Misheard song lyrics (also called mondegreens) occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song. These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. This page contains all the misheard lyrics for Radiohead that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996. For more information about the misheard lyrics available on this site, please read our FAQ.

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"A Punch Up At A Wedding" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Whip boy crack

A Machineist

Don't infect me with your poor raisin

I pull it in my china shop

When I turn round you stay

Frozen to the spot. Original Lyrics: Hypocrite opportunist

Don't infect me with your poison

A bull in a china shop

When I turn round you stay frozen to the spot. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Anyone Can Play Guitar" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: If the world does turn and if London turns

or

If the world does turn and if London brrr's Original Lyrics: If the world does turn and if London burns Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Anyone Can Play Guitar" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: If the world does turn and if London brrr's or If the world does turn and if London turns or If the world does turn and if London turns Original Lyrics: If the world does turn and if London burns Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Black Star" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Baby, I'm your black star

Baby, I'm your falling sky

Baby, I'm your satellite that brings me home Original Lyrics: Blame it on the black star

Blame it on the falling sky

Blame it on the satellite that beams me home Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Black Star" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Baby, I'm your black star

Baby, I'm your falling sky

Baby, I'm your satellite that brings you home. Original Lyrics: Blame it on the black star

Blame it on the falling sky

Blame it on the satellite that beams me home. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Blow Out" Misheard Lyrics: All I took was carbon monoxide,

all I took was sugared corn in fields. Original Lyrics: All wrapped up in cotton wool.

All wrapped up and sugar coated Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Bodysnatchers" Misheard Lyrics: I'm a lion trying learn how to fight

I'm a lion trying learn how to fight

If only anyone else could see

If only anyone else could see I'm a lion Original Lyrics: On the lines wrapped round my face

On the lines wrapped round my face

Are for anyone else to see

Are for anyone else to see I'm a lie Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Bones" Misheard Lyrics: We get to feel like idiot bones or We get to feel like alien bones or We get to feel like alien bones Original Lyrics: You've got to feel it in your bones Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Bones" Misheard Lyrics: We've got to feel it in your bones

or

We've got to feel like any of those

or

We got to feel like any old bums

or

Wake up to feel like any airplane

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Well you got to feel it, and you're broke

or

When you've got to see that Enya burns... Original Lyrics: When you've got to feel it in your bones... Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Climbing Up The Walls" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: I've got the smile of a larrikin now. Original Lyrics: I've got the smile of a local man. Shaun adds: "For those that don't know, larrikin is an Australian word meaning a cheeky, irreverant person who has no regard for authority." Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Creep" Misheard Lyrics: But I'm a creep

I'm a riddle

What the hell am I to inhale?

I don't belong here. Original Lyrics: But I'm a creep

I'm a weirdo

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Everything In It's Right Place" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Yesterday I woke up, soaked in Hollywood or Yesterday I woke up, soaked in oil and wood or Yesterday I woke up, soaked in oil and wood Original Lyrics: Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Fake Plastic Trees" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: She looks like paraffin

She tastes like paraffin

Like fake plastic love Original Lyrics: She looks like the real thing

She tastes like the real thing

My fake plastic love Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Idioteque" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Let me eat both sides

Let me eat both sides

Let me eat 'em both Original Lyrics: Let me hear both sides

Let me hear both sides

Let me hear 'em both Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Jigsaw Falling Into Place" Misheard Lyrics: D*cks are falling into place

The mayor has nothing to explain

We are each other as you pass

She looks black, you look bad

Nachos once, nachos twice

(Not yours once, not yours twice)

Wish you ate it night and day, wish you ate it night and day

(Wish you waited night and day, wish you waited night and day)

You got a knife, you can feel it on your back

A knife, you can feel it on your back

D*cks are falling into place Original Lyrics: Jigsaw falling into place

There is nothing to explain

Regard each other as you pass

She looks back, you look back

Not just once, not just twice

Wish away nightmare, wish away nightmare

You got a light, you can feel it on your back

A light, you can feel it on your back

Jigsaw falling into place Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Just" Misheard Lyrics: Changed the locks 3 times

