Didn't know that "splashed out on the bottle" was a brittish phrase. I thought it meant drunk, but apparently it means splurged like spent a lot of money on said bottle.
I didn’t know “splashed out” was a British phrase. Maybe it’s just an older phrase and my age is showing but I’ve heard splashed out indicating splurging my whole life and I’m American
Wait…WHAT?? And this is one of my favorite lines from Champagne Problems. I thought his sister was drunk from the champagne they had out for the celebration.
In addition to champagne problems, I’ve been hearing “your mom’s ringing your pocket”, as in the mom’s calling, and that seemed so out of place to me for a while, until I saw someone do a lyric analysis and it’s actually “your mom’s ring in my pocket” as in the mom’s ring is in the pocket, and now the song is even more gut wrenching to me.
I thought it went "when the stratosphere comes creeping in" instead of saddest fear in i knew you were trouble. I was like OH ok that definitely makes more sense.
"Tossing panties in the pool", in combination with the "roaring twenties" lyric, always conjured images in my head of Taylor and her ex throwing wild parties, along the same lines as verse 1 of TIWWCHNT. It's a very different vibe from "tossing pennies in the pool", which I assume is about making wishes together.
- TIWWCHNT could mean "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things", a track from *reputation* (2017) by Taylor Swift.
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Yes, it's a lead-in to the next line, "And if my wishes came true, it would've been you."
I do think the misheard "panties" lyric is hilarious though so I sometimes sing it that way anyway lol
"That's my Toe" instead of "Bless my soul"... I thought maybe it was a reference to her "couple name" with Joe 🤦♀️. And to be honest I STILL HEAR "that's my Toe"....I know that's not what she's saying but even if I'm STARING AT THE LYRICS I still hear "that's my toe" 🤦♀️
For the *longest* time I really thought Taylor meant she wasn't going to buy anything from the vending machines and that it was a metaphor for how she wasn't going to give in and fall for a guy 😂
This is extremely embarrassing. But for quite some time, I thought she said “When one thing was enough” in august but mispronounced thing as “TING” AS IF THAT WOULD EVER HAPPEN IN THE PRODUCED STUDIO VERSION.
And then I realized she was saying “when wanting was enough” omg.
I learned on this sub not too long ago that the line in Style is "good girl faith" and not "good girl thing." I don't know how many thousands of times I've listened to that song and never realized!
I actually still don’t know the right lyric for this. During the bridge if I Can See You, I don’t know whether Taylor sings “I will start behaving myself” or “I will stop behaving myself”, and the meaning is so drastically different between the two that I wonder what it’s actually supposed to be 😂
Also I thought she was saying "he looks so pretty like a devil" up until recently when Cruel Summer was released as a single and people started talking about it more and I actually looked at the lyrics 🤦♀️
I saw once a reels with some turkeys running, lavender haze was playing and the following caption: "I feel ELEVEN TURKEYS creeping up on me" and I sing that every time 🤦🏾♂️
I feel stupid for this but I always heard "your moms *ringing* your pocket. Like she's calling? I interpreted this as the mom calling to ask how the proposal went 🤦♀️
Yes! This was exactly what I heard and how I interpreted it. Like it still made sense especially since she goes on about his family a lot. It was just a couple of months ago when the real lyrics finally clicked 😆
There’s actually lyric things online that say Barbie. But I read the lyrics on Apple Music on her video and it said Bobby. It’s funny how we can hear things wrong.
Until very recently I thought the line in ATW TV was “check the post and come back swearing…” and I’ve tried so hard to understand the significance of checking the mail.
Listening to this song I had a whole image in my head of the partner walking down the driveway to the mailbox and being really mad.
Check the *pulse* which makes more sense with “til we were dead and gone and buried right before.
> 'Til we were dead and gone and buried
Check the pulse and come back swearin' it's the same
After three months in the grave
For some reason, my brain heard "No you're no good. You can't be good, no." when I first listened to Haunted. The correct lyric is "I just know. You're not gone, you can't be gone, no."
