Trapped in a van once with seven other people Prince's "Little Red Corvette" came on the radio. We all began to sing along and when we got to the chorus a friend of ours at the top of her lungs belted out "LEAD THE WAY CARMAY!!!" She's never lived it down...we named her cat Carmay in her honor.

anon

I have just learnt from reading the submission by 'Fernando's wife' that Juice Newton sang "just touch my cheek" in "Angel of the Morning". Darn it, all these years I've thought it was "just rub my feet". I thought insisting on a foot massage from a departing lover was quite, well, demanding, myself.

When Don Henley sang "Boys of Summer" I always heard it as "Poison Summer".

When Jethro Tull sang about Aqualung "eying little girls with bad intent", I thought the words were "eying little girls with battered ten-speeds". Well, ten-speed bicycles were all the rage when that song came out, and I was very young and naive.

Kryptonite Woman

Billy Ocean - Wanna go an' get stuffed (the tough get goin') etc...

K

When I was 3 or 4, the Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams" was a big hit - it was my favorite song because I thought they were talking about a bear!

Instead of "some of them want to use you, some of them want to be used by you" I always heard:

"Summer bear want to use you, summer bear want to be used by you"

ahhahaha...i still laugh at that. Kinda morbid, but I love animals, what can i say??

Kristy

I used to think that Tori Amos song was 'Honey bring the toast to my lips...he's got a big d***'!!! It's meant to be 'honey bring it close to my lips...it's got to be big'.

Anon

a friend of mine used to think that the lyrics to D.I.S.C.O., in which the chorus was them spelling it ('Dee Eye Ess Sea Oh') went somthing like...

'Be My Eskimo'... (Say out loud for full humor effect)

My how we laughed...

Patch

In the clash song, "spanish bombs" whenever they said "spanish bombs" I thought they were saying "spanish bongs" and everytime they said "oh mi corazon" i thought they were saying " oh my go a thong" until i looked up the lyrics on the internet.

frank

In the Eminem song 'Sing for the moment' I thought he was singing 'So I'm signing CD's whilst police finger Britney'. Well, it is Eminem!!! It wasn't until I asked my boyfriend why the police would be fingering Britney that I found it was '...whilst police fingerprint me'!

Denise

I believed the lyrics to a Mac Davis song were"...your apartment is warm inside". The true lyrics were " your a hot blooded woman child..." At last that's what they TOLD me they were in college!

Anon

i used to dj for my high school in the mornings before homeroom. in the middle of playing pearl jam's "rearviewmirror" our vp of academics (very attractive woman) comes running up proclaiming that the lyrics surely said "time to masturbate," when it was actually "time to emancipate" -- not a good misheard lyric at an all-boy highschool

sjj98

My brother thought the lyrics to Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face" were "How's About a Date?" I nearly wet myself when I heard him singing along. I've never let him forget it.

LTM

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

you know the song "drift away" the old version, well when i was little we always listened to the oldies and when it said "give me the beat boys to free my soul" i always thought they said "give me the beach boys" I always thought the guy who sang that song really really liked the beach boys! ha ha, just until about a month ago i realized what they really said.

Ernesto

When my sister and I were younger we believed the Paul Young song "Everytime you go away" was saying "Everytime you go away, you take a piece of *meat* with you." When our mom found out what we were singing and tried to correct us, we argued with her that ours was right because it made more sense...how can you take a piece of someone with you? The idea was disgusting to us and even if she were taking a piece of him with her, it would technically still be a piece of meat. Our mom didn't think that was very funny and would get mad at us every time we sang the song the wrong way.

Jess

Until recently I thought the lyrics to Eiffel 65 song were "i will die in Aberdeen, I will die in aberdeen." I always wondered what this French band had to do with Scotland! Lyrics really are Im blue, da ba dee, da ba dye etc

Lindsey W

There was a country song that my sister and I heard on the radio that went like this:

It's gonna take a lot of river
to keep this broken heart afloat

We thought it was "to keep this broken artichoke" and we sang it that way until our mom heard us and gave us the correct lyrics.

.-~*FAE*~-.

At university, we over heard a friend of mine singing along to Boy George's "Karma Chameleon" - except she was singing "Come-a, come-a, come-a, come-a, come-a to me, Leon". Which, when you consider that that phrase is the title of the song, is pretty bad. Earlier that term she had cut herself with a spoon. Enough said.

Anon

"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore." Yeah, well I used to get really mad because I thought the lyrics were, "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's the morning." I couldn't understand how they could say the moon being out made it the morning.

Danielle

The song "I got my mind set on you" by George Harrison...i thought he would say, "i got my mind sled for you" thinking that is song was about a sled for years and years and then one day in my late teens i asked my mom what my favourite song was? she couldn't remember but i knew that it was about a sled so i kept telling her that it was about a sled and that she has to remember because i used to sing and dance to it when i was much younger

sled song

There's a famous hoe-down song with the words "Where did you come from, Where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eyed Joe..." which I'd heard dozens of times throughout my childhood. Until I was 17 years old, I thought the words were "Where did you come from, 'Gotta Find Joe!"

I still like my version better...who's ever heard of a guy with "cotton eyes" anyway? :)

Jackie F