At about four years old, (in the '50s), I heard a song on the radio, wherein a woman was singing, "Since I lost my baby, I almost lost my mind..." This seemed to me completely tragic. I had a little brother, and could imagine how upset Mom would be if she lost him.
A childhood belief about songs

others believed things like this
- 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
- I used to believe that when you lost your teeth, all of them fell out at the same time.Anon
- I used to believe that which ever way you looked it was north, never understood how people got lost :-S— Simon