My whole family is pretty bad with songs!
My little sister, who still gets songs wrong, once sang TLC's No Scrubs as, "Hanging out the passengers side of my best french frie". Real lyrics "...best friends ride"
Another sister, also liking TLC, thought that "Don't go chasing waterfalls" was "Go go Jason Waterfalls"
My mom still to this day swears that the true lyrics to independent women by Destiny's Child is "I farted" instead of "I bought it"
Yet another sister, at the age of 19, just realized that the lyrics of Henery the VIII is not "..wouldn't have a Willy or a cent" She never knew why they were talking about money.
To yet another sister. She love Britney Spears' Oops I did it again. The line "I'm washing away", she sang "I'm watching the game.....I'm not that elosent"
My dad, not knowing much about music, bragged to a friend at work that he was going to a Matchbox 40 concert to hear "One Headlight". His friend replied "I've never heard of Matchbox 40, but I've heard of Matchbox 20".
Now to me. After going through this long list of misunderstood lyrics, I realized I have been singing a song wrong for many years myself. At the the age of 21 I realized that that song that goes "I got my mind set on you" is not total nonsense. I thought it was "I got my my san on you". I still think I'm right! I always wonder what a san was.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- in the song with the lyrics "take your passion" my sister used to always think it was "take your pants off"— Steped
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- When I was little my sister told me that if I put a C.D. in the wrong case, it would mess up the C.D.'s songs.— Torrie
- Actual lyrics: "I've never been your beast of burden"
My lyrics: "I've never been your big suburban"
— Big Suburban - My mum always thought the lyrics to macy grays song was i try to say goodbye to my chook.— alana
- i believed that michelle gayle's sweetness song contained the lyrics shade in sheep shit!— andrew