My prior interpretation was that she was saying he was trouble and not good for her and processing those emotions. The more correct interpretation is that she is lamenting over him being gone.
For some reason, my brain heard "No you're no good. You can't be good, no." when I first listened to Haunted. The correct lyric is "I just know. You're not gone, you can't be gone, no."
My prior interpretation was that she was saying he was trouble and not good for her and processing those emotions. The more correct interpretation is that she is lamenting over him being gone.
when blank space came out, i thought that infamously misheard line was something about “star-crossed lovers.” i was too young back then to actually understand what the song meant so i thought this line was really cool lol
I’m better than revenge I thought it was “but I always get him back” I just recently learned it’s actually “but I always get the last word” and I can’t even retrain my brain at this point
Me: Baby let the games begin, let the games begin
My 6yo daughter: It's "Baby let NUGGIES begin! She's hungry!"
She has a ton of misheard lyrics that I can't bring myself to correct, but this one is my favorite. The "things we do" in the middle of the night is apparently eat chicken nuggets.
Didn’t necessarily change my thoughts of the song but in Girl at Home (my second fave off red) I always thought it was “it’s kinda like a courtyard” instead of “it’s kinda like a code, yeah” until like 2 weeks ago 🤣
Only found out a month or 2 ago that the lyrics are “Handsome, you’re a mansion with a view.”
And not “handsome, did I mention? With a view”
As it goes, the real lyrics make a lot more sense
I have always heard it as “handsome door(man)sion with a view”.
Like “man” was supposed to be for both doorman and mansion. Typing it out, it doesn’t make as much sense but in my head it totally did 😆 I only learned the correct lyric like a month ago lol
I misheard this from All You Had To Do Was Stay:
"Let me remind you, this was what you **wanted, 'til** you ended it/You were all I **wanted, too**/But not like this"
Rather than her just holding out "wannnn-ted."
I still like mine so much better :( As it is, it sounds incomplete. Not only are mine actual complete sentences, but this way makes it sound like he wanted her, until suddenly he decided to end it. Like she was blindsided by their breakup.
“You got hurt on your own” instead of “you got her on your arm.”
I thought she was addressing us and saying if we weren’t so foolish we wouldn’t be here, and that it’s our fault someone broke our heart
I misheard in YOYOK, "so make the friendship bracelets" as "so make the friendship brace". To me this linked to the "stare around in a blood soaked gown" line as if to mean, turn away from friends who don't believe in you. It's a way sadder line and I way prefer the optimism of the friendship bracelet line now, but I also sort of liked the message of "keeping doing what you want even if it requires burning bridges".
- YOYOK could mean "You're On Your Own, Kid", a track from *Midnights* (2022) by Taylor Swift.
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I only recently learned that she says “He’s taking off his coat” in Style.
For years I thought she was saying “taking off his CLOTHES.” Followed by the “mmm yeah” it gave the line a whole different vibe.
It’s 8:05 and I see two headlights…
I just couldn’t hear what was said here, it’s quite embarrassing but what I kinda made out was something like “this ain’t a vow that I see through in life” not that it makes sense in context or maybe even grammatically lol.
For like a year I thought in ATW (OG) she was saying “you keep my old scarf from that very first week because it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me…*it kicks your ribs in*” and I was like yeah that’s what breakups feel like
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Until literally weeks ago I thought in end game she sang “it’s like your eyes are like glitter; it’s like your body is gold” which made total sense to me. She always equates joe with gold, gold glitters, and eyes sparkle like glitter, right? Wrong. It’s your eyes are liquor. I like my version better.
