Misheard Lyrics??? #eegads

There is a book out there called "A Maiden's Grave". That's what one character heard in the hymn "Amazing Grace".

I fondly remember Carly Simon singing You're So Vain and the line where she said: "I had some dreams there were clowns in my coffin clowns in my coffin" ir made no sense to me and it didn't make much more when I learned she actually said "clouds in my coffee"

The Mommas and the Papas, "Dedicated to the one I love"

... This is dedicated to the one-eyed love ...

On Elton John's Goodye Yellow Brick Road, I thought the first two lines were,
When are you going to come down
When are you going to laugh?

I thought is was song about trying to cheer somebody up using fantasy imagery. Then I read the lyrics and they are bitter as hell.

Of course there are the classics...

Jimi Hendrex: "S'cuse me, while I kiss this guy" (S'cuse me, while I kiss the sky)

and

Eltons's "Hold me closer, Tony Danza" (Hold me closer, tiny dancer).

The Stranglers' Five Minutes.

Five minutes and you're almost there
Five minutes and you're almost dead
Five minutes and you're almost there
Five minutes and you're almost dead


A friend of mine thought it was "Five minutes with your Uncle Fred."

I'll stay far far away from Uncle Fred. Just to be safe.

You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a ragged baby
Right round round round
You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a ragged baby
Right round round round


The song is far less surrealist (or less horrendously child abusive) than I've always believed it to be.

I just had call to listen to some old Jane's Addiction tracks

I'd always liked 'Standing In The Shower ... Thinking' and I'd always thought it had the repeated line:
"And the world ain't so f*cking hot"

I just looked up the lyrics for the first time.

It's actually:
"And the water is piping hot.. "

Projecting much?