Songs with lyrics that you've misinterpreted...

[HopeydaFish]

Led Zepellin -- "If you listen very hard, a Jew will bother you a lot" (If you listen very hard, the tune will come to you at last)

[Transference]

Not one of mine but a friend goofed this memorable one:

Rusted root:
Simion the Whale

Answer in white
<font color="white">Send me on my way</font>

[img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] but I hear this everytime I hear that song now

oh man this has me laughing so hard, what fun! Here's one of mine....

"Ground Control to Major Tong....."

[GAL]

"she's got better days aside"

Bette Davis eyes

[Forbin]

[ QUOTE ]
Led Zepellin -- "If you listen very hard, a Jew will bother you a lot" (If you listen very hard, the tune will come to you at last)

[/ QUOTE ]

Semi-related... I had a roommate in college who hadn't really heard any Grateful Dead before, and I listen to a fair amount (moreso then). After he had heard Franklin's Tower a number of times we had this conversation:
Him: "I though the Dead were supposed to be all peaceful and happy and stuff... why are their lyrics so angry and violent?"
Me: "Huh? what are you talking about?"
Him: "Well in that last song they keep talking about blowing away the Jews."
After thinking for a minute I realize he's talking about the repeated line of, "Roll away the dew," and I explain that to him.

Of course now about half the time when I hear that song I think about those lyrics.

[NutCrackerr]

Steve Miller Band - Big ole jet airliner -"Big ole Jed had a light on"

No Doubt - Spiderwebs - "No matter who calls, I scream my balls off" (instead of "I screen my phone calls")

"jeremy's smooooking ccrraaaaaacckk Cocaaaaiiiiine."

[WDC]

lets not forget that classic Beatles Lyric:

'the girl with colitis goes by."

[Aces McGee]

I'm sure I've posted this one before in a similar thread, but my friends used to think the first line of the refrain to "Would?" by Alice in Chains was "Hail to the furniture"

Instead of "Into the flood again"

-McGee

[Granite]

I caught a friend singing "I Wanna, I Wanna be a DOOR!"

She was singing along to the Stone Roses song "I Wanna be Adored"