music: misheard lyrics

My mother was talking about this annoying song that was always played at the fitness centre. I asked her how it went and she said... "I don't know...I just remember this one part 'leeeett your haiiirr down...'"
I recognized the tune about a minute later- Where's your Head at by Basement Jaxx! A little different from what she thought!

I used to believe…

theres a verse in the song crash into me by dave matthews band that kinda had me baffled, cuz i thought he was saying im king of the castle and i'm in love with an asshole. but he was really saying and you're a little rascal. sadly i only just found this out the other day when i was singing while having headphones on. not only was i singing it wrong, but it was waaaay off key :)

In the song "Oh What A Beautiful Morning" from Oklahoma, I used to wonder what was so wonderful about corn that was as high as an elephants eye. I didn't think that an elephants could have an eye that was more than two inches high.

When I was little, I thought the song that goes "Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married" went "Goin' to the Jack-o-lantern, gonna get married"... Who knows, maybe some people want to get married on Halloween?

Cant remember who sang it, but there was a song called 'Poetry in Motion' and I always used to sing 'Oh a tree in motion'

A friend of my brother used to sing 'Old Piano' instead of 'Oh Vienna' (Ultravox - Viena)

When I was about 7 there was this song where they sang about "the stuff that dreams are made of" but I thought they were saying "the star track dream tomato" and I imagined that the song was about a space ship shaped like a giant tomato.

I always thought the opening lyrics to "Burnout" by Green Day were, "I declare a nuclear war" instead of "I declare I don't care no more." I could never figure out how this had relevance to the rest of the song...

For years, I thought that in Don McLean's "American Pie" he said:

When the jester sang for the King and Queen
In a Coke bottle from James Dean

(The actual words are:

When the jester sang for the King and Queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean )

I used to believe…

That Kenny Loggins song.. "I'm Alright..." I thought he was singing "Ham on Rye...nobody worry 'bout me...you've got to give me a slice...why can't you just let it be?"

My friend, lisa, used to think the Eurythmics song "walking on broken glass" was "walking on broken backs. Yes, she's blonde;-)

I knew that when my friends said that toxic by britney spears said

your toxic, im slipping under.

Right that second i know they were wrong. It was obviously

Your toxic tongue's slipping under.

I used to think Estelles song Free started with the lyrics everybody puts your tits in the air. I only believed it was ''fists'' when my friend printed the lyrics off the net for me. Still think tits is better though

Dido - White Flag

Real Words - I will go down with this ship, and i will put my hands up ...

What i thought - I will go down with fishing, and i will put my hands up ...

When my brother was little he used to sing these lyrics to mariah careys fantasy:

Baby im so ichy poo
Darling, if you only knew

Real lyrics:
baby I'm so into you
Darling, if you only knew

Not from my childhood, but worht a mention. Last year when I had heard Nightwish' song "Wish I had an angel", I remember I misunderstood the line "Beauty always comes with bad thoughts" and thought it was "beauty always comes with buttocks" =) Really!

When I was young, I truly believed that in the song 'I can see clearly now' by Jimmy Cliff was in fact 'I can see Kealy now Lorraine has gone'. From such a young age I learnt that men were not nice to women. I was both dissapointed and relieved when I learnt the truth.