When I was little, I used to think the song "Damn, I wish i was your lover.." were actually the words "Damn, I wish I was your mother!!!" . I just figured the person singing it wanted to be a mum.

Hayles83

I used to think the line, "I'm not big on social graces," in "Friends In Low Places" by Garth Brooks was actually, "I'm not big on sausage gravy."

Which I thought was nutty because my dad made excellent sausage gravy and how could anyone not like sausage gravy?

Sara

In 1967, the Bobby Hebb song "Sunny" was on the radio all the time. ("Sunny, thank you for the smile upon your face....") My twin sister and I were 8, and she was convinced that the song was about Jesus Christ (Sonny, not Sunny). She insisted that "Sonny One so true, I love you" was a prayer and asked the nuns if she could sing it in church.

Smarter Twin

I used to believe that the words to a church song "Gladly the cross I'd bear" was really about a bear named Gladly who was crosseyed.

Millie

That Aerosmith song with the lyrics "Dude looks like a lady", well I always thought it was "Do it like a lady"... which would be a better song -in my opinion

remington

I used to think that Elton John's song Tiny Dancer was actually Tony Danza. It really changes the meaning of the song.

Craig

For a long time I thought that 'Milk is silly in Rock and Roll"

CB

I used to think that the lyrics "Hitch a ride" in the "Superman" song were "Hit yer eyes". Consequently, whenever it was played at home I used to run around the house punching myself in the face.

Nermal, England

I never knew the title to Prince's song "Raspberry Beret." So I used to believe the song went

she wore a red, spherical dress
the kind you find in a second hand store.

It was the eighties, and women used to wear lots of wierd designer dresses at the time. I figured they wore them once, threw them out, and this girl bought one that was round, like a fruit of the loom apple or something.

Christian

Never understood the song my niece sang.
Pupple duck street I'm in love and I wont tell you my name! this was in fact
Pappa don't preach by Madonna

Voidling

I thought the Pixies song Gigantic was about the Abominable Snowman. I thought she sang "He piled and piled and piled lips and funk" instead of Hey Paul, lets have a ball.....but I still think of that monster whenever I hear that song.

sjh

Believe it or not, the first version of the song "'Winter Wonderland" I ever heard was the parody version that goes, "Walkin' round in women's underwear." I believed for the longest time that the "Women's Underwear" version was the correct version and everyone who sang "Winter Wonderland" had just misheard the lyrics.

Sofia

I used to think that the lyrics to Eric Clapton's song "Cocaine" went:
"She's alright, she's alright, she's alright...okay."
I couldn't understand why Eric Clapton would write a song about a girl that he just thought was "alright" and "okay."

Sofia

when i first heard tracy chapmans Fast Car song i thought she was saying " he's got a five inch cock"

chitamarie

I have a friend who used to think the dixie land song from the 70's said "I wanna hear some fu@kin dixie land"
instead of "funkie dixie land" so he would sing it out loud when his mom was not around

chitamarie

My cheerleading music mix had a bunch of different songs and one of them was "You make a grown man cry" but all year i thought it was "you make a grown man proud" ... i was singing it one day and my coach and everyone laughed at me they thought it was really funny though and when we won we got "you make a grown man proud" put on our hoodies :)

Anon

I thought the lyrics "good girls don't cry" was "good girls don't die" i went around singing that everywheres until a friend called me crazy... whoops!

Anon

Oh used to think that song that went 'paved paradise, put up a parking lot', went 'crave paradise, to put up with f*ck in life'. I was apalled when I heard my mom singing it in the car.

Also, that Justin Timberlake songs (cry me a river) that goes 'The damage is done so I guess I'll be leaving', I thought it was, 'The jammy jee jones so I guess I'll be leaving'. Dunno where I got that from.

Toto

In the Sisters of Mercy song "Vision Thing" a part goes:

25 whores in the room next door,
25 whores and I neet more

which sounded like:

25 floors in the room next door
25 floors and ninteen more.

Big room indeed.

Slim Tom