For a while i hav thought that the lyrics for Smash Mouth's "All Star" went like so:
"She was lookin kinda dumb
with her finger IN her thumb
and the shape of an elf
on her forhead."
It wasnt until a friend pointed out to me that i was singing the lyrics wrong in an english lesson while watchin one of my favourite films "Shrek". She said that the lyrics went like:
"with her finger and her thumb
in the shape of an L
on her forhead"
obviously this makes alot more sence than my version on the lyrics.

an elf, what was i thinking?

In Evanescence's song "Taking Over Me" the real lyrics were "I lie awake and try so hard not to think of you."I could have sworn that the lyrics were "I lie away and try so hard not to finger you."It still sounds like that to me!!

So Embarassed

Actually-my friend Nicole's belief-we started working together and that Billy Idol song "Eyes Without A Face" came on the radio at work and she sang along- how's about a date? instead.-I snickered and she asked me what was so funny-and if those were the wrong words. I told her I was laughing because they were the wrong words and also because I quite often do the same thing. We have been best friends now for over 10 years!!

Candace

When Alanis Morrisette was first popular, my sister and I both liked the song, "You Oughta Know." I had to laugh uproariously one day when I realized that my sister was singing, "The cross-eyed bear that you gave to me" instead of "The cross I bear, that you gave to me."

Jamie

There was a song in the 60's called "Hey look me over" There's a line that goes "Don't thumb your nose folks, take a tip from mine" which I thought went "Don't pick your nose but take a pick from mine" For some strange reason that song used to remind me of the man who collected the pools money.. Wierd or what !!

Dave, Lancashire

I used to think Hot Chocolate's "I believe in miracles" was "I believe in Milkos"

Dave, Lancashire

The Madonna song 'Life is a mystery' always sounded like 'life is a mysery' to me.

Del

I was about 8 when "Eyes Without a Face" came out on the radio. I thought that he was singing "How's about a face?"
I envisioned some crazy faceless person looking for a face!

TxTetley

I used to think that the lyrics to "Paperback Writer" by the Beatles were "Take the back right turn". So did my mom, and she's obviously much older than me.

Drucifer

There was a country song that my sister and I heard on the radio that went like this:

It's gonna take a lot of river
to keep this broken heart afloat

We thought it was "to keep this broken artichoke" and we sang it that way until our mom heard us and gave us the correct lyrics.

.-~*FAE*~-.

There's a heavy metal group called Disturbed,who has a song called Stupify.The correct lyrics were "Look in my face,step into my soul,I begin to stupify.Rock!"For the longest time I thought it was "Deep in my plate,deep in my bowl,I eat Spaghetti-O's!Rock!"I have absolutely NO IDEA where that came from!

Too obsessed with pasta

I play the piano and once when i was going out with one of my ex-girlfriends we decided to have a sing-song, revealing that for many years (and up until then) she thought the lyrics "Don't cry for me Agentina" were actually "Don't cry for me Aunty Tina"
Is Madonna's version of this song really that bad!?

Bauhaus Rocker

A friend used to think the lyrics to "Walk this Way" by the Beastie Boys was "Work and Slave" How fantastic is that, I still sing it like this today and chuckle.

Nina

I used the think that the song "Dude looks like a lady" was "Do that Lucky lady" until I looked at this site and realized I was wrong.

Amy

When I was in 7th or 8th grade, "Zero" by Smashing Pumpkins was a popular song on the radio. Near the end of the song there was a passage I had difficulty figuring out the lyrics too - eventually I decided they went like this:

You play your fiddle
Well I could get it in an hour
I'll play your fiddle
For an hour

It was a few years later that I discovered, while looking at the liner notes for the album it's on, how the lyrics actually went:

You blame yourself
For what you can't ignore
You blame yourself
For wanting more

Practically the same, right? Right.

ZiZak[Yo]

i used to think the Aerosmith song "Dude Looks Like A Lady" was "Do the Slacky Lady"

Pokey

my mom used to think that the lyrics to Beyonce's song "Baby Boy" were Baby boy say amma ma when it was really Baby boy you stay on my mind. amma in our language is mom so she was like "baby boy say mom?" and would start laughing. we correct her but she still says amma ma

Someone