I will again add my favorite.
My daughter singing along with Joe Cocker’s A Little Help From My Friends while watching Wonder Years:
Watch what you do
With that stank attitude
Will you stand up and walk out on me?
I laughed and laughed.
They even refer to this common kiss-this-guy in “The Long Kiss Goodnight” when Samuel L. Jackson is singing along with the radio and Geena Davis derisively says “It’s not ‘the linen’, it’s ‘movin’ in’.” Or vice versa on the actors; it’s been a while. So we are not alone!
“Stank attitude”! 
I will sing it that way from now on.
I’ll mention that because of a joke Biggirl made once, I listen to a Four Tops song and always hear:
Ain’t no woman like a one-eyed goth…
I was also someone who didn’t understand why he wasn’t “talkin’ 'bout the linen.” What the hell does linen have to do with anything? Maybe by “linen” he means “sheets” so he’s implying that he’s not trying to get her in bed? Why not just SAY so? …Oh. “movin’ in.” Yeah, ok, that makes sense.
Oh, and the same song has another one
There’s a warm wind blowing the stars around
vs.
There’s a warm wind blowing; the stars are out
Clearly those England Dan and John Ford Coley dudes were just too mellow to really enunciate.
I always thought it was “whirlwind blowin’ the stars around,” and it never occurred to me until just now that that makes no sense.
But, in a world where Carly Simon really does sing about clouds in her coffee, it never occurs to me to question the sense of pop music lyrics.
Wait, those aren’t clowns in her coffee?? 
She’s my little loose tooth, you don’t know what I got.
In that vein,
And she’ll have fun fun fun
till her daddy takes the cheater away
That’s not correct??? :eek:
My best friend is phenomenal with these things.
From Breakfast At Tiffany’s:
She said I think I remember the bill line
As I recall we both got two counts on hygiene
(She said I think I remember the film line
As I recall I think we both kind of liked it.)
She’s always coming up with stuff like this. I just don’t understand it. That interpretation is so completely devoid of sense it boggles the mind.
I’m not terrible with these myself. MY biggest issue is not realizing double meanings in songs. Not long ago the the clever hidden meaning of ‘‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go’’ suddenly burst into perfect clarity.
Phonetically, yes, but I think it’s " 'Round yon virgin". (=around)
“Hark the Harold angels sing” I can’t help with.
Ah, that’s enter Sandman by Metallica, no.
Actually:
In Andy Gibb’s Love is Thicker Than Water, it almost seems as though he’s saying “You are. . . the fish dreamer’s only dream” around 0:52.
Hehe…anyone who’s sent “off to never never land” by Amstel Light is a total wuss.
From Grease,when ONJ sings “You’re The One That I Want” in the chorus, I thought she were saying just a bunch of nonsense syllables.
Steely Dan lyrics are notorious for spawning mondegreens.
Song: Hey Nineteen
What I heard: “Marie can’t dance/ Marie can’t talk at all”
Actual words (at least as given here) : “No we can’t dance together/ No we can’t talk at all”
Song: Peg
What I heard: “You’re an open blueprint – whoo”
What they wrote: “Done up in blueprint blue”
Song: Deacon Blues
What I heard: This is the day/ Of the unseen romance
Correct: This is the day/ Of the expanding man
You left out “Show Business Kids”
you know they’re hot sway jess? while the poor people sleeping with the shade on the light, the stars come out at night, they got the shepherdy vie, honey let me tell you!
Okay I haven’t read all the way through this thread, but I can guarantee this one’s not there:
This dude I worked with years ago fancied himself a music-ologist, and had lots of confidence in his lyrics knowledge. One day, Michael Jackson’s Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ came on the radio, and he sang along. When he got to the end, specifically the “Ma Ma Se, Ma Ma Sa, Ma Ma Coo Sa” part, we heard him singing, “Mama says Mama saw my macho socks, Mama says Mama saw my macho socks!” We were like, “Dude! WHAT are you singing!?” and with much authority he explained that “macho socks” is slang for condoms and that Somethin’ got Started because his mama found his condoms.
No misheard lyric can top that one in my experience, but Foreigner’s “Hot bloody chicken of the sea” does come close.
I was a work shaw boner in the gulch for the people…
The actual lyrics to Albert Flasher are: I was a workshop owner in the gulch for the people…
And I don’t know what that means any better than ‘work shaw boner’.
For a long time, I thought it was “one-winged dove,” then I decided she must be singing, “Just like the one we love,” because “one-winged dove” didn’t make sense. I had no idea that it was “white-winged dove” until this thread!
My best mis-hear is James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain.” When I was a kid, instead of
Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you
I thought it was
Suzanne PansyMae put an end to you.
I was convinced the song was about someone who had been murdered by a woman named Suzanne PansyMae.
Since I didn’t know the title, it was years before I realized they were singing “peeeeggg” and not “heeeyyyy”.