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Manfred Mann's cover of Blinded by the Light has entered the chat. Probably the most misheard lyrics in the entire history of modern music.

It's "Revved up like a deuce."

Wait... Manfred Mann's version is a cover? Yep, Blinded by the Light was originally performed Bruce Springsteen.

For like a decade+ I thought Umbrella by Rihanna went "under my arms forever"

That Land Down Under song. I still have no idea what the women or men do but I can hear the thunder.

Excuse me, while I kiss this guy.

"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy!" - Jimmi Hendrix

Blink 182 "the state looks down on side of me"

If you know, you know.

"You know I'd like to keep my cheating strategy"

Actual lyrics: "You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today"

Blind Melon, "No Rain"

Oh I was singing loudly along with Elton John one day, "Love, I feel it in my hands, I can tell by the things I would do with another maaaan" as I had done every time I heard the song when I suddenly realized that probably wasn't something someone would sing in the 1970s, looked it up and the NAME of the song is Love Lies Bleeding.

Kings of Leon, Use Somebody. I always thought that he said "You know I wanna eat somebody. Someone like you!"

Nirvana, On a Plain "The finest day, I ever had, was when I learned to cry like a man."

It's supposedly "cry on command."

I'm here to say that I figured out "stomp on the stoop when you hear the funk loop". It took me 30 years.

I have an auditory processing disorder sooo all of them lol

I thought that Controversy by Prince was actually called Electric Pussy. Which, for Prince, actually tracks.

"It's a corned beef sky... alright, is it some other guy..." - The Cars, Bye Bye Love