missing line?
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While many of these answers would be possible, the correct lyric is "Is this more than you bargained for yet? Oh, don't mind me I'm watching you two from the closet..."
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While many of these answers would be possible, the correct lyric is "Is this more than you bargained for yet? Oh, don't mind me I'm watching you two from the closet..."
In 'Creep' by Radiohead, the band sings "I'm a creep, I'm a ____."
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If you ever feel like you don't belong, blast this song and sing along to "I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo..."
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If you ever feel like you don't belong, blast this song and sing along to "I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo..."
'Hit Me With Your Best Shot' by Pat Benatar contains this line, "That's okay, let's see how you do it, put up ____, let's get down to it"
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Hit Pat with your best shot as she sings the lyric "That's okay, let's see how you do it, put up your dukes, let's get down to it"
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Hit Pat with your best shot as she sings the lyric "That's okay, let's see how you do it, put up your dukes, let's get down to it"
It's Taylor Swift who sings the 'Our Song' lyric "When we're on the phone and you talk real ___..."
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"When we're on the phone and you talk real slow..." Taylor Swift sings in her iconic debut single.
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"When we're on the phone and you talk real slow..." Taylor Swift sings in her iconic debut single.
In Panic! At the Disco's hit jam 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' Brendon Urie sings "I chime in with a 'Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?' No, it's much better to face these kinds of things ____"
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"I chime in with a 'Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?' No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality" sings Brendon Urie in this iconic track.
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"I chime in with a 'Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?' No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality" sings Brendon Urie in this iconic track.
"Who Let the Dogs Out" by Baha Men contains this line: "Who let the dogs out? ____, ____, ____"
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Though most people sing "Who, who, who" the correct lyric is "Who let the dogs out? Woof, woof, woof!"
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Though most people sing "Who, who, who" the correct lyric is "Who let the dogs out? Woof, woof, woof!"
'Second Chance' by Shinedown sings the line "I just saw Haley's comet, ____..."
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The song completes the lyric "I just saw Haley's comet, shooting." What nice imagery!
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The song completes the lyric "I just saw Haley's comet, shooting." What nice imagery!
Mr. Brightside is the Killers' most iconic song, including the lyric "Jealousy, turning ___ into the sea..."
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Who doesn't love screaming the line "Jealousy, turning saints into the sea"?
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Who doesn't love screaming the line "Jealousy, turning saints into the sea"?
'Royals' by Lorde has the line "And we'll never be royals (royals). It don't run in our blood. That kind of ___ just ain't for us..."
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"And we'll never be royals (royals)" she sings in the song "It don't run in our blood. That kind of luxe just ain't for us..."
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"And we'll never be royals (royals)" she sings in the song "It don't run in our blood. That kind of luxe just ain't for us..."
'If This Was a Movie' by Taylor Swift has the line "Come back, come back, come back to me ____"
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Though many people believe she's saying Eli, the correct line "Come back, come back, come back to me like..."
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Though many people believe she's saying Eli, the correct line "Come back, come back, come back to me like..."
'You Give Love a Bad Name' by Bon Jovi has the lyric "Shot through the heart, _____."
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"Shot through the heart, and you're to blame" is the correct lyric that Bon Jovi sings in this classic.
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"Shot through the heart, and you're to blame" is the correct lyric that Bon Jovi sings in this classic.
'All About That Bass' by Meghan Trainor sings the phrase "Because you know I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass, no ____"
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She's all about that bass, about that bass, but there is absolutely no treble involved. Thanks, Megan!
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She's all about that bass, about that bass, but there is absolutely no treble involved. Thanks, Megan!
'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' by Green Day contains the line "I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known, don't know where it goes, but _____"
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"I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known, don't know where it goes, but it's only me" sings this punk rock group.
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"I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known, don't know where it goes, but it's only me" sings this punk rock group.
'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons has the lyric "This is it, the apocalypse. Whoa! I'm ____ up, I feel it in my bones."
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The correct line from this track is "This is it, the apocalypse. Whoa! I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones"
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The correct line from this track is "This is it, the apocalypse. Whoa! I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones"
'All-Star' by Smash Mouth contains the lyrics "Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming, ____ to the rules and I hit the ground running"
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Yeah, that's right. The line is "Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming, fed to the rules and I hit the ground running"
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Yeah, that's right. The line is "Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming, fed to the rules and I hit the ground running"
'This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race' by Fall Out Boy has the lyric "I am an arms dealer fitting you with weapons in the form of words. And don't really care which side wins. Long as the room keeps singing, ____"
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"That's just the business I'm in" is how this lyric ends up going.
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"That's just the business I'm in" is how this lyric ends up going.
Another "All-Star" by Smash Mouth contains the line "So much to do, so much to see, so what's wrong with taking the ____"
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Smashmouth makes the point in their song, "So much to do, so much to see, so what's wrong with taking the backstreets?"
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Smashmouth makes the point in their song, "So much to do, so much to see, so what's wrong with taking the backstreets?"
Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen, the band sings "Oh, mamma mia, mamma mia (Mamma mia, let me go, ___ has a devil put aside for me"
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Though knowing all the words to this song is a feat in itself, the right line is "Oh, mamma mia, mamma mia (Mamma mia, let me go, Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me."
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Though knowing all the words to this song is a feat in itself, the right line is "Oh, mamma mia, mamma mia (Mamma mia, let me go, Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me."
'Jumper' by Third Eye Blind: "You're the first to fight, you're way too loud, you're the ____ on a burial shroud"
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"You're the first to fight, you're way too loud, you're the flash of light on a burial shroud" is the actual lyric of this song.
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"You're the first to fight, you're way too loud, you're the flash of light on a burial shroud" is the actual lyric of this song.
Another line from 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen: "I see a little silhouetto of a man, _____"
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"I see a little silhouetto of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche" is the lyric...whatever that means...
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"I see a little silhouetto of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche" is the lyric...whatever that means...
Another 'Mr. Brightside' by the Killers lyric goes like this: "He takes off her dress now, ___."
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In this cryptic sequence, the singer is watching his love with another man. He sings "He takes off her dress now, let me go..."
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In this cryptic sequence, the singer is watching his love with another man. He sings "He takes off her dress now, let me go..."
'Complicated' by Avril Lavigne has this complicated line: "And you fall, and you crawl, and you break and you take what you get, and you turn it into ___"
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Don't mess with Avril! She'll write you a song with a lyric like this: "And you fall, and you crawl, and you break and you take what you get, and you turn it into honesty and promise me..."
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Don't mess with Avril! She'll write you a song with a lyric like this: "And you fall, and you crawl, and you break and you take what you get, and you turn it into honesty and promise me..."
"Complicated" has a few rough lines, like this other one: "Honesty and promise me ____"
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She's "never gonna find you faking," and she's so confident that she even put it into song lyrics!
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She's "never gonna find you faking," and she's so confident that she even put it into song lyrics!
"When I Grow Up" by The Pussycat Dolls goes like this, finish the lyric!: "When I grow up I wanna see the world, drive nice cars, I wanna have ____"
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Though middle schoolers loved to sing the alternate lyrics to this, the line goes "When I grow up I wanna see the world, drive nice cars, I wanna have groupies..."
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Though middle schoolers loved to sing the alternate lyrics to this, the line goes "When I grow up I wanna see the world, drive nice cars, I wanna have groupies..."
'Dancing Queen' by ABBA boasts the lyric "See that girl, watch her scream, ____ the dancing queen..."
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"See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen" is the actual way that this lyric should be completed.
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"See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen" is the actual way that this lyric should be completed.
From that same song, 'Dancing Queen' also contains this lyric: "Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the _____"
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Not sure how you would feel the beat from a tangerine, but the right word to fill in the blank is "Tamborine".
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Not sure how you would feel the beat from a tangerine, but the right word to fill in the blank is "Tamborine".
In Purple Haze, Jimi Hendrix sings "Excuse me while I ________."
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Though any of these answers would have been fun to sing, the correct lyrics are "Excuse me while I touch the sky..."
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Though any of these answers would have been fun to sing, the correct lyrics are "Excuse me while I touch the sky..."
In Bon Jovi's song 'Livin On a Prayer" the man sings: "It doesn’t make a difference if _____ or not”
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"t doesn’t make a difference if we’re naked or not” might be funny, but it's not the correct lyric...right?
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"t doesn’t make a difference if we’re naked or not” might be funny, but it's not the correct lyric...right?
"Take me down to _____" sings Guns N' Roses in one of their hit songs. Can you fill in the line?
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"Take me down to the Paradise City" they sing in their iconic song, Paradise City!
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"Take me down to the Paradise City" they sing in their iconic song, Paradise City!
In Nirvana's song 'Smells Like Teen Spirit" the group sings "Here we are now, ______"
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"Here we are now, entertain us" is not just a wish, it's a demand from this 90s grunge band.
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"Here we are now, entertain us" is not just a wish, it's a demand from this 90s grunge band.
In 'Blinded by the Light' by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, they sing "________, another runner in the night."
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The lyric is actually "Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night" but the other ones would be way funnier.
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The lyric is actually "Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night" but the other ones would be way funnier.
Duran Duran sings in 'Rio' this line: "It means so much to me, like a birthday, or a ____."
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"It means so much to me, like a birthday, or a pretty view" is the actual way this lyric ends up going.
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"It means so much to me, like a birthday, or a pretty view" is the actual way this lyric ends up going.
Fall Out Boy sings 'Light Em Up' with the line "My ____ know what you did in the dark"
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"My songs know what you did in the dark" is the belted out lyric that Fall Out Boy sings in this modern rock anthem.
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"My songs know what you did in the dark" is the belted out lyric that Fall Out Boy sings in this modern rock anthem.
When the Monkees sang their hit song, what was the iconic chorus? "Then I saw her face, now _______"
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"Then I saw her face, now I’m a believer" is both the end of the lyric and of course, the name of the song!
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"Then I saw her face, now I’m a believer" is both the end of the lyric and of course, the name of the song!
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