I knew someone who thought the words to the Joni Mitchell song were "paid a pair of guys to put up a parking lot" , rather than "paved paradise..."
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that speed bumps were dead bodies that had been paved over.— Natalie
- I thought the song "Party Time" by Moby was actually saying "heart attack" (this was before I knew the title)— Elviessa
- When I was young I thought that a parking spot was a spot like a polka dot and not a space for a car.— Mina Tova
- when i was little, i used to think that cars had faces and talked to eachother in the parking lot.— Whitney
- I used to think if you got a parking ticket, you spent the rest of your life in jail!— Dixie Chicks Fan
- I used to believe that you had to "buy" your job. The more money you paid, the better the job. — Duke