I was also a victim of "Lucy in the sky with diamonds, the girl with colitis goes by." I always thought it was weird.

Teri

In the Beach Boy's Kokomo, instead of that Monserrat mystique....I always thought they were saying Vermont's a rotten state. I still can't bring myself to sing it correctly.

Pat

Billy Squire sang about "My Kind of Lover". My wife sang about "My Candelabra"

Wailerman

When the song "Someday Out of the Blue" by Elton John came out, I loved it. Everytime it was on the radio, I would sing it as enthusiastically as possible. The only thing was that I got the chorus messed up.
The chorus actually goes:

"Someday out of the blue,
In a crowded street, or a deserted square,
I'll turn and I'll see you"

O (oh, so nobly) mis-sang:

"Someday out of the blue,
In a crowded street, or a deserted square,
I'll turn a Nazi in."

Kassie

Lyrics to Prince's "When Dove's Cry"

Original: "Maybe I'm just like my mother, she's never satisfied..."

What I heard (and sang alound): "Maybe I'm just like my mother, she never sat inside..."

ErkTheViking

In the Prince song which goes
"I will die for you"

I always used to think it said
"Yabba Dabba Do"

So I just thought that Prince had a thing for Fred Flintstone or something

Chelsea

Don't let the sun go down on me'

but I heard them as

Don't let your son go down on me'

Around the time that he (CAME OUT - I guess is the politically correct terminology) admitted how gay he was, I was talking to a crazy friend of mine (Elton came out, not my friend) who knew all the Elton John lyrics from back then, and I mentioned that it was no wonder that he sang about somebody's son going down on him, and how prophetic that was, when my friend laughed hysterically and corrected my mistake. I had been happily singing along for years, thinking all the time how gay Elton John must be, Oh, well.

Unknown

When my friend was younger, she always thought Nirvana was singing "Here we are now, in containers!!" ... sure, well if that's where they liked to hang out XD

juliechan

In the song, "Kung-Fu Fighting" the lyrics are, ""Everybody was kung-fu fighting; those kicks were fast as lightning." I heard, ""Everybody was kung-fu fighting; those ; 'cats' were fast as lightning."

I couldn't figure out why they mentioned cats in the song.

Charlotte

The Police - Message in a Bottle:

Actual line: "A year has passed since I wrote my note"

I thought it was: "A year has passed since I broke my nose"!

Catherine

I was convinced for a time Maddonna sung 'Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body', which is somewhat disturbing.

flamingkitties

I used to think the Toto song "Africa" said: There's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do" (It should be "a hundred men or more") I was probably in my late teens before I figured this out. I'd imagine lots of these little green men standing on Mars in spacesuits trying to keep her away from him.

Weirdo

I was listening to a radio competition where they play part of a song and the person on the phone has to complete the lyrics, Bachman Turner Overdrive had a song out that went "Taking care of business everyday, Taking care of business everyway," They stopped the music and the caller continued "Baking carrot biscuits everyday, Baking carrot biscuits everyway."

Gary (Frankston Australia)

in the song MOVIN' ON UP from the show THE JEFFERSONS, i thought one part said: "Long sweet lips, chewing me baby, ain't nothin' wrong with that", when it really says, "Long as we live, it's you and me baby, ain't nothing wrong with that"

tad greenhouse

When I was young and I heard the song, Sweet Home Alabama, I didn't that arrangement of words. The lyrics I heard was "Free fall down the mountain, i am coming home to you!!" i felt really stupid when my roomate in college told me the real lyrics!!

rachel

Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall (we don't need no education). The lyric " no dark sarcasm in the classroom" At age 11 I thought they were singing " no Dukes of Hazzard in the classroom"

mudguts

Remember that song by Starship "We Built This City"? My sister and I used to believe that the actual lyrics were "we built this city on ROCKS AND COAL". The true words are "we built this city on ROCK AND ROLL". We still think our version made more sense from a construction perspective...

GO IU!

My friend like listening to (and singing to loudly) soundtracks from Movies. In The Lion King, there is a line in the Song "Akunamatata" that goes "...it's our problem free philosophy..." she would belt out "...it's problem free, for lots of things..."!!

Anon

I used to believe that one of the songs my kindergarten class sang to the American flag every morning had something to do with cake. You know,

"My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty,
Of the icing (of thee I sing)."

Little Lotte

I used to believe that the Beegees song 'staying alive' was actually called 'stabalise', as in the stabalisers you get for bikes, so i thought they all couldn't ride bikes yet...

Pheeb