When I was a kid and I heard the song, "What becomes of the broken hearted?" I used to think that the second line was "paid a dime but only farted." I still think of that line when the song comes on.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to think that the song"Stayin Alive" said "Staying In Line" like at school when I was little. — MacKenzie
- I used to think that the line in the song "Life in the Fast Lane" was "Fights in the Bat Plane".Anon
- i thought the line "saving my face" from the KT Tunstall song of the same name was "shaving my face"Anon
- I thought the line in the song "more than a woman" was "four-legged woman".— boo
- When I first heard Bruce Springsteen's song, "Born in the USA," I thought that the song was "Porn in the USA"Anon
- I used to believe that a "punch line" meant a line of people waiting to dip punch from a punch bowl.— Sheila