Story about this misheard lyric by: Ingrid McCannless

'Whew!', I used to think when I first heard this. Was this some kind of cruel taunt, or some kind of dire warning? Since this song is from before the days of AIDS, I couldn't think of any reason for such a dire warning, as if to say something like "our love is doomed because you could die from it". So it could hardly be like that, but the opening of the song DOES make it sound like possibly some kind of song of doom and gloom, as the opening line is "Children, It was more fun to be children", a seeming reflection on the innocent days before one ever imagined that life-and-death dilemmas could be in one's future. Since I've learned the real words, I guess it is a relief generally, knowing that it's a generally happy song, but in that case, why the lamenting opening lines?