In The Monkees song "I`m a believer", Micky Dolenz sings "When I needed sunshine, I got rain". It really sounds like he sings "what I need is sunshine on my brain". Sunshine on brain, eeeew!

Daria

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

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - I thought "Be-elzeebub has a devil put aside for me" was "Be-elzeebub, not a devil, but a sideboard, me" (Satanic Sideboards? Devilled Dressers? What other kinds of hellish furniture could there be?)

Hot Chocolate - "Where you from, you sexy thing" I thought that was - "Wear your thong, you sexy thing" (Makes much more sense!)

Sherry

when i was younger i thought in the alanis morsette song 'you oughta know' that she said the "cross eyed bear" that you gave to me not the "cross i bear that you gave to me." Actually thought her ex gave her a cross eyed teddy bear

brittni

when i was about 3 or 4 i used to think that the lyrics to madness's "our house" were "our house in the middle of ostrich". I thought ostrich was a place somewhere in australia and i also thought that i could see it from my front room window, and that it would take a matter of minutes to walk to australia. very unlikely, being as we live in the uk.

mis-spent youth

There used to be an Elvis Presley song called "Let Me Be there". It had a line "let me take you that wonderland where only two can share." I used to think he said "let me take you to that laundromat..." Hmm. a romantic date of doing laundry!!

cherokee

I can't remember the song (I think it's called 'Praise You') but the lyrics are:

'I'm gonna praise you like I shoooooooooooooould'

Well...never hearing the D I thought it was:

'I'm gonna praise you like a shoooooooooooe.'

Hey I was little! I only found out the real lyrics when my older friend was sitting next to me on the school bus. I was singing along and she burst out laughing!

Stefanie

When I was about 12 the movie Flashdance came out and I bought the tape and memorized the entire thing. One day in the car my favorite song came on to shich the real words are "take my passion and make it happen" in reference to the dancer in the movie. My dad was listening to my version rather than the one on the radio that goes " take my pants down and make it happen." Now that I have kids and they say something cute he reminds me of this moment.

Josh

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

Due to the foolishness of a couple friends of mine, and my gullibility, I thought that the song "Dirty Deeds" by AC/DC actually went "Dirty deeds, done with sheep" instead of "done dirt cheap".

Kindra

Enrique Iglesias' song "Bailamos," which means "We dance" in Spanish goes like this:

Bailamos - let the rhythm take you over Bailamos
Te quiero amor mio - Bailamos
Wanna live this night forever - bailamos
Te quiero amor mio - Te quiero

But I thought the song was "By The Balls." Let me then show you what the chorus sounded like to me:

By the balls - let the rhythm take you over By the balls
(unintelligable spanish) - By the balls
Wanna live this night forever - by the balls
(more spanish)

Needless to say, I was very, very confused, especially when I started singing MY version in class during middle school and everyone just stared at me in disbelief. Ah, fond memories...

Grabbed By The Balls

When I was about six, i was convinced that the word to the macarena were 'boys have a penis and girls have vagina, bring them together and you have the macarena, haaaaay - macarena'

i was so convinced in fact, that i told all my friends, and their parents too

mia

In the song 'Sugar, We're Going Down' by Fallout Boy, the refrain goes:

'We're going down, down,
In an earlier round,
And sugar we're going down swinging,
I'll be your number one with a bullet,
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it"

Until today, I thought it was

"We're going down, down,
And we're swinging around
And sugar we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A Lolicon complex
Cock-eating bullet"

Silly me.

Tess

In the Avril Lavigne song "I Can Do Better" she sings:
"I will drink as much lemoncello as I can..."
But for a while I did not know that lemoncello is a kind of liquor, did not even know that it is a word.
So I heard it as:
"I will drink as much lemon jello as I can..."
I spent hours wondering how a person could drink jello.

Hannah P.

When Gabrelle had that 'Dreams' song in the charts (mid 90's) I thought on the chorus she sang 'Dreams can come true, I know baby I've got a liver'. I know some people write songs about a missed family member, I just wondered why she wrote on about her successful liver transplant.

The Game

To this day my mom doesn't believe me when I tell her that the line in The Beach Boys song "Kokomo" is "...that Monserrat mystique" and not "that man's a rotten stinker!"

Ella Peak

When I was younger listening to my dad's copy of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, I always thought the line was, "Lucy eating pie with Simon..."

Ironic, as my dad is called Simon

Anon

My sister and I used to sing a song "Little Liza Jane". To this day she claims it was "Little Eyes of Jade" because it was about a green eyed child.
We are now in our 70s and she is as adamant as ever, but we don't fight over it anymore.

Anne

I used to think that the chorus of "mountain song" by jane's addiction was in a different language

nothing'sshocking

First off, thanks for correcting me about the Michael Jackson song about "keep on with the force, don't stop." I guess it's not really about a four-star hotel, then? It's a good thing I hadn't said anything about it to my husband, the huge Jackson fan.

And I thought the David Bowie line from Labyrinth was "Slap that baby, make him scream?"

I also had a friend who insisted the first line of the second verse of Queen's *We are the Chanpions* was "I've taken my vows" instead of bows. She thought it was a really religious song. I never could tell her the truth about Freddie.

Teri