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Friday, December 09, 2005


Mondegreen 


25 years ago, when I was hearing Christopher Cross's "Ride Like the Wind" incessantly on the radio, there was a lyric that went "And I've got a long way to go/To make it to the corner of Mexico."

I just heard the song again, and it turns out it's "To make it to the border of Mexico." Which makes less sense -- who says "the border of Mexico" and not "the Mexican border"? Songwriters trying to wrap their ideas around a certain rhythm and rhyme, that's who.

While we're at it, it turns out that in "I Can't Get Next To You," the Temptations are singing "I can make the seasons change just by waving my hand," not "I can make a super train just by waving my hand." But having the power to create super trains out of thin air would be much better than making the seasons change! Right?




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