In the song "Home on the Range" where it says seldom is heard a discouraging word I couldn't figure out why seldom was such a discouraging word.

Anon

I used to think that the song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" was really "My Body Lies Over the Ocean."

Anon

In Beyonce's song 'Crazy in Love', I always thought she said 'Daisy right now'.

Anon

There's a line in "you're So Vain" by Carly simon that goes "wife of a close friend, wife of a close friend." My friends and I were listening to it one day and I said, "What does ploseman mean?" My friend London looked at me and said, "That's not a word." "Yes it is," I argued. "Ok, maybe it's postman," I relented a bit. So my friend Deziza went on dictionary.com and looked up ploseman and as you can probably guess, it's not a word. So then Lndon looked uo the lyrics and guess what, it was "close friend". I like my way better though.

Loray

I used to believe that in the chorus of the Michael Jackson song Dangerous, he said, Dangerous! oh, spaghetti-o's dangerous. It really is the girl is so dangerous.

michael

I believed until recently that Queen's "we will rock you" when they say " waving your banner all over the place", that they actually sang "Blood and mud's all over the place"

Lilly

i thaught the michael jackson song billy jean song said Janet's not my son

Anon

i used to thnk the lyrics to the winnie th pooh song was "tubby little tummy all stuffed with farts" when it is really stuffed with "fluff"

jess

When I was younger, I used to think that there was a song with the lyrics "I'm blue, and indeed I have died, and indeed I have died, and indeed I have died", but then I got hold of the lyrics telling me they sang "da ba dee da ba die da ba dee da ba die". I wondered why people gave me funny looks when i was 10...

Hungry Cannibal

I used to believe that there was a prince song about a RED SPHERICAL DRESS, the kind you find in a second hand store...
I believed it until I heard someone call this song by another name on the radio this morning. I am 25.

Alison

When I was young and naive, my parents listening to rock music on the radio, I would often wonder what Eric Clapton's lady-friend had against the fine state of Washington... because I could hear him singing, loud and clear to me anyway, that "She don't like, she don't like, she don't like... Spokane."

At least I know better now... And I sometimes wonder why my parents exposed me to this sort of music when I was younger. (I listened to The Doors when I was 4...) Oh well. I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs, so I don't suppose it's hurt me any!

Freezair

Ahhh, yes, I remember it well. It was a sultry summer day in the middle of August... or maybe it was a chilly yet sunny winter afternoon... OK, perhaps not so well, but I remember being in the kitchen, and the radio was playing. My little sister was listening to it. She went out of the room momentarily during the commercials, and while she was out, the songs came back on. Their choice? Counting Crow's cover of "Big Yellow Taxi," but Joni Mitchell.

I was instantly mortified. Although I knew that SOME songs with bad words in them got routine radio airplay, such as "Big Old Jet Airliner," I was POSITIVE that a song using THAT word couldn't get played. I instantly turned the radio down, so my little sister wouldn't have to hear how they paid Paradise to put up a "f---ing lie."

I didn't realize my mistake until the song came on again while we were in the car, and I noticed the curious lack of freakingoutitude in my mom. I thankfully lisened closer that time and learned that the real lyrics were, in fact, "they paid Paradise to put up a parking lot."

For some strange reason, I never met the homosexual lovers that most people seem to hear in this refrain. Huh.

Freezair

I used to love the song "Killing Me Softly", until my dad heard the line "killing me softly with his song" and misheard it as "killing me softly with his thong". I can no longer take it seriously; I burst out laughing every time I hear it.

Anon

I used to think that the words in Macy Grey's song - "I try to run away but I stumble" were "I try to run away to Istanbul"
And also in Wheatus' song, Teenage Dirtbag, where it says "I've got to tickets to Iron Maiden baby" I thought it was "I've got to tickets to Irelande baby"

Tea

That in "Superman" by Stereophonics, the line goes "you got a penis but you ain't got news"

i kept on wondering why that matters. i've seen lots of male news presenters.

I think it's meant to be "opinions" but it doesnt sound that way...

Gill M

When my twin sister was small she once started shouting out "Piss off Honey, how we don't talk any more", from the ever popular Cliff Richard song!

Grier

My husband used to think the lycrics to Winter Wonderland in the meadow we can build a snowman then pretend that he's a passing clown!
The actuall words being then pretend that he is parson Brown

Anon

I thought the words to Sham 69's HURRY UP HARRY were hurry up harry camel we all going down the pub!! great delight to my husband over the years;D

poobie

I used to think Elvis' "I'm All Shook Up" was "A Mushy Cup". How sad of me to confuse the lyrics of a king...

Sad, Sad, Girl

There's a (horrible) song by a band that my daughter listens to, and I thought went:

Woke up today
looking through my email
it's all triple x - explicit sex
But I'm not forty

and the real lyrics are:

Woke up today
looking through my email
it's all triple x - explicit sex
But I'm not horny

I thought maybe he thought that it was illegal to get those kinds of emails unless he was forty. I told my daughter, and she started laughing.

Hey, it's not like you can understand songs these days anyway.

Em