Everyone has misinterpreted song lyrics at one time or another.  Yes, even you.  Maybe you heard that classic Hendrix tune as "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy."  Or perhaps you thought Elton John was singing "Hold me closer, Tony Danza."  Or you could have been grooving to the ending of Grease, belting out "I got shoooooooes, they're made of plywood!"

Come on, did you really think John Fogerty was telling you that "there's a bathroom on the right?"

I've had those moments as well.  They're commonly referred to as "mondegreens."  My most glaring one was a line from the 1982 Berlin song "The Metro" - every time I heard Terri Nunn sing "swimming through apologies", I heard it as "swimming through a pile of cheese."

Fast forward at least ten years.  I'm browsing though books at Tower Records and I come across one called, of course, "'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy", a collection of misheard lyrics.  I think to myself "Self, do you think maybe that Berlin one is in here?"

THE FIRST RANDOM PAGE I TURNED TO not only had the line, but a really funny drawing of a scuba diver totally immersed in blocks of cheese.  That book has 192 pages, and I went to the right one immediately.  It was fate.

As a side note, I gave that book away as a gift and then bought it for myself again later as part of my very first Amazon order, which also included similar books entitled "When a Man Loves a Walnut" and "He's Got the Whole World In His Pants."

Click here to watch the video for "The Metro" on YouTube, and just try not to hear that line as "swimming through a pile of cheese."