Sometimes we listeners got the lyrics wrong, sometimes the artist, sometimes the songwriter messes up...
Madonna did not sing "Gonna mess you up with my love." Which is what I thought the first time I heard it and it seemed to be a moment of candor on her part.
A few other "oldies" here:
Carly Simon in "You're so vain" proceeds to mention "him" in the form of subject and possesive pronouns an eyestaggering 67 times. (Smart money says the song is about him.)
Sometimes languages create problems too:
"desesperado" becomes desperado and we lose one beat from the "cha-cha-cha" to only the "cha-cha".
From a song by The Guggenheim Grotto. On stage they told the story about how the singer's nephew thought the lyric was: "Let's get naked and get under the sheep".
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