Blinded by the Light? Definitely a Bruce song.
You’re off to a bad start 'cause it’s Radio Free Europe ! FWIW here they are.
My personal REM mondegreen is from “I Believe”. I thought the lyrics
I believe my shirt is wearing thin
And change is what I believe in
were
I believe my soul is wearing thin
Chains. What I believe is …
I like the idea of a soul wearing chains to keep it in check, but only thin ones so it could break free in* extremis* …
My girlfriend from years ago was convinced the line from Ziggy Stardust was:
Making love to his eagle
Ziggy sucked up into his mind …
whereas it was of course:
Making love to hs ego
and she would *not *be convinced otherwise.
Sorry, Andrew, the winking smiley was there to prevent that whoosh.
That’s so cool I’m going to forgive him for the line being in French.
:o yeah, I used to think it was “Big ol’ Jed and Lionel” which made no sense because who the hell were Jed and Lionel to carry Steve ‘so far away’ anyway?
From John Mellencamp’s “Hurts So Good”:
Sometimes love don’t feel like it should
became
Sometimes love don’t fit like a shoe
Personally, I like that latter!
It amazes me how many people think is so great a song but never bothered to buy the f**king album and look at the damn (provided) lyrics. :smack:
I wasn’t going to post this, since I’ve posted it a million times, but of course in STP’s “Plush” it could either be:
Where you goin for tomorrow?
Where you goin with that mask you found?’
And I feel and I feel when the dogs begin to smell her
or
Where you goin for tomorrow?
Where you goin with that mastiff hound?
And I feel and I feel when the dogs begin to smell her
Apparently it’s “the funk’s so rubber,” NOT “the funk’s yo brotha.” Who knew? But…rubber funk? I don’t get it.
Mr. Snicks likes to sing “Drink your milk” in the Offspring’s Take 'em out (or is it Come out and play? I forget):
“Take 'em out/Drink your milk
You gotta keep 'em separated.
HeyyAAyeyyy
Don’t pay no mind…”
I knew RADAR LOVE wasn’t RED HOT LOVE…
I thought it was RED EYE LOVE!
Up till this very moment, I thought Stevie was singing about a poor one-winged dove!!!
Now for mine (I always bring this up in these threads)
Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart in which I hear “love is like a shadow on the altar of time” instead of the actual “love is like a shadow on me all of the time”.
Mine’s more esoteric but much cooler.
Mom wants to know how many here thought “Bringing In the Sheaves” was “Bringing In the Sheep”. It wasn’t till she started attending my church about ten years ago that she realized that!
Believe it or not, here’s the proof. Oddly enough, I thought he was singing “Bruce”, and intentionally over-enunciating the “r”, the way one might have done if intending to mock the name, or imply that it was effeminate. But the fact is, by pronouncing ‘Groos’ instead of ‘Bruce’, the position of your tongue when you pronounce the ‘G’ almost forces you to really enunciate the ‘r’ that follows. Try pronouncing ‘Bruce’ and ‘Groos’ to yourself and you’ll see what I mean.
Again, harking back to my phonetics class, the frequencies that distinguish certain pairs of phonemes, for instance /s/ and /f/, are very high, and some sound carriers can’t convey those frequencies. The phone is a good example of this, and it’s for this reason that the ultra-affected pronunciations of numbers were developed in the early years–e.g. “niyun zeerow zeerow fower fiyiv”. It’s less of an issue nowadays, especially with decent sound equipment, but it can still happen, and probably helps to explain some of the misheard lyrics.
Speaking of Stevie and her one-winged dove song - same album, different song. In Stop Dragging My Hear Around , I thought the line was, “now youre keeping some dame around.” Makes senses to me. 
Snickers, I always thought it was “funk’s yo brotha”, and then was informed by a friend that it was “funk soul brotha”. I decided I couldn’t be bothered to care.
FriarTed, I love that “altar of time” line. I’m singing it that way from now on, correct or not.
In the NYC area, there used to be a television commercial for a classic rock station that played “Don’t Bring Me Down” in the background while the commercial told the viewer that this station played all the classic hits, knew where all the cool concerts would be, had great contests and prizes … and the end was “But we still don’t know who Bruce is.” I’ve always loved that commercial.
I thought of another one this morning–No Doubt’s “Just A Girl.” I discovered recently that there’s a line that goes “Just your typical prototype.” I usually fudged my way through the lyrics with something having to do with keeping kimonos tied, and wondered why the hell her bathrobe had anything to do with it.
I thought it was “Bringing in the Sleeves”. I pictured a bunch of factory workers, rejoicing because they got those damn sleeves done.
I thought “Radar Love” was “Red Heart Love”.
Don’t even get me started on " Me and Bobby Mcgee". I mutilated the whole song.
Ah, C&W, now you’re talking!!
In my childhood, my parents were massive Charlie Pride fans and so they had him on in the car and the house all the time.
Until this year, I though that the line in “You know that was the last thing on my mind” was
“A lesson too late for the learning, Native Sam, Native Sam”
I thank Dolly Parton for stunning me a few weeks ago with the real lyrics
“A lesson too late for the learning, made of sand, made of sand”
Who the hell did I think Native Sam was?
Some pal of Collider, the wooden Indian, standin’ by the door, I suspect. 
My best friend’s mom has a theory that there is a mysterious third verse to that song, but Janis was too wasted to remember the words, and therefore la-laed her way through it.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe that that’s the word, I just can’t believe I never realized it, or that I never even questioned it.
Remember “Fooled Around and Fell in Love”?
I always thought it was “Cool Mountain Girl in Love”.
In fact…I still do! Dammit, that’s a perfectly plausible mid-'70’s lyric…
If it is ‘revved up like a deuce’, then that makes a lot more sense, at least if they mean ‘deuce coupe’ as in the Beach Boys’ song.
What appears to be straight from the horse’s mouth: