I used to think the song "Hurting Each Other" by the Carpenters referred to a local TV show--especially when they sang "Can't we stop, dialing for dollars;"
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- From the Carpenters hit I always sang "calling octopus of interplanetary craft" instead of "occupants".— Paul
- I used to think that the actors on tv shows sang the show's theme song.Anon
- Until I was about 15, I beleived my Father was the person who sang the "Cheers" TV Show Theme Song.— Dustin
- for my little sis -
Paul McCarty song "Band on the Run" but when she sang it it was "Man has the Runs"Anon - i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- Billy Squire sang about "My Kind of Lover". My wife sang about "My Candelabra"— Wailerman