The line, "Every time you go away, you take a piece of me, with you." My friends and I used to think that it said, "you take a piece of meat with you." Thats romantic. Meat. We were 7, we didnt have a clue. It coulda been meat.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- When you are very poor you "can't make end's meat." End's meat is some sort of cheap very low quality meat.— Betty
- That at meetings adults sat on plastic chairs surrounding a large piece of meatAnon
- I used to hear "Everytime you go away, you take a piece of Meat with you"
Makes a nice light snack I spose.— Linda - When I was six my sister told me Meat Pies were made from mashed up rats...to this day I can't eat a Meat Pie.— Jamie
- my brother used to believe that Ground Chuck meat was actually groundhog meat. Anon
- I used to think that mushrooms were meat.Anon