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This was actually more recently than childhood, but until I looked up the lyrics to "Absolutely (Story Of A Girl)" by Nine Days, I was wondering why on Earth they were singing "When you look in the mirror, say hi to your shoes"... (They were really saying "So how do you choose?")
Athazagoraphobia
The first time I heard Enigma's "Age of Loneliness," I thought I heard "Take it, take it in your a**." I knew that couldn't be right, but still, that's how it sounded. I told my now-husband on our second date, and after laughing his head off, he informed me it was "Take it, take it in your hands." I suppose that makes a little more sense.
LTM
My brother thought the lyrics to Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face" were "How's About a Date?" I nearly wet myself when I heard him singing along. I've never let him forget it.
LTM
The song with the lyrics - "secret sign of love" was "secret xylophone" which never made any sense. This song was out in the early ninties and I only found out the real lyrics when my girlfriend told me the other day. I'm 22.
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I used to think that Elton John's "Benny & The Jets" was "banging on your chest" and every time the song came on I'd bang my chest like Tarzan.
Lauren D
I used to believe that the song "I Shot The Sheriff" went "I shot Sherry, but I didn't shoot the rest of 'em." Then I learned that it was "I Shot The Sheriff," and then decided that it went "I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot the President." I only learned the true lyrics a few months ago!!!
Mandy Grrrl
Ooh, ooh Just remembered another one...
Instead of "I can see clearly now the rain has gone" I used to wander around singing "I can see deardrie now lorraine has gone"
R
Was convinced for years (and am still unconvinced otherwise) that Chris De Burgh sings about getting high on emulsion
R
I still have no idea what the lyrics are... or even what the songs called but I still swear she's sings "You remember me? I'm the one who ate your baby's eye"
R
Not Me....
But had a friend of mine convinced that U2's Running to stand still was actually called "The Halalaladeday Song" - Ah we were only 17
R
My auntie Karen used to think that the lyrics to Adam & the Ants 'Prince Charming' was in fact 'Drink Champagne'
Also in the song 'Happy birthday' by Altered Images the lyrics 'if I were you - if I were you' were in fact 'Irish stew - Irish stew'.
Absolutely hilarious !!!!!!!!!
cole
Bonnie Tylers "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
Bonnies version - I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark, We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
My version - I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark, We're living in a shed and eating Kelloggs Start
1998 - I think it was around the time "start" was first out, and I became a tad confused...
Boo
I used to believe that the song "Janie's Got A Gun" by Aerosmith went like this "Janie's got a gun, hot spring pepper tongue" ("Janie's got a gun, her world's come undown")
ShannonE
my friends mum loved madonnas "like a birdie" and when she found out it was actually "like a virgin" she never sang it again, shame!!
anna
When I was a little girl, I loved watching the movie Grease. My favorite song was one Rizzo would sing..."Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee....Lousy with virginity" Well I always thought it was "Look at me I'm Sandra Dee...I'm from West Virginia, see" My family still likes to tease me about that!
Lori
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i knew someone who believed for ages that the words to Madonna's 'like a Virgin' were actually 'like a fir-tree' ;-)
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When I was younger (in the early 90's) I listened a lot to Guns n' Roses. In their song Paradise City I was sure that the chorus went "Take me down to the Paradise City, where the beer is free and the girls are pretty."
To my grave disappointment it was the, in my opinon, lamer "where the grass is green and the girls are pretty". My version just seems to be more Rock n' Roll.
dzy
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When I was in Jr. High (in the late 80's) there was this song by Debbie Deb called "Lookout Weekend". I was bustin' a move and dancing in the living room one day then my Mom pulled the plug on the radio 'cause she was so annoyed. Just as she did that I belted out "Look out we can cuss-here I come!! Because we can twirl-made for fun!"
Well, she just about died laughing and said the real lyrics were "Lookout weekend cause, here I come
Because weekends were, made for fun!" She always had a way of bursting my bubble.
crabbychris
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For years my sister (who is now 22) thought the words to the Jimmy Barnes song "Cheap wine and a 3 day growth" were actually "She's fine with her 3 legged goat". She only realised a few months ago.
Jay
When Madonna sang "let the choir sing" in "Like a Prayer", I thought she was singing "love by proxy"
Kristen
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