Paralyzer from Finger 11. I’ve been singing along to what I thought was “put your place on my face”, thinking it was kinky and dirty. I just found out today that it’s “or your place or my place”.
Extremely relevant website: http://kissthisguy.com/
I really can’t visit that site; I never leave! 
So did this improve the song or make it worse?
Ok, before we get deep into this thread, can we have a moratorium on AC/DC “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap?”
Yes, we all thought it was “Dirty deeds, thunder chief” or “Dirty deeds, done to sheep.”
There. Now no one else has to mention it.
I don’t care what you say. The lyric clearly is:
Sitting on a park bench.
Eyeing little girls with
Satin heads.
My oldest daughter ThreadPirateRoberts is 23; for years, she thought the lyrics to the Kiss song were:
I want to rock and roll all night
And part of every day!
In her child-hood reasoning, they had to reserve the other part of the day for sleeping! 
Makes sense to me!
It’s not as good some how. When I sing along to this song when it comes on the radio in the car, I always sing that part really loudly “PUT YOUR PLACE ON MY FACE!!”
Now it’s just normal and non-kinky.
No, no, it’s:
Eying little girls from batting tents!
I’ve posted this before:
“There’s a warm wind blowing the stars around, and I’d really like to see you tonight.”
There’s a warm wind, check, the stars are out there, check, and who the hell is paying attention to just where they are when there’s this absolutely intoxicating person taking up all of my attention, and who just might also enjoy making time on such a delightful, romantic evening - hmm?
Actually, the mishearing I’ve most often seen mentioned involves the Dunder Jeep.
10cc’s “The Things We Do For Love”:
The real line is:
“You think you’re gonna break up / Then she says she wants to make up”
As a kid, I thought it was:
“You think you’re gonna break out / Then she says she wants to make out”
I think it makes it a better song.
And, don’t even get me started on Steve Miller’s “Big Old Jed Had a Light On”.
The champ will always be Alanis Morissette:
The cross-eyed bear that you gave to me.
I’m not crazy, I’m just a little inbred
I know right now you don’t care
But soon enough you’re gonna think of me
And how I used to be
What?
Sure, they’re old now…
Vanity 6 had a song “3 X 2 = 6”. I’d challenge anyone to listen to try to interpret the lyrics without cheating.
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille. 400 children…
Hell, no wonder she left.
Until I heard someone sing a folksy version in a restaurant once, I had no idea about a huge chunk of the lyrics in Creedence’s “Down On The Corner”. I couldn’t pick out ANY of the lyrics from
Willy And The Poor Boys are playing
Bring a nickel, tap your feet
I didn’t imagine any alternate lyrics to that. It just sounded like gibberish. MAYBE he was saying something like “Where the Pope boys are plain; crane your neck, happy feet” and maybe not.
But the word I completely got wrong sounded like
You don’t need a pinhead
Just to hang around
No way Fogerty was saying “penny”.
Could you post the title of the song, or the correct lyrics?
My own personal example actually improves the song, in my opinion:
(Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffet)
Actual: “Looking for that long lost shaker of salt”
What I (still) hear: “Looking for that outlaw shaker of salt”