# Song lyrics you deliberately sing wrong **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444 "2012-04-30T20:12:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 35
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444/35 "2012-05-01T03:26:24Z")
“…a kiss from a rose on the grave.” The original lyric in Seal’s “Kiss From a Rose” is “a kiss from a rose on the gray”. I originally mondegreened it as “grave”, and later decided that I preferred my version. I also change the first two lines in the final verse of [“The Dark Lady”](http://www.renaissancefestivalmusic.com/lyrics/2006/07/dark-lady.shtml) to “And now late at night, when a storm fills the sky, A lone ship can be seen, sailing in its eye.” That’s a fairly large change from the original (as best I can tell), but it’s much closer to the version I first heard from the Shantyman; the only change I made to that version is swapping “ghost” for “lone”. It seems to me that it works better that way, and it saves “ghost” for the final chorus. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-you-deliberately-sing-wrong/620444)._