In the '80s song by Til Tuesday called "Voices Carry," for years I thought the line was, "O-oh shush, even downtown, voices carry..."
I thought the singer was talking about being scolded for not being discrete when she was carrying on downtown.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I thought the Til Tuesday song said "Books are scary!", rather than "Voices Carry"Anon
- I thought it was against the law to carry around a lot of money unless you were putting it in the bank.Anon
- i used to believe that the voices in my head are actual human beings.Anon
- I used to think that aeroplane carry people to a destination which located on top of the clouds — kaizen7
- When I asked my dad how bees collect honey he told me that they carry around little tiny buckets. — Shana
- I thought that singer/songwriter was spelled this way: sing-a-song-writer...Anon