How about some misheard lyrics?

not exactly a misheard lyric, but in this song, sung by Dave Edmunds, the second verse: " and deeper than the ocean and wider than the sky; to each other - ?what is the line here? - just that woman is my desire..."

 

'She can take the dog out in the nightime/and paint the daytime black' - Bob Dylan, She Belongs To Me.

I know, I know ...

 

Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun:

"What in the world can they expunge, Oh girls...
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"

 

Stones' Start Me UP

"Yugoslavia!
Yugoslavia you'll never starve"

 

Keep on
Till the post office
Dont Stop till You Get Enough
Keep on
Till the post office
Dont Stop till You Get Enough

 

Sounds like "I love when it's high" to me.

 

Can't Buy Me Love... Thought they were singing "can't Bobby love her?"

 

Elton John- Shes got electric boobs, a mohawk too, you know i read it in a magazine. Benny and the Jets.

 

You're The One That I Want from Grease

What was sung: I got chills, they're multiplying.
What I Heard: I got shoes, they're multiplying.

 

As a kid, I always misheard a line in Queen's "Let Me Entertain You" as "The internet attraction". I was frankly astounded that Freddie was singing about the internet in 1978 ("Is there any end to this man's talents?!").

Of course, in hindsight, it's probably just as well, as it meant I never asked my parents what "S and M" meant.

 

Disorder by Joy Division

What I thought he was singing:

I've been waiting for a guy to come and take me by the hand.
'Cause these sensations make me feel the pleasures of another man.

What he was actually singing:

I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand.
Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man.

 

My worst is probably e=mc2 by Big Audio Dynamite.
My version of the chorus:
Bet your life is relativity/Only buildings Bigfoot prophecy/Times I get too high, nudge reality/False eye mind's eye magic in the DIY

 

In Botswana! In Botswana-a-a!

(they just wanna, they just wanna)

 

Shareena I gotta get!

Rock the casbah
Rock the casbah

 

Not really a lyric, but a misheard stage banter from the Black Sabbath - Live Evil 2LP:

Back in the day, my friend expressed "She's A Butler" while we were biking, perhaps talking about music.

Me - "What" ?

Friend: - She's A Butler - It's on the Sabbath Live album.

Me - Dude, it's Dio introducing the bass player - Geezer Butler.

Friend: Oh?

Will never forget that one

 

I got shoes, they're made of plywood.

 

tom petty - running down a drain
doobie brothers - i'd like to here some ****in dicks, you leopard
golden earring - random leads comin on strong // she sends a cable coming in from above
beatles - got puppy love

 

J. Geils Band "Centerfold"...

"My anus is the center hole"

 

I've got two for you, both from the minds of 8 year old boys.
I was 8 in 1980 and I loved The Dukes of Hazzard, my friends and I played "Dukes" all the time, jumping streams in our imaginary Dodge and outrunning any and everyone. So I completely understood why Pink Floyd sang;
...no Dukes of Hazzard, in the classroom...
I didn't realize the lyric was "dark sarcasm" until I discovered Floyd in my teen years.
Fast forward to 2014 and I overheard my 8 year old son singing Money For Nothing, except he wanted to get his;
...money for nothing, and chips for free...
I laughed pretty hard, but I didn't correct him. I kind of like it better with free chips...

 

I always heard The Monkees "Take A Giant Step" as standard love song lyrics "take a giant step outside--you're mine" instead of the correct and dated lyrics "take a giant step outside your mind".

I'll keep my misheard lyrics since it makes for a better song, IMO.

 

That was what I heard when I was a kid!

 

Freud would have a few things to say about that. Haha

 

I once thought it was"What in the world can they have done?"

 

I know.

 

I think that every Replacements album has at least one lyrical line or word that I don't know. I haven't bothered to look them up and see what they are for sure, if anyone knows. It's nice to just drop your own lyrics in sometimes and roll with it. I've likely sung wrong words to songs at a concert which is worse than at home when a lone. LOLOL