Doors’ “Riders on the Storm”:
There’s a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin’ like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If ya give this man a ride
Sweet memory will die
Killer on the road, yeah
I always worried about sweet Emily at home, trusting us not to bring home a killer. I STILL hear Emily, not memory every time.
Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville
A Mexican cutie, how it’s got hair
I haven’t a clue.
(How it got here)
Jerry Reed - He’s Found a dime
He’s Found a dime, loaded up and truckin…
(Eastbound and Down)
In my defense I thought “he’s found a dime” must be trucker jargon.
Heh, I hear “sweet family will die”.
It is “family.”
Okay, now I’m confused. I always thought it was “family”, the post above says “memory”.
Can I go back to thinking it was “family” now? 
It is “family,” according to:
Well, you have me convinced. 
Can you tell I’ve had to argue this before?
I’ve previously noted that Seal’s brooding-but-uplifting song about Bruce Wayne – the one about a kiss from a rose on the grave – is, for some reason, “on the gray”.
A friend of a co-worker could not understand the 1995 Oasis hit “Champagne, Soup and Rover”
In my extreme youth, I always heard this as “Go-oh away” (first word stretched to 2 syllables), and of course the song made absolutely no sense. Why is she telling him to please go away when the rest of the lyrics indicate that they really like each other?
From AC/DC:
Thirty thieves and the thunder genie!
Thirty thieves and the thunder genie!
I hate it when I substitute my own lyrics and the real ones are a lot worse.
The latest is One Hundred Sleepless Nights by Pierce The Veil
The actual lyric is “Failing Lights”.
NO! With the lyric of “Family Life”, the singer briefly had visions of building a great family with the woman despite the fact that the baby will keep him up at night, yet she suddenly says that she’s going away which drives him crazy.
With “Failing Lights”, it’s just a garden variety so-psycho-you’re-leaving-me-that-I-can’t-sleep.
Dirty deeds and the dunder chief.
When I first head it, I thought they sang “thunderchief”. I thought it was cool that someone wrote a song about an F-105.
Uther’s misheard lyric was from “Enjoy the Silence”, but I can’t think of this one’s origin.
As for me, I never got the obvious meaning of “Brick” by Ben Folds, probably because I misheard the line “As weeks went by” as “As we swing by”, calling to mind a lazy Sunday afternoon or something. It fits the langorous nature of the way Ben sings that line. It threw my mind off the rest of the narrative that was developing, and building tension.
The Who (Who are You)
New Or-leans
New New New New!
Well, we all know how THAT turned out!
“Allow me to introduce myself, my name is mud!”
Just popped into my head, so I had to do a Leaky (no! Johansen! no! Leaky! no! Johansen!) job on this thread and bring out the ole archeologist’s brush and (ok ok my high falutin way of saying I’m de-zombifying this) -
In Foreigner’s “Hot Blooded” - when Lou goes “do ya do, more, than, dance” for the longest (and not to mention stupidest) time I thought he was goin “do ya do, mo-dern, dance”, and I was thinking - uh, what’s with this…ballet shit?
Gloria (Gloria), I think they got your number (Gloria)
I think they got the area code (Gloria) that you’ve been living under