In Eminem's 'Cleaning Out My Closet' I heard...'before I had a monkey platinum selling CD' when the real lyrics are, 'before i ever had a MULTI platinum selling CD.' For the longest time I couldn't figure out what monkeys had to do with CD's.

Funky Money

R.E.M.'s Its the End of the World As We Know It went
"A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies"
But I heard it, until a few days ago as
"A turn of mints, a turn of mints, a turn of mints applies"

A turn of Mints

u no the song from thirsty merc, imancipate my self. well instead of singing theres no spirit to find me or no wishing well but im gone with i dont imancipate my self. i sang theres no spirit to find me and no wishing well but im gone if i dont masturbate myself.

muffy

You might not have heard it, but "Father of Mine" by Everclear has a good misheard lyric of mine: Instead of, "My daddy gave me a name", I still like to think it says, "My daddy laid me an egg" ...
Also, that song that goes, "My boy's gonna play in the big league/My boy's gonna turn some heads/etc" (I can't think of the title or who sings it off the top of my head) ... But you know the song ... In the bridge, it sounds EXACTLY like he says, "You can hear the asscrack" and not "You can hear the ice crack".
Or, there's always the Steve Miller Band's "Bingo Jed Had a Lighter" ...
... Draw your own conclusions.

Caitlin from Canada

instead of 'buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks' my little sister sings 'buy me some peeps and some apple jacks'

Anon

For a long time I thought the Beatles song Penny Lane had a weird title since the words were "...And Elaine is in my..."

Kate

I grew up on rock and roll, so imagine my surprise when, at 23, I found out that the ACDC song was dirty deeds done dirt cheap and not thirty thieves and the thunder chief

Kate

i used to think in michael jackson's billie jean he said "the chair is not my son" instead of "the child is not my son". i asked my mom when i was about 7 why he would state the obvious like that, because obviously a chair couldn't be a son. i also thought he couldn't really have a son because he was michael jackson. too bad i was wrong.

Anon

I am sure the majority of us have heard Madonna's song "Secret" from her Bedtime Stories album. Well, when I was young, I always thought she said "having his lice in your own hands" rather than the real, and much less confusing lyrics, "happiness lies in your hands". I finally realized what she was saying when a few years later I bought the cd and read the lyrics from the cd booklet.

M.D.

I used to believe that in the Rolling Stones song "Shattered" that instead of singing: "Shadoobee, Shattered, shattered" they were singing "Shazbat, shazbat."

It didn't help that I was a big MORK AND MINDY fan, and it REALLY didn't help that when I sang along this way in my father's presence, and then briefly got concerned and asked him if, wait, WAS that right? that he kept a straight face and said yes, yes it was.

kw

On Wake me up before you go go

it says
My best friend told me what you did last night

but i thinkas
My best friend told me that you were a transvestite

Omega-R-Fox

I used to think that Chris de burgh song Lady in red was Lady in Bread

Omega-R-Fox

In the Verve- The drugs dont work

it says

you leave my life,
im better off dead

but i hear it as
You leave my life,
im better in bed

:)

Omega Rune Fox XVI

instead of the words to Kate Cebarano's song "kiss me passionately" i used to think it was "kiss me pash me then leave"

Anon

The first time I learnt our national anthem in english, I thought the line, "Some have come, from a land beyond the wave," was 'Some have come, from a land beyond the grave.' I thought they were singing about zombies or something!

Ainé

I used to think the song "Englishmen In New York " which goes,
"I'm an alien,
I'm a legal alien;
I'm an Englishman in New York." was "I'm an idiot, im a leagal idiot, jumping in your yard"

someone from somewehre

Someone on this site said,

"I used to believe that the song my bonnie lies over the ocean was my body lies over the ocean."

I thought so too, until I read this just now. ^^;; I'm 12.

Anon