when i was about 4 or 5 my mother was playing the gloria estefan song "wanna be my lover" and i loved it. so then we were at a play date with all my friends and their mothers and i got up and started singing I WANNA BEAT MY LOVER! instead of wanna be my lover.

mere

A friend of mine believes that the song by Shania Twain goes "cum in my hair, do it again. Man, I feel like a mormon." Gee , just what do those mormons get up to!!!

dave

When Destiny's Child started to become really popular and "Jumpin, Jumpin" was on the radio a lot, my aunt used to get angry at my cousins and me for singing along because she thought it said, "...the club is full of ballers and they cocks is full grown..." instead of "...the club is full of ballers and they pockets full grown..." It took us laughing hysterically at her and actually looking up the lyrics to prove it to her before she believed us. Everytime we hear it, we still make fun of her by singing her lyrics 'til she's red in the face.

Andrea P

I only ever heard the song "Camptown Races" once. Every other time I heard it, the guy was just mumbling nonsense. It was that cartoon-rooster guy (I don't remember his name). When I heard my friend singing it, I thought he said "Camptown Racists". What confused me even more was that the first line or so is "Camptown Races sing this song, doo-dah, doo-dah...". How can a race sing a song? Do they mean a race like white, black, etc.? Some songs don't make sense to me!

Mr. Observative

I used to think the song "Sunglasses At Night" (I guess that's the title) was saying, "Don't mess afraid with a guy in shades, oh no." I thought it was telling people not to doodoo (mess) while you are scared when you are in the same bathroom as a guy in sunglasses. It made no sense, I don't know WHY I thought that.

Mess Head

Tim McGraw did a remake of Elton John's "Tiny Dancer." Until recently, I thought it said, "Baby darlin', she's a Lennon" meaning that she could sing really well. It's really "Lay me down in sheets of linen," but I still sing the Lennon line.

Me

worringly until quite recently i thought that in Will Smith's song - Boom Shake the Room they were singing "pump it up CHRIS" instead of "Pump it up PRINCE". Actually i've sung that out loud and no-one ever corrected me... so that's why they laughed !!

Pri

I believed that Tori Amos sang "My heart is sick of beaning cheese!" It took a lot of Internet-searching to find out that, in fact, she intended "My heart is sick of being in chains". Well, "Crucify" will always be The Cheese Song to me!

Rissa (14)

A collegue of mine was singing along to the song "It's the final countdown" at discoteque in Turkey. The DJ faded the music and all we heard from her was:
"There's a fire in downtown..." - Classic

Steen

My younger sister used to have a teddy bear named "Bim-Bim" She thought the song "Taking Care of Business" was "Taking Care of Bim-Bim" My parents played along so well, that I believed (I was 8-10 at the time) that BTO had really written a song about my little sister's teddy bear.

cara

I used to think that the song went "Why does it always rain on me, is it because I live in a submarine". I thought the submarine had wholes in it, i didn't know it was "..is it because I lied when i was 17". I could hardly belive it when I found out about a year ago!

Anon

I was 12 or so and heard the lyric "Wild Thing--you make my heart sing" as "Waltzing--you make my heart sing". My wife thought "Radar Love" was "Red-eyed Love", and her sister thought "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" was Gypsies, Tramps and Beads".

DJ

Util very recently I thought that in the Greese song, the girl sang 'Can you feel my erection' and i used to find it rather odd, her being a girl and all! It actually goes.. 'Can you feel my affection'

Chloé

I used to think that the lyrics in "Send me on my way" (Rusted Root) were Simeon the whale--underwear. It was years before someone felt compelled to tell me that they were actually saying "Send me on my way--on my way"

But I prefer the whale.

Portia

I found 8 other posts here about the Kenny Rogers song Lucille, but I didn't see any that misunderstood it like I did:
"You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel. Four hundred children and a crop in the field." instead of "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille. Four hungry children and a crop in the field."
I thought this was about a guy mad at his truck when the wheel fell off the piece of junk, and he needed it for harvest. Plus, he had a bunch of kids to care for.

Anon

theres a verse in the song crash into me by dave matthews band that kinda had me baffled, cuz i thought he was saying im king of the castle and i'm in love with an asshole. but he was really saying and you're a little rascal. sadly i only just found this out the other day when i was singing while having headphones on. not only was i singing it wrong, but it was waaaay off key :)

(: not actually tone deaf :)

I used to think the lyrics to 'About a Girl' by Nirvana were 'I need a lizard friend' instead of 'I need an easy friend'. I know I'm not the only one because someone else said something to the same effect.

I used to sort of think that the words in this line of 'Sir Psycho Sexy' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers was 'I got stopped by a lady cop in my lunchable-b'. I was like, 'Why the hell is Anthony Kiedis driving bolonga?'

frusciante5309

The first time I heard Queensryche's "Jet City Woman" It sounded like the lyrics were "I look in your eyes, just like the rain. Washing the bread , wash all the meat"

This is not to say Geoff Tate's voice is incoherent. come on people, he's in credible. I think he broke my ears with a high note when I say QR in concert.

Anon