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11 Popular Songs With Lyrics That Are Impossible To Understand

August 12, 2016 by Keren Leshem
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Work, work, work, work, work... Most likely the only words you know from Rihanna's hit song "Work" featuring Drake, right?! If you know more lyrics, then honestly, we're impressed.

There are tons of songs that we all know and love, but just don't know what the actual words are! How many times have you found yourself SCREAMING the lyrics to the chorus of a song and then just mumbling along with everyone else for the rest? Yeah, we know the struggle, especially for these songs--->

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We all remember the classic mix-up in Taylor Swift's lyrics of her number one hit, "Blank Space." Everyone thought she was singing "Starbucks lovers" instead of "list of ex-lovers" - rookie mistake!

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We all love The Weeknd's smooth voice, but seriously, does anyone know all of the real words to his hits "In The Night" or "The Hills"?! If you think you do, great - but we'd give the song another listen and see if you actually do...

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Gwen Stefani's amazing hit "Hollaback Girl" has some iconic lyrics that we can jam out to anywhere, but also some not-so-iconic lyrics that we could NEVER get! We for sure have the spelling of 'bananas' engrained in our heads forever, and learned some more lyrics thanks to her appearance in Carpool Karaoke!

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Come On Eileen... You in that dress... aka all the lyrics we can confess to knowing of Dexys Midnight Runner's hit song "Come On Eileen!" #oops But nothing is as funny as seeing everyone shout the lyrics to the chorus, and happily dance along for the rest!

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Nelly always knows how to get the party going, especially with his hit "Hot in Herre." But how many of the words do you ACTUALLY know?! *awkward silence* Yeah, that's what we thought!

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"This is the story of a girl, who cried a river and drowned the whole world..." Nine Days' hit song "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" is one that we genuinely all know and love. But how many other words do you know past the chorus? We for sure don't know that many...

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WHO LET THE DOG'S OUT?! Two questions that we've never gotten answered from The Baha Men on their iconic single "Who Let The Dogs Out?": 1. What are the lyrics to this entire song other than the chorus? and 2. Seriously, who let the dogs out?! We need to know!!

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I think I've met maybe one person who actually knows majority of the lyrics to the classic hit, "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. After "Stop, collaborate and listen," we're all pretty much a lost cause, right?

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Drake is literally killing it right now - so many amazing hits that we all love to sing along to. But what happens when you get to that one part in "Too Good" (also feat. Rihanna, duh), when you don't really know what he's saying?! Cock up yuh bumper, sit down 'pon it Yeah... did you know those lyrics, 'cuz we definitely didn't!

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Jump up, jump up and get down... probably the most complex sentence you can get out of House of Pain's classic hit, "Jump Around," right? We're pretty bad at getting the words to this song, but we're sure students at The University of Wisconsin have gotten pretty good at it over the years...

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