I always thought that the song was "Better days of fire" until a cover version came out a couple of years ago, then I found out it was "Bette Davis Eyes"


If there could be better day to have a fire...

Bex

I used to think that "Here Comes the Hotstepper - Murderer" - went "Here comes the Hotstepper - Girl A Rock"!!!

And that it was "Boogie with the night" not "Boogie Wonderland"

And many more!

Sarah

Remember the song "I Saw the Sign" by Ace of Base?
I remember when it was really popular (I was in 2nd grade at the time.) I used to think that the title was "I SMELL the Sign". I even have a clip on VHS of me singing it that way!
I am still made fun of about this....
I also thought the name of the band was Ace-a Base and it was the main singer's name. Ha!

StehBofert

When I first heard about the record "Tea for the Tillerman" (by Cat Stevens??? I don´t know) I thought it was "Teeth for the Tillerman"...

joana

I believed for 2 years that the chorus of the song "Lola's Theme" by the Shapeshifters was "I love Vanessa, turn my world around!" Actually the real words are "I'm a different person, yeah, turned my world around". Sometimes the lyrics of dance tracks can be hard to understand. Too much bass beat!

Gary

In "Dammit" by Blink182, I thought that it was not "this is growing up", but "sis is growing up"!

Moherowy Beret

My friend and I loved going to hockey games, They played Cotton Eye Joe a lot, and we loved that song so much. One time at a party we went up to sing it on kareoke and we were really shocked that it was "If it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe" and not "Vaydodden veence a Cotton Eye Joe".

Katie

I used to believe that the lyrics from Chaple of love by the beach boys where:
"goin to the jackolantern, gonna get married" , instead of
"Going to the chapel And were gonna get married"

Anon

I don't remember this, but according to my parents, one Christmas my sister and I went around giving out "Herald Angel Rings," because we thought those were the words to "Hark! The Herald Angel sings!"

Jennifer

I thought the lyrics "good girls don't cry" was "good girls don't die" i went around singing that everywheres until a friend called me crazy... whoops!

Anon

My cheerleading music mix had a bunch of different songs and one of them was "You make a grown man cry" but all year i thought it was "you make a grown man proud" ... i was singing it one day and my coach and everyone laughed at me they thought it was really funny though and when we won we got "you make a grown man proud" put on our hoodies :)

Anon

I have a friend who used to think the dixie land song from the 70's said "I wanna hear some fu@kin dixie land"
instead of "funkie dixie land" so he would sing it out loud when his mom was not around

chitamarie

My friend and I loved the song "Down on the Corner", we especially loved singing along with it. The problem was, we didn't know the lyrics. Until we looked the lyrics up online, we sang the lyrics, "Down on the corner, out in the street, with a busload full of cattle, and veniffo dadalie" for about three years.
People must have thought we were retarded.

Katie♥

Okay, I have two misheard lyrics. I just realized I was singing them wrong only a few months ago. XD Okay, the first one is:

In the song "Lying From You" the lyrics go:

"I'd rather be all alone"

I heard: "I'd rather bake all alone". XD

Okay, the second one is in the song "Hit The Floor"

The real lyrics are "Making your heart stop"

I thought it was: "Thinkin' your hot stuff" XD I guess it makes sense.

Baking Hot Stuff

" In the jungle,the mighty jungle,the lion did a shite.In the jungle,the peaceful jungle,the lion did a shite....Oooh,Eeeeee,Oh Oh Oh ee um um away"
Another gem from 4-year old Paddy.

Justine,Stirling,Scotland

The GoGo's song "Our Lips Are Sealed" sounded like "Honest I See You" to me for a long time.

Lisa

Yesterday our family was watching the Seinfeld episode "The Pothole." At the end, Newman was singing "You're once, twice, three times a lady" when his truck burst into flames. After the episode was finished, my brother (17 years old) was replaying it in his mind and sang, "You're once, twice, three times later."

Erika

When my 10 year old daughter Taylor was six, the Centerfold song by the J. Geils Band came on the radio in the car. Her dad and I were laughing hysterically when she sang the lyrics as, "My angel is a cell phone" instead of "My angel is the centerfold". To this day, our whole family (including Taylor) sings the lyrics incorrectly just to tease her every time the song comes on!

Michelle R.

My grandmother has always been terrible at understanding song lyrics. She believed that "Taking Care of Business" was, instead, "take a can biscuits." She also thought that the CCR song "Bootleg Bootleg" was koolaid koolaid. And it was not "The Girl With Kaleidoscope eyes." Nope, it was "the girl with colitis goes by."

EdenJo

I had a friend who thought the Cold Chisel song "cheap wine" went like this - cheap wine and a female goat.

** Sarah **