What's that again?

Everybody's got their misheard song lyrics. All the cliches, about "bathrooms on the right," and "'scuse me while I kiss this guy," but I never had trouble with those. Still, there are songs it took me years to get the right words to.

Elton John is a continual problem--accurin tablets instead of "vodka and tonics" in Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Who knows what an accurin tablet is; I made it up in my brain. Granted EJ pronounces it "vodker," so it really is hard to understand.

Also, it took me years to figure out that EJ was laying the Tiny Dancer down on "sheets of linen."

Lately there've been a few others. I've been enjoying the Christina Aguilera song Ain't No Other Man since November, and I always thought the line was "tie me down to every bed" which is a little kinky, but whatever you're into, right? Curious one day, though, I googled the lyrics and discovered it's "talk me down from every ledge," which lends a whole other drama/suicide vibe to the song. I prefer the kink.

And most recently, Rihanna's latest song. I heard her singing it on TV and I kept thinking she was talking about an operetta. Which is really kind of intellectual, and I was impressed. Who sings about operettas these days? Way to educate today's youth, Rihanna.

But somewhere along the line I realized she was singing "under my umbrella." I like the way she says "um-ba-rella. " But I can't be blamed for thinking operetta. Seriously.