Noah Kahan Sets the Record Straight on Misheard Lyrics

Noah Kahan had an urgent bulletin for his listeners on July 22: they’ve been singing the wrong words. In a lighthearted Twitter thread, the singer-songwriter corrected the record on a handful of NSFW mishearings that have taken on lives of their own. The most prominent: “Stick Season” does not include “suck your mom.” It’s “saw your mom.” On “23,” the line is “beat your ass into morning,” not a phrase involving eating. And a moment from The Great Divide track “Haircut” goes “glad you got your act cleaned”—no bidet references, despite a recent joke about bathroom use at his shows.

“But honestly,” Kahan added, “sing from whatever place your mind takes you to.”

The tweet lands during a packed summer. Kahan is in the middle of a sold-out stadium tour supporting The Great Divide, his fourth studio album, which arrived in April. He headlined the first Stateside Festival on July 4 and, after weather forced him to cancel one of two nights at New York’s Citi Field, he still played the second as planned. The documentary Noah Kahan: Out of Body, charting his rise alongside mental health struggles, has been streaming on Netflix since late March.

“You find out who you are in the moments when you’re alone,” Kahan told Rolling Stone earlier this summer. “In the moments things are quiet, and you don’t have 30,000 people screaming that they love you.” Even a playful lyric clarification turns out to be anchored by that same instinct—acknowledging the noise, then stepping back from it.