When I was a little kid, I thought the lyric from Toto's Africa went: "As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like a limpus above the Serengeti" I didn't know what "a limpus" might be. I assumed it was some kind of pimple, or wart. When I finally learned they were singing "Olympus" I felt just a bit silly.
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For years I thought that Eurydice in the Broadway version of Chant said “Lookin’ high and lookin’ low / For the food and firewood, I know / We need to find an iamb.” Like, as in they both needed to find the right metrical foot for Orpheus’s song so he could be done and their problems would end.
“Sure as Kilamanjaro rises like a leopress above the Serengeti.” It’s an archaic word for a girl leopard! I just thought they were cool and literate!
Journey's "Separate Ways" Actual lyric: "Here we stand / Worlds apart, hearts broken in two ..." What I heard: "Here we stand / We're a powerhouse broken in two ..." (It didn't make sense to me, but it was the '80s when a lot of lyrics made no sense even when you heard them correctly, so ...)
