When Alanis Morrisette was first popular, my sister and I both liked the song, "You Oughta Know." I had to laugh uproariously one day when I realized that my sister was singing, "The cross-eyed bear that you gave to me" instead of "The cross I bear, that you gave to me."
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- When I was younger, I believed that squinting in a storm would make you cross-eyed... forever.Anon
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- when I saw a sign with a deer on it I always thought deer had to cross the street by it. like a cross walk— only me
- I used to believe that if you stepped on the cracks of the pavement, a bear would jump up and eat you.— Nina
- I used to talk with my teddy bear and I really thought he answered me.— Joy