misheard lyrics

you know the song 'boulevard of broken dreams' one part of it "i walk alone iwalk alone"i used to think it was "i wear colone i wear colone"

alexa_ren

You know how in Nightwish's song "Elvenpath" at the beginning it says "Accompanied only by the full moon and the howling of the night wolf, and the path beneath my feet. The elvenpath" ? Well, because of the accent the woman had I though she said "Accompanied only by the full moon and the howling of the night wolf, and the barf beneath my feet. The elephant barf" and I cracked up laughing thinking of a woman walking through a forest at night then suddenly walking into a puddle of elephant puke!

Chizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

when i was a little kid in primary school we would have to sing the Australian national anthem at assembly every Monday morning.
I guess they didn't do such a great job with teaching us the words, because until the age of 10 i was absolutely convinced that the line "Australians, all let us rejoice" was actually "Australians all love ostriches". As a child I didn't even think it odd enough to question why we were all professing our love for a native African bird every week.

matt

When I was a child, we used to sing "Row, Row, Row your boat" all the time. I used to think the last line was "Life is butter beans" instead of "Life is but a dream".

theresa

I used to think that the songs "Have you Ever Seen the Rain" and "Who'll Stop the Rain" by Creedence Clearwater actually stated "have you ever seen Lorraine?" and "Who'll stop Lorraine?" I could never figure out why they'd write (not one, but TWO!) songs after some lady named Lorraine. Seemed kind of boring to me.

Mel

There's a song by a band called No Doubt. The song is called Spiderwebs. In the song, I always thought she sang "i'm gonna scream my boobs off." In reality, she says "I'm gonna screen my phone calls." Took me til I was about 20 to realize what she was really saying.

Jen

My sister and I used to watch the Bugs Bunny cartoons on Saturday mornings. There's the one where Bugs is singing Jimmy Cracked Corn. We thought he was singing Jimmy Crapped Corn,which made total sense to us. We found out later in school what the real words were, it still made more sense to us that Jimmy would be crapping corn instead of cracking it and we grew up on a farm. It's a lot more comical to. I still sing the song that way.

Jamie

I used to do some babysitting when I was in my teens and I always listened to music with the kids when I was at their house. I became a big fan of the Beatles and brought some of their music to the house of a five year old girl one night. The next time I came to her home she asked me if she could hear the chicken to ride song. It took me a minute but I figured out that she thought the song Ticket to Ride was saying she's got a chicken to ride. And I guess she don't care.

Beatles4ever.

When I was in the first grade, a little boy I knew told me one day what his parts were called. The next day I heard the song "Venus in Blue Jeans" on the radio. I thought they were referring to the same word. I was shocked that such a dirty song would be allowed on the radio and would get terribly embarrassed whenever I was in the car with my family and it started playing.

K.

Back when that song "How Bizarre" used to be popular, I used to think it was "Parmesan." I found out this wasn't the case when my mom and I were in the mall and it started to play, and I said, "not 'Parmesan' again!" Once my mom stopped laughing she corrected me. In my defense, I was 8 or 9 at the time :p

Anon

you know the song "Lithium" by Nirvana? when i first heard it in the part where he says "I miss you, I'm not gonna crack" i thought he said "I miss you I'm not gonna CRAP"! and if that wasn't enough, i spent the next year or so terrified that if i missed someone enough i wouldn't be able to poop! bear in mind that i would've been 4 or 5 at the time

Katie

My parents really liked Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. So imagine my mom's amusement when, in the car at age 2, I asked her to put on "Running Down The Drain". It was really "Running Down a Dream", but... I liked mine better, and I still do. =P

Kat

I used to believe that the lyrics "my son John" really were "mice on John" in the nursery rhyme, "Diddle, diddle dumpling, my son John, went to bed with his stockings on..." I found this to be a disturbing way to sleep. And I still have trouble remembering the real words. "Mice on John" just flows off the tongue... :)

Amy

When I was little I thought that Madonna was singing "Cereal Girl" instead of "Material Girl". I though it was a song about cherriohs.

CerealGirl

I always thought that the lyrics to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" were "Trouble in the sewers" instead of "Trouble in the Suez."

BeatlesGirl14

I thought on the song The Safety Dance by Men Without Hats when they say "we can act real rude and totally removed and I can act like an imbecelle" was actually "we can act real rude and totally removed like an African imbecelle" and was shocked they would put that in a song because it seemed really racist!

Nate

I used to think that the song "my Bonnie lies over the ocean" was actually "my body lies over the ocean", about a dead person's ghost singing about his/her floating body :/

Anon

The song called heart of glass mixed me up as a kid. I heard "Heart and ass".

oops

I used to believe that in "Combine Harvester," by the Wurzels, they sang "Come on now let's get together and burp in harmony." Would you believe.

MICHAEL BUTCHER

A friend of mine told me he once used to think 'Cotton-Eyed Joe' went "Where did you come from, where did you go, where did you come from, GOT NINE TOES". Somehow the reality of it, "Cotton-Eyed Joe" doesn't really make any more sense.

Natalya