It wasn't until my first job at a grocery store during Christmas time that I learned it was "Feliz Navidad" being sung.

Before that, I couldn't figure out why the cheerful song that only appeared around Christmas time was saying "Police shot my dad"

I used to think the Kiss song went "I wanna rock and roll all night... and part of every day."

Don't go, Jason waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

“Blinded by the light.

Revved up like a douche, another runner in the night.”

Turns out is actually deuce.

I always heard it as trombeleese, which I imagined to be some exotic musical instrument like this:

"Dirty deeds, dunder chiefs!"

I always wondered what a dunder chief is.

I used to sing Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong as “Pyramids, pyramids, pyramids, pyramids can’t be wrong”.

Also, in Africa, I definitely thought they said “rises like a lepress (like a female leopard) above the Serengeti”. The real lyric is “Olympus”.

Manfred Mann's cover of Blinded by the Light has entered the chat. Probably the most misheard lyrics in the entire history of modern music.

It's "Revved up like a deuce."

Wait... Manfred Mann's version is a cover? Yep, Blinded by the Light was originally performed Bruce Springsteen.

“I set fire, to Lorraine” by Adele (set fire to the rain). “Parrot, parrot, parrot eyes” by Coldplay (Paradise)

Annie are you walking? Annie are you walking? Are you walking, Annie?

Excuse me, while I kiss this guy.

Hoobastank, the Reason.

Real lyric: "a reason to start over new".

What i heard as a child: "the reason tostadas are new"

Blink 182 "the state looks down on side of me"

If you know, you know.

Kings of Leon, Use Somebody. I always thought that he said "You know I wanna eat somebody. Someone like you!"

At one point in Another One Bites the Dust, Freddie says "Bite the dust, yeah" which for years I could not hear as anything but "I'm adopted". Seemed like a weird way to share that information.

"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy!" - Jimmi Hendrix

I have an auditory processing disorder sooo all of them lol

Oh I was singing loudly along with Elton John one day, "Love, I feel it in my hands, I can tell by the things I would do with another maaaan" as I had done every time I heard the song when I suddenly realized that probably wasn't something someone would sing in the 1970s, looked it up and the NAME of the song is Love Lies Bleeding.

Owner of a lonely horse...

Real lyric: owner of a lonely heart.

I never understood why there'd be a song about a lonely horse.

I can't think of any off the top of my head, but this bit by Peter Kay always has me in tears.

Also, the technical term is 'Mondegreen'

Edit: I'm also reminded of a Colin Hay one man show I went to years ago where he told a story about a bloke that requested the 'song about the goats' at a gig. Turns out it was Overkill - "Goats appear and fade away". He then went on to tell a long story about a sharehouse he lived in in his youth that decided to get a goat to keep the lawn down. Man that was a good show.

If anybody remembers this from Del Amitri: https://youtu.be/K_s44LilaYM

I always heard "The wrong guy, the wrong situation. The right time the wrong week.

For like a decade+ I thought Umbrella by Rihanna went "under my arms forever"

Nirvana, On a Plain "The finest day, I ever had, was when I learned to cry like a man."

It's supposedly "cry on command."

That Land Down Under song. I still have no idea what the women or men do but I can hear the thunder.

Nice beaver by the beegees is high on my list https://youtu.be/Otmq80677V0

Pump Up the Jam - Technotronic

At first I heard, "I want, a player Tuesday."

Then I heard, "I want, a player to stay."

Apparently it's actually, "Awa, a place to stay."

That whole time I thought she was looking for a man (on a Tuesday), but she just wanted everyone to dance together.

For a long time, I thought in the song Inagadadavida, the lyrics went '"doncha know that I love you", but it turns out, they say "l'm lovin' you".

🎶Is this just fanta-seaaaaa 🎤🎶🎶

"You know I'd like to keep my cheating strategy"

Actual lyrics: "You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today"

Blind Melon, "No Rain"

I thought that Controversy by Prince was actually called Electric Pussy. Which, for Prince, actually tracks.

“Every time you go away, you take a piece of meat, with you” - Paul Young

I still say it makes slightly more sense in Otherside if he's saying "the cemetery where I married a thief".

I always thought she said trampoline

“My lovers got no money, he’s got his trampoline!”

Crosby, Stills, and Nash - Southern Cross

"Who knows love can endure" --> "Who knows love Ganondorf"

Obviously not the correct lyric but they clearly end "endure" with an F sound somehow

Elton John - Your Song

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
That I put down in the words
How wonderful life is
While you're in the world

I misheard the "world" as "woods", as in, someplace far away, which changes the entire point of the song. The lyrics in this part starting with "I hope you don't mind that I put down in the words" imply a change of tone to something regretful, so a line to recontextualize that that the PoV character doesn't actually feel close to their supposed love would fit; but I guess that wasn't the intention.

"Take off for nowhere" rather than "Take my breath away"

I'm here to say that I figured out "stomp on the stoop when you hear the funk loop". It took me 30 years.

Dwight Yoakam - A Thousand Miles from Nowhere

For a chunk of my childhood, I always heard, "I've got heartaches in my pocket, I've got pickles in my head," rather than "echoes in my head." To this day, it's hard to unhear it.

Timestamp link to relevant part.

"It's a corned beef sky... alright, is it some other guy..." - The Cars, Bye Bye Love

We like to joke about non Spanish lyrics that sounds like Spanish. I love Apolocatv channel for that and 🐱 costumes.

Instead of the Go Go's saying "Our lips are sealed" I thought they were saying "Honest, Lucille."

"She got too close, so I farted."

Zac Brown Band, "Knee Deep"

I always thought Gala said Stromboli (he's got his Stromboli...) which would make half sense since she is italian

some daughtry song about Tijuana.

Heard this the other day, the background vocals "who likes tacos"

Mice Roller

Don't tell your friends about the tour bus.

Roomba Roomba Roomba, let me be your Roomba.

https://youtu.be/2V_uAAAH-_Q

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