There's a Kate Bush song on 'The Dreaming' that I thought had the most beautifully honest lyric I had ever heard: 'How come I really bore you?' Turns out it's, 'Not until I'm ready for you.'

John

I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....

wook

I used to think the 80's song "Our Lips are Sealed" was "Olives are Seals"

Anon

when i was younger i used to listen to I Like Big Butts..and theres a part of the song where he says i wanna rub your smooth skin, you say you wanna get in my benz....but i had always thought that he was saying, "so your rumpelstilskin, you say you wanna get in my band." whats so wrong about a little mean dude who wants me be in sir mix a lots band??

Sara

There's a famous hoe-down song with the words "Where did you come from, Where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eyed Joe..." which I'd heard dozens of times throughout my childhood. Until I was 17 years old, I thought the words were "Where did you come from, 'Gotta Find Joe!"

I still like my version better...who's ever heard of a guy with "cotton eyes" anyway? :)

Jackie F

When i was eight we drove down to disney world and Aerosmith's "dude looks like a lady" came on the radio. I started singing along like i always do and when "dude looks like a lady" part came on I sang "Do the legged-lady", my parents thought it was the funniest thing in the world. and i dont know who this song is by or what its called... but it goes "cant hurt me now, cant hurt me now, cant hurt me nooooow" and i sang "hand her her towler, hand her her towel, hand her her tooooowell!" i was such a loser as a kid

LOSER

When I was little I used to do this crazy dance and sing along to Tina Turner...but instead of "When the B****h gets back, I used to sing "when the fish gets back.." It didn't make sense even then, but I swore I was right.

Anna

I used to think that Ace of Base sang, "I saw the SUN and it opened up my eyes..." instead of "I saw the sign."

MDC

My niece, Alisse, heard the song "Felis Navidad" one day on the radio and was amazed. She thought the song said, "Alisse, mom, and dad". So now when we ask her to sing a Christmas song she'll sing that, HER way. Don't try to tell her she's wrong, she KNOWS it's about her family.

Mandy The Mental

In the song "Greased Lightning" from the musical "Grease", there is a line "You know that ain't no shit, we'll be getting lots of tit". I was eight and had just got the record and played this line for my dad, who corrected me, saying it was "You know that when you shift, you'll be getting lots of tift". When I asked him what a 'tift' was, he said that it meant 'a rough time'. So for years I would regularly use 'tift' in sentences, such as "Wow, you'll really be in a big tift if the teacher sees you!" Only when I was in my teens did I realize that my dad simply didn't want me repeating the words 'shit' and 'tit' in public.

MJCDS

Years ago there was a boyband who had a song titled Hangin Tough,, one of the radio stations plays 80's and 90's and my teenage son looks and me and says that's a stupid song "Singin Dumb"

ChrispyHexagon

Dido's White Flag song says " there will be no white flag above my door" one day it was on the radio at work and this girl comes back into my inspection room and looks at me real puzzled and says " did she says, there will be no one left but my dog?" I about peed myself and told her to stop listening to so much country music

ChrispyHexagon

I used to believe that the offspring song have lyrics which went
'Donkey Kong, Everyday', but didnt realise the real lyrics were
'Dog eat dog, Everyday'
Imagine my surprise when i was beaten up by a major offspring fan for taking the p*ss

Ty

I'm almost 17 and have been a chili peppers fan since i was a kid. but you can't imagine how cool i felt when my older sis and i were jammin' to Under Th Bridge and she corrected me when i said "under the bridge up top." It's actually "under the bridge downtown." Also for the longest time i thought that Michael Jackson said "she was sitting at the table, you could see she was a negro." instead of "he could see she was unable."

rio

The song "I got my mind set on you" by George Harrison...i thought he would say, "i got my mind sled for you" thinking that is song was about a sled for years and years and then one day in my late teens i asked my mom what my favourite song was? she couldn't remember but i knew that it was about a sled so i kept telling her that it was about a sled and that she has to remember because i used to sing and dance to it when i was much younger

sled song

I have two, one mine one my friends. I always have and always will believe that Celine Deon's "The heart does go on" goes "The hot dogs go on" and my friend things the chorus to Rob Zombie's Devil Man goes "Deaf old man, deaf old man calling, deaf old man runnin' through my head"!

andy

when i was little and heard the song come on the radio, "Secret Agent Man," i used to believe that they were really saying "secret asian man," and that there was some little asian man running around in a trenchcoat and sunglasses

confused

I used to think that the KD Lang song 'Constant Craving' was actually "Can't stand gravy"!It used to make me feel ill every time I heard it!

Annie