We all love singing out loud to our favorite songs, but back then, before you could just google the lyrics, you simply sang what you thought you heard. That often meant entire generations confidently sang out lines that weren’t quite right, making misheard lyrics a part of music culture for a long time.

Our ears sometimes trick us into hearing something completely different from what the artist actually wrote. The results can be funny, or plain confusing, and they’ve become a shared cultural experience across generations. Countless songs have their own famously misunderstood lines that listeners still get wrong today. 

These mistakes have stuck with us for so long it's hard to remember the correct lyric. Here’s a look at some of the most famous examples everyone continues to mishear even today.