When I was kid, listening to Bon Jovi's, "Wanted Dead or Alive," I took the lyric "on a steel horse I ride" literally. I literally thought Jon Bon Jovi had a futuristic robot horse made out of metal, like one of my He-Man figures did.
A childhood belief about songs

others believed things like this
- I was always told that beer was made from horse pee.— Just me
- I use to believe the sound that a car made when it was running low on gas was what they called horse power...— Bianca
- 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
- I used to believe that unicorns were real creatures. I thought they were just another type of horse.Anon
- a donkey is just a small horse.Anon
- I used to think that beer was horse pee. Probably because that's what my mom told me...— Kara