Misquoted lyric: ‘Scuse me, while I kiss this guyĪctual lyric: ‘Scuse me, while I kiss the sky Wrapped up like a douche a common mistake when singing Manfred Manns Blinded by the light to which the original lyrics are revved up like a deuce. Misquoted lyric: Blinded by the light/wrapped up like a douche when you’re rollin’ in the nightĪctual lyric: Blinded by the light/revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night “Blinded by the Light” by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band: 52% Some poll answers, of course, probably stemmed purely from pop culture lore as opposed to legitimate confusion: After all, does anyone really think rock icons Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote a ballad about “Who’s the Boss” star Tony Danza? We tend to doubt it.ġ. Instead of the lyric “Revved up like a deuce/another runner in the night,” it seems most people polled (and probably many you know) think it’s “Wrapped up like a douche/when you’re rollin in the night.” What that even means, we have absolutely no idea, but hey, it’s rock ‘n’ roll, right? The winner? Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s “Blinded by the Light” (which was written and originally recorded in 1976 by Bruce Springsteen.) Naturally, respondents didn’t admit to actually botching the words themselves-the poll, of 1,042 people, asked for the songs they most commonly hear others warbling incorrectly. To that end, music-streaming service Spotify decided to conduct an unscientific poll to find out which song lyrics get misquoted the most. We’ve all done it: shamelessly let loose and belted out the lyrics to a song only to realize that the words we’re singing are totally, well, wrong. Wrapped up with a douchebag’s aroma in the night.“Take me down to a very nice city?” Nope. Grabbed up by a douche, another robot in the night.ġ. Warped up like Medusa, oh the runner in the night.Ģ. Wrapped up like you’re douchin’ in the middle of the night.ģ. Wake up like a douche and go running in the night.Ĥ.
Red ball like a douche and throw me out into the night.ĥ. Wracked up, like I knew she was a hooker in the night.Ħ. The theme of the Blinded by the Light lyrics is an impressionistic look at some of the characters Springsteen met when he was a young, up and coming musician trying to get people to pay attention to his music. Rapped up like a douche, another rumor in the night.ħ. The Blinded by the Light lyrics show off Springsteen's songwriting talent with loads of internal rhyme and other poetic devices. Lit up like an illusion in the middle of the night.Ĩ. Wrapped up like a goose, let the wind blow through my hair.ĩ. Please enjoy my PG-13 rated, Top 10 misheard versions of this famous lyric:ġ0. I did get “deuce” right while I think most people thought Manfred was singing about a nocturnal feminine hygiene activity.
I actually had it pretty close, only using “wrapped” instead of “revved”. “Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night”īe honest. I nearly coughed up a lung tonight reading the misheard lyrics for: I must admit, this is a very difficult song to figure out from verse one. This was the one moment in the history of the universe that millions of people collectively longed to hear a song with this bold statement!Īccording to, the most misheard lyrics in a song ever is Blinded By The Light, a Bruce Springsteen Song, made popular by Manfred Mann’s Earth band in the seventies. Springsteen was recently interviewed and says he changed Manfred Mann’s original lyric from “cut loose like a deuce” to “revved up like a deuce” yet admitted the reason the song went to #1 was because people heard “wrapped up like a douche”.