Yesterday, we were driving around listening to this group the Butcher likes, which I have never heard of (he told me not to admit this to you, because, according to him, it will give you the impression that I have been living in a cave… Ooo, speaking of caves, I wonder if the old Demonbreun place is available?), My Morning Jacket and I thought we were listening to a song with the lyrics “Another Heartbreak for Breakfast” and I was like “Wow, that’s really powerful” but no, it was something else, not that great.
Which reminds me that when the Boston contingency was going to Graceland, I was reading up on Paul Simon’s lyrics to the applicable song and it turns out that it is “As if I didn’t know that, as if I didn’t know my own bed.”
What?!
I have, all these years, heard that as “As if I didn’t know that, as if I didn’t know my own heart,” which, clearly, you can see, is a million times better.
In fact, now that I think about that, you could probably combine those two snippets into a song that would make folks cry just to hear it.
Tiny Cat Pants 
My favorite misheard lyric was from Prince’s “I would die 4 u.” After the title line, he says “Darling, if you want me to.” I always heard it as “stop me if you want me to,” which I thought was cleverly self-effacing.
Some of us, if we don’t get our recommended daily allowance of irony, will simply invent it.
I grew up with a girl who had trouble with the lyrics to Steve Winwood songs”
“Bring me a higher love” became “Bake me a pie of love”
“Roll with it baby” was “Bald-headed baby”
Beth, I really want there to be a song about “Bake me a pie of love.”
When that “Machine Head” song by Bush came out, I thought it was a song about child-birth and that he was reassuring the soon-to-be mother that the baby had a “mushing head” that would squeeze out okay.
I should note that the girl I mentioned was a few fries short of a happy meal.
“mushing head” makes more sense than Machine Head.
My nephew used to sing that song “Bring me Ohio love.”
Somebody misunderstood “what’s love got to with it what’s love but a second hand emotion” as “what’s love but a second hand in motion”
Ha, and yet, the second is so damn true.