A 20-something friend of mine would hear this line from Jon Sebastian's "Welcome Back" (theme to Welcome Back, Kotter):
"Your dreams were your ticket out"
But she thought he was singing:
"Your jeans are torn. Check it out!"

Gary

In the Wings song "Listen To What The man Said" it says "the wonder of it all, baby". When I was little I thought it said "don't want to rub it off baby"
Hey it made pretty good sense to me at the time! LOL

Lisa

in somebody to love by queen i used to think the line "everybody wants to put me down they say i'm crazy" was everybody wants a crocodile they think i'm crazy!!!" whoops =P

moi !!!!!

I thought the words to Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana were "hey, wait, I got a real gold plate," instead of "hey, wait, I got a new complaint."

bagface

Tom Cochrane's song Big League says "Sometimes at night, I can hear the ice crack."
For a long time, I believed it was "Sometimes at night, I can hear my ass crack."
The next line (and this is true) adds to this by saying "It sounds like thunder and rips through my back."

Oh Tom... There's medicine that can help with that.

CAM

I used to believe that the stable that Jesus was born in belonged to someone named Aunt Chelsea because when we sang "Angels We Have Heard on High" in church, it sounded like "In Aunt Chelsea's Stable" instead of "In Excelsis Deo".

Anon

When I was younger I used to believe the song 'poetry in motion' was actually 'all the tree is ocean'. I really liked that song untill my mother corrected me.

Anon

Up until a couple of weeks ago (and I'm nearly 40 !), I was convinced that in the song "How Deep is Your Love", the Bee Gees sang that "You came to me on a submarine". I've always thought it was a bizarre lyric. (It's actually "on a Summer breeze")

Steve

My high school friend, Janice, thought that the song "You're the One That I Want" (from "Grease") was actually "Women in a Boat". (If you say it fast enough, maybe.)

Huey

I always thought (right up until adulthood) that the Gabrielle song 'Dreams' had the word 'Brainscan' instead of 'Dreams can (come true). It seemed to make sense because some other lines go 'You know you have to have hope, you know you've got to be strong'... I suppose I was a morbid child...

Pipey

I used to believe that the song "I Shot The Sheriff" went "I shot Sherry, but I didn't shoot the rest of 'em." Then I learned that it was "I Shot The Sheriff," and then decided that it went "I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot the President." I only learned the true lyrics a few months ago!!!

Mandy Grrrl

My brother who was an adult was singing with me in the car one day. We were singing "big 'ol jet airliner" and out of his mouth comes "big old jello rider" I was laughing so hard I had to pull over

Michele

In the song "Greased Lightning" from the musical "Grease", there is a line "You know that ain't no shit, we'll be getting lots of tit". I was eight and had just got the record and played this line for my dad, who corrected me, saying it was "You know that when you shift, you'll be getting lots of tift". When I asked him what a 'tift' was, he said that it meant 'a rough time'. So for years I would regularly use 'tift' in sentences, such as "Wow, you'll really be in a big tift if the teacher sees you!" Only when I was in my teens did I realize that my dad simply didn't want me repeating the words 'shit' and 'tit' in public.

MJCDS

Just about a year ago(im 14) i realized the song by TLC called Waterfalls said "Dont go chasing waterfalls", while I always thought it said "Go go Jason Waterfalls"

Also I thought the song "Yellow Taxi" by Counting Crows said "They paved paradise, to put up a fucking lodge" while it really says "They paved paradise, to put up a parking lot"

anna v

I remember thinking that the Take That song 'Could it be magic now' that got heavy radio play in 1993 had a lyric "come into my arse" instead of "come into my arms". No wonder I thought they were gay...

brmanuk

Remember that techno song "I'm blue da boo de da boo day deh" well, I heard "I'm blue, I believe I will die"
And one of my friends thought it was "I'm nude, I'm in need of a guy" yea. personally, I like our lyrics better.

Anon

Until I was about ten I had always sang the song "Waterfalls" by TLC as, "Go go Jason Waterfalls..." I always wondered who he was.

I also believed for a long time that the lyrics in the song "Hot in Here" by Nelly, "Dancin' in front of the mirror while you're on the phone sayin', 'girl, I think my butt's gettin big!'" was "'Girl, I think my butt can bend!'"

I'll never live those down.

Anon

I thought "O canada" was sung:
O Canada
Our home and naked land,
True Pastry love
in all our suns command
with gorey hearts
we see thee rise
The true north strong and freeze
your far and wide,
oh canada
we stand on cars and pee!
Oh canada we stand on cars and pee!

and thats how i sung it untill grade seven..thats what i thought it was, i'm in grade eight now.

Shattered Glass Eye's Confused Dummer

I used to think that Frankee's song F.U.R.B. (F**k you right back) the line 'I had better sex all alone ( ha ha ha ha )' was ' I had better sex on the phone' I used to sing along to that but then i read the lyrics, but i still sing it that way...i have no clue where i got 'on the phone from'

Perverted one aka Melissa C.

Till I was 14 I thought the words that were repeated at the end of the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit"(a denial) were "rock will die, yo!". I kept wondering why Kurt Cobain was saying that rock would die, since it never will, and by the "yo", was he predicting that rap would take over rock?

smellyteen