Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1976
"Wrapped up like a douche, you know the roamer in the night."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"Wrapped up like a douche, you know the roamer in the night."
What's actually sung
"Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night." Blinded by the Light — Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1976)
Why the ear defaults
The two-verb variant of the Blinded by the Light mondegreen. Three words are heard wrong in one line — a rare triple-mondegreen in mainstream pop.
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