my version is better

I just learned that in Collective Soul's Shine, he's not saying "you haven't let your light shine down". But it's actually a Jesus song and 'heaven let your light shine down." Over 30 years I was wrong lol

🎶Wrapped up like a douche, another owner in the night🎶
🎶Hold me closer, Tony Danza🎶
- I like to sing, "Wrapped up like a douche, another rubber in the night" but yours sounds closer. That song is great for this. "Blighted by the right, wrapped up like douche, another Romney in the fight"
- And little Early Burly gave my anus curly whirly
  
  And asked me if I needed a ride!
- I always thought it was “another rumour in the night” 🥲
  
  the full line from the song is
  Yeah, she/he was blinded by the light
  Oh, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night

What the hell do you mean "like a kiss from a rose on the gray!?"
- No idea what song it is but what if it's intentional that it sounds so similar …
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwdweif1YI0
  Honestly there’s several weird pseudo-deep lyrics in that song so.. maybe. He does use graying to describe the tower at the start. I think it’s probably just happenstance and pronunciation tho.

Hey now, you’re a rockstar, get the show on, get laid
- I refuse to accept that those aren't the lyrics.
  
  It was but they had to change it for Shrek and the G-rated version became the canonical one.

I don't know any misheard lyrics, because I refuse to believe the way I hear the lyrics isn't correct.
(Actually I used to have a list, but I'm old and I forgot it 😢)

"It's too late to roll the dice" instead of "it's too late to apologize" sounds much more meaningful.
- Ooh, I like this one! I thought it was, "it's too late to call the job" when I first heard it and was pretty unsure what he was going for...
  
  He's sad because he was going to call in sick but waited too long.
- That because they really butcher it and say 'poligize.
  
  The worst part is you can actually fit the full word in the same beat but it doesn't sound dumb af

"'E' for very, very, extra ordinary." VS "'E' for very, very, extraordinary." The way I heard it performed always sounded like two separate words. I was like, "damn, she couldn't just be nice the whole song?" I finally read the lyrics when I was older.
"I don't want another heartache at my door, don't want another heartache on my list" VS "don't want another heartache on my lips."

Like a dog without a bone, like an actor OUT OF ROLE
For fuck's sake Jim, actor out on loan, pff! What had he been smoking?

At a punk gig once I heard:
“Titties and cheesecake! Titties and cheesecake! Titties and cheesecake!“
They were actually singing about “Tinnies (Aussie for beer) on Tuesday”. Not as good IMO.

I always think of Metallica's Saint Anger:
🎶 Medallion noose, I hang myself
Saint Anger 'round my neck
I feel my world shake
Like an earthquake
Hard to see clear
Is it me? Is it fear?
I'm not even angry with you
I'm not even angry with you
I'm not even angry with you
I'm not even angry with you
🎶
Yet the real lyrics are:
I'm madly in anger with you
I'm madly in anger with you
I'm madly in anger with you
I'm madly in anger with you
... sigh...

'Cause I'm in too deep
And I'm trying to keep
~~up above in my head~~
All the thoughts in my head
'stead of going under
- Omfg. I bought All Killer No Filler the first week it was in stores. And I heard your interpretation ever since. Hot damn, thank you so much for chiming in. And fuck.
  
  To be clear "up above in my head" are the actual lyrics, but I only learned that fact a few weeks ago. I like my version better.
- Holy shit.
  I saw them live last year for the finale tour and even live, I heard "up above in my head"
  
  Yeah, those are the actual lyrics. It's "all the thoughts in my head" that's misheard.

not always. I saw this in a forum meant years ago, I wish I had saved a screenshot or something...
the forum thread was about the dumbest lyrics in songs and someone said sanitarium by metallica had these lyrics:
Got some death to do
Mirror stairs back hard
Kill, it's such a friendly word
and complained it's nonsense. why would stairs be made of mirrors, and what did that have anything with the rest... also what does stairs back hard even mean, etc ...
as you may have guessed even if you don't know the song, the lyrics are "mirror stares back hard", which means the person is talking about their own reflection having a look in their eyes.
not only were the misheard lyrics dumb, but I always admired the sheer confidence of the person who, upon hearing these nonsense lyrics, instead of using their internet access to look it up to confirm, used it to complain how stupid it was without thinking twice about whether they could have misunderstood.

