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.
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The first time I heard the song "Candida" as a young teen (a long time ago) I heard the chorus as "Candida, wake up naked together" I was shocked (truly). My sister later told me the words were "Candida, We could make it together"
For the LONGEST time, I thought the words to Jingle Bells were:
Dashing through the snow, in a one horse soap and sleigh... had NO IDEA what it meant, but sang it with gusto!
The song that went D-I-S-C-O, she is D-I-S-C-O then it would go she is D, delirious, she is I, incredible............ well when it came to the O bit i always used to sing OR-OR-ORANGE cos i felt sorry that they hadnt bothered thinking of something to sing for the O. i still sing it now and i'm 28. haha
I used to believe the song "Dude Looks Like A Lady" said "Do It Like A Lady"
I knew someone who thought the words to the Joni Mitchell song were "paid a pair of guys to put up a parking lot" , rather than "paved paradise..."
The Macy Gray song that was a big hit a couple of years ago - I used to think the chorus said:
"I try to say goodbye and I choke
Try to walk away and I stumble
Though I try and hide it, it's clear
I wear goggles when you are not near"
A friend pointed out that it says "My world crumbles when you are not near".
It's not. It's goggles!
I used to think "The Girl Is Mine", sung by Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney was about a child custody battle. I thought the Michael Jackson voice was a woman and it was two parents who were going through a divorce arguing over who got to keep their daughter.
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When I first heard the song 'Vogue' by Madonna, I thought they were singing 'Bo' and it was a song about a shy boy named Bo who was afraid to dance.
When I was 7, a teacher at school used to sing " My Bonny is over the ocean",
but untill I learned English at the age of 12, I sang:
" My BODY is over the ocean, my BODY is over the se, ..."
Well, I still love the song, no matter the lyrics...
I useed to think that the song "Teenager in Love" went "why must I be-e empty major in love"
Stupid- I know.
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I used to believe that in U2's 'With or Without You', he was singing "whistle without you" with a strong lisp!
Whithle without you~
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When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy.
Michael W. Smith has a song with the chorus line "So be strong and courageous". Our 6 year old was singing "Toby's gone, it's outrageous"; he was highly embarrassed when we laughed and pointed out the error.
When I was in high school listening to the radio, I believed the chorus of this song went "Give me the Beach Boys and free my soul/I want to get lost in your rock & roll..." etc. This summer I was told that the lyrics are actually "Give me the beat boys and free my soul... " etc. But what's the difference really? It's like the difference between purple and lavender... (then again, I'm no painter...)
In Paul Simon's Gracelands I was convinced the line 'She brushed her hair from her forehead' was 'She brushed her and farted'
I,m still not sure! Try it.
When I was growing up we never played rock and roll in the house, only classical music. The first time I ever heard rock and roll I couldn't make out the words clearly, and I thought the singer was singing nonsense words. I concluded that rock and roll was ALWAYS nonsense words, and I believed that for a long time..
I used to think that Kenny Rogers & Dolly parton were married. Also my dad a black hair and a beard and he looked jut like one of the guys from the band Alabama, for a long time I really thought it was him
I used to believe that in the song "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John that instead of "A peace of mind my daddy never had" that he was saying "A piece of mama daddy never had"
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As an elementary school child I believed that in "Winter Wonder Land" they perspired instead of conspired by the fire.