Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for September 18, 2021

I used to watch reruns of Lost in Space, it seemed like every episode was about the boy, the selfish Doctor and the robot. The rest of the cast it was like, “oh hey, we have cameos for you guys at the beginning and end of the episode. Cool?”

How about my very favorite oldie: “Born to be Mild”?

So it’s not “The Age of Aquariums”?

But can you solve the biggest mystery of all – the true lyrics to Louie Louie?

“Old Mr Greenblatt died”

Stones song from “Start me up”

“Don’t wanna be your pizza burger.” That’s what my friend’s mom sang instead of “I’ll never be your beast of burden.”

You can’t always get what you want….

I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window

I saw the profile of love on her blind

She was my mother

As she deceived me, I watched her put asparagus on my bread

One mistaken lyric I can never unhear is, Credence Clearwater Revival, Bad Moon on the Rise and the way a childhood friend misheard it.Don’t go ‘round tonightYou’re bound to lose your lifeThere’s a bathroom on the rightEvery time I hear the song, my mind substitutes those words.

Lyric police, eh? Lemme see you corrects Louie Louie, oh no, Me gotta go …

Growing up (some 50 years ago), I had a friend who was a serious druggie. According to him, the chorus to “Empty Pages” by Traffic went:

“Staring at the hashish ladies…”.

I had to explain to him that not every rock song was about drugs.

Well there’s that. But why do we pledge allegiance to a flag for some guy named Richard Stands?

Since she put me down there’s been owls puking in my head.Help Me Ronda

Personally, I love Pam’s profile…

“Don’t go on the floor, or out the kitchen door, there’s a bathroom on the right!”

Or “Just call me Angel, in the morning, baby. Just brush my teeth, before you leave me, darling…”

Mishearing lyrics is called a mondegreen (Google it).

Seriously? Who would think it was the ‘Age of Asparagus’?

I’m pretty sure it’s asparagus.

The Mondegreen Police!

My wife was singing along with J. Geils Band in the car; I had to tell her it was “Freeze Frame,” not “Free Train.”

Just yesterday in the grocery store with my husband, the titular phrase of Sade’s “Smooth Operator” (playing in the store) clicked for me for the first time. I had always thought it to be something about an operetta or “ah, Baretta” or something.

To be fair, when that song came out the phrase “smooth operator” would have made as little sense to me as anything else I came up with.

And then, there’s the Jimi Hendrix classic line, " ’Scuse me, while I kiss this guy"!

“Up, up and away, with my beautiful, my beautiful baboon!”

I’m still waiting for the Age of Asparagus.

We who grew up with scratchy little transistor radios are the worst at understanding the lyrics. For good reason.

I wish I could remember all the mangled lines from Christmas songs. The only one I can remember is “shepherds washed their socks at night.”

I had a friend that thought the Genesis song was “Invisible Top Shelf”.

Pam you wouldn’t want “In The Sticks” Reality Check treatment

If Pam is hearing Tangerine and Asparagus when there isn’t any, she must be hungry. Time to take a break from the diet?

You’d think she’d be more likely to err on newer songs.

Depending on how annoying they are it could become the age of asparagus …

In the early days of the internet, back when the International Lyrics Server was still a thing, there was a site that collected so-called “mondegreens” or mis-heard lyrics. If you grew up in the 70s, before the internet told you exactly what was being sung, then you probably sang many, many mondregreens without even knowing it. The funniest one I ever read was a lyric from Elton John’s “Saturday’s Night All Right For Fighting.” The lyric actually reads “she’s with me” but apparently someone misheard it as “cheese and eggs.” I’m a karaoke freak so, when I sing that song, I feel damn near obligated to screech out “cheese and Eggs!”

Top 40 mis-heard song lyrics:

https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/misheard-song-lyrics-6787

not a bad profile!!!

Love Boston playing:

I understand about indigestion

But I don’t care about Grape Nehi

People living with constipation

All I want is to have my piece of pie

Pam “middle aged”?

The Age of Aquarium or The Age of Agrarian.

“This is the awning of the cage of asparagus…”