Lyrics to Prince's "When Dove's Cry"
Original: "Maybe I'm just like my mother, she's never satisfied..."
What I heard (and sang alound): "Maybe I'm just like my mother, she never sat inside..."
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
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- I had never seen a dove in real life before so I figured they were just mythical beings from the bibleAnon
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- I used to think that the song "Just like white winged dove" by Stevie Nicks was "Just like the white window" — Julia
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