“ROCKET MAAAN! BURNING DOWN THE STREET UH HEAVEN NON!” - Elton John

@renwillis @alternativenation Mine has to be “Sugar Fried Honey Buns, you know that I want you!” to the song Sugar Pie Honey Bunch. I was 27 when I finally found out the real lyrics.

There’ll be a hot tub in the town of Berlin When the Yanks go marching in…

There’ll be a hot tub in the town of Berlin When the Brooklyn boys begin…

• Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters from the radio in Mafia 2

I later found out the song is called, “There’ll be a hot time in the town of Berlin” and it has nothing to do with hot tubs.

@renwillis @alternativenation
Dido - White Flag

After 10+ years I still cannot hear anything other than “I will go down with this sh*t” instead of “ship”. I honestly think it adds the tiniest bit of metal to the song so I haven’t tried too hard to un-hear it.

I always thought that the chorus to “Feed the World” was just

Peeeeeople, whoooooooaaa oooooohhhh

rather than, you know, the TITLE OF THE SONG. Well into my adult years.

And this one isn’t bad, especially given that it’s Michael Stipe, but…

It was only this year that I discovered the lyric in “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” is

You said that irony was the shackles of youth

and not

You said all I needed was the shackles of you