I used to think that musicians made songs fade out by moving away from the microphone. I had this mental image of the whole band walking backwards with their instruments as they approached the end of the song.
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When people talked about dentist's office music, I heard it as "Dennis Stoffers music." I thought that Dennis Stoffers was a musician who made very boring music that nobody liked.
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Until my sister was 11 she thought that the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows what I'd be without you" was really "Cuddly nose what I'd be without you"
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Not a childhood belief,but quite recent! Micheal Jackson's One More Chance. Real words 'One more chance at love' misheard as 'One more chance, Edna'.
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apparantly as a kid of around 5 years old, i used to sing "go and get stuffed" instead of "when the going get tough (the tough get going)"
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In the beginning of Climax Blues Bands song "I Love You' I thought it went: When I was, a younger man, I'd hide in a can. It's really " I hadn't a care." I think.
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In the beginning of "Wings" Band on the run, It sounded like: Stuck inside these four walls...."Circumcised" forever....
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My dad said that when he was little he thought "Home home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play" was "Home home on the range, where the deer and the cantalope play"
I thought the line in "America the Beautiful" that went "Four purple mountains, majesty among the fruited plain" was "Four purple mountains, najesties, above the fruited plate."
It made sense to me. A plate with fruits.
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"Yooce cream, ice bean, we all scream for ice cream!"
This song was always stupid to me.
I used to think that the Beatles broke up when John Lennon died.
I used to believe when I was about 5 or 6 that the song "Downtown" was all about Halifax where I live
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My mother believed for many years that in "Bohemian Rapsody" the line "spare him his life from this monstrosity" was "spare him his life for his one sausagey". She also thoust that "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me" was "Beelzebub has a devil for a side-board-ee".
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When he was little my brother thought the words to the song "Watch out here she comes/ she's a man eater" were really "Watch out here she comes she's an anteater." Always made me think I was safe because those anteaters only liked men.
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When we were little my brother used to think that the lyrics to the song "Gloria" were really "Oreo" so we always sang "Oreo/ I think I got you number/ Oreo..." I mean who named their kid Gloria 20 years ago when we were little?
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When I was little, the New Kids on the Block were really big. Anyways, everyday I went to the bottom of my drive way and looked down the street to the next block, because I thought they lived on my block and would just be walking down the street.
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Recently when they were advertising the movie "Scary Movie 3" my little brother (6) was watching when they showed a clip of a Michael Jackson look-alike screaming. He turned to me and asked "Why is that lady screaming?"
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my moms friend growing up thought the song that went "Good, good, good, good vibrations" went, "Good, good, good, goodbye braces"
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Just about a year ago(im 14) i realized the song by TLC called Waterfalls said "Dont go chasing waterfalls", while I always thought it said "Go go Jason Waterfalls"
Also I thought the song "Yellow Taxi" by Counting Crows said "They paved paradise, to put up a fucking lodge" while it really says "They paved paradise, to put up a parking lot"
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The second line of "just call me angel of the morning" was "just scratch my feet before you leave me, baby". I still don't know what it is, but I'm putting my money on the probability that that ain't it.