I thought "We built this cioty on rock n' roll" said.. "We milked this city" and I even imagined a rock group in a high school getting flooded with milk. :| Yes, I know.

Ness.

I had a friend (I swear it was a friend....) who thought the lyric in the song "Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong" by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes was really "Her lip goes up when we're alone." What a dumbass!

Michelle

As a kid, whenever i heard the Pink Floyd song "Another Brick In The Wall" the line that goes "No dark sarcasm in the classroom " i heard as:

"The Dukes of Hazzard in the bathroom"


and the theme to Sesame Street where it says "sunny days sweeping the clouds away", as a kid i always sang it as:

"Sunny day, sleep a lot. a-ok"

Funny i've grown up now to become a music major in university and sing in various groups - where i have had trouble remembering lyrics to songs i've had solos in! go figure.

Olga

when i was little i had a barney tape with songs and stuff on it. well i was watching a part where they were on a ship and the little dinosaur girl (i forget her name) is singing "my blankie lies over the ocean" and it made me think of the song "my bonnie lies over the ocean"...well i used to think (up until like two minutes ago) that it was "my body lies over the ocean" and i always pictured myself floating on my back in the middle of the ocean....weird....

mer

I used to think that Prince's "Raspberry Beret" was actually "Mad-Miracle Man"

Missy

Just last year me and a couple of my friends were sitting in the car when the country song 'She's My Kind of Rain' by Tim McGraw came on. I began to sing "She's my Cadillac!" instead of "She's my kind of rain". My friends let me sing the whole song like that before pointing out that i was singing it ALL wrong.
I could actually picture a cadillac on a showroom floor with confetti falling down on it! :p

Kinkeroo

I was really young when the song "The Freaks Come Out At Night" became popular. I thought it was "The Frisco Alley Cat." My family still makes fun of me twenty years later.

Debbie

In Eminem's song Mockingbird he says 'and you and Lainie were too young to understand that papa was a Rollin' Stone...'. But I missheard it as 'papa was a Roman stone'. Made sense to me!

Maddy

"Tenth Avenue Freeze Out" by Bruce Springsteen was "Tell the devil 'You can freeze out!'". Come to think of it, the actual lyrics make less sense than my imaginary ones...

Lara

Me and my friends were making fun of the song "Collide". and instead of singing "When you and I... Collide" we would sing, "When you and I... and Clyde" Well, my one friend sang it that way when she was listening to it on the radio with her mom, and now her mom thinks that's how it goes, so now her mom sings about clyde all the time!

Anon

I used to believe that the song 'right here waiting for you' was 'a building right here waiting for you'..

I also thought that the song by Mercy Playground said 'like a double sheppards pie', when it really says 'like a double cherry pie'.

But the funniest would have to be my bro singing 'do you believe in love like a dove'.. instead of 'do you believe in love after love'.

Checkers

Listening to the Rascals' Grooving I though the words "you and me, endlessly" were "you and me and Leslie"..

fucked up a bit...huhhhh

Jimbo C.

Well I hate to admit but I misheard these lyrics just this year and I am not a kid (30ish). The song "Mr. Brightside" from The Killers came on the radio and I was singing at the top of my lungs that last phrase as "Viagraaaaa...Viagraaaa" when my fiance burst out laughing. Turns out the actual phrase is "I neveerrrr...I neveeerrr." To this day we still joke about the "Viagra song" when it comes on the radio!

Embarrassed but happy :)

I only found out today that the line in the bon jovi song Always goes
'It's nothing but some feelings this old dog kicked up.'

I've always though he said 'It's nothing but some feelings, this old time kid up' And now I know why it never seemed to make any sence.

Carol

My friend thought that the song "beautiful soul," when he sings, "you're the one i want to chase," she thought it was "you're the one i want to taste." i was laughing at her forever

Anon

My church has a traditon; every Sunday morning, everyone who has had a birthday during the week goes to the front of the church while the congregation sings 'Happy Birthday' to them. Only we had a slightly different version of Happy Birthday to make it 'church appropriate'. It went; "Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, god bless you and keep you, another year through."

I thought until quite recently 'God bless you and keep you' was 'God bless you, Ankie Beau'. I figured 'Ankie Beau' was another one of those weird, archaic phrases like those in the hymn book.

Anon

When my brother was younger, around the age of 6, he got hooked by Bon Jovi's song, Livin' On A Prayer. He started singin' along to it, nailing every single lyric, until it got to the part where it said, "We're half way there, OHHH, livin on a prayer, take my hand, we'll make it I swear, OHHH, livin' in a prayer" His version went as follows: "Oh, we're half way there, OHHH, livin' on a bear, in my head, we're makin' a square, OHHH, livin' on a bear"

L Rich (LR Designs)

I love Avril Lavigne and the lyrics to one of her songs are:

If I could say what I wanna say
I'd say I wanna blow you away!
Be with you every night!
Am I squeezin' you too tight?
If I could say what I see,
I wanna see you go down on one knee
Marry me today! Guess I'm wishin' my life away...
With these things I'll never say.

My mom heard:

If I could say what I wanna say
I'd say I wanna blow you all day!
Be with you every night!
Am I squeezin' it too tight?
If I could say what I see,
I wanna see you go down on me.
Marry me today! Guess I'm wishin' my life away...
With these things I'll never say.

She was pissed till I showed her the lyrics from the CD cover... heehee!

Tia

When the Bee Gee's Song "More than a Woman" first came out, I thought they were saying "Four Letter Woman".... Knowing that I had to be hearing it wrong, I asked a radio DJ friend who laughed and said "No it's More than a Woman, but my buddy had it more wrong than you... he thought is was BALD HEADED WOMAN!

Anon

This is not my belief, but my 11 yr. old daughters. She has a neighborhood friend who takes guitar lessons and since I play as well , she ask me if I could play "slow cousin Walter"! Without hesitation I said yes , then I realized what she had asked me , I tried to correct her but my laughing kept me from doing so! I'll never hear Smoke on the Water the same again!

Scott