I used to (and sometimes still do) hear the line from the Green Day song "Time of your Life" as:
"Tounge grabs you by the waist..." (Time grabs you by the wrist...")
and
"..Hang it on the shelf in good old-fingered time" (Still haven't figured out what he's saying here).
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- For the longest time I used to believe that the male ballet dancers were naked from the waist down.Anon
- I used to think the song "Hang on sloopy" was "hang on snoopy"— gina
- I used to think that the line in the song "Life in the Fast Lane" was "Fights in the Bat Plane".Anon
- The first time I hear about a serial killer, I laughed. You can't kill cereal. It's not alive.Anon
- Having seen enough red octagonal STOP signs in my time, I used to look out for green circular GO signs.— Gary
- I used to believe that every country in the world had the same time. Guess I didn't consider time zones eh?— what are time zones again