I asked myself if the passage of the song "American Pie" really was ment to sound like " I was a Lonely-Teenage-Drunken-Butt"

Slim Tom

I used to think that in the National Anthem the part where they say "dawns early light" was "donzerly light" and that donzer was just a word I didn't know.

Anon

A family member thought -and probably still thinks -
"Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap" (from Dirty Deeds by AC/DC) was "dirty deeds and the thunder chief."

Anon

My husband told me once that when he was a kid he misunderstood a line from the Fleetwood Mac song "Second Hand News".

Real lyrics: I'm just second hand news...
He thought it was: I'm just standing here nude

When my son was small he thought BTO was "taking care of biscuits" instead of "taking care of business."

Anon

i used to think "black dog" by led zeppelin started out like, "big-legged momma, see the way you moo."

ginny

i used to think that the beach boys song Barbara Ann said " ba ba ba, ba ba barim...." until just a minute ago when i read this site....no matter what u might think, not all honors students are smart :-)

Ba Barim :-)

For fifteen years, I honestly thought the kid's gospel song "Special Specialities" was called (and sung) "Special Special Yellow Cheese." My Dad picked this up one day when he was driving us to church and laughed about it clear through the sermon.

Miko

In the song, "Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance, there's a line that goes, "The bodies in the streets," but I swear it sounds like, "The bondage in the streets."

DD

I thought the line "always look at the bright side of life" was supposed to be "always look at the right side of fly". My mother language is not english so i didn't see the grammar being wrong and always wondered why you should look at the right side of flies and not the left.

Halla

When we used to sing the hymn "O happy day" in Sunday school I used to think that the line "he taught me how to watch and pray" was actually "he taught me how to wash and play" - as young child seemed to make sense....

kathry

In the song Billie Jean, by Michael Jackson, in the chorus he says "Billie Jean, is not my lover, she's just a girl who claims that, I am the one, but the kid is not my son".

I thought he said "Billie Jean, is not my daughter, she's just a girl who claims that, I am the one, Billie Jean is not my son."

First she's a daughter, then a son!

JD

I used to think that in Britney Spears' ''Hit Me Baby'' song where she sang ' I'm in too deep ' that it was ' Im ment to de (sounds like be) '

I could never understand why none of her producers or anyone corrected the word de to be. Strange.

Keisha

I've started to sing in English well before I actually learned to understand it, so here go some of the things I found out a few years too late:

- In Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Hey You" it's
"You should have tried now, oooh"
and not
"You shouldn't drive now, oooh"

- In Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" it's
"So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain" and not "paint" =)

and
"Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?", not "vein"

- Whitesnake's "Full For the Night" was only ever "Fool For Your Love"

- From Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah":
"The baffled king composing Hallelujah", well, I never did believe "the baffled kiss" made sense anyway.

Naíma

i used to think that fallout boy - sugar we're going down which goes "dont mind me im watching you two from the closet wishing to be the friction in your jeans, isnt it messed up how im just dieing to be him?"said "tell mummy im watching you two from the closet, wishing to be the friction in your jeans, is it the next stop? oh im just dieing to be here!" i only realised the truth wen my workmate told me after i sang it while serving on tills in front of about 5 customers!

i also took a lot of convincing that will smith sang switch! i had no other suggestion of who it was, but it wasnt will smith

and it took me ages to understand that madonna in "like a prayer" and kelis in "milkshake" were using lots of imagery and not speaking literally! wasnt helped by the fact that kelis' video is in a milkshake place!

kerri

When i was in all region choir in 8th grade, the boys did a peice that said " i travel the muddy muddy banks of the low road" and i thought they were saying "the bunny bunny bangs" I started busting up during our concert and i got in touble.

Sarayha

Up until recently I was convinced that Micheal Jackson's "Don't stop till you get enough" went something like "Don't stop till you get to the bus stop". It was only when I was corrected a few weeks ago in the car by a friend that I realized my mistake. I'm now 25

Susan

"stefa raab" a famous german entertainer once said, that he believed for year the song "Every Time You Go Away" by Paul Young, says "Every time you go away you take a piece of MEAT with you" (i realy says "Every time you go away you take a piece of ME with you") - i laughed so hard, i couldn't breath...

Melle

You know that corny Winne the Pooh song that came out with the animated series in the late 80's? I think everyone has.

There's a line in there that goes...

"Wherever we go. Oh, won't you take me please...Pooh Bear, I gotta be there... it's me and it's you, a silly old Winnie the Pooh..."

Little me heard: "Wherever we go, no oh you tapey please... Pooh Bear I got a bee there... it's me and a shoe, a silly old Winnie the Pooh..."

All through the series, I had yet to see a happy, talking shoe and was confused why they mentioned him if they were never going to show him.

There's also a line in there that goes
"He's round and he's fuzzy, I love him because he's just... Pooh Bear...(ect.)

I heard: He's brown and he's fuzzy, I love em' because he's just..."

I got mad when I heard that line because Pooh Bear looked 100% orange to me. I thought the adults were just trying to test our color skills. I was seriously thinking about writing a letter to stop lying to us about Pooh Bear's color. When that didn't work, I just figured it was something wrong with my TV.

Ah... good times... good times...

Pooh Girl

My brother used to like singing Britney Spear's song 'Hit Me Baby', and he was once singing it and said Hit my baby one more time because thats how he thought the lyrics went! I cracked up laughing after that!

Jess