In the powers-from-misheard-lyrics department...

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

...a.k.a. "taking ruthless advantage of mondegreens."
The wind blows hard
Against this mountain side
Across the sea into my soul
It reaches into where
I cannot hide
Setting my feet upon the road
My heart is old it holds my memories
My body burns a gemlike flame
Somewhere between the soul
And soft machine
Is where I find myself again
Kyrie eleison down the road that I must travel
Kyrie eleison through the darkness of the night
Kyrie eleison where I'm going will you follow
Kyrie eleison on a highway in the light
When I was young I thought of growing old
Of what my life would mean to me
I have travelled down my chosen road
Or only wished what I could be
Kyrie eleison down the road that I must travel
Kyrie eleison through the darkness of the night
Kyrie eleison where i'm going will you follow
Kyrie eleison on a highway in the light
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
Kyrie eleison down the road that I must travel
Kyrie eleison through the darkness of the night
Kyrie eleison Kyrie eleison down the road that I must travel
Kyrie eleison through the darkness of the night
Kyrie eleison where i'm going will you follow
Kyrie eleison on a highway in the light
Kyrie eleison on a highway in the light
oh oh oh oh
the road i must follow
oh
the darkness of the night
oh
where i'm going will you follow
highway in the light
--Mr. Mister, Kyrie Eleison

...Gives Doug a high-powered, long-range laser rifle.
--Sam
"The streets will run RED with Santa!"

[Bob Schroeck]

Bwahahahahahahahahaha!

OK, for those who don't understand my reaction... one of the classic "misheard lyrics" is from this song: "Carry a laser" for "Kyrie Eleison".
Ten points to Sam!

-- Bob
---------
For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...

[SkyeFire]

My reaction was about the same as Bob's. I spent *years* thinking that "carry a laser" were the lyrics.
And now I have a mental image of Doug getting a souped-up version of a Barret .50 whenever anyone plays the old Ma Bell ad jingle....

[bmull]

If you want to do more in this vein, how about "Bad Moon Rising" by CCR?

I see the bad moon arising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin.
I see bad times today.
Well, dont go around tonight.
Its bound to take your life.
Theres a bad moon on the rise.
I hear hurricanes ablowing.
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers over flowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.
Well, dont go around tonight.
Its bound to take your life.
Theres a bad moon on the rise.
Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like were in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.
Well, dont go around tonight.
Its bound to take your life.
Theres a bad moon on the rise.
Well, dont go around tonight.
Its bound to take your life.
Theres a bad moon on the rise.

My mother always heard "there's a bathroom on the right" instead of "there's a bad moon on the rise."
Just think about it, a song that gives everyone in Doug's AoE a massive case of diarrhea. :-p Alternatively, it could just make a bathroom appear (on the right of course!)
(If you have Fogerty's version from "Premonition" you can hear him sing "bathroom on the right" in the next to last chorus ~1:52 .)

[Bob Schroeck]

---

My mother always heard "there's a bathroom on the right" instead of "there's a bad moon on the rise."

---

Oh yeah, and that's possibly THE misheard lyric. I remember a standup comedian doing an entire riff on that something like twenty years ago.

---

(If you have Fogerty's version from "Premonition" you can hear him sing "bathroom on the right" in the next to last chorus ~1:52 .)

---

Really? Now that's funny.

-- Bob
---------
For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...

[robkelk]

---

Oh yeah, and that's possibly THE misheard lyric.

---

I always thought that the definitive misheard lyric was from Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze - "Excuse me while I kiss this guy". (The song power for this one should be obvious.)
Then there's the Bare Naked Ladies' Grade 9, where "This is me in Grade 9" was misheard as "This could be a great night". Can't come up with anything for that, though...
-Rob Kelk
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

Well, yeah, "Purple Haze" is the OTHER great misheard lyric.

-- Bob
---------
For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...

[classicdrogn]

Looks like I've disovered my super-power, then - I am now The Incredible Ear-Man! - because I always heard those three correctly, and can even make out nearly half of Louie Louie! (Well, I haven't heard the Bare Naked Ladies one at all, so I can't comment on that)
- TIEMSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

Louie Louie? Hah! The Kingsmen are clarity itself compared to the vocal stylings of the Cocteau Twins' Liz Frasier. It's the aural equivalent of a Rorschach blot. I defy anyone here to figure out what language she's singing in, let alone what the words are.
--Sam
"Did she just say 'sitting in a Beavis tree?'"