When I was a kid, my teen-aged sister and her girlfriend would sing the chorus of "Woman, Woman" by Gary Puckett & the Union Gap as "woman, have you got Gene on your mind?" (Her friend was going out with this one guy but also liked a guy named Gene.) It was at least 20 years later that I finally realized the line was "woman, have you got cheating on your mind?" And even though it's been 20 years since that realization, I still sing it with "Gene" in the verse.

Laraine

HA My sister usta sing the song "It's A Heartache" like this:
IT'S A HARD EGG, NUTTIN BUT A HARD EEEEGGGG HITS YOU WITH A TOOTHAAACCHHEE HITS YOU WITH A CLOWWWWNNNNN rofl!

Laura

In the Avril Lavigne song "I Can Do Better" she sings:
"I will drink as much lemoncello as I can..."
But for a while I did not know that lemoncello is a kind of liquor, did not even know that it is a word.
So I heard it as:
"I will drink as much lemon jello as I can..."
I spent hours wondering how a person could drink jello.

Hannah P.

So when I first heard the song "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" by Death Cab for Cutie, there was a line where I wasn't so sure what he was saying. I heard:
"If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied
Illuminate the nose on their Vatican seasides"
Eventually I looked this up on a lyrics website. Turns out the actual lyrics are:
"If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs"
whoops.

Hannah P.

The song sk8er boi by Avril Lavigne used to be one of my favorites. Except there was this one line where I heard:
"Sorry girl but you missed out
What the f*** that boy's mine now"
And actually, it goes:
"Sorry girl but you missed out
Well, tough luck that boy's mine now"
oops.

Hannah P.

In the Green Day song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" there's a line that goes:
"My shadow's the only one who walks beside me"
I thought it was:
"No child's the only one who walks beside me"
I could not quite figure this one out. I thought it might mean that the only one who walked beside him was an adult...or maybe not...i was very confused until i found out the correct lyrics.

Hannah P.

In Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", there's a line that goes:
Sometimes, I wish someone out there would find me
I heard:
Sometimes, I wish some other girl would find me
I thought he didn't like his girlfriend.

Hannah P.

Until 30 seconds ago, I believed that in the Avril Lavigne song "Things I'll Never Say", she was singing:
"If I could see what I wanna see
I wanna see you go down on me..." I found out that the words are actually:
"If I could see what I wanna see
I wanna see you go down on ONE KNEE..." Silly me.

Hannah P.

when i was younger i thought ac/dc's dirty deeds (done dirt cheap), was dirty knees and the thunder cheeks.

S

I thought the words to Put Your Records On by Corrine Bailey-Rae were "sapphire naked dreams" when they're really "sapphire faded jeans"!

Emmy

i thought the line "saving my face" from the KT Tunstall song of the same name was "shaving my face"

Anon

my dad always thought that in the song "like a prayer" - madonna, where it says "let the choir sing" he thought it said "level crossing" for years. i found it hilarious. haha

Jooles

in the song "take my breath away" by berlin, i thought that the lyrics was "took my brother away..." and i was so sad because someone took her brother away...
I'm a brother of three sisters, and I was also sad because of what would happen if someone took me from them - they will be sad... :(

Anon

Remember that song, "Love Potion # 9"

"But when I kissed a cop down on 34th and Vine."

I always thought (until I was like 19!!!) he said,

"But when I kissed a cow and got it ready for a ride"

ANJ

In the song 'Sugar, We're Going Down' by Fallout Boy, the refrain goes:

'We're going down, down,
In an earlier round,
And sugar we're going down swinging,
I'll be your number one with a bullet,
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it"

Until today, I thought it was

"We're going down, down,
And we're swinging around
And sugar we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A Lolicon complex
Cock-eating bullet"

Silly me.

Tess

In the song "dude looks like a lady" I thought the lyrics were "do the funky lady" i thought that until I was probably 14, and I'm 17 now.

nicole

For years I thought the lyrics to "Everything Zen" by Bush were "Trotsie wants my wine" instead of "Try to see it once my way".

LA