I was really young when the song "The Freaks Come Out At Night" became popular. I thought it was "The Frisco Alley Cat." My family still makes fun of me twenty years later.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I used to think that in the song"Family Affair, they were saying "It's a family of bears!"— Wayne Huffman
- i believed that thunder and lightning came out of the alley across the street from my house.Anon
- i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- I always thought that freak accidents where accidents that only involved freaks.— Prologic-H-73395
- The song 'there's a bad moon out to night.' i thought they were saying 'there's a bathroom on the right.'— kim in alabama
I used to believe that some insects had twenty lives.LOLAnon