Misheard Green Day Lyrics

[Chin for a Day]

10 minutes ago, Tinkle said:

sure is but after all we are all the same

I have to agree with you.  I always heard because we are outlaws Yeah, but your lyrics are better.  I always thought that that one line was kind of cringeworthy in an otherwise close to perfect song.  DAmn, we agreed  

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

47 minutes ago, Scattered Wreck said:

I have to agree with you.  I always heard because we are outlaws Yeah, but your lyrics are better.  I always thought that that one line was kind of cringeworthy in an otherwise close to perfect song.  DAmn, we agreed  

Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks it's kind of lame. 

[Hermione]

Omg how dare you insult that line! It's tongue in cheek  

And you can always listen to Road to Acceptance for "we're all the same" 

[Thatsername]

On 22.2.2017 at 8:44 AM, Tinkle said:

I thought Holiday was just cause because we are all the same (which I prefer to be honest)

I always heard that, too, and I still tend to sing it at the live shows because I kind of got used to it

[DeJennsitized]

I like 'we're all the same' simply because it would be easier to enunciate - I didn't realize that he was singing 'outlaws' for a good while after first hearing the song.

Outlaws makes more sense though to be fair. He is specifically talking about how setting fires etc is not meant for him, therefore...we are not all the same.  

Another lyric I realized I'd always misheard is "I can see through you cause you're wearing thin" in Haha You're Dead....I always heard "I can still do you" (meaning I can still kick your ass, not the other thing, lmao)

[St. Jonny]

The Outlaws line is wicked!! I was so happy years back when I read the lyrics and figured out that's what he was saying there. Before I also used to hear "this is a lies on Holidaaaaaaayyyy!!!" which obviously wouldn't make sense. Lives on holiday is a good line.

[Hermione]

51 minutes ago, St. Jonny said:

The Outlaws line is wicked!! I was so happy years back when I read the lyrics and figured out that's what he was saying there. Before I also used to hear "this is a lies on Holidaaaaaaayyyy!!!" which obviously wouldn't make sense. Lives on holiday is a good line.

Yes! The way it's written in the lyric book is so epic too  

[whatsername888]

My dad misheard the good riddance line 'another turning point' and thought it was 'another turnip boy' lmao he was going around telling everyone that he liked green days 'turnip boy song' until I overheard one of his conversations and asked wich song he was talking about lmao... and my art teacher misheard american idiot as 'dont wanna be an american in a yacht' haha too funny 

[Montclare]

Okay, just discovered I've been singing She wrong for 23 years.  I thought "Are you feeling like a social tool without a use" was "are you feeling like a sex show doll without a use".

Mind blown.

Edited March 12, 2017 by Montclare

[Christian's Inferno!]

15 minutes ago, Montclare said:

Okay, just discovered I've been signing She wrong for 23 years.  I thought "Are you feeling like a social tool without a use" was "are you feeling like a sex show doll without a use".

Mind blown.

LOL. Did you really think that was the lyric? 

[bouncingoffthewallbja]

26 minutes ago, Montclare said:

Okay, just discovered I've been signing She wrong for 23 years.  I thought "Are you feeling like a social tool without a use" was "are you feeling like a sex show doll without a use".

Mind blown.

My parents are beside me and I'm trying so hard not to crack up right now 

[Montclare]

23 minutes ago, MysticManiac said:

LOL. Did you really think that was the lyric? 

Yup!  I used to go back and forth between trying to figure out if he was saying doll or toy, but never once did I question the sex show part of it.

[UNICORN VOMIT]

47 minutes ago, Montclare said:

Okay, just discovered I've been signing She wrong for 23 years.  I thought "Are you feeling like a social tool without a use" was "are you feeling like a sex show doll without a use".

Mind blown.

Yours works

[DeJennsitized]

 

2 hours ago, Montclare said:

Okay, just discovered I've been singing She wrong for 23 years.  I thought "Are you feeling like a social tool without a use" was "are you feeling like a sex show doll without a use".

Mind blown.

That is amazing  

[americanidiot5998]

The first time I heard Saint Jimmy, I thought Billie said the N-Word instead of Edgar, as in Edgar Allen Poe  As soon as I thought he said that I was like "No way he said that, I must've miss heard it." Turned out I did and I'm relieved so.

[so-unholy]

I've never really looked through this thread before, it's my new favorite 

For way too many years I was singing, "welcome to a new kind of tension, all across the idiot nation" - only recently realized it's "alien nation" and I'm so ashamed.

[UNICORN VOMIT]

1 hour ago, so-unholy said:

I've never really looked through this thread before, it's my new favorite 

For way too many years I was singing, "welcome to a new kind of tension, all across the idiot nation" - only recently realized it's "alien nation" and I'm so ashamed.

Don't worry BJ makes it up as he goes as well

[whatsername888]

Just realised I've been singing Welcome to Paradise wrong all these years.... instead of 'pay attention to the cracked streets and the broken homes' I've been singing 'pay attention to the backstreets and the broken hoes'  lmao 

[X-Kid_88]

On 12/03/2017 at 9:32 PM, Montclare said:

Okay, just discovered I've been singing She wrong for 23 years.  I thought "Are you feeling like a social tool without a use" was "are you feeling like a sex show doll without a use".

Mind blown.

I still hear it a sexual tool without a use even though I know it's social...the mind hears what it wants

[Forever Now]

In Basket Case I still hear "Am I just paranoid how much I suck" I actually prefer to hear it that way as I find it to be more relatable. 

[Yosuke Hanamura]

With Going To Pasalacqua, I hear "I beat the nasty weather", even though I know it's "I'm in for nasty weather"

On 3/14/2017 at 7:20 PM, X-Kid_88 said:

I still hear it a sexual tool without a use even though I know it's social...the mind hears what it wants

Sometimes I'm convinced that Billie sings that on purpose live, because I hear it as well. Even though i've trained my brain to say social.

[St. Jonny]

In Waiting where he sings "better thank your lucky staaars!!" after that I used to hear shiiit and piiisss, I was like 12 when this came out though so.

[unextraordinarygirl]

I have to admit that there are still songs I don't understand the lyrics too. Even though I've listened to them hundreds of times and even looked up the lyrics. But when I listen without the lyrics in front of me I still can't make sense of it or remember what they are supposed to be. 

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

7 hours ago, unextraordinarygirl said:

I have to admit that there are still songs I don't understand the lyrics too. Even though I've listened to them hundreds of times and even looked up the lyrics. But when I listen without the lyrics in front of me I still can't make sense of it or remember what they are supposed to be. 

I gave up trying a long long time ago. 

[M0n3y]

On 17-3-2017 at 3:25 AM, unextraordinarygirl said:

I have to admit that there are still songs I don't understand the lyrics too. Even though I've listened to them hundreds of times and even looked up the lyrics. But when I listen without the lyrics in front of me I still can't make sense of it or remember what they are supposed to be. 

Strangeland. Like wtf Billie, get that mic out of your mouth.

When trying to look up the lyrics I get different versions every single time.