There's a song that goes "for the life of me, I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins, we were only freshmen." I was so confused by this when I was little because I thought they were saying "I cannot believe we'd ever die, forty cents, we were only freshmen."
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the closer it was to Sunday, the worse your sins were.— heathen
- i used to think that if i tore a dollar bill in half it would make fifty cents— stacy
- I used to think that the line in the song "Life in the Fast Lane" was "Fights in the Bat Plane".Anon
- I used to think that the Eagle's song "Life in the Fast Lane" was actually "Pike in the Bass Lane."— Quilla
- 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 quarter after the hour was 25 minutes after the hour because 25 cents = a quarter.— Marni