In the The Academy Is... song, Neighbors, I thought the line was "Sit back and get my paddy wacked."
It's really "sit back and get my palette wet."

SANTI! tai LJer. =]

This was really my friend's, and I was at her house, and she's singing along really loud in her room. I'm like, "Ashley, that came with words."

Champagne tippin' over in the sky

It took me ages to convince her that the real lyrics are ...Champagne Supernova in the sky

Megan

You know the song- By the Light of the Silvery Moon?
When I was little I thought the words were:
By the light,
Of the celery moon
I like to spoon
with my honey and prune love stew!

Flicky Wick

Last night, I went with my family to see the play "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." One of the songs by Joseph's brothers, called "Canaan Days", was sung with a very silly, over-done fake French accent. They were singing "Lift your berets", and it was being pronounced sort of like "BELL-ayz." I heard this as "Lift up your bellies," which made no sense. I had this weird mental image of these guys laying on their backs and presenting their bare stomachs to the king.

The next one is from the same show. The song is "Go, go, go Joseph." The Narrator is introducing the butler, and she says, "He was the Jeeves of his time." I heard this as "He was the CHEESE of his time." I spent most of intermission puzzling over this line and trying to figure out what the butler had to do with a chunk of cheese.

(I shared both of these with my mom. She was quite entertained.)

Taylor (methinks I need hearing aids)

In the song Winter WonderLand I thought the part about building a snowman said "And he'll say are you married? We'll say 'no man, but you can do the job when you're in town'." I thought the woman singing the song really wanted to marry a snowman

JewLea

Early this year, when Apologize was repeatedly being played on the radio, I kept on hearing it and singing it as "It's shoelace to 'pologize" And I'd ask what "'pologize" meant to all my friends and they'd give me funny looks. Haha. :P I'd also imagine the music video with a bunch of dancing shoelace. :))

Blah.

This was actually done by my nephew, but when he was small, "California Dreamin'", by the Mamas and the Papas, would come on the radio and he would start off singing "I love Lisa Brown, and the sky is gray" (not "All the leaves are brown...").

Chris' aunt

Herman's Hermits used to sing - she's a must to avoid. I thought it was - she's a muscular boy

Jan

James Bond theme by Gladys Knight - Licence to kilt - listen to it - that's what it says!

K

The song "Movin' on Up" by M People contains the line: "Movin' on up, you're movin' on out." Unfortunately, I thought it was: "Boobies, no bum, yeah boobies no bum."

Rachel

That in the song Rhinestone Cowboy that he was gettin': "cabbage & lettuce from people I don't even know". I never even thought it was odd that people were sending vegetables to a cowboy.

Sid

I used to think that an aerosmith song said "Who farted? WHO? Who?"

Seth

I have a vivid memory from age three. My memory of Paul McCartney singing "Band on the Run" is inextricably linked to seeing a rabbit run through my back yard. I thought Paul was saying "Ban" which is another word for rabbit, like bunny. Consequently, Paul was singing about the "Ban on the Run" that I was seeing in my lawn.

Little Bunny Foo-foo

I had a friend who thought the line "and my ashes are scattered" from 'Back On Earth' by Ozzy Osbourne was hysterical because he thought he was saying "my ass is a-scattered"

Matt

I was listening to System of a Down's "sugar" on my CD player one day, and my 4 year old cousin started singing along. He completely messed up the lyrics. The first line of the song is "The kombucha muchroom people" and he sang "The paloocha mocha people". I laughed so hard i nearly cried.

Psychoman

I thought that the lyrics for 'Tequila' by Terrorvision were actually 'I want to kill her, it makes me happy..' and I preferred the song when I thought that! I was in my twenties though, so does this count?

LadyAnnie

You know that TV show "Family Guy"? You know the theme song? I always thought the part where stewie say "all the things that make us laugh and cry" was actually "all th e things that make us effing cry"!

Ashls

I used to sing aloud to to R.E.M.'s song Chorus and the Ring with with the line "that's when the insoles start to stink" - believing that's what it really was. Turns out on a lyrics site it is really "that's when the insults start to sting." At least the insoles don't stink!

Anon

I used to think the lyrics to Little Miss can't be wrong by the Spin Doctors was Little Bitch, Little Bitch, Little Bitch can't be wrong. Hey, it still makes sense.

Christin

One day, a friend of mine and I were listening to All-American Rejects, and "Swing, Swing" came on. We both started sing, but instaed of singing "Swing swing swing from the tangles of my heart..." My friend was singing "Swing swing swing from the TABLE of my heart.." When I pointed this out to her, she told me that she could never figure out why the song made no sense.

Lisa