In Van Halen's song "Jump", the line is "I ain't the worst that you've seen." I thought it was, "I eat the words that you sing."
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I thought that singer/songwriter was spelled this way: sing-a-song-writer...Anon
- i thought the line "saving my face" from the KT Tunstall song of the same name was "shaving my face"Anon
- in the song "show me heaven" i used to sing "make me breakfast" instead of "leave me breathless"Anon
- I used to think that the song"Stayin Alive" said "Staying In Line" like at school when I was little. — MacKenzie
- I thought the line in the song "more than a woman" was "four-legged woman".— boo
- I used to think that the line in the song "Life in the Fast Lane" was "Fights in the Bat Plane".Anon