in the song JUMP by Van Halen I thought David Lee Roth was singing: "I got my back against the wrecking machine" when he really says "... against the record machine"
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- That song that goes:
I'll never let you go...
I thought he was singing:
Another machine gun...
Haha.— Kelle - i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- i thought an ATM machine was something which gave free money!!— Armani
- I thought that since my grandpa and my dad's names are both David, than David Bowie must be my aunt's son.Anon
- I used to believe that if I put my arm in the washing machine while it was going that it would rip off.— Hannah