I always heard him searching for his “Salt shaker of love.”
Don’t feel too badly. Until just recently* I thought she was singing “Just like a one-winged dove”.
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I once heard someone on a ‘listener request weekend" ask the Classic Rock DJ to play that Who song, ‘Livin’ in the Bronx’
And when I 1st heard it, I thought it was ‘I Love Cecile’
Two Princes - Spin Doctors, to this day, I still hear:
If you wanna buy me flowers, Just go ahead, now
And if you’d like to cum for hours, Just go ahead, now
I thought it was “No rock star has 'em in the classroom”.
In Queen’s We Will Rock You, instead of, * You got blood on your face
You big disgrace
Wavin’ your banner all over the place. *
I heard, "Wavin’ your bladder all over the place.
Me, too! For like twenty-five years or so. How embarrassin’.
“…is baby, be president!”
Q
For years I thought that the line from Elton John’s “Don’t let the sun go down on me”
“I can’t light no more of your darkness”
was
“Mumble, no more Augie Dog days”
Elton as a classic cartoon fan, I guess.
A friend of mine told me that she thought that Corey Hart’s “I Wear My Sunglasses at Night”'s line:
“Don’t mess around with the guy in shades of …”
was really
“Don’t masturbate with the guy in shade of…”
Not that I was ever a Corey Hart fan, but on the two or three occasions that I’ve heard the song since, guess which version I remember?
…Gonna tell everyone to light one up!"
Q
Apparently in “Blinded by the Light,” he’s “revved up like Deuce” not “Wrapped up like a douche”
As a teenager I taught myself Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Green River on guitar, but had to warble these lyrics that I guessed at:
Well, take me on down the boo-ya boneyard
Let me remember things I love
Come and walk along the catfish vine
Rollin’ along the river road at night
Catfish girl, dancin’ on the moon with you
You get the idea.
My favourite was not my mishearing, but my younger sister’s. She’d sing loudly along to the classic Aerosmith tune, “Love is an Alligator”.
And to echo ChoosyChips, that’s *not * what Smashmouth was singing?
Relate.
When your baby’s old enough to relate.
When I was little, I enjoyed ABC by the Jackson 5. I’d heard a lyric as Jesus gonna show you-how to get an A. I think now its teahcers gonna show you. Also, I still wonder who Bob Faroouk is.
I think Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” had the most lines I just never got the right version of. The way he stresses different syllables makes it really difficult. On the flip side though, I just knew I was wrong when I thought it was “the horny-back toad” but not so!
In the original Springsteen clearly sings duece.
In the remake, Manfred Mann clearly sings douche. I don’t think it matters what the lyrics sheet says.
Pretty much the same here, only I thought it was “…no more Augie darkness.” 
And Ender_Will, based on what I’ve been told by someone who would know, Springsteen sang it “revved”, while Mannfred Mann sang it “wrapped” or, more likely, “rapped”, which meant revved back in the hot-rod and muscle-car days. When you gunned your engine to very high revolutions, you "rapped it out."I was told also that both were saying “deuce” – a type of hot-rod – but Mannfred Mann pronounced it in such a way that it sounded like douche.
Lucky there’s a family guy.
Lucky there’s a man who
positively can do
all the things that makes us
effin’ cry.
Does anyone have the lyrics to ABC? It sounds like Bob Farouk!
I heard the GoGos tune as Honest I See You for about 6 months, then a crack of lightning hit me and I heard it correctly… it was a Mountain Dew-meets-nostrils moment, I can tell ya.
At about the same time, Eddie Money’s Shakin’ was on the radio. To this day when he sings the chorus line “snappin’ her fingers” I hear “slappin’ her big ass”. The video certainly didn’t help me to self-correct this, either. 
Here are the lyrics. Apparently you’re mishearing “gotta do”.