Matthew Good Band - Load Me Up
I always heard:
Picture yourself (At) the MGM Grand Murphy's fighting how come You're in the stands?
I loved this line as it was calling out the assumption when you picture something big, why are you in the crowd and not the star of the show? It felt motivating and a fun play on the way people imagine themselves in the world.
It's actually:
Picture yourself The MGM Grand Murphy's fighting Occam You're in the stands
Which, just doesn't do any of the things the misheard lyric does. So disappointing.

Damn it, Mr.Ingle. Can you not sing "in the garden of eden" without sounding like you have a mouth full of pudding?
Fuck it. We'll just change the name of the damned song. Who the hell makes a 17 minute long song, anyhow? You're a damned idiot!
- Also, Mr. Miller? What the hell is a pompatus of love??
  
  Huh, thought it was the pamplemousse of love

Here's to you Mrs. Robinson; She's a slutty moron you should know.
- That could fit with the film.

Someone once told me that they thought the line in Uptown Funk was, "I'm too hot, hot ham!" and I've been hearing it that way ever since.

It's a relatively minor difference, but for decades, I thought the lyric in Smashing Pumpkins' Muzzle went
🎵 My life has been extraordinary blessed and cursed at once 🎵
and it's been one of my favorite lines in any song. Except I was wrong. It goes
🎵 My life has been extraordinary blessed and cursed and won 🎵
It's not a favorite anymore.

I cannot hear this song without thinking that the background singers are repeatedly saying "cut your balls off" during the refrain
Billy Idol - Mony Mony
- The music commands and I obey

There's a break-up song on Chvrch's debut album called Tether. One line, frequently repeated, goes "I'm feeling capable of... seeing the end." A fine lyric, very breakup, much hopeful.
Except, I can't tell when listening that she isn't saying "I feel incapable of..." I don't know if it's intentional but I think the ambiguity really elevates the song from semi-empowering breakup song to powerfully-relatable song about the chaos of seeing a relationship end; simultaneously believing you can get through it while also having no idea how you'll ever get through it.
It's just fun wordplay too: feeling capable/feel incapable. Makes me want to use that structure more in my own writing.
- That reminds me of Night Sky, which has "I will ne'er be free" but it sounds a lot like "I will now be free"
- The ambiguity might be intentional too! It would allow different ways of reading into the emotions

in my mind, the lyrics of no surprises by radiohead will always be
no one laughs and no surprises
rather than
no alarms and no surprises

Like this is Reebok or Nike song turns out to be this is the rhythm of my night
- A classic. Funny how the DJ was able to decipher that. I believe the guy asked: essos es Reebok or son Nike ( is it Reebok or is it Nike)

"Sewing machines of love"
-Tears for Fears

“go to lonely starbucks lovers” my beloved

🎶Concrete jungle wet dream toma-to!🎶

Looking back on when we fisted
I cannot escape and I cannot forget
Baby, you're the one, you still turn me on
You can make me whole again

‘Carry a laser down the road that I must travel
Carry a laser through the darkness of the night’

Probably a tad obscure, but at the end of Set (Extended Mix) there’s a section where they repeat “converge” but I can’t help but hear ‘you’re a virgin’ XD
Then again I don’t like that better than the original lyric per se, it’s just different
- GaaaAAAaaaay meeeen, gaaaaaaay men

Lady Mondegreen sounds bad ass

And I'll sing all night and in the mornin' light
When your shades are on and your head's on ice
You'll know you've seen the redneck sodomy

I heard it properly the one time I heard the song on good speakers, but I always heard "I hope you dance" as "I want you dead"

In lay me down by the dirty heads, the line:
But they were seen by the good eye of the mean billy green
Should have been:
But they were seen by the keen eye of the mean billy green

That's when it's time to write a cover.

Superchunk has a song hyper enough. It sounds like they say "Laughter guns" but it's actually "Lofter winds"

Nah, my shit is borderline unintelligible madness.

There used to be a greater power alone on the sea:
You became a light on the dark side of me. Love became a draw that I could not appeal. But did you know that when it snows, My eyes become alive, and the light that you shine can be seen?
Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey...

I've always heard promises promises give an end to those promises in the bridge of Lady Gaga's Pokerface

Arrow in my head, arrow in my head, arrow has flew right trough my head, arrow that caused me this great pain, arrow that ruined my day!...

When you're in Morrowind, oh, baby, that's sick
- I need to know the song title for this one
  
  Bad Romance - "Want you in my rear window, baby, you're sick"