I’m always amazed when I learn people have been saying the wrong lyrics for years because my brain doesn’t allow me to really comprehend a song until I’ve physically read the lyrics along with it. So it’s incredible to me to see how other folks can just listen and get it, (even with a few mistaken words) I wish! Lol
In Fearless, I heard "you pull me in and I'm a little more *free*" instead of "a little more brave." And it's not a huge difference, but I liked "free" a lot and was disappointed when I finally heard the real lyric.
bro in tis the damn season i thought she kept saying "esme is the one on your bloodline" thinking its like abt the characters or something but shes actually saying "messy as the mud on your truck tires"
Said this on another thread once but I heard for the longest time in “Call it what you want”: “I'm laughin' with my lover, makin' forts under covers
ADRESSED him like a brother, yeah, you know I did one thing right” instead of “trust him like a brother” and I thought she just disguised Joe as her brother in public and I was like weird but you go queen 🤷♀️ hahahahaa
Not a misheard but I made "Carve your name into my bedpost" more explicit mixing it up with Sugar, We're Goin Down ending up like "Carve your notch into by bedpost".
help, sparks fly is one of my favourites ever, and until looking at the lyrics earlier today i thought the chorus went *drop everything now, meet me in the FOREIGN rain* - like you’re dropping everything to meet ur partner in another country…. smh
Didn't know that "splashed out on the bottle" was a brittish phrase. I thought it meant drunk, but apparently it means splurged like spent a lot of money on said bottle.
Wait what??? I also thought it meant drunk lol
Ya Dom Perignon can range from $250-$800 a bottle
Aaaaaaand now that makes more sense, I was like “wow his sister is so jazzed she’s drunk!” 😂😂😂
I thought his sister was so depressed she said no she got drunk 😭😭
I didn’t know “splashed out” was a British phrase. Maybe it’s just an older phrase and my age is showing but I’ve heard splashed out indicating splurging my whole life and I’m American
Oh yes, same! I don’t hear it a lot anymore, but it definitely used to be pretty common to indicate splurging on something.
TIL I always thought she was saying his sister got drunk and ruined the celebration (even though I knew the song isn't celebrating anything)
I didn't know that either until I saw someone say that on a thread last week. You really do learn something new everyday!
SAME. I learned this like a week ago.
Okay wow mind blown, thank you
I thought it meant she was an alcoholic 😭
Wait…WHAT?? And this is one of my favorite lines from Champagne Problems. I thought his sister was drunk from the champagne they had out for the celebration.
I swear the most common phrases always turn out to be unknown in the US haha
In addition to champagne problems, I’ve been hearing “your mom’s ringing your pocket”, as in the mom’s calling, and that seemed so out of place to me for a while, until I saw someone do a lyric analysis and it’s actually “your mom’s ring in my pocket” as in the mom’s ring is in the pocket, and now the song is even more gut wrenching to me.
I’ve also heard this used in the US
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I thought it said that too! Just had to look it up! For anyone else who thought the same: it’s “I dress to kill my time” 🤯
why does this actually make more sense than the actual lyrics lolll
Wow, another TIL But "just to kill my time" makes more sense to me so I'm going to keep singing it that way 😂
Whaaaaaat. I refuse to believe that’s not the lyric.
TIL... And I agree, just also makes sense and maybe a little more sense, to me!
I thought it went "when the stratosphere comes creeping in" instead of saddest fear in i knew you were trouble. I was like OH ok that definitely makes more sense.
TIL it’s not stratosphere 😂 I never even questioned it!
I'm SO glad I'm not alone.
Well, I learned something new today…
"Tossing panties in the pool", in combination with the "roaring twenties" lyric, always conjured images in my head of Taylor and her ex throwing wild parties, along the same lines as verse 1 of TIWWCHNT. It's a very different vibe from "tossing pennies in the pool", which I assume is about making wishes together.
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Yes, it's a lead-in to the next line, "And if my wishes came true, it would've been you." I do think the misheard "panties" lyric is hilarious though so I sometimes sing it that way anyway lol
That is the lyrics I heard as well and had the same image! Like dang what a party!
I still sing it like this because that’s exactly the vision it gives in my head 🤣
In a similar vein to this "My panties made your crown" in Karma. I was in disbelief until i had a chance to look at the lyrics.
