What Are The Most Misheard Guren No Yumiya Lyrics Lines?

I’ve taught a handful of songs to friends over the years, and 'Guren no Yumiya' is both the most fun and the most treacherous. The line that trips everyone up first is the German opener: Seid ihr das Essen? Nein, wir sind die Jäger! It’s so punchy that non-German ears invent words—common versions I’ve heard in my living room are “side of the season” or “say your address.” The other persistent illusion is Feuerroter Pfeil und Bogen; that one morphs into absurd English phrases like “for a rubber pie and bacon” which is hilarious but totally wrong. Both mishears happen because the vowels and consonants get mashed under the fast tempo and choral delivery.

I usually break the song into tiny chunks when teaching: sing the German slowly once, then the Japanese lines, then put them back together. Also, subtitles on a lyric video or a line-by-line romanization help a ton. It’s neat to point out the translations too — once people know that Feuerroter Pfeil und Bogen literally means “fire-red arrow and bow,” they get the imagery and it sticks. Honestly, watching friends nail the chorus after one practice is one of my small joys; it’s loud, ridiculous, and oddly satisfying when the mishears vanish.

I still get a thrill when that opening scream hits — and I also still laugh at how many people hear totally different things. As a long-time fan who has sung 'Guren no Yumiya' at more than one drunken karaoke night, the biggest culprits are the fast German bits and the dense, shouted Japanese. The two lines that always get butchered are the opening German chant Seid ihr das Essen? Nein, wir sind die Jäger! — which people hear as everything from “side of the season?” to “say your address?” — and the glorious phrase Feuerroter Pfeil und Bogen, which internet meme culture frequently turns into “for a rubber pie and hogan” or “furry outer pie and bacon.” Both are understandable: German syllables stacked on top of pounding drums and chanting vocals are a recipe for creative mishearing.

Another common one is the title line itself, 'Guren no Yumiya'. New listeners sometimes render it as “growin’ no you me ya” or “grooming you, you me ya” because of how the vowels blur in the chorus. There are also little pockets of misheard Japanese like when Eren’s theme vocal cuts into the background — people will swear they hear an English phrase or another anime reference. I’ll usually slow the song down on my phone to show friends the real words; seeing the romanization next to the music makes everyone’s head snap back and then we all giggle about the old mishears.

If you want a laugh-worthy exercise, play the opening in a car with friends who don’t speak German or Japanese and let the world’s best mondegreens be born. And if you’re trying to sing it without sounding like you swallowed gravel, learn the German bits phonetically — that saved me from a lot of embarrassed looks. Nights like those are why I love 'Guren no Yumiya' even more: it’s loud, messy, and perfectly misheard in the best possible ways.

This song has turned into a meme machine because of how hard it is to parse at first listen. Two lines get misheard the most: the German chant Seid ihr das Essen? Nein, wir sind die Jäger! (often mangled into “side of the season” or “say your address”) and Feuerroter Pfeil und Bogen (which the internet insists is “for a rubber pie and bacon”). Beyond those, the title line 'Guren no Yumiya' itself gets blurred into silly phonetic guesses by people who haven’t learned the romanization. My trick is simple — look up a lyric video with romanji and translation, then sing along slowly once or twice. It kills the mystery and makes the next misheard lyric even funnier when friends go back to guessing.