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Misheard Lyrics

Just in case you havnt seen this here....this is what happens when you dont realise youve misheard the lyrics.
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I always heard that line as "I'm not talkin' 'bout the linen." Which kind of makes sense. Maybe the guy's girlfriend left her sheets and towels at his place.

Same here, except it was "my linen", as in "I'm not talkin' about going to bed with you".

From the second verse of Bob Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue":

We drove that car as far as we could
Abandoned it out west
Split up on a dark sad night
Both agreeing it was best


I always heard that line as "Split up on the docks at night."

Same here!

One I just found out I have had wrong for 40-something years is in Carly Simon's monster hit "You're So Vain." I thought it was:

"You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself go by."

Same here! But I finally figured out that didn't rhyme correctly.
 
Sarah McLachlan "Possession"

some people hear the lyrics as "horses trapped in urine"

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Here's another one from 'Sweet Home Alabama'.

'In Birmingham they love the gun now.
Now we've all seen what it can do.
A woman's gaze does not bother me.
Does your conscious bother you?
Tell the truth'.

I figured the narrator was involved in a murder/cover-up and he was paranoid the he'd been seen by someone and/or he might let slip what he'd done.
 
Instead of: Forever in blue Jeans

I thought he said: For reverend blue jeans.

A priest in blue jeans...

Yeah, I thought the same thing for years:
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On another related note, the song "Groovin' (on a Sunday Afternoon)" by the Young Rascals was a stumper for me for awhile:
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"The Green Green Grass of Home" by Johnny Cash, Tom Jones, Porter Wagoner, many others:

"There's a guard, and there's a sad old padre..."​

As a kid I heard:
"There's a guard, and there's a saddle padre..."

I thought it was like a preacher in a Western or something.
 
Help is On It’s Way

Hang on, everything’s okay
I’ll be there as fast as I can
Hang on, tiny voices say
Somewhere deep inside the inner man

I just learned that the last line isn’t

Somewhere deep inside me is a man
 
Help is On It’s Way

Hang on, everything’s okay
I’ll be there as fast as I can
Hang on, tiny voices say
Somewhere deep inside the inner man

I just learned that the last line isn’t

Somewhere deep inside me is a man

"Inside the inner man" seems redundant, not that redundancy is not present in many songs... in fact, some songs are a redundancy of the silence.
 
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