When I was younger, when hearing songs with part of the lyrics going "..take me higher..." (there are a lots of songs with those words), I thought they were singing "..take me hire...". I was puzzled about this for many years; here we have this romantic pop song and then she (or he) sings about being for hire... I asked a friend of mine about this strange phenomenon and she explained it to me. I was then in my early 20's.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- My parents used to have an old radio. I thought it could only play old songs, like from when they were young.— kathy
- When I was a kid, I thought the musical Mamma Mia did songs from the A*Teens (the teenage version of Abba)Anon
- I used to believe that all songs were exactly a half-hour long.— Brian
- that song that goes *bring me a higher love*
i thought it said *breathing in iron lung*— oi - When I was little my sister told me that if I put a C.D. in the wrong case, it would mess up the C.D.'s songs.— Torrie