I always thought that Zuccero's song "Senza una dona" was actually "Sence of a woman"

Miroslava

The Shirelles' "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"

Correct lyric: Can I believe the magic of your sighs
What I hear: Can I believe the magic of your size

Anon

There's this song by the Animals called "Spill the wine and take that pearl" but because the singer fails to sing intelligably-it always sounded to me like "Do My Tic Tac Toe" and near the end more like "Tickle My Tic Tac Toe" I still can't hear it properly.

Glowworm

Remember the theme song from the Winnie the Pooh eighties/early nineties? It goes, "Pooh bear, Winnie the Pooh bear, searchin' for fun, oh, won't you take me please? Pooh bear, I know he's out there. Rumbly tumbly, climb in a honey tree," and then there is another verse that starts. To this day I don't know what the real words are, but when I was little, and even now, it sounds so me like, "How could this cancerous, be so advancerous? it does this now and again." then back to normal "And when you're alone and there's nobody home, it's nice to be able to count on a friend like Pooh bear."

SO.. the man singing the pooh bear song is cancerous?

bird

Okay, you know the song Apologize by Timbaland? Some of the real lyrics go like this:

Didn't think I'd turn around, and say...
That it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late.

Well, I thought it said this:

Didn't think I'd turn around, and say hey
That it's too late to palogize (?), it's too late
I said it's too late to pathogize, it's too late.

The Apple Queen

When I was younger, we had a record player in my basement. My brother and I would listen to the Beegees, because they were out favourite out of all the records down there.

When I use to listen to staying alive I always thought the lyrics opposed to the actual ones

"Music loud and women warm.
I've been kicked around since I was born."

Were:

"You can tell a Willy Wonka,
Saying Gingerale, no time to talk."

I find it pretty hilarious since, that is absolutley not close to it. Up to a few weeks ago when I googled the lyrics, I truthfully had no idea what they were- and believed they were somewhere close to my misheard lyrics.

Hilary

I used to believe Row Row Row Your Boat was 'Row row row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily merrily merrily merrily life is butter dream.' Then I realized I was completely wrong a few year ago.

HurricaneeChickk

I was about four when the Beatles released "Can't Buy Me Love." It was the first rock 'n roll song I remember hearing.

I thought the lyrics leading up to the chorus were "I don't care to bump the money, money can't buy me love."

I had no idea what bumping the money meant.

'duardo

when i listened to christopher cross 'ride like the wind' i thought he was saying, take me to the corner of mexico. i just found out 2 years ago, at 27, that he was saying border, not coner!

mj

My friend Beccy used to think that Dusty Springfield's classic 'Son of a Preacher Man' was actually 'Son of the Pizza Man'.

Micki

A friend of mine thought the lyric in Ziggy Stardust went 'Making love with his eagle' instead of 'ego'. When I laughed and told him the real lyric, he claimed it made as much sense as any other Bowie lyric.

Chris Smith

I thought that the 80's song "Alive'n Kicking" was saying in the chorus line "I love a kickin'"

marina

I was in a band in high school. Our drummer was famous for getting lyrics wrong. One time he suggested we do "Tapico's Own". We were all scratching our heads until he explained, "You know, that Sonny & Cher song Tapico's Own." He was talking about "The Beat Goes On". We never let him forget it.

McClique

When I first heard the song "What A Wonderful World" in the film "Good Morning Vetnam" (and even later, on the radio), I didn't understand the meaning of the lyrics that went "the bright, blessed day, the dogs say good night," or why talking dogs were part of a wonderful world. It was several years before I finally realized that the correct lyric was actually "the bright, blessed day, the dark, sacred night."

Mr. Ed

My mother whose name is June used to like the Beatles' song "Hey Jude" until she found out that it wasn't "Hey June".

Anon

I used to think that Elton John's "Sad Songs Say So Much" was the theme for the Gremlin's movie, only because of the lyric "they reach into your room".

zeitgeist

I used to believe that the song "Janie's Got A Gun" by Aerosmith went like this "Janie's got a gun, hot spring pepper tongue" ("Janie's got a gun, her world's come undown")

ShannonE

I used to (and sometimes still do) hear the line from the Green Day song "Time of your Life" as:

"Tounge grabs you by the waist..." (Time grabs you by the wrist...")

and

"..Hang it on the shelf in good old-fingered time" (Still haven't figured out what he's saying here).

confused

I used to believe that the text in "Blue Da ba dee" by Eiffel 65 went: I´m Blue, in Aberdeen I will die, in Aberdeen I will die, in Aberdeen I will die... ;) How stupid!

Sita

I had a roommate who thought that Celine Dion's song "Next Plane Out" said "let's make out." She didn't make the connection between the song's title and the words to the chorus....

Barbara