After a lifetime listening to Beatles songs and singing along with them, I was staggered to learn today that I have been getting a line from "Wait" wrong for all these years...
Instead of:
"But if your heart breaks,
Don't wait,
Turn Me Away
And if your heart's strong,
Hold On,
I won't delay"
I have ALWAYS sung:
"But if your heart breaks,
Don't wait,
Turn me away
And if your heart's strong,
Hold on,
I won't be late"
It was bad enough a few years ago when I discovered that on "Love You To" George was singing:
"Love me while you can,
Before I'm a dead old man"
rather than:
"Love me while you can,
Love our fellow man"
Oh dear... I wonder what else I've been misconstruing?
Reminds me of the time I had to explain to a friend that "She's Not You" by Elvis was NOT Presley telling a friend that their new girlfriend wasn't right for and didn't suit them (She's just not "you" somehow; the match doesn't work). My friend had simply never realised that Elvis was telling his own girl that the woman of his dreams wasn't her, but someone else.
Funny how we can sometimes lock-in a completely wrong perspective on a song and stick with it for years without realising.