You know the Beach Boys' song "Surfin' in the U.S.A."? Well, I knew lived in America, but I used to wish that I lived in the USA "instead" so that I could go surfing.
A childhood belief about songs

others believed things like this
- I used to think we lived in America.— Amy, Britain
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- i used to believe that a ghost lived under my bed and that a giant lived under our dining room table.— nameless
- when i was 4 my mom told me we lived in Indiana and i would tell people we lived in DianaAnon
- When i was small i used to think god lived on top of my house and the devil lived right underneath it.— Missuss D
- I never knew why boys had to lift up the toilet seat...until my friend told me that boys had bad aim.Anon