When I was in highschool, I was singing along with the radio. They were playing that song by Phil Collins, I think it's called "Against All Ods." My best friend told me that when he said, "There's just an empty space," she thought he said, "The last child to match his face." She realized what the real lyrics were when I sang it.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- Phil Collins song "I missed again" - I thought it was "I pis*ed again" - didn't realise he was an alcoholic?!Anon
- i thought the line "saving my face" from the KT Tunstall song of the same name was "shaving my face"Anon
- I use to believe all the people singing on the radio were IN the radio.— Yvonne
- When Madonna sang "let the choir sing" in "Like a Prayer", I thought she was singing "love by proxy"— Kristen
- Until about age 9, I thought there was a country called "Operaland" where everyone sang instead of talking.Anon
- i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost