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I always thought Gala said Stromboli (he's got his Stromboli...) which would make half sense since she is italian

I used to think the Kiss song went "I wanna rock and roll all night... and part of every day."

It wasn't until my first job at a grocery store during Christmas time that I learned it was "Feliz Navidad" being sung.

Before that, I couldn't figure out why the cheerful song that only appeared around Christmas time was saying "Police shot my dad"

Don't go, Jason waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

“Blinded by the light.

Revved up like a douche, another runner in the night.”

Turns out is actually deuce.

I always heard it as trombeleese, which I imagined to be some exotic musical instrument like this:

"Dirty deeds, dunder chiefs!"

I always wondered what a dunder chief is.

Manfred Mann's cover of Blinded by the Light has entered the chat. Probably the most misheard lyrics in the entire history of modern music.

It's "Revved up like a deuce."

Wait... Manfred Mann's version is a cover? Yep, Blinded by the Light was originally performed Bruce Springsteen.

I used to sing Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong as “Pyramids, pyramids, pyramids, pyramids can’t be wrong”.

Also, in Africa, I definitely thought they said “rises like a lepress (like a female leopard) above the Serengeti”. The real lyric is “Olympus”.

Annie are you walking? Annie are you walking? Are you walking, Annie?

“I set fire, to Lorraine” by Adele (set fire to the rain). “Parrot, parrot, parrot eyes” by Coldplay (Paradise)

Excuse me, while I kiss this guy.

Hoobastank, the Reason.

Real lyric: "a reason to start over new".

What i heard as a child: "the reason tostadas are new"

Kings of Leon, Use Somebody. I always thought that he said "You know I wanna eat somebody. Someone like you!"

Blink 182 "the state looks down on side of me"

If you know, you know.

"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy!" - Jimmi Hendrix

At one point in Another One Bites the Dust, Freddie says "Bite the dust, yeah" which for years I could not hear as anything but "I'm adopted". Seemed like a weird way to share that information.

I have an auditory processing disorder sooo all of them lol

Oh I was singing loudly along with Elton John one day, "Love, I feel it in my hands, I can tell by the things I would do with another maaaan" as I had done every time I heard the song when I suddenly realized that probably wasn't something someone would sing in the 1970s, looked it up and the NAME of the song is Love Lies Bleeding.

Owner of a lonely horse...

Real lyric: owner of a lonely heart.

I never understood why there'd be a song about a lonely horse.

I can't think of any off the top of my head, but this bit by Peter Kay always has me in tears.

Also, the technical term is 'Mondegreen'

Edit: I'm also reminded of a Colin Hay one man show I went to years ago where he told a story about a bloke that requested the 'song about the goats' at a gig. Turns out it was Overkill - "Goats appear and fade away". He then went on to tell a long story about a sharehouse he lived in in his youth that decided to get a goat to keep the lawn down. Man that was a good show.

If anybody remembers this from Del Amitri: https://youtu.be/K_s44LilaYM

I always heard "The wrong guy, the wrong situation. The right time the wrong week.

For like a decade+ I thought Umbrella by Rihanna went "under my arms forever"

For a long time, I thought in the song Inagadadavida, the lyrics went '"doncha know that I love you", but it turns out, they say "l'm lovin' you".