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You ever listen to a song, and then really like it because the lyrics sounded awesome, and then find out that you had misheard the lyrics all along?

I'll give you an example:

I heard this song on the radio, once, and the two lines of lyrics that I remember hearing were "I'll be / your dragon soldier!"

I liked the song, because I was thinking "Wow, that's an awesome concept! I wonder what he means by being someone's dragon soldier?"

Only, a year later, when I finally remembered to put it on my iPod, I look up the lyrics to find out the title (which I didn't know at the time) and I found out that I had it wrong all along! The lyrics really were "I'll be / your crying shoulder." I was completely let down, to be honest.


But enough about me, has it ever happened to you?

Don't feel too bad. This sort of thing happens to a lot of people; in fact, I believe there's a word for it: "mondegreens."
Here are some examples:

*In the song "We Three Kings," kids often mistakenly sing the opening line as "We three kings of porrige and tar."
*Children learning the famous "Shepherd's Psalm (Psalm 23) may goof up and say "Surely Good Mrs. Murphy (goodness and mercy) shall follow me all the days of my life."
*In the line "He has trampled out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored," from Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, the "grapes of wrath" easily turn into "great giraffes" (how's that for a mental image?). And I think we've all heard about Richard Stands in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Even the word mondegreen began with a mondegreen itself. An American writer named Sylvia Wright coined it after a mistake she often made with a line from a ballad she grew up hearing:
"Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl Amurray,
And Lady Mondegreen."
That's what she thought it said, anyway, until she learned years later that it really said, "And laid him on th green." So from that she coined the word "mondegreen," which has managed to stick ever since.

In My Chemical Romance's "Dead!" I thought he said "I think I like you better this way" and I thought he meant that he liked her better dead but I look up the lyrics and he actually said "They never really liked you anyway". Lol, I liked my version better but oh well.