This is actually a mis-heard lyric of my husband's:
In RUSH's song "Free Will" - My husband believed that the lyric was "I will choose a Bathosphere" instead of a "Path that's clear"...
I will choose Free Will!
I guess that is why he did not choose oceanography as a lifelong career...
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- When I first heard Matt Monro's song "Born Free," I thought he was singing "Porn Free."Anon
- I believed that female teachers got to choose if they wanted to be called "mrs. or miss" — Jenna
- i used to believe that if you died you could choose what you could be reincarnated as.— claire
- I used to think everyone in the world knew and thought in English, but choose to speak different languages. Anon
- When i was a tiny lad, I used to think drug free zones were places where you can get drugs for free— Spencer
- When my brother was little he heard the song "Le Freak" by Chic (Ahhh, freak out!) like this: Ahhh, free cow!Anon