The song "Chasing Pavements" by Adele goes like this:
"Should I give up, or should I just keep chasing pavements?"
For the longest time, I thought it went like this:
"Should I give up, or should I just keep chasing penguins?"
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I used to believe that the sun was chasing me .— Christopher
- I used to believe my shadow was chasing me whenever I ran— Rose
- when i was little, my dad told me that the moon is chasing me..quite cool~— lily
- I would turn the lights off and then leg it up the stairs thinking a monster would be chasing me.Anon
- I thought Maria Carey's 1998 ballad was 'I'd give my arms' instead of 'I'd give my all'.— Briony Maggs
- I used to believe that the lyrics to Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" were "You give love a Band-Aid".Anon