In the Who's song 'Who Are You,' I thought the line was 'I remember throwing budgies around' instead of 'I remember throwing punches around.' For many years I always imagined Roger Daltrey throwing small pet birds around the recording studio.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- When I was small my Grandfather told me that the reason I had freckles was from throwing pebbles in the sewer!— All Grown Up Now!
- I use to think that Bruce Springsteen's song "growing up" was called "throwing up"— glowworm
- I think lightning and thunder is caused by angels throwing temper tantrums Anon
- Does anybody remember that song "OUT OF REACH" well i remember i used to sing it as "BATTEERRRRYYY". — meeeeeeeee
- Remember the old Tubes song "White Punks on Dope". Thought they were singing "White Folks are Dumb"
— WailerMan - i thought the line "saving my face" from the KT Tunstall song of the same name was "shaving my face"Anon