There's a song by "The Jam" which contains the lyric "I lost an era daydreaming like I do". I thought they were singing "I lost an ear a day, dreaming like I do".
It sounds exactly the same either way.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I always thought that a water tower was the robot from the TV show "Lost in Space".— sherryj
- When I was a young boy I thought when we cried or when we laughed we won or we lost one minute of our life. — loulou83
- I use to believe that when I lost hair that I had cancerAnon
- I used to believe that when you lost things, it sometimes was because they had really vanished. — fluffy
- I used to believe that once you reached a certain age you lost your imagination— Kiwi
- I used to think that slugs were just snails who had lost their homes!Anon