I thought Robert Palmer was singing, "She's a man, there's no other way to go!" in Simply Irrisistable.
The correct lyric is "She's all mine, there's no other way to go".
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I always wondered why shepherds washed their socks by night. (correct lyric: watched their flocks)— MaggieNJ
- I know my dog, Palmer, spoke English, he was just really quiet.
— Klayne P. - My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- My sister thought that she could video me by simply inserting the VHS tape into the VCR sideways.
Anon - I thought that an ambassador was simply someone who wore a tuxedo, top hat, and a monocle, and held a cane.— GE
- A common misheard lyric in BMTH’s ‘Shadow Moses’ is “THIS IS SANDPIT TURTLE!”— Oli