I thought "Mr. Roboto" was about a cyborg that was killing people to stay alive.
I also thought that "Benny and the Jets" was "Granny's fanny at the dance."
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the streams left behind jets were people going to heaven.— kindofadork
- When I was younger I thought that the jets that leave lines in the sky were rockets — Harry
- I used to think raisons were bits of old people and after my granny died I never at them again— rraisonhaterrt
- When I was young, I thought that the smoke that jets leave behind them was how clouds were formed. — Rebecca
- When I was young I thought people smoked to stay warm.— Phil Stam
- I used to beleive that cerial killers were cerial makers who went around killing people!— Jenny