There's a song by a band called No Doubt. The song is called Spiderwebs. In the song, I always thought she sang "i'm gonna scream my boobs off." In reality, she says "I'm gonna screen my phone calls." Took me til I was about 20 to realize what she was really saying.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- for my little sis -
Paul McCarty song "Band on the Run" but when she sang it it was "Man has the Runs"Anon - My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- I use to think that Bruce Springsteen's song "growing up" was called "throwing up"— glowworm
- I used to think the song Bette Davis Eyes was called 'she's got better days besides'.— JJ Simpson
- Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone— Jenny
- When I first heard Bruce Springsteen's song, "Born in the USA," I thought that the song was "Porn in the USA"Anon