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"

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

"Dirty deeds, dunder chiefs!"

I always wondered what a dunder chief is.

Hoobastank, the Reason.

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

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

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.

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

“Blinded by the light.

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

Turns out is actually deuce.

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.

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”.

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

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

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

That Land Down Under song. I still have no idea what the women or men do but I can hear the thunder.

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

Excuse me, while I kiss this guy.

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

I still say it makes slightly more sense in Otherside if he's saying "the cemetery where I married a thief".

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.

Pump Up the Jam - Technotronic

At first I heard, "I want, a player Tuesday."

Then I heard, "I want, a player to stay."

Apparently it's actually, "Awa, a place to stay."

That whole time I thought she was looking for a man (on a Tuesday), but she just wanted everyone to dance together.

Crosby, Stills, and Nash - Southern Cross

"Who knows love can endure" --> "Who knows love Ganondorf"

Obviously not the correct lyric but they clearly end "endure" with an F sound somehow

Elton John - Your Song

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
That I put down in the words
How wonderful life is
While you're in the world

I misheard the "world" as "woods", as in, someplace far away, which changes the entire point of the song. The lyrics in this part starting with "I hope you don't mind that I put down in the words" imply a change of tone to something regretful, so a line to recontextualize that that the PoV character doesn't actually feel close to their supposed love would fit; but I guess that wasn't the intention.

Nirvana, On a Plain "The finest day, I ever had, was when I learned to cry like a man."

It's supposedly "cry on command."

I have an auditory processing disorder sooo all of them lol

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

If you know, you know.

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 thought that Controversy by Prince was actually called Electric Pussy. Which, for Prince, actually tracks.

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

"You know I'd like to keep my cheating strategy"

Actual lyrics: "You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today"

Blind Melon, "No Rain"

I'm here to say that I figured out "stomp on the stoop when you hear the funk loop". It took me 30 years.