Sweet dreams are made of cheese

It must have happened to you, too: you're driving along, listening to the radio, and you hear lyrics and think, "Are they really singing that? That doesn't make any sense!" Or, worse: you think the lyrics that you've misheard do make sense, only to have yourself corrected and laughed at the next time you sing them out loud!

Do you recognize these misheard lyrics?

"Sweet dreams are made of cheese."
"You might as well face it, you're a dick with a glove."
"Excuse me while I kiss this guy."
"The foulest dentures in the air."
"This anus is the centre hole."

Misheard lyrics are also called "mondegreens". It was American writer Sylvia Wright who came up with the term. When Wright was a child, her mother used to read aloud her favorite poem, "The Bonny Earl of Murray".

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been? (Where have you been?)
They hae slain the Earl o' Murray (They have slain...)
And Lady Mondegreen.

The fourth line is actually: "And laid him on the green".

As no word existed for the phenomenon of mishearing lyrics, "mondegreen" seemed as good a term as any.

There are a few websites and even a book with collections of mondegreens — many of them are hilarious!

Answers:
Eurythmics, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)": "Sweet dreams are made of this."
Robert Palmer, "Addicted to Love": "You might as well face it: you're addicted to love."
Jimi Hendrix, "Purple Haze": "Scuse me while I kiss the sky."
Michael Jackson, "Thriller": "The foulest stench is in the air."
J. Geils Band, "Centerfold": "My angel is a centerfold."