The first time I heard the word "pedestal" was in Anne Murray's song, "You Needed Me", in which she sings "You put me high upon a pedestal". For a long time I thought a pedestal was some kind of drug, and the line meant that somebody slipped her one and got her "high" on it.
A childhood belief about songs
others believed things like this
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- for some time I used to think that at a drug store people really sold drugs.— NEO_ryu
- i used to think the word "friendship" meant a special kind of rocketship that you went on with your friends.— chips ahoy!
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- i once thought that if you jumped high enough in the air, you'd get stuck!Anon
- I used to think that the Huey Lewis and the News song "I Want a New Drug" went "I Want a New Truck".— Chloe