When I was a kid, Bread came out with a song called "Make it with You". I first heard it when they appeared on the Andy Williams Show. Andy introduced them and said they would sing their new song, which I heard as "Naked with You".

I was horrified, sitting on the floor in the family room with Mom and Dad, hearing this group sing "I want to naked with you. I really think that we could naked, girl."

Didn't quite understand what it meant, but I knew it was something I shouldn't do with a girl.

brico

I used to think that in the song "Smooth Operator" they were saying "Schooooooool's not forever!"

Steph

Again, the mom though the Stones were saying "I'll never leave your Pizza burning" instead of "I'll never be your beast of burden"

Beth

I used to think the Neil Diamond song "Forever in Blue Jeans" was actually him singing about The Reverend Blue Jeans and I assumed it was about a man of the cloth being cool and appealing to the younger generation. Only realised the real song title and lyrics a few years ago. My dad and I prefer my version and always change the song as we sing along.

Steph

My younger brother (who doesn't even like rock 'n' roll) heard the line in the chorus of "Suffragette City" as "Don't lean on me man, 'cause you can't afford the chickens..." (real: "ticket"). This seems to be a common one, but earlier in the song he'd also heard "The smell of fried chicken put my spine out of place." (real: "this mellow-thighed chick".) He still calls it the chicken song.

Ana Byrd

My cousin and I went to a aerobics class, and they played 'raise a little hell'. right then she told me that all her life she (until now) she thought that it was 'raise a little elf'. I couldn't finish the class I was laughing so hard.

Canukya

There's a heavy metal group called Disturbed,who has a song called Stupify.The correct lyrics were "Look in my face,step into my soul,I begin to stupify.Rock!"For the longest time I thought it was "Deep in my plate,deep in my bowl,I eat Spaghetti-O's!Rock!"I have absolutely NO IDEA where that came from!

Too obsessed with pasta

I used to think that the KD Lang song 'Constant Craving' was actually "Can't stand gravy"!It used to make me feel ill every time I heard it!

Annie

When i was eight we drove down to disney world and Aerosmith's "dude looks like a lady" came on the radio. I started singing along like i always do and when "dude looks like a lady" part came on I sang "Do the legged-lady", my parents thought it was the funniest thing in the world. and i dont know who this song is by or what its called... but it goes "cant hurt me now, cant hurt me now, cant hurt me nooooow" and i sang "hand her her towler, hand her her towel, hand her her tooooowell!" i was such a loser as a kid

LOSER

"Yooce cream, ice bean, we all scream for ice cream!"

This song was always stupid to me.

Shirley B.

A friend of mine thought that the Alanis Morsette song "Thank you" whose lyrics go:
"...I want to Thank you Thank you..."
They believed that the lyrics were:
"...I want to vacuum, vacuum..."
after hearing it, they proceed to say "Man this chick sure does like to vacuum"

-Whitney

In early elementary school I thought "My Country 'Tis of Thee..." was "My Country Tisafee." I was under the impression that the U.S.A. could be called America or, I guessed, Tisafee. I even told a crush of mine named Tiffany that her named kinda sounded like our country's one morning in class... she gave me a rather puzzled look...

Elliot

I used to think that the John Cougar Mellencamp song "Authority" said "I fight Jodie and Jodie always wins" when it really says "I fight Authority and Authority always wins"... it made more sense with Jodie... she was very scary to me when I was growing up.

Laci

I used to think "The Jean Genie" was infact the GIN Genie. For years I thought that was the connection between gin and spirits.

Anon

I used to think Benny and the Jets was:

She's got electric boobs, a mohawk too, you know I read it on a can of pringles ohhhhh, B-B-B Benny and the Jets.

LostFunZone

when i was in elementary school, say, around 4th or 5th grade, there was this bone thugs n harmony song on the radio, called "thuggish ruggish bone". i loved it to death, and everytime it came on, i would sing along. like an idiot, i thought that the girl singing the chorus was saying "it's the plucky ducky song!" when in fact she was singing "it's the thuggish ruggish bone!" at the time, the cartoon "tiny toon adventures" was on and i was a major fan. one of the characters on the show was named plucky duck. i thought they were singing about the duck! :D :D i felt so stupid when i found out the correct name of the song. my mom had to suffer through a lot of my favorite rap songs in the car back then, and she too thought they were singing about plucky duck. we still laugh about it to this day!

pluckyducky

I thought that the lyrics "When I called you last night from glasgow" were "When I called you last night from Tesco" (British supermarket).

Sarah

the sheryl crow song "all i wanna do, is have some fun..."
it was only until a short while ago i figured out what she was saying "until the sun comes up over sani-moni-cupple-a-vord"
nothing to do with santa monica then?

*idiot*

Laura Lee

My dad used to sing along to madonna's Erotic in the car when he was taking me and my 13 year old friends to the school disco. This in itself is cringy enough, but he used to sing
"You got it, you got it...." Instead of "Erotic, erotic" by mistake which had all my friends in silent hysterics and daring each other to tell me dad the real lyrics. I got slagged off for my dorky dad for about two years after that.
Also me and my sister used to think that the Fine Young Cannibals were singing "Milkshake, where have you gone?" instead of "Lucy". Thought they had a bit of a Macdonalds obsession

Anon

My mum always thought the lyrics to macy grays song was i try to say goodbye to my chook.

alana