When my parents sang along with music and they made a mistake. My parents would say, "oops, the singer mess up the lyrics again." I believed them.
A childhood belief about songs

others believed things like this
- Until I was about 12 years old I believed that homeless people were made up by my parents to scare me.— Angela B.
- My music teacher once said that music in an electrical piano was made by little tiny men that lived inside it.Anon
- My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon
- Ironically my parents were born on the same day; so growing up, I thought all parents had the same birthdays. Anon
- I used to think that if you met your parents' boss, your parents would be fired!! AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!— Spoot
- When I was very young, I believed that my parents actual names were "mum" and "dad". — Margo