I have a friend who thought that Robert Plant was singing “And my spirit is crying for Cleveland,” which she thought was a pretty odd place to be yearning for…
Adam West lied to me!!!
Oops. :eek:
I have no idea, Class 5 is just a much better lyric. I reckon Mick was off his tits when he wrote it and his creative judgement was impaired.
When I was a kid, I thought:
I believe in Milkos
It’s a kind of law
You sense the pain!
(You Sexy Thing, Hot Chocolate)
Colonel’s a doggie, too
Soon disappear
(Go-Go Gophers cartoon theme)
Help me get my beans back on the ground!
(Help, The Beatles)
.
…whoa indeed. that makes four of us.
It’s not???
Ah the 80’s, when The Buggles wrote an homage to a long-forgotten Irish queen of the early 20th century airwaves: Vicky O’Killdare, radio star. :rolleyes:
I made it to about a year ago loving (and singing) “Just like a one-winged dove…”
woo.
woo.
woo.
Then I finally bought the song on iTunes, and thought to wiki Stevie Nicks, then “Edge of Seventeen”.
whoops.
:rolleyes:
I’ve always imagined him being born in the middle of a gunfight so intense, the bullets were like a hurricane around him.
But the next line is “and I howled at my ma in the driving rain” so it seems he is sticking with the literal meaning of hurricane.
hang on… :smack: …are we quibbling about consistency and accuracy in song lyrics? We really need to get out more.
For about thirty years, I thought a line from Dylan’s “Tangled Up In Blue” was:
We drove that car as far as we could,
abandoned it out west,
split up on the docks that night
both agreeing it was best.
Which made perfect sense to me - they drove that car as far west as they could, to the Pacific Ocean. That would be where the road would run out of pavement, after all. So of course they split up on the docks that night, they’re at the freakin’ ocean.
But when I got around to googling the lyrics, it turned out they split up “on a dark, sad night.” :smack:
At least I can understand why I got it wrong - they don’t all that different from each other, and my version made sense in the context of the song.
And hey, getting only three words wrong in that entire opus wasn’t too bad, in the decades before it became possible to Google any song lyric you wanted.
I always thought that was a Jackson 5 song, until finding out about a month ago that it wasn’t.
Coincidentally, yesterday I learned the correct form of an old lyric I’d always been fuzzy on (but not interested enough to seek out the truth): the chorus of the song “I’d Really Love To See You Tonight” by England Dan & John Ford Coley is apparently this:
I’m not talking 'bout moving in
And I don’t want to change your life
But there’s a warm wind blowing, the stars are out
And I’d really love to see you tonight.
I’d always heard the first line as
I’m not talking 'bout my linen
which makes no sense at all, or possibly
*
I’m not talking 'bout millennia*
which is slightly less nonsensical (albeit hyperbolic) being that he seemed to be angling for a one-night stand.
Also thought (until just this moment when I looked up the lyrics to compose this post) that the penultimate line was
But there’s a warm wind blowing the stars around
Which again doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny, but then it was the 1970s, when a lot of things seemed to move around that normally wouldn’t…
What I came in here to post.
To the OP–wow, I never knew that singer even existed before your OP. Never heard that song before either. Enlightening!
Somehow, that makes me feel better… 
Me too. And if somebody doesn’t come across with the REAL correct lyric pretty soon, I’m going to go on thinking that.
Well, how old are you? If you’re under 30, that’s quite understandable. If you’re a bit older and don’t listen to pop, that’s also understandable. The Sylvers were pretty popular in the '70s. I believe their biggest hit was Boogie Fever last heard in the movie Despicable Me.
Okay, I just listened to this again and I’m laying the blame solely at Gordon’s feet on this one. At best, he’s singing “hair-free highway” each time.
I’m sure that back in the '70s there must have been some variety show performance or “cover” recording in which the horn punctuation was replaced with the choral “Batman.” That kind of knockoff was pretty common back then.
And I always heard it as “effin” too.