when Destiny's Child Bug-a-Boo came out I used to hear: mBreak my knees so I can move rather than break my lease so I can move. I always wondered how she'd be able to move with broken knees... really disturbing.

clueless

Until I was about fourteen, I used to routinely mix up the words "prostrate" and "prostate." Whenever I listened to "Closer to Fine" by the Indigo Girls (which was, and still is, one of my favourite songs), I always wondered why they sang "I spent four years 'prostate' to the higher mind, got my paper, and I was free!"; because I knew that "prostate" was a gland in a guy's butt (or something). So, for the LONGEST time, I believed that the Indigo Girls were singing about guys' butt glands.

Emily

I had an older cousin who thought she knew everything, and I thought she did too. This was until I heard her sing the Go-Go's song "Our Lips are Sealed" as "I Love Lucille!" Boy, I never let her live that down! ;-)

Younger and Wiser

tubthumping-a great confusing song

"I get no time, but I get overtime, still everybody beats me down...This is for Johnny-Boy.."

I am so wrong,
"I get knocked down, but I get up again, nobody gonna keep me down....Pissing the night away.."

Anacita

As a small child, my father always called me "Boog-a-loo" for some unknown reason. He's also been a fan of Nirvana for as long as I can remember.

Whenever he'd sing along to the song "Lithium" in the car he'd sing "I'm so ugly, but that's ok / cause so are you / Boog-a-loo". The correct lyrics are "I'm so ugly, but that's ok / cause so are you / we broke our mirrors"

I'm now a fan of Nirvana, and almost 15 years later, I still sing the wrong lyrics out of habit.

Brittany a.k.a. "Boog-a-loo"

i cant remember the song it went something like i think it is i belive in miracles but i alway thought it went

i belive in macrels (a fish) where you from you sex the pain.

it actully goes
i belive in miracles, where you from you sexy thing.

oh well the mic has been taken for years.

ben

Actually this wasn't such a long time ago, but in that song that says "shake it like a polaroid picture" my friend gen thought it said shake it like a paraplegic. omg. so funny

Emily

My husband and I have a fun game we play during long road trips. If we hear an old 80s song, we'll declare an "all sing" where we have to sing along. So one trip I declare an "all sing" to the Flashdance themesong "Maniac" and I hear my husband belting out "She's a maniac, maniac on the go".

It's supposed to be this stripper who is an incredible dancer, but he sings it like she's a busy soccer mom running errands. Every time he tells me I'm a maniac about something, I'll ask him if I'm also 'on the go'.

one confused girl

in Marc Cohns Walkin in Memphis , i used to sing "saw the ghost of elvis and you you never knew" until i was told it was actually "saw the ghost of elvis on union avenue" doh

tam

When my daughter heard the 70's hit, "Drift Away", she thought they were saying, "Give me the Beach Boys & free my soul..." instead of "Give me the Beat Boys"!

Anon

My friend Melanie was convinced that the lyrics to Scar Tissue by the Chili Peppers, instead of "With the birds we share this lonely view", was "at bubba's shed there's a lovely view".

Rob

I used to believe that the Muse song Time Is Running Out said,
You'll buy me on the tenth of May.
The actual lyrics are
You will be the death of me.
Sang it to Matt Bellamy once.
He didn't hear me. :(

Jim

In Sade's song Smooth Operator, I used to think she was saying, " OOOh pop a red eye."

IslandGirlie

"Pressure" by Billy Joel

He said "Sesame Street, what does it mean?" but I misheard it as "Sex in the streets, what does it mean?"

Amanda

In the Michael Jackson song Billie Jean, the lyric really goes, "But the kid is not my son." I always thought it was "the chair is not my lover."

Anon

All growing up my little sister thought the sheryl crow sone "all I wanna do" went a litttle like this..."all I wanna do is get hooked on phonics"
To this day I still sing it that way since i'd hear id so much. Also she sang that song "and if you" by spin doctors was called "ri-nif-you" but the worse one was me...for years I thought the ac/dc song "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" was "dirty deeds and the dungarees" My mother to thid day harasses me. Guess I should have caught on sooner

sara

i used to think the song dont cry for me argentina said 'the truth is i never loved you' when the real lyrics are 'i never left you'

*georgie*

My younger brother Jack was born in Mosside in Manchester in the early eighties. A few years later, ther Eurythmics released the song 'Thorn in my side'. My brother went round singing "Born in Mosside, You know thats all you ever were", thinking the song was about him...

Dennis

the song "under neath it all theres an endless story theres the man i chose thats my territory"

i heard as
"under neath your bra theres an endless story theres the man i chose thats my territory" ummm....no...:0)

someone

In The Smiths song "This Charming Man", when Morrisey sings,
"I would go out tonight
But I haven't got a stitch to wear
This man said "it's gruesome
That someone so handsome should care".
A jumped up pantry boy
Who never knew his place
He said "return the ring" "

I thought he sang,
"I would go out tonight but I haven't got a stitch to wait,
This man, he's gruesome, said someone so handsome should care.
A jumped up country boy
Who never knew his place
She said, return to me."

Well, Morrisey IS pretty darn difficult to understand, listen to this song and you'll understand!

Dazed and Confused.