re: What are your favorite "misheard" lyrics?

LOL. Here's another weird one, that shows how your memory can play tricks on you when you hear a song.

There's an Al Stewart tune from the 24 Carrots CD called Paint By Numbers. For years - and I would have SWORN by this - I thought there was a line in it that went "What'll you do if the music sucks when I'm gone?"

One day I finally went and looked up the lyric sheet and sure enough this line is nowhere to be found. What I did find, though, is that the first time through in the song he sings:

"What'll you do if the muse gets lost when I'm gone?"

Then in the next verse it's "What'll you do if the brush gets stuck when I'm gone?"

Somehow - frick if I know how - my mind combined "muse gets lost" and "brush gets stuck" into "music sucks"