My favourite personal instance of this:
I went to the danger zone.
Definitely better than “Highway to” IMO. Only made this discovery about a year ago and was incredulous, then shocked after a quick search. I’m never changing the way I sing it.
That’s pretty good! I may use that from here on out.
I have a good friend who misheard “lose yourself to dance” in the song of the same name. Instead, he heard " lose your self respect". We love it though and that’s the version we still sing nearly a decade later.
You know… I posted this and am having a Music Store brainfart on ones that I got wrong. Stupid brain.
The inverse of this is St Elmo’s Fire. My wife and I joked that the line was “I can be your man in motion, all I need is a pair of wheels.” thinking it was hilarious and a great replacement.
Well, a few years ago we looked the actual lyrics up and… that’s the actual line.
Turns out the song was written for a Canadian paralympian. “David Foster and John Parr wrote this song specifically for the movie St. Elmo’s Fire, but the song itself is about a Canadian athlete named Rick Hansen, who was paralyzed from the waist down after a car crash when he was 15.”.
Honestly, it made the song that much better.
