My friend's mum likes Bruce Springsteen a fair bit, and she recently got his latest album. Over dinner one night when I was there, she professed her confusion as to why he was talking about a "muffin man", before we all pointed out to her that it was actually "nuthin man"
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I used to think Bruce Springsteins song, "I'm the Nothin man", was "I'm the muffin man"....who knew?
— Toothfairy - I use to think that Bruce Springsteen's song "growing up" was called "throwing up"— glowworm
- When I first heard Bruce Springsteen's song, "Born in the USA," I thought that the song was "Porn in the USA"Anon
- My mom was always talking about "making
ends meat" but I don't ever remember having it served at dinner!— John Stees - I used to believe that the mole in my belly button was a poppy seed from a muffin I ate.Anon
- Until recently, my friend believed that Richard Starkey was the fifth Beatle.— Spook