I used to believe that in the some "You owe me an IOU" by Hot Hot Heat that the lyric
"You owe me an IOU"
was actually
"Don't go to pacoville"
One day I heard a guy say "Lets go to pacoville!" to his dog.
you can imagine my reaction.

MoMo

I am a huge Duran Duran fan. Have been since I was 6. I always particularily loved the song Save A Prayer especially since it was written for me... "You saw me standing by the wall, corner of Elaine Street..."
And when I was much older, my heart was broken when I found out that Simon Le Bon was on the corner of Main Street.

Elaine

I thought Mary Black's song "Columbus" was not saying " You dream of Columbus" but "You dream of plumbers ( streched out to three syllables to fit the cadence of the song) till I found out the song's name

Alberto Richardson

I used to believe the song on Home Alone was "The cold wind blows around the street of Denmark..." and the other line "The music plays all night, it's idyl-idlyic" It still sounds a bit like that!

Natski

when i was eleven, i thought salt'n'peppa's "push it" was actually called "pussy" (maybe pronouced closer to "pusseh")-- so the chorus went "ah, pusseh, pusseh real good!"

not that the real version is that much cleaner

Anon

A friend of mine was to write down an old Don Gibson song for me that says Everybody's going out and having fun, I,m just a fool for staying home and having none, and he wrote: I'm just a fool for staying home and have a nun. Much better if you ask me.

magne

When I was young, I thought that the line "Under the pale moon light" from the song "Somewhere out there" (The rescuers) was "Under the pebble light"... Still sing it to this day!

Helen

Until recently I was convinced Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" opened with "wood was on fire", when it's actually "world was on fire". Sounds better anyway, more dramatic!

Harley

We used to sing Gordon Lightfoot's "Alberta Bound" as "I'll burn the barn."

10-23

Being a huge Michael Jackson fan when I was younger I used to moonwalk around the living room to Billie Jean. I always thought the lyric in the second verse a bit odd - "But who can stand when she's in demand, Hurt squeeze every lens". Of course it's "Her schemes and plans" but I think I preferred it when Billie obviously had a problem with her contacts.

Sam

My friend and I like the music of Elvis very much. But as non-English speakers, we misheard some of the lyrics when we first heard the songs. For example we thought that Elvis sung 'You're the devil in the skies' (Devil in disguise) and 'Come on, sugar' (I'm all shook up). Now we fortunately know the REAL titles...

the Elvis fans

I heard this one song on the radio, and the lyric went "My lovers got no money, he's got his strong beliefs" and I thought it said "My lovers got pnumonia he's got his trumbaleese" How weird does it get?

Jethro

Years ago, my little sister was heard in her room, singing: "I knew our love was just a passing phrase" to Ant and Dec's Eternal Love.
It's obviously 'phase' not 'phrase', and we're NEVER going to let her live it down! What a corker!

Claire Bussey

In Van Halen's song "Jump", the line is "I ain't the worst that you've seen." I thought it was, "I eat the words that you sing."

amy j

I can't be the only one who thought that Andy Fairweather Low (think it was him!) was singing My Diamond Necklace instead of Wide Eyed and Legless.....

ellie Stott

A popular song sometime in the 70s was
Looks Like We Made It (had that line in
it anyway)..I used to think it was Looks
like Tomatos

Brad

i used to think that van halen's panama was called cannonball. it was until i was about 16 that i realized my mistake.

patty

...I thought that in Jailhouse Rock, Elvis was singing "everybody in the wholesale block". And I'm not even Jewish!

MacNutzo

I used to think that the refrain to Pearl Jam's 'Glorifird G' went, '45 virgins on a pelican' instead of 'glorified version of a pellet gun.' Imagine the embarrasment when my mom heard me singing that in my room.

Anon

My ex boyfriend to this day sings 'She's a greasy lover' instead of 'She's an easy lover' when he hears that Phil Collins song on the radio. He refuses to believe that those are not the correct words... all I can do is laugh and think "Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!!"

Windfire