Ask Lemmy

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.

Hoobastank, the Reason.

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

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

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.

"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"

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.

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

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

"Dirty deeds, dunder chiefs!"

I always wondered what a dunder chief is.

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."

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

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

“Blinded by the light.

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

Turns out is actually deuce.

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

some daughtry song about Tijuana.

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

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

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

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

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.

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."

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)

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

If you know, you know.

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

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”.