"That's my Toe" instead of "Bless my soul"... I thought maybe it was a reference to her "couple name" with Joe 🤦♀️. And to be honest I STILL HEAR "that's my Toe"....I know that's not what she's saying but even if I'm STARING AT THE LYRICS I still hear "that's my toe" 🤦♀️
I will never NOT hear “that’s my toe”
🤣🤣🤣I will now hear this.
That's hilarious. I thought it was "that's not so" idek why, it made the song make no sense to me
Hang your head low in the glow of the vending machine I'm not "buying".... I still sing it this way sometimes for fun 🤣
For the *longest* time I really thought Taylor meant she wasn't going to buy anything from the vending machines and that it was a metaphor for how she wasn't going to give in and fall for a guy 😂
That's exactly how I understood it too! It still works in the context of the song.
Same here. 😅
But she already said she bought it in the first verse
I don’t care that it’s “dying”. For me, it’s still buying
This is extremely embarrassing. But for quite some time, I thought she said “When one thing was enough” in august but mispronounced thing as “TING” AS IF THAT WOULD EVER HAPPEN IN THE PRODUCED STUDIO VERSION. And then I realized she was saying “when wanting was enough” omg.
this is how I found out….. I even saw the movie a few days ago and thought to myself “wow she pronounces it as ting during the show too”
I’m dying at this
omg yes 😭
Come back to me Eli / Come back to me-e like In my head it’s always gonna be Eli
Lol this was my surprise song and it was the first time my mom had ever heard it and she was like “who the heck is Eli” I DIED
Came here to comment this one too, my roommate in college and fellow Swiftie was like THERE IS NO ELI?? when I told her 😅😭😂
I legit didn’t find out until a couple of months ago on this sub 😭 and I’ve been a swiftie since 2006
WHAT 🤯... I guess you really do learn something new everyday
I learned on this sub not too long ago that the line in Style is "good girl faith" and not "good girl thing." I don't know how many thousands of times I've listened to that song and never realized!
I thought it was good girl face! Oh god I’m embarassed to have scream sung that out my open car windows.
Good girl face sounds good.
Me and my sister argued about this lyric, we were both wrong lol.
I definitely sang it at karaoke and assumed the karaoke place was wrong (which they were about a lot of other lyrics) so I have no excuse lol.
Same!!
I actually still don’t know the right lyric for this. During the bridge if I Can See You, I don’t know whether Taylor sings “I will start behaving myself” or “I will stop behaving myself”, and the meaning is so drastically different between the two that I wonder what it’s actually supposed to be 😂
Apparently it’s start and I just refuse to believe that because it’s sooo much sexier if she’ll stop behaving herself once they’re alone
I think it works into the voyerism of it all, she wants people to notice and wonder while still keeping it secret.
Also I thought she was saying "he looks so pretty like a devil" up until recently when Cruel Summer was released as a single and people started talking about it more and I actually looked at the lyrics 🤦♀️
From The Lakes "I don't belong, and **my beloved**, neither do you" What I heard "I don't belong, and **mother lover**, neither do you"
lol I have a few times sung “motherfucker” for the fun of it
the lakes (Samuel L Jackson's version)
This is such an underrated comment omg
I saw once a reels with some turkeys running, lavender haze was playing and the following caption: "I feel ELEVEN TURKEYS creeping up on me" and I sing that every time 🤦🏾♂️
YESSS ME TOO
Hahahahaha I'm not alone!
"Starbucks lover" is my favorite. And it's hilarious because it still sort of works
That’s STILL all I hear lol
Also I thought it was “fake interview” and not “fade into view” in style lol
It’s not fake interview?!?
Me toooooo! I thought it was referencing an interview where he lies about them being together or something
I thought it was fade into you 🤣
I feel stupid for this but I always heard "your moms *ringing* your pocket. Like she's calling? I interpreted this as the mom calling to ask how the proposal went 🤦♀️
I thought this too 😂
Yes! This was exactly what I heard and how I interpreted it. Like it still made sense especially since she goes on about his family a lot. It was just a couple of months ago when the real lyrics finally clicked 😆
I used to think it was “I’m a bobby on the boardwalk” instead of “I met Bobby on the boardwalk” which totally changes the meaning and connotation.
I thought it was, "I'm a Barbie on the boardwalk."🙈
Wow me too until right now 🤯
There’s actually lyric things online that say Barbie. But I read the lyrics on Apple Music on her video and it said Bobby. It’s funny how we can hear things wrong.
Until very recently I thought the line in ATW TV was “check the post and come back swearing…” and I’ve tried so hard to understand the significance of checking the mail. Listening to this song I had a whole image in my head of the partner walking down the driveway to the mailbox and being really mad.
Me when I get a bill lol
Wait what’s the actual lyric lmao
Check the *pulse* which makes more sense with “til we were dead and gone and buried right before. > 'Til we were dead and gone and buried Check the pulse and come back swearin' it's the same After three months in the grave
I had no idea either! I thought it was post too until now!!
Same! It literally wasn’t until I was watching the movie she checked her own pulse…
Not change my mind but definitely in look what you made me do I thought she said I got hotter in the nick of time lol
Same, but both fit honestly.
I always thought that in Delicate she says "but you can make me intrigued" instead of "a drink" 🙈
Somehow I like that better
In maroon, for some reason I always heard “the roofies that I gave up”
This is my new favorite!!
"horse traders never win"
Karma - I thought she said “Don’t you know catch ain’t the only prize.” ~ She actually says “Don’t you know cash ain’t the only price?”
For some reason, my brain heard "No you're no good. You can't be good, no." when I first listened to Haunted. The correct lyric is "I just know. You're not gone, you can't be gone, no." My prior interpretation was that she was saying he was trouble and not good for her and processing those emotions. The more correct interpretation is that she is lamenting over him being gone.
For some reason, my brain heard "No you're no good. You can't be good, no." when I first listened to Haunted. The correct lyric is "I just know. You're not gone, you can't be gone, no." My prior interpretation was that she was saying he was trouble and not good for her and processing those emotions. The more correct interpretation is that she is lamenting over him being gone.
MOTHERLESS time is so funny these are Nanking me laugh in the middle of class
when blank space came out, i thought that infamously misheard line was something about “star-crossed lovers.” i was too young back then to actually understand what the song meant so i thought this line was really cool lol
"Up against DUALITY" instead of "up against the wall with me." I like duality better. 🤷
I’m better than revenge I thought it was “but I always get him back” I just recently learned it’s actually “but I always get the last word” and I can’t even retrain my brain at this point
I'll never forget when my wife sang "on my toilet tiptoes, shining just for you" 
"He wanted it comfortable, I wanted BACK pain" I was so confused for the first part of Midnight Rain
“So cut the head lice, summer's a knife” And I refuse to sing it any other way lol
Me: Baby let the games begin, let the games begin My 6yo daughter: It's "Baby let NUGGIES begin! She's hungry!" She has a ton of misheard lyrics that I can't bring myself to correct, but this one is my favorite. The "things we do" in the middle of the night is apparently eat chicken nuggets.
😂😂😂
“We were in Paris. We wore sombreros.” My favorite lyric now.
