Theres that song by The Offspring that goes, 'And feels like Heavens so far away'
When I was a kid I thought he was saying
'Kevins so far away'
I just thought he was missing his friend. When I told my sister she almost killed herself laughing

Karen

When I was a kid I used to believe that the refrain to "Just another Manic Monday" by the Bangles was really "Just another MAN named Monday"

Anon

When I was younger I thought the song "THe Beautiful People" by Marilyn Manson was "The beautiful meatball" ...

Ashley

In the song "I Need You", Linda Ronstadt sings "I need you like a shot needs to shoot".

I always heard it as "I need you like a shark needs shoes".

Australian politician and feminist Irina Dunn wrote that "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle", and I always think of that when I hear this song.

Brenda

In "YMCA" my friend used to believe that the line "Young man!" was actually "Gonads!". Her brother never bothered to correct her...

Anon

I used to believe the words to my dad's favorite song(Mysterious Ways, by U2) were, "Shamu the mysterious whale!" Instead of "She moves in mysterious ways!"

Anon

For the longest time I thought Credence Clearwater Revival's song "Bad Moon Rising" had the lyrics

Don't go around tonight
Well it's bound to take your life
"There's a bathroom on the right"

The line is really

"There's a bad moon on the rise"

anony

My mother was a huge Jimi Hendrix fan when I was growing up. I always thought he was saying "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" in "Purple Haze."

Anon

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 don't know the name of the song, but it was by Miya, describing the type of man she wanted. I'm still not sure but I think she says "I'm looking for a brother who likes to have fun, a 'fly chilled-out guy' who knows how to please a woman" I am however quite sure she does not want a 'flatulent guy' as I had first thought, I was deply concerned at the time - she does sing that line quite fast though.

Another error I made was thinking that Miss-Teeq were singing "pants down, grab a man" instead of "glance down" and I was most unhappy about the message the song was sending out, bless me!

Finally, I thought, in the song "Bad", that Michael Jackson was singing about my friend Sian Moore (I now think it might be "you know it" but my judgement is forever clouded by my previous belief) I was insanely jealous that he loved her and not me - it was when he still looked like a man.

Penny

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

Once when I was young I heard a song I don't remember the name on now..but the lyrics was: "The Answer My Friend, Is Blowing In The Wind..The Answer Is Blowing In The Wind" but I thought it was: "The Ants Are My Friends, Their Blowing In The Wind..The Ants Are Blowing In The Wind" so I went around singing that and everybody made fun of me! xD

Victoria

In that song "Kung Fu Fighting", it says, "Everybody was kung-fu fighting; those kicks were fast as lightning." For the longest time, I thought it said "Those STICKS were fast as lightning." Sticks as in needle sticks, like injections.

This was accompanied by a mental image of little kids kung-fu kicking doctors since they didn't want to get shots. Thus, the doctors had to hurry up "fast as lightning" to give them their shots.
Makes sense to me; I was one of those kids that would scream and kick and cry hysterically when I had to get a shot.
It wasn't until about 3 years ago that I was enlightened to the song's true lyrics! (I like my version better.)

Taylor

When I was in 1st grade we would sing My Country, Tis of Thee every day after saying the pledge of allegiance. All through 1st grade I believed one line in the song-"of thee, I sing"- was actually "of B.I.C." I had no idea what that stood for, but since everyone else seemed to know, I thought I should keep my mouth shut. Once I saw the letters b-i-c on my dad's cigarette lighter, but instead of being a tipoff that my lyrics were wrong, I assumed it must just mean the lighter was made in the USA. It wasn't until 2nd grade when the words to the song were printed on the first page of our social studies books that I discovered my error- and felt like an idiot.

born in the B.I.C.

When I was younger I didn't have the greatest hearing. I would sing songs with the lyrics I thought I heard and add my own rationale to why they would be saying these things. For instance, I thought Sinead O'Connor's song "Nothing Compares" was Compincon Pears. An exotic fruit she was handing out. "Compincon pears to you!"
I believed this far past the age I should have.

Tonedeaf