# YOUR misheard lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [August 6, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166 "2015-08-06T16:34:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 30
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/581 "2025-11-14T04:34:38Z")
It’s not ‘crew’? Huh. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/582 "2025-11-15T02:32:58Z")
Even now that I know better, I still hear the inimitable Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull telling me the train “won’t stop going but it could slow down”. (“no way to slow down”) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/583 "2025-11-15T15:27:44Z")
I am reminded of when I was young and my aunt loved Eric Carmen’s All By Myself. One day she was singing along to it and my little pre-adolescent self innocently asked, “Doesn’t he say he DON’T wanna be all by himself?” All that time she thought he sang, 'I wanna be all by myself". I distinctly remember because she got mad at me and denied it but had to apologize to me later when it turned out I was right. She was going through a really bad break up at the time. Really, really bad. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/584 "2025-11-15T18:42:31Z")
Martin Page “House of Stone and Light” - still not sure I fully grok all of the lyrics (generally about enlightenment hoped for from beyond the grave -?), but I heard the words as “house of stone and ‘lime’”, figuring it to be some sort of ancient burial preparation. But I just now looked up the correct lyrics, and “light” it is. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/585 "2025-11-16T12:58:05Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I am reminded of when I was young and my aunt loved Eric Carmen’s All By Myself. One day she was singing along to it and my little pre-adolescent self innocently asked, “Doesn’t he say he DON’T wanna be all by himself?” > > All that time she thought he sang, 'I wanna be all by myself". I shared her mondegreen for decades before hearing it somewhere and paying close attention to the lyrics. I agree that it would be far more poignant and less pat and cliched her way. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/586 "2025-11-25T17:05:16Z")
Funny remembrance sparked while watching the latest Ken Burns documentary: I misheard Steve Miller’s chant of “Stand back!” from _Living In the USA_ as “Stamp Act!” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166/587 "2025-11-29T21:58:23Z")
The new John Prine tribute concert documentary prompted me to rehear Bette Midler’s 1972 version of his 1971 song **“Hello in There.”** My parents played Bette’s LP a lot when I was around seven or eight years old (that is, around 1977-78). I remember thinking about the line _“and we lost baby in the Korean War…”_ I was old enough to get how it the song was a wistful reminiscence by an elderly couple, and even at that age I knew enough history\* to see that the timing was right (old folks around 65 would have been 45 circa 1950, their youngest kid in his early twenties…) — and, I thought it was interesting they still recalled their child as “Baby,” which (to me) made the loss even more poignant. Minutes ago, I read the lyrics. **It’s “Davy,” not “Baby.”** Still one of the more poignant songs ever, but just a little less so. (Note how Prine was 22 when he wrote it. Impressive – even more than Simon and Garfunkel being 27 when their album Bookends was made, which also has several songs from old people’s perspective). (\*Thank you, _Best of Life_!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-misheard-lyrics/727166.md?page=29)