Every single time that I hear Mark Geary’s song “Morphine”, I swear that the line Your sulpher kiss is, in fact, Your soul forgets. Every time.
Also, when I was kid and I was too lazy to read the hymnal, I always sang How great Thy heart instead of How great Thou art. Where I got the long i sound is truly beyond me. I was a strange child, what with the running around coffee tables in order to fly and the hiding under computer desks for fun.
What lyrics do you always mishear?
We had to sing “America” every morning in elementary school. My personal interpretation:
“My country, ’tis of thee
Sweet land of liberty
Of the icing.”
LOL! That’s great. I remember my sister watching a Rugrats show years and years ago that had an interesting interpretation of that song. I think it went like:
That’s definitely not one of those songs where you think much about the lyrics, though. It’s like you’ve heard it so many times that you sing it without hearing it at all.
On that note, I wonder how many Americans could accurately sum up the meaning of the lyrics to the national anthem, or how many people realize that three of the four sentences in it are interrogative.
I wonder how many Americans realize that the national anthem isn’t about the Revolutionary War. I’d be willing to bet that an extraordinary number would say that it was.
[sheepishly raises hand]
Guess you’ll know to take a closer look at that Wikipedia article next time