When I was little there was this song and the lyric was "solve the mystery" and I thought it was "gotta get some listerine" so I would run and get the listerine and put it on the radio.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when a song came on the car radio, the band was sitting on top of our van.Anon
- I used to think that when a song finished on the radio it would play again on the next station— Maria
- I swear I heard a Disney Channel/Radio Disney song where the chorus was a repeated “Damn it”— SpengBab
- I use to believe all the people singing on the radio were IN the radio.— Yvonne
- I always wondered why shepherds washed their socks by night. (correct lyric: watched their flocks)— MaggieNJ
- A common misheard lyric in BMTH’s ‘Shadow Moses’ is “THIS IS SANDPIT TURTLE!”— Oli