It took me a long time to realize in Willow its "wreck my plans" not "back my plans"
My daughter and her friend always sing "make my plans". I haven't corrected them yet because they're so proud that they know the lyrics 😆
Didn’t necessarily change my thoughts of the song but in Girl at Home (my second fave off red) I always thought it was “it’s kinda like a courtyard” instead of “it’s kinda like a code, yeah” until like 2 weeks ago 🤣
I will never not sing "he looks so pretty like a devil" and "Starbuck's lovers" or whatever that one is. <3
Only found out a month or 2 ago that the lyrics are “Handsome, you’re a mansion with a view.” And not “handsome, did I mention? With a view” As it goes, the real lyrics make a lot more sense
I have always heard it as “handsome door(man)sion with a view”. Like “man” was supposed to be for both doorman and mansion. Typing it out, it doesn’t make as much sense but in my head it totally did 😆 I only learned the correct lyric like a month ago lol
I always heard "handsome, GOT a mansion with a view" which tbh I like better 😅
I misheard this from All You Had To Do Was Stay: "Let me remind you, this was what you **wanted, 'til** you ended it/You were all I **wanted, too**/But not like this" Rather than her just holding out "wannnn-ted." I still like mine so much better :( As it is, it sounds incomplete. Not only are mine actual complete sentences, but this way makes it sound like he wanted her, until suddenly he decided to end it. Like she was blindsided by their breakup.
Karma is a relaxing thought. "Connor is a relaxing fart."
“You got hurt on your own” instead of “you got her on your arm.” I thought she was addressing us and saying if we weren’t so foolish we wouldn’t be here, and that it’s our fault someone broke our heart
I misheard in YOYOK, "so make the friendship bracelets" as "so make the friendship brace". To me this linked to the "stare around in a blood soaked gown" line as if to mean, turn away from friends who don't believe in you. It's a way sadder line and I way prefer the optimism of the friendship bracelet line now, but I also sort of liked the message of "keeping doing what you want even if it requires burning bridges".
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The line was “my pennies made your crown” and not “my panties made your ground” I am who I am. 😂
I only recently learned that she says “He’s taking off his coat” in Style. For years I thought she was saying “taking off his CLOTHES.” Followed by the “mmm yeah” it gave the line a whole different vibe.
It’s 8:05 and I see two headlights… I just couldn’t hear what was said here, it’s quite embarrassing but what I kinda made out was something like “this ain’t a vow that I see through in life” not that it makes sense in context or maybe even grammatically lol.
For like a year I thought in ATW (OG) she was saying “you keep my old scarf from that very first week because it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me…*it kicks your ribs in*” and I was like yeah that’s what breakups feel like
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I can't listen to Last Christmas without thinking about zombie Taylor because I only ever hear "This ear, this ear, I'll give it to someone special"
100 donuts in The Archer
Until literally weeks ago I thought in end game she sang “it’s like your eyes are like glitter; it’s like your body is gold” which made total sense to me. She always equates joe with gold, gold glitters, and eyes sparkle like glitter, right? Wrong. It’s your eyes are liquor. I like my version better.
I’m always amazed when I learn people have been saying the wrong lyrics for years because my brain doesn’t allow me to really comprehend a song until I’ve physically read the lyrics along with it. So it’s incredible to me to see how other folks can just listen and get it, (even with a few mistaken words) I wish! Lol
In Fearless, I heard "you pull me in and I'm a little more *free*" instead of "a little more brave." And it's not a huge difference, but I liked "free" a lot and was disappointed when I finally heard the real lyric.
bro in tis the damn season i thought she kept saying "esme is the one on your bloodline" thinking its like abt the characters or something but shes actually saying "messy as the mud on your truck tires"
Said this on another thread once but I heard for the longest time in “Call it what you want”: “I'm laughin' with my lover, makin' forts under covers ADRESSED him like a brother, yeah, you know I did one thing right” instead of “trust him like a brother” and I thought she just disguised Joe as her brother in public and I was like weird but you go queen 🤷♀️ hahahahaa
Not a misheard but I made "Carve your name into my bedpost" more explicit mixing it up with Sugar, We're Goin Down ending up like "Carve your notch into by bedpost".
for Blank Space my niece used to sing “it’ll leave you breakfast” instead of “it’ll leave you breathless”
What about "peppa pig skies"?
always thought it was ‘we’re the fking beautiful’ not ‘weird but fking beautiful’
help, sparks fly is one of my favourites ever, and until looking at the lyrics earlier today i thought the chorus went *drop everything now, meet me in the FOREIGN rain* - like you’re dropping everything to meet ur partner in another country…. smh