My friend and I were singing our favorite song "You're So Vain" and when the line "You're where you should be all the time, and when you're not you're with someone like the wife of a close friend, wife of a close friend and" or something like that. My friend turned to me and my other friend and said, "See this is the part I don't get. What's a ploseman?" So then we contemplated and thought it must be postman. So we would always sing "wife of a postman, wife of a postman and..." until my friend's mom said it was close friend.LOL!

Zoey the ploseman

Even though the title is 'How Bizarre', I always thought he sang "help is on"...

Anon

Last month I heard the song "Living on a Prayer" (I'm 15), and I thought it was "Living on a Brayer," as in a donkey ('cause they bray). I was convinced it was about a guy riding cross-country on a donkey: "We're halfway there," meant they were near Oklahoma.

Donkey girl

remember the Queen song "I want to break free". For a long time I used to think it was "i cant seem to lidbidah lidbidah you" instead of "I cant seem to live without live without you". happens when english is not your first language

Riz

The line in Jamiroquai's 'Canned heat' that goes "I've got so much canned heat in my heels" used to sound to me like "I've got so much candy in my ears". It wasn't until a few years ago (when I was 15) that somebody pointed out this schoolboy error vwhen I was singing along to it. Well.... half right's not too bad....

CandyGirl

OK, So in the song by Aaliyah called "Try again" the chorus goes "(and) If at first you dont succeed, Pick yourself up and try again..."
And I heard " Freshy dawn Sa See, pick yourself up and try again..." And I didnt know how freshy dawn sa see, which made absolutely no sense, had anything to do with picking yourself up and trying again. But, hey, I was young at the time...

Ally

I wondered WHY and HOW "76 Strong Bones Led The Big Parade" when I was a little girl (song was popular back then). It was much later when I realized it was Trombones!

Michele M, South Bend, IN

Abba - Waterloo

"Portaloo
Finally facing my Portaloo..."

Santa Puncher

my little sister loved the movie lion king back when it came out..and when she heard the song mmmbop by hanson, she would always sing pummmba, it was so cute.

Anon

When I was younger I use to love the song "Rock you like a hurricane."
I thought they sang: Rock you like a Burger King!

I use to sing it all of the time and my dad's like, Ash, that's not the way it goes!

Ashley

this one is my sister's
in will smiths rendition of "just the two of us" there is a line that says 'throughout life people will make you mad' and she thought it was 'wild white people will make you mad' i laughed my a** of seeing as she was 22 at the time, then i listened to it again and truthfully it does sound veryu similar

sarah

I used to believe that "Judy in disguise" was Judy in the skys :)

Patti

In Eminem's song 'If I Had' he says "I'm tired of using plasic siverware". But I heard it was "I'm tired of using blastin' siverware" and I was thinking, 'if he hates siverware so bad, why do he continue to use it?'

Maddy

When I heard the Beatles song "Michelle," I thought the Beatles were singing Michelle, my bell. Then I found out it was ma bell. Of course I didn't know French!

Anon

David Bowie - Jean Genie
"The Jean Genie lives on his back
The Jean Genie loves cheesy snacks"

Santa Puncher

when i was a kid, i heard I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, and for the longest time, i thought she was singing to a garden. i could never understand why she would say such a thing to a garden!

frank

In the Titanic Theme tune that celine dion sung, when she says 'and my heart does go on', i thought she used to sing and my hot dogs go on!

billy

The Killers line "my affection comes and goes" - I always believed it was "my erection comes and goes".

Nice.

amy

My mum used to believe the lyrics to OPM's 'Enola Gay' were 'I know you're gay'.

She thought it was a very odd song.

Anon