I thought she was saying “carpet knife” too. I couldn’t imagine why anyone would kiss a knife, but by God that’s what it sounds like to me.
I thought the same thing. Carpet knife! My brain was telling me that it made no sense, but my ears were insisting they were right…
…and should have previewed. Maybe we could start a club.
Well, triple duh here, then, because I thought the same thing until this very moment.
This one’s embarrassing, but when Abbey Road first came out, I thought Paul McCartney was making a racial comment in “You Never Give Me Your Money”:
One sweet dream:
Here come the blacks, getting to live the scene
(instead of “Pick up the bags, get in the limousine”)
From Doo Wah Diddy:
Amherst! Cheese mine!
True, I was very young, but there was a time when I believe that they mined cheese. In Amherst.
Hold me closer, Tony Danza[/Elton John]
Of course it’s “tiny dancer.”
And in Smells Like Teen Spirit, I heard “I feel stupid and contagious” as “Eiffel’s stupid, and contagious.” I didn’t know what Kirk had against the venerable Frenchman. Also in Smells, I heard “A denial” as “Adonai’ll,” which I didn’t understand at all.
Mayo
In the Presidents of the United States of America’s song “Lump”, I misheard every instance of the word “lump” as “love”. This makes for a very different song.
When I heard Rage Against The Machine’s song “Renegades of Funk,” thought that they were proclaming themselves to be the Redneck Kings of Funk. I had great fun imagining some sort of hillbilly disco dancer.
I actually posted a thread asking this very question, because I couldn’t understand this lyric. Nobody gave me a good answer. I couldn’t believe she was talking about 45 RPM records in this day and age. And it didn’t make sense that she was talking about a 0.45 caliber gun. Or her chest measurement. SPF makes a lot more sense.
But are you sure it’s right? Nothing else in the song suggests she’s out in the hot sun.
Thank you. Because when I read what Rysto thought it was, I felt pretty stupid for thinking it was “dark sarcasm” for all these years. 
When I first heard The Cranberries’s Zombie I thought they were singing Eeyore Head (even though I knew that couldn’t possibly be right). Whenever I hear the song I imagine a guy in a grey suit, only instead of a human head he has Eeyor’s head. And he’s dancing.
Well, I guesss I can’t be %100 sure, but I’m pretty sure (what, that’s not good enough for you? ) True, she sings about her commie friend and the dude who’s love she can’afford to buy, with nary a mention of being out in the hot sun. Except, of course for the *title * of the song 
One of my friends said he always thought it was “No dogs or cats, now, in the classroom.” But I think he made up things a lot so maybe he was lying.
David Lynch directs the videos in your head, huh?
Keane has a new album out and the first line of the first song, Atlantic sounds like
I assure you that one of those words is incorrect.
[sub](licked = lit)[/sub]
Hee hee. You made me snort. Really.
I’m one of the world’s worst hearers of lyrics. I’m frequently lost.
On The Little Mermaid’s “Part of Your World” I can’t quite make out something. It sounds like “pregnant”:
What it really is, though, is:
That’s a relief. I couldn’t figure out where those pregnant women were coming from.
That reminded me of the infamous Taco Bell Chihuahua joke.
The Taco Bell Chihuahua, a Doberman and a Bulldog are in a doggie bar having a drink when a good-looking female Sheltie comes up to them and says, ‘‘Whoever can say liver and cheese in a sentence can have me.’’
So the Doberman says, ‘‘I love liver and cheese.’’
The Sheltie says, ‘‘That’s not good enough.’’
The Bulldog says, ‘‘I hate liver and cheese.’’
She says, ‘‘That’s not creative.’’
Finally, the Chihuahua says,
‘‘Liver alone., boys…cheese mine.’’
[hijack]How is it? A review said it “rocked more” than the previous one. I dunno, but they seemed fine as it is!
The recent Atari cover gave me a :smack: moment when it became apparent that Don Henley hadn’t been singing about a ‘Poison Summer’ when I was a kid. Boys of Summer, indeed. Pft, I still sing along with my version.