What about this one?
In the song by Yes called "Owner of a lonely heart", when they come to the part where they sing:
Owner of a lonely heart!
Owner of a lonely heart!
I used to think they tried to make people steal things from the lonely people on the street by singing:
Only rob the lonely ones!
Only rob the lonely ones!

Imagine that :D

Morten Vestergaard

Ok so, the Travis Tritt song "I smell T-R-O-U-B-L-E" was a source of much confusion for me as a child. In the song he sings the title... and since I hadn't quite learned how to spell and had no concept of letters themselves, I heard "I smell pee all over you and me." ... I always wondered why I got in so much trouble for wetting my pants when grown men did it all the time ... hahaha

Em Michelle

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

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

I always thought song went "I Believe In Malcolm" instead of "I Believe in Miracles"

Malcolm Lover

My boyfriend always thought the song in the film Greece said "I got shoes, thet're multiplying" He imagined a wardrobe with hundreds of shoes spilling out!

Viv

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

"Care less whispers"- I used to belive he siad "Cat less whiskers"

Puts the B in Wicth

In the song 'all star' the one line that is "she was lookin' kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead" i thought it was "in the shape of an elk on her forehead" and for 4 years every time i head that song i thought to myself, how do you make an elk using two fingers? finally i asked my dad how, and he laughed at me.

Abby

When I was maybe 8...I was addicted to watching CSI with my parents. The lyrics to the opening song are; 'Whooooo are you!? Who, who, who, who!?' However, I was convinced that that they were; 'Gooood morning! Good, good, good, good!' When I sang along to my version....my parents laughed so much :)

Taylor

Recently my sister told me that in Fallout Boy's 'The Take Over The Break's Over' lyrics were actually 'Flash flash flash, photography', not 'Scratch scratch scratch, for tiger-people'. We both though that was pretty funny.

FlashTigerography

I used to believe that the song "Manic Monday" by the bangles went....
"Just another Man Named Monday"
instead of...
"Just another manic monday"

Tim