You stuck a million through the door. Original Lyrics: Changed the locks 3 times

Still come reeling through the door. I really did think it meant someone was shoving a million pounds through the letterbox just to get back into the flat! Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Just" Misheard Lyrics: Changed the locks three times

I stick an eel in through the door. Original Lyrics: Changed the locks three times

He still comes reeling through the door. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Karma Police" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Before anything, I ask myself I ask myself. Original Lyrics: For a minute there I lost myself, I lost myself. Can't change my sentence. That is what I hear. I always use it when I play games and point out others what the power of karma is. She's my wife and a freaking bitch if I don't ask myself before I act. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Karma Police" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Call the police, arrest this man

Who talks in mouths

It puzzles like in French

Just like on day tube radio Original Lyrics: Karma Police, arrest this man

He talks in maths

He buzzes like a fridge

He's like a detuned radio Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Karma Police" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Karma Police,arrest this man, he talks in rhymes or Come as you please, address this man, he talks and laughs or Come as you please, address this man, he talks and laughs Original Lyrics: Karma Police,arrest this man, he talks in maths Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Karma Police" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Comma pull ease

A restless Mandy

Chalk and meth

He buses like a frigid

Like a denim redhead oh Original Lyrics: Karma Police, arrest this man

He talks in maths

He buzzes like a fridge

He's like a detuned radio. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Karma Police" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Go ahead and laugh, I'll ask myself, I'll ask myself

If you follow him in there, I'll ask myself, I'll ask myself Original Lyrics: For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself

Phew for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Karma Police" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Karma Police, arrest this man

He talks in mouths

He buzzes like a fridge

He's like a dead geranium.

This is what you get when you mess with love. Original Lyrics: Karma Police, arrest this man

He talks in maths

He buzzes like a fridge

He's like a detuned radio.

This is what you get when you mess with us. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Karma Police" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Karma Police, arresting in manic

Talks in a mess

He buzzes like a fridge

He's like a daydream, let it out. Original Lyrics: Karma Police, arrest this man

He talks in maths

He buzzes like a fridge

He's like a detuned radio. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Karma Police" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Karma Police

The rest is 'matic toxic waste

It pushes like a franchise's lack of TV radio Original Lyrics: Karma police

Arrest this man

He talks in maths

He buzzes like a fridge

He's like a detuned radio Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Karma Police" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Karma police, arrest this man!

He talks in the night

He buzzes like a fridge

He's like a dead geranium. Original Lyrics: Karma police, arrest this man!

He talks in maths

He buzzes like a fridge

He's like a detuned radio. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Karma Police" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Karma police

Arrest this girl

Hit her in the head

Is making me feel ill Original Lyrics: Karma police

Arrest this girl

Her Hitler hairdo

Is making me feel ill Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Like Spinning Plates" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: And this just feels like spit on plates.

or

And kids just feel like spitting on plates.

or

And kids just feel like spitting on planes. Original Lyrics: And this just feels like spinning plates. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Lucky" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Call me Seurat Original Lyrics: Kill me Sarah Seurat was an impressionist painter. God knows why anyone would ask someone else to call him that, so it had to be wrong. "Kill me Sarah" is a biblical story. Sarah was a young woman who's grooms-to-be always died before the wedding... "Kill me Sarah. Kill me again... with love." Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Molasses" Misheard Lyrics: Shake Heads Genocide Molasses Jay Parked Caravans Molasses

I'm taboo, youre stale cum rent free earthquakes on molasses Original Lyrics: Shake Hands Genocide Molasses Jet Powered Caravans Molasses

I'm too good, you're stuck on Rent free earthquake zone, molasses Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"My Iron Lung" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: My Uncle Bill, my Mavis Beacon Original Lyrics: My Uncle Bill, my Belisha Beacon Mavis Beacon is a computer game that teaches children how to type without looking at the keyboard. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"My Iron Lung" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Now heart, no pals.Please don't hesitate.

