In Elton John's "Tiny Dancer", I thought it was "Jesus frees...out in the streets", when it really was "Jesus freaks...out in the streets"
Silly me!

Anon

me being a confused person i never got the lyrics right... or the purpose to any of the lyrics... but anyway, there is a song called things we go through by: hawk nelson and part of the lyrics go.. stand up for what you beleive and shout to.. but i thought they went... stand up for what you beleive is jollytrue... now since this is a canadian band and im from the u.s. i thought canadians had a different set of words then us... like they say eh alot ive heard... so i thought jollytrue was also another word of theirs.. to this day i still dont sing it the right way... its to hard to learn any differently for me!!!

wont change my way

In the song 'Don't leave me this way', Thelma Houston sings 'Baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you'. I used to think she sang 'Baby, my heart is revolving and to cipher you'.

I love music lots

In "All Star," the line goes: "All that glitters is gold, only shootin' stars break the mold." (or something like that)

My friend thought: "All the rivers are gold, only shootin' stars wait for morn."

Chris

When I was younger and my friends came over I wantd to act cool and know all the words to a song they liked soo when they played it and they were singing I would say the last word of every line and it would look like i was singing it

What is funny about this is that now when my other friend come over not the same one thought she does the same thing but she thinks i don't notice it but i do!! :p

Emily

Used to think Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" was "Snow Covered Otter"

Ken C.

my best friend's younger brother was convinced that Huey Lewis was singing "I Want A New Truck", instead of "I Want A New Drug." - Maybe Ford should buy the rights and use it.

optional

That song with the chorus, "I got my mind set on you...". Well, when I was a kid it was used as a jingle for a potato chip commercial (Hostess?) and I thought it was "I got the munchies, oh yeah!" Made total sense to me as I sang along at the top of my lungs.

mags

instead of "sitting on the dock of the bay" i heard my mother's friend belting out at the top her lungs one day
"sitting like a duck in bombay"
your guess is as good as mine...

Marissa

Similar to Jo, I had a friend who thought that Freddy Mercury was singing "spare him his life from these pork sausages"! I can't listen to Bohemian Rhapsody without hearing that -even though I know the correct lyrics!

Lynne S

Ooh, ooh Just remembered another one...

Instead of "I can see clearly now the rain has gone" I used to wander around singing "I can see deardrie now lorraine has gone"

R

I've generally got a good ear for lyrics but for the longest time I thought the that Dobie Gray was singing "give me the beach boys and free my soul", instead of the actual lyric, "give me the beat, boys"

My younger brother was for years convinced that the Sex Pistols' lyric "another council tenancy" was actually "and other c*nt-like tendencies". Really, though, that's a pretty forgiveable mistake. I doubt most teens in middle america know what a council tenancy is and my brothers version certainly sounds like something Johnny Rotten might say.

squire11

The chorus to the song "Freshmen" by The Verve Pipe says
"We were only freshmen" ... I had a friend who would sing "We were only FLESHmen"

In the song "Busy Child" by The Crystal Method, there is a line that repeats a lot that says
"I guess I didn't know" ... the same friend misinterperated this as "I guess I didn't notice"

Not that I haven't had my share of misunderstandings of a lyrical nature... a few classics are:
White Zombie's "More Human than Human" -- "More human than you, man"
Gin Blossoms "Hey, Jealousy" -- "Hey, Chelsea!"
and in "Daria" by Cake, John McCrea sings the words "icing on a cake" at one point... for years I thought he was saying "I sing on a cake" ... what a revelation that was, when the truth dawned on me!

ZiZak

I used to imagine that in the song "Just a Gigilo" by Van Halen when he said "I ain't got no body" it was just a little head dancing around, kinda like a Mr. Potato Head toy. I thought he really didn't have a body.

Andrea

When the Eiffel 65 song "Blue Da Ba De" came out I thought they were saying "I'm Blue, if I was green I would die". Pretty dumb, but not as bad as one guy's argument that they were really saying "I'm Blue, I would beat off a guy". Bit of a perv.

Tank

Dido's White Flag song says " there will be no white flag above my door" one day it was on the radio at work and this girl comes back into my inspection room and looks at me real puzzled and says " did she says, there will be no one left but my dog?" I about peed myself and told her to stop listening to so much country music

ChrispyHexagon

When I was little I used to do this crazy dance and sing along to Tina Turner...but instead of "When the B****h gets back, I used to sing "when the fish gets back.." It didn't make sense even then, but I swore I was right.

Anna

I used to think the 80's song "Our Lips are Sealed" was "Olives are Seals"

Anon

When I was 10, i thought the walking in the winter wonderland song went like this 'later on we'll expire' instead of 'later on we'll conspire'. I had all these children dying because they were expired stuck in my head.

Lil Embryo

Tim McGraw did a remake of Elton John's "Tiny Dancer." Until recently, I thought it said, "Baby darlin', she's a Lennon" meaning that she could sing really well. It's really "Lay me down in sheets of linen," but I still sing the Lennon line.

Me