Obvious things about a creative work you realize after the millionth time (OPEN SPOILERS POSSIBLE)

[WildaBeast]

@Stephe96

Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

For the longest time (heh), I thought Billy was singing “…Bay of Pigs and Beijing.” Since it’s a song of non sequiturs, I didn’t really wonder too much about the reference to China in the early 1960s.

Last night, someone sent me a pic of them doing a karaoke version of the song and the lyrics were clearly visible: “…Bay of Pigs invasion”

Duh.

For what it’s worth, while this does fit this thread, there is also a long running thread specifically about misheard song lyrics:

YOUR misheard lyrics

There are a lot of well-known mondegreens. ‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy’ and ‘Wrapped up like a douche’ come immediately to mind. This thread is not for those. This thread is for lyrics that you, personally, have misheard. Not what other people have misheard; what you have misheard. Granted, you’ve probably misheard the well-known ones. If so, then go ahead and post them – just as long as you, yourself, heard the song and misheard the lyrics. For example, I misheard the line in Games W…