Sting's song "Message in a Bottle" somehow got garbled into "Message in a Bottomless Pit". I guess I never really actually listened to it--it sounded far more intriguing that way anyway.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- in sting's / the police's song ''roxanne''. I thaught that it was ''rock sand''— wacko zacho
- I used to believe Sting was my dad in a parallel universe — Jenn Green
- i used to think bugs could sting you through closed glass windows.Anon
- My sister told me that jellyfish came out of the shower and sting you to death.— Nick (Alex's brother)
- I could never work out how they used to change the bands over so quickly when i listened to the radio— graham
- I used to believe that my doll Kimberly was real and if I listened carefully, that I'd hear her speak!— Kristy