When I first heard the early 80's song entitled "Every Time You Go Away You Take a Piece of Me with You" I took it literally. I was 3 and I really thought it was a guy singing about a person who took different body parts of his away with them every time they left. It confused me for a long time.
A childhood belief about songs

others believed things like this
- I used to think for a very long time, that spam was left over animal parts with salt.— Ebony
- As a kid every time I heard a person say "it's about time" I always replied "so what about it?"— Eli the Kid
- I used to believe that if you left crumbs out for a long period of time, they would turn into ants.— Bylaberrie
- I used to believe that a funeral organist was the person who collected the body parts of the deadAnon
- I used to believe that coin change could turn into actual paper money if you left it alone for a long time. — Marcus O
- that if you had fun, time would literally pass by faster— paul