I used to believe that the lyrics to Sugar, We're Going Down, was.... Were goin' downtown in a merry-go-round! I was singing it at the top of my lungs at a school dance! I got home and looked up the lyrics online and I was soooooo embarrassed!!
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- for the longest time every i used to think that Prince's "Raspberry Barret" said "round merry go round"— lin
- Actual lyrics: "I've never been your beast of burden"
My lyrics: "I've never been your big suburban"
— Big Suburban - I thought that a "sugar daddy" was a father who let his kids eat all the sugar they wanted.Anon
- i used to believe i looked exactly like michael jackson when he dance - when i was jumping.— sandy.
- I always thought the lyrics in I'm Blue were "I could beat up a guy"— Trisha Gaurav
- I thought the lyrics to "Single Ladies" were "If you liked it, then you should've put your name on it."Anon