19 Greatest Misheard Lyrics Of 2013

Misheard lyrics occur in that time between your enthusiastic first listen of a song and when you can be bothered to look up the actual words (usually after having a blazing row in which you insist, wrongly, that your version is definitely right.) No matter how ridiculous what you think you heard sounds in your own head, you accept it, because your ears aren't liars, and that's definitely what Florence just sang. And now that everyone's too cool to print their lyrics on album sleeves, it's now even more easy to get swept up in the tide of nonsense that your brain foolishly tricks you into thinking is real.

Even worse than that, sometimes the occasion rises when you have to sing those words out loud: it may be a car journey when you lose yourself in the music journey, or - God forbid - a bus journey when you forget you have headphones in and that singing along on your own is punishable by a brief stay in a mental institution these days. Whatever the circumstances, the result is always the same: people with more knowledge, or better functioning ears will pull you on your version of the lyrics, pointing out how much of an idiot you are.

And then you die of embarrassment for a little while, until you realise that your version is in fact an inspired piece of comedy, and there's only one way to celebrate it. By sticking it up on the Internet and inviting everyone to laugh at how much of a moron you are.

In celebration of this curious cultural trend, we've compiled the best misheard lyrics of 2013, from the easily forgivable to the downright idiotic.

19. Radioactive Sister

Song: Imagine Dragons - Radioactive

ACTUAL Lyrics: I feel it in my bones, enough to make my systems blow.

I'm not sure why anyone would think this made any sense, but that's the point of misheard lyrics right? Either lead singer Dan Reynolds did something to annoy his sister, or they have a really, really unhealthy relationship...