Now I don’t feel stupid anymore. I always heard it this way, too and felt rather foolish when I read the real lyrics. At least I know now that I wasn’t alone!! 
Kilimanjaro rises LIKE Olympus above the Serengeti. It’s a simile!
Yes, it is. But it’s a particularly pointless and stupid simile. "See how that mountain rises above the Serengeti – just like some entirely different mountain would rise above it if it were anywhere near the Serengeti, which it isn’t so I don’t know why I bothered to mention it.”
Perhaps not so stupid as many people think. Olympus is the Greek mountain where according to the Greek mythology most of their gods lived. I have always thought the line uses the mythical meaning of Olympus in this verse, rather than the geographical.
On the topic of misplaced syllabic stress: Dutch band Kayak had a top10 hit in the Netherlands with Ruthless queen. Sung as ruth **less **queen.
The melody of the Hollies ‘the air that I breathe’ you mean?
Pop Punk band Alkaline Trio has a song that is too clever by half – he starts off one verse with “I’ve got this bottle in hand”, and then the rest of the verse has nothing to do with a bottle. Then in another verse, he talks about spending money on a “D.I.Y. lobotomy”, which completes the reference, but too late for the “bottle in hand” lyrics to not be ill-fitting.
The Star Spangled Banner. The accents of the words do not match the strong beats of the music. “…and the home…of the…brave.”
I agree. It’s the majesty that they’re referencing, not the big-mountain aspect. God-like, if you will. Although I do agree it’s not a particularly lovely lyric, it’s not like it’s a big chunk of stupid.
Alice Cooper, in “School’s Out”:
Well we got no class
And we got no principles
And we got no innocence
We can’t even think of a word that rhymes
(Bolding mine)
Which, coincidentally, is why I liked “Empress”. All the majesty, none of the geographic confusion! 
Lerner & Loewe’s ‘When I’m On The Street Where You Live’, which requires ‘bother me’ to rhyme with ‘rather be’. (Also, if the character is supposed to be English he would be IN the street, not ON it).
The Rolling Stone’s Paint it Black “…I could not foresee this thing happening to you”. That has irked me for years.
The meter in Ozzy’s songs are off more than not. Damned if I can name an example, but once I was trying to explain to someone why I really don’t care for him as a singer and they were able to help me figure out that his lyrics just don’t flow and so end up sounding clunky.
Donovan’s songs do that a lot, as in the “crys-TULL spec-TICK-les” of “Epistle to Dippy” or the “Moth-ER bird eating cherries” from that springtime song on Gift From a Flower to a Garden.
And includes the “r” that is clearly audible at that point in the line. 