I’m sure that this has happened to you—you’ve been listening to a popular song and you could swear that you knew what the singer was singing … until you actually read the lyrics and realized you were completely wrong. This happened to me with most of Elton John’s early songs—I don’t know if it was his habit of accenting a word oddly or his accent or what but I badly misunderstood a lot of Sir Reg’s lyrics. Frex, the chorus to “Rocket Man” is:

And I think it’s gonna be a long, long time
‘Til touchdown brings me ’round again to find
I’m not the man they think I am at home
Oh, no, no, no
I’m a rocket man
Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone

If you had put a gun to my head, I would have sworn that the last sentence was:

Rocket man, goin’ round the world I’m here and gone.

Which brings me to a cute little video I saw on FB a day ago that featured a bevy of beautiful actresses from the sixties through today. It was set to a song by Raspberries, which I always liked when I was a kid, a song that will be familiar to anyone who bought Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix, Vol. 1., but until yesterday I could have sworn that the chorus was, “Please, goooooo away.” I had no idea that the song was actually called “Go All the Way.” Which is why enunciation is an important thing, kids.