On "This Ain't a Scene (it's an arms race)" by My Chemical Romance...

"This thing this thing it's a god damn arse face"
I knew this probably wasn't right but thought it was better than the real words. It also fits in with how the first line "I am an arms dealer" sounds like "I am an arse feeler".

Mahoney

Kenny Rogers tune about 'Lucille'...

"you picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field..."

I couldn't figure out why Kenny was worried about the crops what with all of his 400 hundred children an all. Heck, with all that help, he should be done in NO time!

anobud

Sometime around 1976 when I was about 6 years old, Elton John's "Benny & the Jets" was a popular radio selection. I can't be the only one who thought he was singing about a woman with "Electric Boobs". Boy, I thought that was nasty.

CC

The refrain of "Flashdance" is "Take your passion and make it happen." I used to sing "Take your pants off and make it happen." I guess I had a dirty mind as a kid.

Andrea

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.

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