This song is most likely about some kind of tween love interest/relationship/being young, having fun, getting laid. Pete wentz wrote a lot of fall out boys lyrics including most of the lyrics to this song. So I'm sure that this song and other songs of there had some lyrics that were changed around to appeal more to the public and try to sell more albums.
And perhaps some of those lyrics don't make as much sense to people that aren't gay. I have also read the liner notes from Manfred Mann's Earth Band's "The Roaring Silence" lp and it was sung by then lead singer, Chris Thompson as "Revved up like a deuce" (and not "wrapped"), which makes more sense. I really wish this would be corrected on this website already.
What this site is doing is perpetuating the misheard lyrics and that's just plain stupid as a reference source to do that. But yes, it's still kind of fun to sing the lyrics as "wrapped up", "douche", "another rumor" and so on, but that's not what they are, and don't tell Thompson about this because I've read he gets mad when people sing the song that way to him. I have been in the radio business for 38 years and had dinner with Manfred Mann about a year after he released Blinded by The Light. He wasn't talking about feminine products and was embarrassed that people interpreted it that way.
When the controversy over his lyrics got back to him he became curious and the best explanation he heard was that Bruce's lyric referred to a card game. He still wasn't sure but he didn't care because the song was a huge hit for him. I don't know if he was pulling my leg or just giving a standard answer to a question he must have gotten a lot, but he seemed sincere. I heard this song on the radio this morning for the first time in ages. As usual, it was the single version, which I like better than the full album version (with "Chopsticks" being played on the piano halfway through).
This has always been one of my favorite songs, even when it was popular back in early 1977. Yes, I know I was only in preschool at the time, but I heard this song almost every morning while my Mom was driving me and my brother to school, and I really liked it and still do. Between Bruce Springsteen's version and Manfred Mann's cover, is there a definitive "Blinded By The Light"? Springsteen's opening salvo into the world of rock n' roll, is everything that people love about the Boss' early work. The first track from his 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
Is exploding with teenage lust, a need to escape, and the thrum of glistening cars speeding away from a small town. Bobby Hart caught the very end of "Paperback Writer" on the radio and somehow heard "take the last train" instead of the Title Drop. Once he learned that wasn't the actual lyric, he and Tommy Boyce wrote "Last Train To Clarksville" for The Monkees. Similarly, John Fred heard the title of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" as "Lucy in disguise with diamonds." With that in mind, he wrote "Judy in Disguise ", which became a number-one hit on Billboard charts. Pink Martini actually recorded a Mondegreen not realizing it was the wrong lyric.
Dave was trying to decipher the lyrics to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," wondering if Jackson was singing the lyrics, "The kid is not my son" or "The CHAIR is not my son". Letterman played the song for the audience, but had stagehand Al Frisch say the word "CHAIR" in a thick New York accent over Jackson singing the word "kid." A lot of people also hear the line as "The cheetahs mugged my son" rather than "kid" as well. His most famous "catchphrases" were mondegreens, most famously, "SHAMONE!" which is really him saying "C'MON!". The line "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" from Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" being misheard as "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" is something Hendrix was aware of.
Hendrix was known to pause at this point in the song and either point to or kiss one of his male band members during concerts. In at least a few live recordings, he very clearly says "kiss this guy" or "kiss that guy". Hendrix was also guilty of this in his cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower", turning Dylan's lyric "None of them along the line/Know what any of it is worth" into "None will level on the line/Nobody offered his word". Mondegreens are the phenomenon of mishearing lines, normally song lyrics, but poetry is also a frequent victim. Sometimes it's lack of correct enunciation, sometimes it's the speed or pitch that a lyric is delivered at, but often, a song lyric or recited poem will become famous not for what it says, but for what it sounds like it says to the uncareful ear. With the help of his trusty rhyming dictionary Springsteen penned a track full of teenage heartbreak and the need to escape and not being as grown up as he thinks he is.
His line about a "silicone sister with a manager mister" who makes a pass at him isn't just one of the first references to breast implants in rock music , but it turns the song into a fish out of water story. Springsteen doesn't just need to escape his home life in this song, he's striving to recognize the place he calls home. Originally titled "Madman's Bummers," the song tells the story of Springsteen's life up until that point. He references the people in his life, they places they went and the way they killed time waiting around for real life to begin. New Jersey, specifically the boardwalk of a Jersey Shore town, is palpable in each second of this track.
The version by Manfred Mann's Earth Band appears on their 1976 album, "The Roaring Silence", which has the lyrics printed on the back cover and the full version of Dave Flett's magnificent guitar solo. Also, Chris Thompson is the lead vocalist; Manfred Mann does not sing until the very end of the song where the chorus is heard from the left channel, and the verse is heard from the right channel. To Gene about Go Kart Motzart - Springsteen write this song in '71 or '72, the Edmund Fitzgerald didn't sink until '75 and Gordon Lightfoot wrote that song in '76, three years after Columbia released "Greetings from Asbury Park". Go Kart Motzart was a guy who hung out in Asbury Park in those days who was a little crazy and would do things like check the weather to see if it was safe to go outside.
