# Ruin a favorite song

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [March 13, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-favorite-song/937806 "2021-03-13T04:06:01Z")\
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More of a dumb mondegreen from childhood that I didn’t feel right putting in the concurrent Jim Croce thread, but - hearing “Operator” through static-y, quiet department store speakers made me go “A burrito, a burrito, will you…” (Pardon the slight derail.)

Meatloaf’s’s lyric:

_I want you, X2_  
_I need you, X2_  
_But there ain’t no way I’m ever gonna love you,_  
_So don’t be sad X2,_  
_'Cuz two outa three ain’t bad._

Well, actually, it still is the short end of the stick, Marvin. Not that you’d be high on most dating lists, yourself, anyway.

[Some earlier song ruining.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literal-complaints-at-lyrics/827371)

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