You know 'Are you the one' by the presets? I thought he was saying, 'hoooow, are you girl!!!'
And I used to sing it very loudly with my friends. They never even mentioned anything. They all think I'm a spaz, i suppose.

Karen

Remember that Madness song "Our House"? When they said "Our house, in the middle of our street" I used to believe that the house was literally in the middle of traffic. I wondered, did the house have a big opening where cars went through and then exited through the back?

Sue

I misheard the lyrics to Fallout Boy's "Sugar, We're Going Down," as:

We're going round round in a merrygoround
And sugar we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded gun calling,
cock it and pull it

Brie

in the jimi hendricks song purple haze i thought that when they say "scuse me while i kiss the sky" i thout they said "scuse me while i kiss this guy"

i thought jimi hendrics was gay

Anon

I heard "bend me, shake me" when it was really "bend me, shape me"

Anon

One day I overheard my brother (about 17yrs old at the time) ask my dad for a copy of "that Elton John song...you know...uhhh...hold me closer I'm tired of dancin'."

I still laugh out loud at that one. I mean come on, it makes sense right? Yep.

Mel V.

In the song "Smooth Operator" by Sade, as a kid I heard....

"No need to ahhsk he's a smooth carburetor.."

I guess the word carburetor was probably heard from my dad who often talked about cars, fixing engines, etc. So I must've plugged the word into the song. I was probably 8 or 9 so what the hell would a smooth operator be? I learned the correct lyrics when I was older.

Mel V.

the song under my umbrealla:

i heard:take a tack and im sting you to the end

real deal:i took an oath and sticking to it till the end.

caitlyn eadler

My cousin who is now 50 still sings I am in Woolworths. (I am a Walrus) by the Beatles

and

My mum used to sing Hold my hand I'm a strange looking parasite. (Hold my hand I'm a stranger in Paradise) Tony Bennett.

Jan

song: under my umbrella
i heard: ill take a tack and stick you to the end.
real deal: took an oath and im gona stick to it till the end.

ow

When my mom was a little kid she heard a song called "I"ll See You Tonight" a lot. She always wondered what the guy singing meant when he sang,
"I'm not talkin' 'bout the linen..."
It was not until college that she was told it was actually
"I'm not talkin' 'bout movin' in..."

Hannah

i used to always mishear the bridge and the chorus of the Fall Out Boy song 'sugar we're going down' as:

we're always sniffing ink and sniffing
for the roll tear
we're going down down
do do do do da
do do do do do do da da
number god complex
cocked it and pull it

when it is in fact:

we're always sleeping in and sleeping
for the wrong team
we're going dow dow
ina n earlier round
sugar we're going down swinging
i'll be your number one with the bullet
loaded god complex
cock it and pull it.

for a while i always thought the singer just got bored and decided to change it

obsideon blackbird mcknight

Until my sister saw the Star Spangled Banner written down on one of those paper flags that were passed out after 9/11 she thought the line went.. Oh say can you see by the donserly light... She was so suprised that it was actually Dawn's Early light. She just thought that the donserly light was a type of light that they used back when the song was written. (she was 18 at the time :oP )

Lisa

you know the song "Lithium" by Nirvana? when i first heard it in the part where he says "I miss you, I'm not gonna crack" i thought he said "I miss you I'm not gonna CRAP"! and if that wasn't enough, i spent the next year or so terrified that if i missed someone enough i wouldn't be able to poop! bear in mind that i would've been 4 or 5 at the time

Katie

I used to believe that the lyrics to "Linger" by the Cranberries were not, "Do you have to let it linger?" but "Do you have to, Lennon Linger?"

Natalie

I thought in the 90's when I was younger that in Beck's song "Loser" he was telling me different ways to kill myself.

Troy