I love SUZANNA VEGA and her soft voice, but can't always hear all her words right. I got her CD out before I learned the real lyrics. For a week I thought the song 'MARLENE ON THE WALL' went like THIS:

But the only soldier now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing

My LEMON on the wall.

I never understood that she was saying 'Marlene'..(I'dnever heard such a name before), so my brain came up with 'lemon'.... try'na make sense of it.

Emma

I used to(and still do) mishear the lyrics in Eddie Cochran´s "Drive In Show" that in the original go like

"when we're parkin' in the drive-in show
we'll be sittin' in the moonlight row
i'll bet my peanuts to a candy bar
you'll be cuter than a movie star"

To me it was a story about a couple doing forbidden stuff in their car (you know, they´re "parkin") and the guy was quite clever doing a camouflage thing when I heard the words "i´ll wrap my penis to a candy bar" .
Shame on me. ;-)

Slim Tom

Wrong lyrics to a song, "Faith" by "George Michael.

I heard:

Oooooh, you gotta half-faint.....you gotta half-faint a faint a faint.


(Oooooh, you gotta have faith, ... you gotta have faith a faith a faith.)...

Emma

Wrong lyrics to a song, "Hotel California" - The Eagles.

I heard:

On a dark desert highway
Cool wind in my hair
Warm smell euculyptus
Rising up through the air.

(Real lines:...)
On a dark desert highway
Cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas
Rising up through the air

Who the hell knows what 'colitas ' are? They sound like Arabian hookers, (if there's such a thing)!!!

Emma

Wrong lyrics to a song played on radio when i was ten..

Song: "I Go Weak" by Alison Moyet.

Real lyrics: "I go weak, I go weak, weak in the presence of beauty."

Mis heard as:

"I go a wee, I go a wee, wee in the presence of beauty..."

Emma

In the song "My Love" after Justin says "my love..." TI says "So thug, everyday" in the background. I thought he said "Sofa giveaway".

Katie

When I was little I thought Bob Dylan's song "Lay Lady Lay" was called "Lady Elaine" and that he was singing about "Lady Elaine Fairchilde", one of the puppets from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.

JS

During the "Bang! Bang!" part of the song Love Shack by the B-52s I thought that the backup singers were actually yelling "Batman!"

I was 4 and just assumed that the song must have been on the soundtrack for the Batman movie. I also thought that the guy who played the Joker (whom I now know as Jack Nicholson) was the guy who sang in the song. Man I was way off on that one. Jack Nicholson has to have SO much more money than them!

Julie

To this day, I believe that the song that features the lyrics:

"Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah,
Someone's in the kitchen, I know,
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah,
Strumming on the old banjo."

Has a very dirty second meaning.

Maddie

Me and my cousin used to think the lyrics to the song 'Blue' by Eiffel 65 were: "I mooed at the heat of the night."

Good times, good times.

Maddie

I used to think in the song "Rumors" by Lindsay Lohan that in the part where it goes "Throw my hands up in the air to the beat like-" and then some guy goes "WHAT!" I thought that was Lindsay going "WHAT!"
It weirded me out.
Also, in the some "Creeps me Out" by Ima robot, they go ,"It's just your love, girl, it creeps me out" but I thought they were saying "Adjust your lugnut, it peeps, meow!"

Katie

Tracks of My Tears by Smokey Robinson.

Actual Lyrics:
I need you, need you
Outside I'm masquerading
Inside my hope is fading


Misheard:
I need you, need you
Outside I'm masterbating
Inside my hope is fading

Anon

The lyrics to Natasha Bedingfield's song "Unwritten" are:
"Release your inhibitions."

I used to believe they were:
"Release your inner b*tch aaaaaand..."

Natalie

Metallica - Sad But True

"You know it's Saint Patrol"
"SAINT PATROL"

Me @ 9 yrs

I reccently discovered both to my embarrassment and relief that Akon's "I wanna love you" is not "I wanna f*ck you" I thought that that was a horrible name for a song.

Glowworm

In the song "I miss you" by Cascada, the first part was: "Remember the time in 1989, when I grew up to see the sign" the first time I heard It, I thought it was "Remember the time when I was 89, when I grew up to suicide" I was like o.o"

then the second time I heard it, I thought it was "Remember the time summer 69, When I grew up to see the light"

It wasn't until later when I saw the lyrics that changed my mind from "cascada died...:("

lol...

Jessie

My cousin used to think that the lyrics "papa dont preach" that they were really saying "popadom ting"

lickle young me

I used to believe that the lyrics from Chaple of love by the beach boys where:
"goin to the jackolantern, gonna get married" , instead of
"Going to the chapel And were gonna get married"

Anon

Every rose has its thorn - by poision if I rember right...

The neighbor kids & I (usually 3-5 of us) had a 'band.' We ranged in age from 4-7. We would play air guatair, and play the drums on the by beating some sticks on the banaster. We sung all the popular songs though.

We sung 'every rose has a thorn' the most though, because we knew the majority of the words. OR SO WE THOUGHT!!!

I forget the majority of it, but I know we sung 'every day has its morning' instead of 'every rose has a thorn.'

We would argue on alot of words, but we all agreed that that was right. Although it wasn't. Our parents (who were all often stoned) would come outside sometimes & just bust up laughing at us, rolling on the ground laughing sometimes. We thought they were strange, and if they tryied to correct us on lyrics, we just thought they were wrong because they're stupid because they were smoking grass. We thought that was awfully dumb, who wants to smoke something that the birds poop on & people walk on (we didn't know there was a 'differnt' type of grass)

The lead singer....