I always thought that the words to the song yellow taxi were "they paved paradise, and put up a fucking lot" I was really puzzled when I heard this on the radio and it wasn't censored, until I realized the actually words
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- When I first heard the words "flea market", I actually thought it meant "selling fleas".Anon
- I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.Anon
- I swear I heard a Disney Channel/Radio Disney song where the chorus was a repeated “Damn it”— SpengBab
- I thought "prison" and "prism" are the same words as each other.Anon
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon