My teen-aged daughter would sing the lyrics of Shirley Murdocks "As we lay" song...the part goes ...as we slept the night away...She thought she was saying "as we swept the night away" which makes sense only if you are having an affair with a janitor.

laura

These aren't nessicarily mine but...

My mom has this song, 'Mas tecila' or something like that, and after a while my brother started singing it. Only he sang, 'mas tequitos'. I thought the same song was, 'Mashed potatoes'. Opps...

Also my boyfriend's brother was singing a song one day that's called something like, 'Snake bite en-ter my ve-i-ns', but he was singing, 'Snape (like in harry potter) bite into my rad-i-a-tor.'

We all have hearing problems.

Snape potatoes!

When I was little, around 2 or 3, Nirvana's "Come As You Are" was pretty popular. For parts of the song, he sings "Memory-a". Well, my dad, being the clever guy he is, told me he was actually saying "Amberina" My name is Amber, and I always thought he was singing about me. It wasn't until I was about 12 or 13 when I looked up the lyrics and learned the truth.
I like my version better

Amberina

A while ago I was complaining to some people, who like Fall Out Boy, that FOB were hard to understand. I told them I only knew what they were saying 'cause someone told me. You know, the part that goes:

'We're going down town, and we're running around,
Sugar we're going down singing,
I'll be your number 1 with a bullet,
Na na na na na,
Cocking and bullet.'

I only got as far as running around before they stopped me, laughing. I'm glad they didn't hear the rest. hehe

P.S The real lyrics are:

'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'

Toto

Pave paradise, put up a f*** in life.

The real words are of course, 'Put up a parking lot'.

My friend thought it was, 'Put up with f*** in life'. :( Sounds better than mine.

Anon

My son was singing something to the tune of "La Cuckaracha", but it didn't quite sound right. I thought I'd teach him a little something and I said, "Do you know what La Cuckaracha means?". He looked at me funny and said, "Croctch?". All this time he had been singing, "Cro-o-o-o-othca! Cro-o-o-o-tcha!"

Heidi

When I was in highschool, I was singing along with the radio. They were playing that song by Phil Collins, I think it's called "Against All Ods." My best friend told me that when he said, "There's just an empty space," she thought he said, "The last child to match his face." She realized what the real lyrics were when I sang it.

keyboardplayer

Back when that song "How Bizarre" used to be popular, I used to think it was "Parmesan." I found out this wasn't the case when my mom and I were in the mall and it started to play, and I said, "not 'Parmesan' again!" Once my mom stopped laughing she corrected me. In my defense, I was 8 or 9 at the time :p

Anon

I thought the lyrics to "Camptown racer" were:

"Countdown ladies sing this song! Tuna! Tuna!"

Later, I figured out that they weren't saying Tuna, but even after that, I thought it was "Countdown ladies"

Anon

Being in the final year at school, we get a common room in school, where we can play our own music and stuff, although most of the other people in my year are into R&B and rap, and I'm, well... not. They keep on playing Christina Milian's 'AM to PM', and until today I was totally convinced that the part that goes:

'All the chicks and the fellas in the bars...'

actually went:

'All the chicks kick the fellas in the balls...'

Last time I try and sing along :P

Anon

Re the song "Brimful of asha". Recently heard my friend singing along, however she had slightly different lyrics. Hers were "Grim tooth basher". She's 27. However the same girl though that Madonnas "Like a virgin" was in fact "Like a bird king"

Karen

This is actually my friend's belief, not mine.
Okay, you know the song "Come What May" from Moulin Rouge? The part where they say "Want to vanish, inside your kiss"? Yeah, my friend, was completely convinced that they said "Want to varnish, insert your kiss." It took a lot of repetitions of the song and my insisting before she would finally concede that I was right not her. Oh and we're almost 17, and this was less than a year ago.

Anon

Up until about a year ago, I thought that in the George Michael song "Father Figure" he was saying "I'll be your bottom feeder". I thought it was a reference to a specific sex act common among gay males...

Cameron

In the song "Simply Irresistible", the guy sings "She's all mine, there's no telling where we'll go" or something. I always thought he was saying "Geez oh man, there's no telling where we'll go". It made sense to me because he was like knocked off his feet by the girl.

Katie

In James Taylor's version of How Sweet It Is, I used to think he was singing - With sweet love and abortion, deeply touching my emotion.

Harold

Ever since I've been able to catch lyrics, basically my adult life, there were many songs...probably at least 50, that I thought I heard my name in the lyrics.

Harold

The song Betty Davis Eyes, actual words:

All the boys think she's a spy, she's got Betty Davis eyes.

Misheard as:

All the boys think she's a spaz, she's got Betty Davis eyes.

Not just a I used to believe more of a I've always believed and at the age of 33 a mate has kindly told me the real words, thanks Jon I preferred my lyrics better

Giz - clean ya ears out

well up untill a day ago i thought the lyrics to razorlight 'before i fall to pieces were, 'dont wanna kidnap the truth and the ghost she ate' truth being the name of a ghost. it really is 'I don't wanna kidnap the truth and negotiate'. you can see how i got it wrong right?

Anon