i love the 80's: misheard lyrics

Several weeks ago I told you about some song lyrics that I misheard (See, "scuse me while i kiss this guy"). This morning I recalled another misheard lyric when I told a co-worker that a friend would be out of the office until Tuesday. Do you remember the 'Til Tuesday song, Voices Carry? (I thought Aimee Mann’s hair was so rad.)

Hush hush
keep it down now
voices carry

I know this really does not make any sense considering that the title of the song is Voices Carry. But I really thought she was singing, “Hush hush, baby don’t cry. Precious Carrie.”

Then I recalled yet another misheard lyric from an 80’s hit. The lyric…
out on the road today
I saw a dead head sticker on a Cadillac
A voice inside my head said don't look back
You can never look back
…from Don Henley’s Boys of Summer brought about a very strong visual image for me. You see back in 1985 I wasn’t really familiar with the Grateful Dead or the phenomenon of the “Dead Head” yet because I was in the 4th/5th grade. And my parents are not exactly jam band people. No, I was raised on Simon and Garfunkel…Peter, Paul, and Mary…The Singing Nun…. So, I thought Henley was singing, “I saw a dead head sticking on a Cadillac”. And I imagined a severed head stuck to the hood ornament a caddy that was cruising down a desert highway. I really, really did. And with a little bit of embarrassment I admit that I was probably an adult before I knew the correct lyric to either song.