A lot of the lyrics have to do with local people and Jersey shore lingo. This is perhaps the best written rock song, period. A prominent TikTok meme that went viral in the Spring of 2020 pointed out the mondegreen, with the misheard lyric usually accompanied by someone the TikTok creator knows or the creator doubling as a friend or family member pointing out the lyrics are interpreted incorrectly. AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" has a parody version done by Bob Rivers that was called "Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep" due to misheard lyrics from the original song, and had some of instruments replaced with farm animal sounds.
There's also a comedian who bemoans his parents' staggering inability to hear song lyrics correctly, particularly his father. The causes him him no end of torment whenever he's in the car with them and the radio is playing, since they like to sing along. "Big ol' jet airliner" becomes "Bingo Jed had a light on". Can lead to Innocent Swearing if an innocent word is misheard as a profane one. Contrast Malaproper, which is a character who mixes up words on a regular basis, and Beam Me Up, Scotty! #9 Dream - John Lennon - Many of the lyrics in this song really did come to John in a dream he had.
Al Coury, a promotion man for Capitol Records, told John in the studio while recording the song, that, 'They're not going to play this record on the radio.' When John asked 'Why? ' he was told, "Because you're saying 'pussy' on it!" So, the lyrics on paper were officially changed to "Ah! böwakawa poussé, poussé", a French word for "push" - but which is pronounced the same way as "pussy". As it was, the original lyrics were already sung in the finished song and never changed, and to this day are still "pussy, pussy". Misheard lyrics occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song.
These are NOT intentional rephrasing of lyrics, which is called parody. This page contains all the misheard lyrics for Blinded By The Light that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996. For more information about the misheard lyrics available on this site, please read our FAQ. The track's rambling sound and sometimes nonsensical lyrics led to the inevitable Bob Dylan comparisons. The song may not have been a hit for Springsteen but it set him up as the next big thing. I first heard the Manfred Mann Earth Band version of this song in early 1977.
It was often played in a bar I frequented and I remember being told by a know-it-all acquaintance that I was about drag racing. He had the 'revved up like a deuce' and 'runners in the night' parts right. He knew it had been written by Springsteen but said Bruce had been inspirted to write it by the drag racing scene in the James Dean movie 'Rebel Without a Cause'. But at least he knew the line was not 'wrapped up like a douche'. All of the Manfred Mann comments should be moved to the appropriate Manfred Mann lyrics section. Springsteen definitely says "cut loose like a deuce" which definitely refers to a 1932 Ford Deuce Coupe which is a hot rod.
The band was formed by Jeff Lynne vocals guitar multiple instruments Roy Wood multiple instruments vocals Richard Tandy keyboards vocals and Bev Bevan drums. Electric Light Orchestra is a symphonic rock band which formed in Birmingham England in 1970. Blinded by the Light is a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen which first appeared on his 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park NJ. In an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Space Ghost quotes one of Beck 's lyrics back to him as "I got two turntables and my mommy's home." instead of "I got two turntables and a microphone.".
This was also deliberately utilized in the episode "Pavement" during one of Pavement's musical numbers, in which the lyric "Living the high life" is constantly repeated and sounds like "Land of the hot knives". National Velvet tried out a new, then-unrecorded song called "Saspirilla" during live performances - Audiences liked the song, but at least one fan seemed to be under the impression it was called "Sex Gorilla". For the studio version of the song they changed the title and lyrics accordingly. The song "Little Green Bag", made even more famous by the characters of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs power walking to it, has an interesting story.
The original title was "Little Greenback", making reference to a dollar bill (you can actually clearly hear the main singer makes emphasis in the "CK" at the end of the first verse). Nonetheless, the single was given the erroneous title "Little Green Bag". It didn't help that the new title made it seem it was referring to a bag of marijuana. The band embraced the new title from the beginning. Bruce Springsteen joked about this in later years, facetiously grumbling about how it his song was only able to become a hit after it was rewritten to be about a feminine hygiene product. Whoever wrote the lyrics on the Stratovarius website mangled a line from one of the band's own songs.
A line in "I Walk to My Own Song" is written as "far above the frozen minds", even though Kotipelto is clearly singing "frozen hearts". Kings of Leon has an intentional aversion/backstory example in Sex on Fire, one of their biggest hits. The Word Salad Lyrics originally featured "Set Us On Fire" as the chorus, but everybody would Mondegreen it as "Sex on Fire". According to The Other Wiki, one of the sound mixers came in and said, "Sex on fire, huh?" It became a running joke, and eventually the group not only changed the lyrics, but made it the album title track.
