I will say that one example for all is Abba’s “Mamma Mia” which I interpreted the beginning of chorus “Mamma mia, we are collagen” and the beginning of the second part of it “He’ll something broken hardly”. Don’t ask past me why I had to make it about intercellular matrix.

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    Blinded by the light . To me it always just sounds like he is saying dressed up like a douche , I can’t even remember what the actual lyrics are.

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    Don’t tell your friends about the tour bus.

    I left some brains down in Africa.

    She was a fax machine she kept her modem clean.

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      There was a series of bumps for Digimon marathons during the summer once when I was a kid that went

      “Beat the heat with a digi-beat.”

      My siblings and friends and I would instead say “beat your meat with a parakeet.” I still sometimes think about it and hum it to myself lol

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    “I’m blue, da ba de da ba die…”

    “I’m blue, I would beat off a guy…”

    You’ll hear that every time now, you’re welcome.

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      A Seattle radio station had a PSA at the time after listener feedback: “He is not saying ‘I’m in need of a guy’… not that there’s anything wrong with that kind of lifestyle”.

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    I was almost 25, in the 1990s, singing along in my car to Elton John, confidently belting out “"Love, I feel it in my hands, I can tell by the things I would do with another man”" when I suddenly realized that it was unlikely a guy would have a hit song about what he’d do with a guy in the 60s or 70s. Even as a little kid I’d known Elton John was gay, and hadn’t really been brought up to think that was weird (thank you, mom and dad and your theater friends) .

    I looked up the lyrics and it’s love lies bleeding in my hands, it kills me to think of you with another man and the name of the fucking song is love lies bleeding, I didn’t know that either.

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    Maybe no one else will find this funny, but I do. My parents were Cuban immigrants to the USA. My uncle in particular was in his prime dating age when I was a little kid, so he would play the hits when I was around. Since he didn’t know English yet, he would just guess the sounds the singers were making when he sung along. For that reason, I thought the chorus to a song was “spoon apurataaaa” and that songs didn’t need to make sense. The singers could just make noises representing their feelings rather than use actual words. It wasnt until much later and a bunch of bullying in middle school that I learned almost all popular songs are based on words and “spoon apurataaaaa” was actually “smooth operator”. Til this day, I still think of a spoon when I hear Smooth Operator by Sade.

    Not really relevant video of a Smooth Operator

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    🎼 Blinded by the light / Wrapped up like a douche / A motor homer in the night 🎶

    The actual lyrics are:

    Blinded by the light. Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night