The Genesis song that goes:
"She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah"
i thought went:
" She sees the hat and reaches for the top shelf"
I thought it was about shopping.

cj

Well I believed that the song 'Constant Craving' (by KD Lang, I think) was actually can't stand gravy!! And sang these words right up until my husband pointed the correct words out to me about 3 years ago!!

Blondee

In the song "Ordinary" by Train. When they say: "I'm everything but ordinary...", I really thought they said: "I'm everything but old and hairy..."

Raja

for all my life I though that in 'Billy Jean' 1 of the lyrics was "the jailer's not my son". i actually believed this until last month & I'm 22!

Cas

The Duran-Duran song ....Rio....I heard "her name is Rio and she doesn't understand" rather than "her name is Rio and she dances in the sand" couldn't figure out why this girl didn't understand her name...

Hannah

... "we are living in mama's cereal world.. and I am mama's cereal girl".... sounded good to me. I loved cereal.

When my big sister kindly pointed out to me that it was "material girl"... I thought she was one of those ladies at the fabric counter measuring out yards of material... I didn't like that as much.

Amy

The song I was taught when I was little was:

Mare's eat Oats
and Does eat Oats
and Little Lambs eat ivy,
A kid will eat ivy too
wouldn't you?

This is what I would always sing, thinking the words:

Marsey Dotes and Dosey Dotes
and little lamsey divey
A kiddley divey doo
Wouldn't you?

I could never understand what it meant but never really questioned it, until I became much older and met up with someone who thought the same thing. After talking about it we came to the conclusion "Oh! So those are the words!"

Tod

I used to think that in 'From Me To You', by the Beatles, John and Paul sang:
"I've got arms that long to hold you, and keep you by my side"
"I've got lips that long to kiss you, and keep you satisfied. Wooo"
Which is fine, because they do. However I interpreted the first line as
"I have arms that are long enough to hold you..."
And then I accepted the following image:
"I've got lips that are long enough to kiss you..."
I'm glad I'm not a kid anymore

Neil

in the song "what a wonderful world" sung by Louise Armstrong, a line goes, the brightness of day and the dark sacred night, as a child i believed the line was the brightness of day and the dogs say goodnight!

john

When I was a small child and heard the commodores sing, "She's a brick house", I thought they were singing, "She's a brick....OW!" That never made a bit of sense to me

Rob S.

I was always a very good speller as a kid, except for one day as an 11-year-old when I attempted to sing along to Aretha Franklin:

"R-E-S-V-E-C-T."

I thought she was just naming off random letters.

Josh

I thought the line "always look at the bright side of life" was supposed to be "always look at the right side of fly". My mother language is not english so i didn't see the grammar being wrong and always wondered why you should look at the right side of flies and not the left.

Halla

I thought until yesterday that the lyrics of the teenage mutant ninja turtles' s theme tune was-
Whan the Evil-Shredder-Of-Tax,
(rather than the evil shredder attacks)
I always thought it had some obscure political message.

Jude

My mum always thought (and, sadly, still thinks) that the song "smoke gets in your eyes" by the Platters is actually "small cats in your eyes".

Anon

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

When I was about 10 years old,I used to believe the song by The Commitments, Mustang Sally, was actually Mustard Salad,not a good thing to sing in front your class mates.

Jennifer

One day on the way to school, my mom was singing along with the radio to the Beegee's song "More than a Woman", and I heard her say---"Bald-headed Woman, Bald Headed Woman to me", instead of More than a Woman!

Beth

My brother's used to think that the lyrics to the ZZTop song, Slip inside my Sleeping Bag. was simply, seepoo sypoo seepoo say. I'm not sure where in the world they came up with that one!!!!!

sister nellnell

I used to mishear the Eric Clapton song "Cocaine". Listen how the meaning changes for the want of just one word: "If you want to hang out, you've got to take her out, okay/ If you want to get down, down on the ground, okay/ She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie... okay.
I knew about sex by then, so I thought it was about a girl, and that it was okay with her daddy to date her because "she don't lie".

Ana Byrd

me and my friend were listening to Save Ferris's version of Come on Eileen, and we started to sing along. She sang the lyrics "Come on Eileen, whow u smell of chlorine!" instead of "Come on Eileen, oh I swear (well he means)" We were on the floor laughing, and we sing her version instead now because its better!

skankachic