No heart, no brain check attitude.

Original Lyrics: The head shrinkers, they want everything.

My uncle Bill. My Belisha beacon In the UK a Belisha beacon is the orange blinking light on top of a black and white striped pole. That marks a Zebra crossing where traffic must giveway to pedestrians Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Nice Dream" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: I cut up my friend the good angel

But she's out with a rancid phone. Original Lyrics: I call up my friend the good angel

But she's out with her ansa-phone. That's how Thom Yorke pronounces "answerphone". Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"No Suprises" Misheard Lyrics: No one loves and no suprises

No one loves and no suprises

No one loves a no suprises freak. Original Lyrics: No alarms and no suprises

No more alarms and no suprises

No more alarms and no suprises please. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"No Surprises" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Such a pretty house and such a pretty garden

No alarms and no surprises Original Lyrics: Such a pretty house and such a pretty God and

No alarms and no surprises Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Optimistic" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Have you tried domestic ham?

Have you tried domestic ham?

Domestic ham is good and tough. Original Lyrics: You can try the best you can

You can try the best you can

The best you can is good enough. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Optimistic" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: If a child goes to camp

If a child goes to camp

Then Michigan is good enough. Original Lyrics: You can try the best you can

You can try the best you can

The best you can is good enough. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Paranoid Android" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Bring me, hold me, come on bring me home now

Form a great Line, form a great line.

The Final Denoument, The Final Denoument. Original Lyrics: Rain down, rain down, come on rain down on me

From a great height, from a great height

The Panic, The Vomit, The Panic The Vomit. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Pyramid Song" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: I walk into the traville agents, what do I see.

A row of David Hasselhoff CD's looking at me Original Lyrics: I jumped in the river, what did I see.

Black eyed angels swam with me. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: This machine will, will not communicate

These thoughts and this train I am under Original Lyrics: This machine will, will not communicate

These thoughts and the strain I am under Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"The Bends" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: My baby's got Depends. Original Lyrics: My baby's got the bends. 'The bends' is a painful experience divers get when they come up too quickly, because of water pressure vs air pressure. Depends is an adult diaper brand. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"The Bends" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: The planet is all gummed up

In a seething fear

And where are you?

My buddy in the cia

The Turks and the holy marines

To blow you away, to blow you sky high. Original Lyrics: The planet is a gunboat

In a sea of fear

And where are you?

They brought in the cia

The tanks and the whole marines

To blow me away, to blow me sky high. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"The Bends" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: Where do we go from here.

The plan isn't good enough,

I can't see your face and where are you Original Lyrics: Where do we go from here.

The planet is a gunboat

in a sea of fear and where are you Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"There There" Misheard Lyrics: Been p***ed off, I go walking in the escape

Broken bread shame trip me as I sleep. Original Lyrics: In pitch dark, I go walking in your landscape

Broken branches trip me as I speak. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"True Love Waits" (MP3) Misheard Lyrics: I'll drown in marmalade

To have your babies

I'll dress like your nose

To wash your swollen peas. Original Lyrics: I'll drown my beliefs

To have you be at peace

I'll dress like your niece

To wash your swollen feet. Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Wish You Were Here" Misheard Lyrics: A walk-on part in a war

For a Negro in a cage. Original Lyrics: A walk-on part in a war

For a lead role in a cage. Either Thom wanted to make his own version of the song using his own editing, or he made a very embarrassing mistake! Suggest Different Misheard Lyrics ) ( Suggest Correction

"Wolf at the Door" Misheard Lyrics: ...take it where the lovers give it

...gnawing on the list

...boilin' eggs for the job

Original Lyrics: ...take it with the love it's given

...now you're on the list

...born and raised for the job

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