A friend of mine admitted mishearing the chorus from "Back to Life" for years. Instead of "However do you want me, However do you need me", he thought it was "I don't wanna be a woman, I wanna be an emu". Problem is, it sticks. Try it.

I have thousands and thousands of these, but the one that always tops my list is my friend singing "we're gonna start a farm" instead of "waiting for a star to fall" - although I dunno who that's by - some blandpop 80s group like Starship, I suspect.

Oh and more recently, there's Shakira's "And that's the Dilmah dear" and Tatu's "This...is....not...my...muff"

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'Alive' by Pearl Jam
"I'm glad we talked" I heard as "I'm playing guitar"

'Black' by Pearl Jam
"Her lace spread out before me" I heard as "Her legs spread out before me"

I think Eddie Vedder must be responsible for many mis-heard lyrics.

Some of my friends have admitted to some pretty good mis-heard lyrics including:
"The lift goes up and we get on" ("Love lift us up where we belong")
"The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind" ("The answer my friend is blowing in the wind")

you seal your own coffin -> you sell your own coffee

cheap wine and a female goat?
a jimmy barnes song cant remember the name but its one of his more popular ones.
(could even be a cold chisel number)

a friend of mine thought that the feelers were singing 'feeling fine, cant get it up' in astronaut

in feed the dogs by betchadupa i heard 'all my friends are in my band' as 'all my friends are in my bed'

the first cunt is the deepest
you cunt harry love
like a fridge over troubled water- i will freeze your mind
4-legged woman- more than a woman to me

Haha yeah I have had the same problem with so many songs, I just don't care anymore aye. But i will go onto that website and check out where I have been going wrong. I don't know about all of you guys but I think Eminem would have to be one of the worst heard lyrics ever.

on the rock they had this discussion...

"smoke on the water, fire in the sky VS slow walking walter, the fire engine guy! hehe and

"Excuse me while I kiss the sky VS the infamous... 'Excuse me while I kiss this guy" and lastly

"love in an elevator" VS "love with an Aligator"

Oh the shame.

Psuedo Echo - Funky Town
"Won't you take me to, a Funky Town"...I heard as..."Won't gitzu-mitzu, Funky Town"

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Can't remember the song title, it was a Macy Gray one and went (in my mind)like this:

I try to say goodbye and I choke
Try to walk away and I stumble
Though I try to hide it, its clear
I wear goggles when you are not there

(My world crumbles when you are not there)

And hey, this is my first comment on NZMusic! Wahey!!!

theres a bad moon on the rise -
theres a bathroom on the right.

My friend heard "love is for the x-men" instead of "lover's body extending.." in Lucid 3's 'Curious'...

"she's got a nudist guy" instead of "she's got a new disguise" - matt good's ... she's got a new disguise. how you get it wrong... who knows. it takes a special kind of stupid.

"little miss pocus.." - "Jeremy spoke in.."... pearl jam's jeremy.

yes.

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Or how's this whopper from Jimi Hendrix's version of All Along The Watchtower:

REAL: "Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late"

MISHEARD: "Let us not talk falsely now, that I was getting laid"

It sounds SO like it!