I am a musical child of the 80s. It is the soundtrack to my formative years. Never mind that I currently listen to a 90s/2000s station in my car. I'm emo and didn't know it, apparently. Whatever that means.
Anyway, most of my misunderheard lyrics tend to come from 80s songs. For example, "Take Me Home Tonight" by Eddie Money (not to be confused with Eddie Rabbitt who loves a rainy night. . .if they got together would they love to take me home on a rainy night? Ahem, I digress.). The refrain of Eddie Money's song has these lines:
"Take me home tonight / Listen, honey, just like mumble mumble" [emphasis mine]
All this time he was singing ". . .just like Ronnie sang"!! Which leads to another question: Who is Ronnie? Turns out, Ronnie is Ronnie Spector from the Ronettes, whose song "Be My Baby" is quoted in "Take Me Home Tonight." In fact, the female vocalist who sings in Eddie Money's refrain is Ronnie Spector herself! This song got her back into the music business. Pretty cool.
Seeing as how I interpreted the mumbles as "just like running fast", I think getting a musical star back into the game is better than running fast. So, be my little baby--just like Ronnie sang.
