For a while, I thought that the 90s hit Common People by Pulp said "rent a fag and barber shop" instead of "rent a flat above a shop." This led to a lot of confusion over what the next line, "cut your hair and get a job" was talking about. Because if the mishearing was correct...what kind of job would the person be getting?

Kâtïe

Before I knew it's title, I thought the song This Year's Love had the line "This here's lovin' at-a last" instead of This year's love had better last.

Ms. M.

Best friend's boyfriend thought Garth was singin' :

.......I'm SHAVIN'...... Shavin' as a man should be....


lolol

aviano_2004

This is a true Mondegreen:

"When the jasmine sets afire, the faceless man's relieved."
Years later, I discovered that it was "When the jazz man testifies, the faithless man believes." It made a little more sense then.

Anon

My 10-year-old brother has recently taken to singing Kelly Clarkson's "Since You've Been Gone". Except, he sings it differently...
Imagine a husky, shouty voice....
"Since you've been gone....
I'm a bean onyany animal...."

PS- the real lyrics are "Since you've been gone... I can't breathe for the first time..."

HOW??????

Anon

In Eminem's 'We As Americans', one of the lines he says is 'Look at our shit has been'. But I thought he was saying 'Look at our shit, it's big'.

Maddy

When I was in my early twenties (unfortunately, that was about 15 years ago), a friend of mine and I were huge fans of Jim Morrison and The Doors. One day as we were listening to the song "L.A. Woman", I sang along to the line that goes, "L.A. woman, Sunday afternoon". My friend was very surprised and told me that he had thought for the longest time that Jim was singing "idiot woman gonna have to do"! This was funny to me because 1) my friend was an even bigger fan than I was (and would seemingly have known this lyric, as it contains the song title; and 2) because Jim repeats that line several times in the song.

Marty

I used to believe that the lyrics to Sugar, We're Going Down, was.... Were goin' downtown in a merry-go-round! I was singing it at the top of my lungs at a school dance! I got home and looked up the lyrics online and I was soooooo embarrassed!!

Let's go to the Fair!

When my brother and I were younger (I was ten, he was seven), we heard the song "I'm Your Venus" on the radio, and we thought it was "I'm Your Penis." Seriously......we'd even go around the house singing it, much to my parents dismay/amusement. We didn't get why someone would write a song about a planet, and since the song was about love, well.....I guess you could say we put two and two together and came up with five, lol.

Emily

In the theme for 'Good Times', I always thought that the line 'temporary layoff' was 'temporary lady'. I don't even know why.

DON'T PANIC!

O.K... I had the perspective of the Star Spangled Banner all wrong as a kid. When they said, "Oh say can you see?" I though they were just saying "Say the word "can you see." because I simply thought the "Oh" was a singing filler-in. I never understood why they said say "can you see", but there wasn't a line where we could actually say it.
It doesn't stop there. After they told us to say "can you see", they expected us to say it by the "dawn's early light." What? That was WAY too early in the morning to be singing some song on the horizon.

Anon

When I was little, I used to think that Aerosmith song "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was actually saying "Do the Lucky Lady"... only, I was pretty young, so instead of even thinking anything sexual, I just pictured a dance called the Lucky Lady, and whenever people heard this song they were supposed to bust out with the "Lucky Lady"... lmao

Mel

My best friends used to believe that the word's from the band AQUA's song tunr back time went 'i would order steak for tonight' when they really sang 'i would stay for tonight.' She woundered for quiet a while why when they were turning back time why they would want to eat steak until one day when we were singing it to the radio and she heard me say the real words.

Al

I used to think that in the National Anthem the part where they say "dawns early light" was "donzerly light" and that donzer was just a word I didn't know.

Anon

Until I was about 8 I thought the Christmas song that says "Gloria in excelsius day-o" [or however the crap you spell it xP] said "Oreo".

Didn't make sense to me at the time why in Christmas songs they'd be singing about Oreos, but I just assumed...

Caitie

In the Sisters of Mercy song "Vision Thing" a part goes:

25 whores in the room next door,
25 whores and I neet more

which sounded like:

25 floors in the room next door
25 floors and ninteen more.

Big room indeed.

Slim Tom

When I was little, I used to think the song "Damn, I wish i was your lover.." were actually the words "Damn, I wish I was your mother!!!" . I just figured the person singing it wanted to be a mum.

Hayles83

I used to wonder why the word "seldom" was "a discouraging word", according to the lyrics for the song Home on the Range.

Anon

I used to think that the lyrics in Tim McGraw's song Only On Days That End In Y was actually "Only On Days With Indian Wine".

Natasha H

Yesterday I was in the cafeteria of my college campus. They were playing some kind of music video channel. They played this song that was in a foreign language. I know it didn't say this, but I heard the singers holler, "Rolaids" like three times and then sing a short phrase and then repeat the chorus. I thought that was hillarious, so I started making up words to the other part that went like this:
Rolaids, Rolaids, Rolaids, that's the way you spell relief.

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