I used to love the song "Blaze of Glory" by Bon Jovi. When the song was around I though the lyric "I have an old coat for a pillow" was "I have an old goat for a pillow". Now obviously I thought he couldn't use a goat that was alive as it would be standing up and wouldn't make a very comfortable pillow - so I always imagined Bon Jovi lying in the desert sleeping on the ground using a dead goat for a pillow!

Belle

For years as a kid I thought the Pretenders 'Thin Line Bewteen Love and Hate' was actually a clever reference that only grown ups must be able to understand, on how rubbish the disintegration of a relationship is in the line, 'it's a bin liner between love & hate'.
At least I don't feel so stupid about my Neil Diamond 'Reverend Blue Jeans' mistake having seen it on this site now though...

Denise

I used to believe that in the song 'I Try' by Macy Gray,that when she sang 'And my heart crumbles when you are not near' she was actually singing 'And i wear goggles when you are not near'

Tom

I used to think the Locomotion was the Lovely Motion when I was a child! Come on, come on, do the lovely motion with me!

Lois

My brother once came home from work having heard a song on the radio, telling me the lyrics were "walks like his pants are too tight", as opposed to "walk like a panther tonight".

Anon

When I was a kid I used to love Kenny Rogers.One song in particular, I think it was "Lucille," had the line "You left me with 4 hungry children and a crop in the field." For years I was sure he was saying, "You left me with 4 HUNDRED children and a crop in the field."

Aimee

The first couple of times that I heard INXS' Suicide Blonde, I thought for sure they were singing "Super Salad Bar" instead of suicide blonde.

terri

Well I hate to admit but I misheard these lyrics just this year and I am not a kid (30ish). The song "Mr. Brightside" from The Killers came on the radio and I was singing at the top of my lungs that last phrase as "Viagraaaaa...Viagraaaa" when my fiance burst out laughing. Turns out the actual phrase is "I neveerrrr...I neveeerrr." To this day we still joke about the "Viagra song" when it comes on the radio!

Embarrassed but happy :)

In the Green Day song Extraordinary Girl, one line goes 'like a pet left in the rain'. i thought it was 'like a pig left in the rain,' which isn't much different but it sounds much weirder!

Jesi

I thought Hey there Georgie Girl! was
Hey there George Eagle!

For years I wondered who George Eagle was and why there was a song about him.

RLF

My uncle was 100% convinced that "Do the hustle" was actually "eat a hot dog!"... he would walk through my grandma's house disco dancing and belting it out.

Amy

That 'army' marching song that goes "Wherever we go (wherever we go), People always ask us (People always ask us), Where do you come from? (Where do you come from?)" etc. Well we used to sing it at Brownies and for ages I thought it was "Wherever we go, we think of all disasters". I thought it was about being contemplative about people who'd been affected by wars and things.
My Brownie leader overheard me, cracked up laughing and told everyone, making me look like a fool. I've never really got over it. She shouldn't have been allowed to be a leader....

Anonymous ex-Brownie

Abba - Waterloo

"Portaloo
Finally facing my Portaloo..."

Santa Puncher

Well, this is mum's rather than mine!

NEWeiz, she thought that 'The Hardest Button to Button' by The White Stripes went 'The Hardest ******* Toboggan'.

Before she told me this, I knew the correct words, but now when I hear it, I always think of Mum and smile to myself! XD

e.sel

In Duran Duran's "The Reflex", I thought that "I'll cross that bridge when I find it was "I'll slap that bitch when I find it." I coudn't hear what "cross" was, but "bridge" definitely sounds like "bitch" to me.

Fle-fle-fle-fle-flex

Funeral for a Friend - Waking Up

I could swear these were the lyrics:

I'm lying in the truth
I'm covered in blue liquid
A passion for our shoes

But when I looked it up:

Is a lie just the truth
Uncovered and relinquished
A passion for all young fools

Hmmm... I prefer my version :)

Peony

Dresden Dolls - Thirty Wacks

I swear I kept hearing, 'Get hit with a chicken for loitering.' but it turns out to be a far more normal 'Ticket for Loitering.'

I prefer my version :)

Chicken

Up until about 1 minute ago, for the past couple of years i thought Macy Gray's song sang: I try to say goodbye and i choke, i try to walk away and i stumble, though i try to hide it its clear i blow bubbles when u r not here - - - when the last line was actually: my world crumbles when u r not here!!! *idiot* lol

Samantha

The first line in Queen's 'I want it all' is
Adventure seeker.
But I always thought it said
Adventure seagull.
I can still picture the seagul in an Indiana Jones Costume. he he.

Charleymac

For "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls, I misheard

"I really really really wanna zigazigah!"

as

"I really really really wanna sing you this song!".

But my version makes A LOT more sense. So I still sing it like that. And people say "So THAT'S how it goes!".

Scandia