is it just me or are the words 2 Macey gray ''try to say goodbye and i choke, try to walk away and i stumble, though i try to hide it its clear, i wear GOGGLES when you are not here' Listen. i think you'll find I'm right. Also a friend of mine was once convinced that the words to 'gangsters paradise' were infact 'and the day has just been top of the pops' instead of 'living in a gangsters paradise.' god only knows...

suga_plumziz

As a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s, I loved Madonna.

Only, her songs sometimes confused me.

Vogue, for instance was puzzling.

I really couldn't fathom why she was singing about gum disease. ("Gingivitus, dance on air... ") Turns out she was ACTUALLY singing about Ginger Rodgers. ("Ginger Rodgers, dance on air...") Hmmm... Good to know.

Incidentally, "dance on air" could have easily been legionnaire's. I briefly considered re-making the song into a song about different diseases. Thankfully, I didn't have that much spare time.

Kasey, from Michigan

When I was little, I went to camp for a week. We sang songs every night, and I remember one in particular... part of the lyrics go, "And my father wants me wed..." (as in married). Well, I always heard- and sang- "And my father wants me dead..." One of the counselors overheard me and thought I had, and I quote, "some kind of problem."

Katie

This is the absolute funniest, I swear!
When I was younger (@5-20 years old) I thought the lyrice to Pink Floyds "The Wall" were "The Dukes of Hazzards in the classroom." I later realized from @ age 20 on that this didn't make sense and somehow reasoned that the real lyrics must be "The doctors have us in the classrooms." Since then I kept this new belief along with my funny tale of misheard lyrics which I submitted to this site 10 minutes ago. Well, about 8 minutes ago, I found out that my "corrected" version was wrong too. It's actually, "No dark sarcasm in the classroom." LOL!

nicolette

when i was about 10 i thought the words to the song were 'we built this city on sausage roll' instead of 'we built this city on rock n' roll'

anon

I used to think the words to the song 'you're the one that I want' in the movie musical Grease were ' you're the wizard of oz'

lucy

When I heard Kenny Rogers' "Lucille" I misheard "Four Hungry children, not a crop in the field". I would dance with my dad and sing "Four hundred children and a cow and an eel."

Sandra

Not so much a prayer as a carol, but a friend of mine has a little girl, and, as children are want to do, she has made the best sense of the lyrics of a certain Christmas Carol that she can. The song in question is 'Away in a Manger'. She's got the 'Away in a Manger' part, but then she thinks it goes on:

The Little Malteasers
Lay down on her head...

I just picture them snuggled down behind the ears, you know?

Rhube

In John Mayer's "Your Body Is A Wonderland" the lyrics are "I love the shape you take when crawling towards the pillowcase"

I heard them as "I love the steps you take when Collins hogs the pillowcase" and I pictured this kid named Collins from my school.

Jahna

You know that song "Indian Outlaw" by Tim McGraw? There's a part in the beginning that I always thought went, "All my friends call me dirt ball." Well, I heard it a few weeks ago and realized that he's saying "bear claw." I'm still not sure what he's saying.

keyboardplayer

Another One Bites The Dust - Queen

Another one rides the bus
Another one ride the bus
And another one's gone
And another one's gone
And another one rides the bus

MaryKate

In the Tears For Fears song it goes:

"Shout, Shouts, Let it all out,"

When I was 5, I thought the lyrics were:

"Shout, Shout, La De Do Dout."

Tasha

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.

I thought for years that the end of a nirvana song Kurt said All we are is all we know" and I thought that was profound and quoted it often.

jullyard

There's a song by Nelly Furtado called "I'm like a bird", and I always thought until recently it was "hung like a bird", I did wonder!!!

Leanne

IThe kids I looked after always used to sing "corned beef" whenever Blondies "call me" came on....
My sister use to think Better the Devil you know by Kylie was Bed of the Devil you know.

Floss

The second line of "just call me angel of the morning" was "just scratch my feet before you leave me, baby". I still don't know what it is, but I'm putting my money on the probability that that ain't it.

Pamela

A collegue of mine was singing along to the song "It's the final countdown" at discoteque in Turkey. The DJ faded the music and all we heard from her was:
"There's a fire in downtown..." - Classic

Steen

Up until I was over 30 years old, I believed that in the Eddie Cochrane song 'Drive In Show', he was singing 'Bet my penis to a candy bar, you'll be cuter than a movie star'. It seemed a bit overly racey for the 1950s to me, and I wasn't 100% sure that I was hearing it right. But I couldn't think what else it could be, so assumed I must be right. Until my wife pointed out that if you substitue the word 'peanuts', then it makes a whole lot more sense! ok, I suppose so...

Rob

Literally until a couple of weeks ago (and I'm in my 30's), I thought Streetlife by Randy Crawford was titled Street Light. I've always thought the lyrics were stupid....turns out that's me.

Sarah