In the song "Smooth Operator" by Sade, as a kid I heard....
"No need to ahhsk he's a smooth carburetor.."
I guess the word carburetor was probably heard from my dad who often talked about cars, fixing engines, etc. So I must've plugged the word into the song. I was probably 8 or 9 so what the hell would a smooth operator be? I learned the correct lyrics when I was older.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I was completely convinced that Sade's "Smooth operator" was "Ooh of the red eye".— Brookstar78
- I used to think that in the song "Smooth Operator" they were saying "Schooooooool's not forever!"— Steph
- I believed you ran the vacuum to cut the carpet and used the lawn mower to smooth out the grass.— Michelle
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- When I first heard Bruce Springsteen's song, "Born in the USA," I thought that the song was "Porn in the USA"Anon
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin