until recently my other half strongly believed that the well known song"shes got Betty Davis eyes" was "shes got better days alive"

Anon

In one of the pokemon songs "catch me if you can" they sing,
"It's time to show you what I'm all about"

I actually thought they sang,
"It's time to show you what I mumified"

Anon

Until just now, I always believed that in Fall Out Boy's song 'Sugar We're Going Down', instead of saying 'wishing to be the friction in your jeans' I always thought it said 'wishing to be the freak s**t in your dreams'. Makes me laugh.

Eliza

my mum used to think the line "you missed a spot over there" in "Stacy's Mom" (by Fountains of Wayne) was "yo Mr Spock over there". She thought that was Stacy's Mom's way of flirting with the guy! we teased her when we found out...

Indigo

When the rap song, Bubba Sparks, Miss New Booty, annoying as it is, came out, I didn't know what to think of it. At first I thought music had totally gotten flushed down the commode. Then I thought the producers must've been high at Sea World.
When the lyrics are really :BOOTY, BOOTY, BOOTY, BOOTY ROCKIN' EVERYWHERE....!!!! (3)I thought those morons were saying...

BOOTY, BOOTY, BOOTY,BOOTY ROCK IT LIKE A WHALE!!!!!! ROCK IT LIKE A WHALE!!! ROCK IT LIkE A WHALE!!!! (Trust me, pay real close attention to the last three lines of the chorus. I could barely beileve my ears, but quickly learned to accept it because rap is loosing it's touch anyways.)

I swear, for months all I could picture was Shamu in his aqaurium doing the booty call, brushing up against the tank's sides with his mouth wide open in self-gradification; and I could only "imagine" what the music video looked like.
And lets just say my dad fell in a heap of eternal laughter when I sung it at the top of my screeching lungs for karokie night at the sushi bar.

......I still hear it........

Save the Whales!!!!!!!!!

My husband thought the Pat Benetar song "Hell Is For Children" said "Be a good little boy and you'll get a new toy, now grab all your crap off the swing!" It really says "tell grandma you fell off the swing". I guess he thought the person in the song was really anal retentive about the cleanliness of the playground!

Lisa Kyle

When I first heard the song "A Public Affair" by Jessica Simpson, I thought one of the lines went like this:

All the camels come out for a public affair...

when it really went like this:

All the cameras come out for a public affair, etc.

I was wondering why there weren't camels in the music video, since Jessica was singing about them. Then this morning I was watching the video on MTV and I put the closed caption on so I could see the words... I was so disappointed. I like my version better.

spittin camel

I liked the song Mr. Roboto by Styx until the part where he starts talking about murdering someone. You know, the part where Mr. Roboto starts shouting "Kill Roy!" I thought the robot was supposed to be a nice robot, and Roy probably didn't do anything to him.

Violent Singing Robot

i used to believe that twinkle twinkle little star went "tinkle tinkle little star what a wonder you far are" and was talking about a star weeing and being far away.

poisen

My take on The Who's 'Who Are You?'

Real:I remember throwin' punches around
And preachin' from my chair

My version:I remember throwin' munchies around
And reachin' for my chair

I imagined the singer throwing cheese puffs at the other band members, and crawling around trying to reach his precious recliner before anyone else could sit there.

The Anonamoose

Seriously a friend of mine thought that in the song 'funky town' it said something like Abitsu Witsu, a funky town.....she thought it was a great place in Japan.

Anon

The lyrics to Natasha Bedingfield's song "Unwritten" are:
"Release your inhibitions."

I used to believe they were:
"Release your inner b*tch aaaaaand..."

Natalie

I used to believe that the lyrics to the song "Dancing Queen" by Abba went, "You can dance, you can DIE having the time of your life." I was always confused about this until a few months ago when I asked my family while the song was playing on the radio. My family now has another reason to think I'm insane...

shania

The Kim Carnes song called 'Bette Davis Eyes' well my dad used to sing "She's got Dickie Davis Eyes"

Anon

When we were teenagers, my sister and I heard the song on the radio, and she remarked how funny it was that we used to think it said "Goin' to the chapel and we're
gonna get mad at Harry." I replied, "Oh, yeah! Funny!"

Mike

In Justin Timberlake's Sexy Back We in work sing "Take it to the fridge" instead of "Take it to the bridge"

Sounds better we thought!

Diane

I used to think in the songs Call n Return by Hellogoodbye in the chorus when it says "say that you're into me" it was saying "satan is your enemy" I was like "Well, DUH!!!"

Anon

I thought the line 'Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap" in the ACDC song was 'Dirty thieves and the thunder chief' (??)

Also, there is a BeeGees song, I think called 'More than a woman'. As a kid, I sang 'Four legged woman, four legged woman to me' (I still prefer my version.

Finally, an Australian band Cold Chisel had a song with the line 'Cheap wine and a three day growth'. We always sang it as 'Cheap wine and a female goat'.

FR

till a few months ago i used to think that in the song "bandages" by hot hot heat, they were really singing "benadryl".
i still sorta think it does.
=]

k.p.

I was listening to an old record of a gospel group that I had never heard before and still don't know who they are. The music was good, but the record was scratchy and the sound quality was not very clear. A song came on and I heard them sing, "Hickory on the rock." I couldn't figure out what a gospel song had to do with a hickory on a rock. When I heard the chorus again, I realized why that sounded stupid. The correct lyrics were "Victory on the rock." Duh!

keyboardplayer