I used to think the words of the Bee Gees' song "How deep is your love" were "If you come to me I'll suffer-ee" (which doesn't make sense, but I also used to think that to suffer meant to feel happy - the opposite of what it actually means!). I now know that it reads "And you come to me on a summer breeze".
I also thought the line "breaking us down" sounded like "breaking the spell". Because in the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs the Prince "breaks the spell" by kissing her, my Mum used to tell me to "break the spell" by giving my gran a kiss, so that was what I thought it meant.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I thought break dancing involved actually breaking stuff!— Sydle
- When I was, like, three, i thought my cat was an evil sorcerer and would cast a spell on me. XD— Bobbet
- When my sister told one of my brothers her e-mail address, he thought to spell out “at” instead of typing “@”.— EJ - no longer computer illiterate!
- i used to spell eight "ate" cuz of the stuped: why was six afraid of seven, cuz seven ate(8) ten joke...— 8
- My mom told me that if you didn't eat enough carrots, your eyesite would suffer.— Julie Bulie
- I had my wife convinced that Steven Hawking made his fortune as the original voice for the speak N spell toy.Anon