I used to think that the line in the Bee Gee's song "be tender with my love, you know how easy it is to hurt me" was actually, "be tender with my bones, you know how easy it is to break me"
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I spent ages wondering what a bart ender was as a child without realising that it was actually bar tender.— Heather
- I used to believe that you spelled "ESSAY" like "SA" and "EASY" like "EZ".— Lauren
- I thought eavesdropping was actually "easedropping" because it was so easy!— Nate
- I thought liposuction was squeezing the fat out of your bellybutton. Too bad it's not that easy...— Angela
- I used to believe that the B-52's song "Love Shack" was actually "Love Shark!"— Natalie
- I used to think the song "love the one you're with" was called "love the one, your win. — Glowworm