Electric Light Orchestra's "Don't Bring Me Down", is frequently mondegreened as "Don't bring me down, Bruce!" The actual lyric is "Don't bring me down, groose", which is a made-up word. ELO realized so many people were hearing this that they actually started singing it live. At the end of Despicable Me 2, the minions cover "I Swear" (specifically, the version by All-4-One; the minions that sing it are dressed up like them). Being the minions, they mondegreen the entire song; most noticeably, they sing the line "And I swear" as "Underwear".
Has any one listened to a song for the longest time and thought they were saying the craziest things, only to read the lyrics later and find out what they were really saying? I'm not talking about one liners like the classic ELO song "Blinded by the Light" (ripped up like a douche, you're gonna throw away the night") or "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" by Jimi Hendrix. I remember a song that used to get played in our car on long journeys. I do remember that it was a male voice singing a verse and then a female chorus which sounds like Do Do, Do Do pa Do Ya, Do Do Pe ay, or something like that. I have asked my mother, however she can not remember.
I think the year would have 1984 – 1988 possibly. In the early to mid 1990's I heard a song on a popular local radio station (in Chicago, IL; 107.5 WGCI). I actually tape recorded the tune, but never heard the title of the song mentioned or who sang it. I'm fairly certain that the song is by a woman and she probably was just beginning to make an attempt at a solo career. Misheard song lyrics are the stuff of legend, with Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" being a canonical example of what happens when inflection doesn't go as planned (no, it's not "hold me closer, Tony Danza").
Spotify tried to lend a touch of science to our collective inability to hear certain lines as musicians intended them, and conducted a poll to identify the most misquoted song lyrics of all time. With humble beginnings as a Bruce Springsteen song, 'Blinded By The Light' was made famous by English rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1976. It debuted to the tune of the #1 slot on the US Billboard Top 100 charts, doing infinitely better than the original!
Manfred Mann's Earth Band released a version of the song on their album The Roaring Silence, and it featured a chopsticks like piano riff at the end. Manfred Mann's rock biography involves two distinct phases. Born in South Africa, Mann joined a band in England that was very successful on the UK charts and even came to America in the British Invasion.
That band was called, somewhat confusingly, Manfred Mann, and was responsible for "Do Wah Diddy Diddy," a #1 hit in the U.S., and a cover of Bob Dylan's "Mighty Quinn" which peaked at #10. Those two songs and another, "Pretty Flamingo," all topped the UK chart, and Manfred Mann placed another 10 cuts in the UK top 10 before breaking up in 1969. Springsteen has referenced this mishearing of his lyric, and he doesn't really care that people think he's talking about an intimate product. In an episode of VH1 Storytellers he even goofs on the fact that the song didn't become a hit until Manfred Mann changed the lyrics to be about feminine hygiene.
When the Manfred Mann's cover of the song charted in 1977, Mann's phrasing of "deuce" made listeners and fans of feminine hygiene products perk up. Many people listening in their cars heard Mann sing the line "revved up like a douche," which doesn't really make sense but that doesn't matter. As with "Purple Haze" and "Money For Nothing," listeners are prone to hearing what they want. It's so funny, I've always hated the Manford Mann song, I switch the station every time it comes on the radio, but I could listen to Springsteen's version all day.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band's recording of the song changes the lyrics. The most prominent change is in the chorus, where Springsteen's "cut loose like a deuce" is replaced with "revved up like a deuce." The lyric is a reference to the 1932 V8-powered Ford automobile, which enthusiasts dubbed the "deuce coupe". Springsteen was fond of classic hot rods in his youth, hence the line "cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night". As the line is frequently misheard as "wrapped up like a douche", Springsteen has joked about confusion over the lyrics, claiming that it was not until Manfred Mann rewrote the song to be about a feminine hygiene product that it became popular. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released a version of the song on their 1976 album The Roaring Silence. Their version includes the "Chopsticks" melody played on piano near the end of the bridge of the song.
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Butch Hartman clarified that many people get the lyrics wrong for the theme song of ''Danny Phantom. Many people mishear the very first word, "Young" for "Yo". Christmas carols on the Arthur's Perfect Christmas album release are all about D.W. Additionally, Sound Voltex Booth also has a remix of the song, the cover art of which depicts a character holding a 3-scoop ice cream cone. Megadeth's cover of The Sex Pistols song "Anarchy in the U.K" has differing lyrics to the original, which Dave Mustaine explained was because he couldn't understand what Johnny Rotten was singing. Magazine's "Model Worker" includes the line "I know the cadre will look after me", which makes sense in context.
