A 20-something friend of mine would hear this line from Jon Sebastian's "Welcome Back" (theme to Welcome Back, Kotter):
"Your dreams were your ticket out"
But she thought he was singing:
"Your jeans are torn. Check it out!"
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to think that neil diamond was singing about the reverend blue jeansAnon
- Until i was about 6, i used to believe that when the police gave you a ticket, it was a ticket to the movies!— mari
- I used to believe that if I cut my dolls hair it would grow back just like mine did after a haircut. — diamond girl
- The song "Reverend Blue Jeans" turned out to be "Forever in Blue Jeans." Who would have believed that?— music lover
- I thought the song Shattered Dreams was acutaly "Shadow Dreams" and wondered what shadow dreams were— Golgademon
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne