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What song, or songs, have you misheard the lyrics to?

When I was a kid and Eddie Money's song "I Think I'm In Love" was playing on the radio, what I heard (or thought I heard) was "I think I'm in love, 'cause I can't get it up." But because I grew up in such a sheltered world, raised in a strict Catholic family, I didn't know what "can't get it up" meant. So I didn't understand what I was hearing at all.

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And then there was Pink Floyd's song, "One Of My Turns." For a long time I thought he was saying "Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left you'll find my favorite ex" (meaning an ex-girlfriend that he had chopped up and stuffed into his suitcase). Imagine my relief when I bought the 2-CD set, [i]The Wall[/i], read the song lyrics, and discovered that it was actually his favorite axe, not his favorite ex, that he kept in his suitcase.

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SmartKat · 56-60, F
If he can’t get it up, I would think he was NOT in love!
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@SmartKat I know, right? If I had only known then how ironic it was that I was hearing it that way!
SW-User
@SmartKat while I completely hear what you're saying, I can't 100 % agree. Not getting it up could have more to do with a medical condition, and less so a matter of the heart. :)