Celine Dion has a Christmas song in Fench titled "Les Cloches Du Hameau." If my French is correct (probably NOT, lol) that means "Bells of the Hamlet" or something like that.
In one line, I could swear that she's singing "Les cloches du hameau...ayyamak sa'ieeda...." Well, "Ayyamak sa'ieeda is ARABIC for "May your day be happy", and last time I checked Celine Dion didn't speak any Arabic, so I doubt that's what she's saying.

Taylor

Until just recently whenever I heard the song 'Hanging By a Moment' by Lifehouse, I wondered what they meant by, 'Running in a clash of where to go'. I figured maybe there were two divergant paths, and the guy couldn't figure out which to take. Turns out he's actually saying,
'Running and not quite sure where to go,' which makes more sense.

Sheba

I was driving along one day with my son and a few other people and the Bee Gees song "Tragedy" came on. I started singing along and when the chorus came on sang very loudly "Hercules" which I always thought it was. Imagine my embarassment when my son told me to shut up - it was Tragedy. A tragedy in itself as I have never lived it down.

Kay

Know that song that goes, "Stop in the name of love, before you break my heart" by Diana Ross & the Supremes? Well, I used to think she was singing, "Safe in the laundry room..." and everytime I heard it I would run to the laundry room and lock the door. Too bad my mom would always blast it on the stereo and she wouldn't know where I would go. Haha! :)

jennyyy

I use To Think That Aussie Crawls song
Beautiful people
instead of saying Beau-tiful peo-ple
it said "you,you will be bold

Bazman

Leningrad by Billy Joel

Real Lyrics-I was born in '49, a cold war kid in McCarthy time

I Heard-I was born in '49, a cold war kid in the coffee time.


I thought he was saying coffee had been invented in the late 40's...

Amanda

My parents had a record of traditional (I think) Greek music - no idea what the song really was but there was one I always believed the words were "a fairy a fairy..." sung over and over

Rox

There was a song in the charts about 10 years ago... I think it was by Fatboy Slim... The one that went 'everybody needs a bosom as a pillow, everybody needs a bosom' + then there's another bit that repeats several times... Well, I heard it as 'It's the real Sanjeev Bhaskar + he's 45'. Which I knew couldn't be right because I thought Sanjeev Bhaskar was younger than that. So I asked a friend of mine, she said it was 'my dad's a flasher + he's 45.

I still dont' know what it actually was.

Nin

Y'know that Alien Ant Farm song that came out a few years ago, called 'Smooth Criminal?' Well, I never learned what the chorus actually said, but I was not the only one who thought it sounded very much like 'Anna, are you OK, are you OK, are you OK Anna?'
Now as it happens, my name is Anna. + I soon got v. sick of people asking me if I was OK repeatedly.

I'm fine, thanks!

There's a song by Wir Sind Helden called Denkmal. It was on radio three years ago a lot. There's a line which I believed to be "Hol den Fahrschein raus" (Take out your ticket for showing it to the ticket inspectors) .. since the song seemed to be about youth culture, graffiti and someone else having conducted illegal or at least public nuisance, it made sense to me perfectly. Until I re-heared the song in full. The line actually is "Hol den Vorschlaghammer (Fedge the sledge).

Rk

Jimmy Buffit "stepped on a Pop-Tart" (should be pop top)

Louise

I don't think anyone understands the words to Michael Jackson's song "Don't Stop "Til You Get Enough," including me.

When I was a kid I thought the chorus said "GET UP TO THE POST OFFICE" but the actual words are "KEEP ON WITH THE FORCE DON'T STOP"

I still didn't understand the words until I purchased the recording in the late nineties.

DRM

I liked the song Mr. Roboto by Styx until the part where he starts talking about murdering someone. You know, the part where Mr. Roboto starts shouting "Kill Roy!" I thought the robot was supposed to be a nice robot, and Roy probably didn't do anything to him.

Violent Singing Robot

When I first heard the song "A Public Affair" by Jessica Simpson, I thought one of the lines went like this:

All the camels come out for a public affair...

when it really went like this:

All the cameras come out for a public affair, etc.

I was wondering why there weren't camels in the music video, since Jessica was singing about them. Then this morning I was watching the video on MTV and I put the closed caption on so I could see the words... I was so disappointed. I like my version better.

spittin camel

"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting 'cotton Loraine' "

Anon

until just last week i always thought it was ''do the *hustle*!'' not the shuffle!

Ducki

My husband thought the Pat Benetar song "Hell Is For Children" said "Be a good little boy and you'll get a new toy, now grab all your crap off the swing!" It really says "tell grandma you fell off the swing". I guess he thought the person in the song was really anal retentive about the cleanliness of the playground!

Lisa Kyle

When I was eight years old I thought the Billy Joel song "scenes From An Italian Restaurant" said "well they got an apartment with deep pile carpets and a couple of painted brazzieres. The real lyrics are "a couple of paintings from Sears"
My sister heard me (unfortunately) singing it wrong and I still hear about it to this day! :-(

Lisa Kyle

in sting's / the police's song ''roxanne''. I thaught that it was ''rock sand''

wacko zacho