When I was young, naive, and didn't know every rock band smoked something I thought "Don't fear the reaper" was "Don't feel the reefer."
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I thought the lyrics to "Don't fear the reaper" were "Don't fear the reefer"— who new?
- When I was young I thought people smoked to stay warm.— Phil Stam
- When I was young I used to believe that Euthanasia was a youth movement in Asia- how naive is that!!!— Ruth
- i used to think that i was a werewolf and that at night i played poker with the grim reaper— mike
- My friends and I used to believe that if you planted a rock, it would grow a rock tree. Anon
- When I was 10 I thought that if you smoked once God would shoot you with a lightning bolt!— tHOMAS