# Obvious things about a creative work you realize after the millionth time (OPEN SPOILERS POSSIBLE) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2009, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-things-about-a-creative-work-you-realize-after-the-millionth-time-open-spoilers-possible/504117 "2009-07-24T13:20:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6345
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-things-about-a-creative-work-you-realize-after-the-millionth-time-open-spoilers-possible/504117/6345 "2025-06-12T20:24:41Z")
> [@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](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obvious-things-about-a-creative-work-you-realize-after-the-millionth-time-open-spoilers-possible/504117)._