The guy next to me at the gym was really getting into the Night Ranger song playing on the All Insipid Music All The Time station. When he started singing along and got to the line, “It’s been twenty-five years since I threwup on the rug, I had a strange reaction” I almost hurt myself laughing. And of course the more I tried not to laugh, the worse it got. Fortunately, he had a sense of humor about the whole thing. Or maybe he was just deeply fearful of the crazy woman. Maybe both. To be fair, I wasn’t sure what the actual [tag]lyrics[/tag] were myself, but I was pretty sure those weren’t them.
I suggested he submit his mistake to Kiss This Guy: the archive of misheard lyrics.
The actual lyrics, according to the 80s lyrics site:
I’ve lived twenty-five years I’m a kid on the run
I’ve got a pistol for action
I liked the vomit-oriented lyrics better, but maybe that’s because they sum up my sentiments about the song (and, for that matter, the band) quite nicely.
I’ve got a song that needs lyrics. And here? Here, I find lyrics CRYING OUT for a song. Thank you, Rebecca; thank you, Internet; thank you Guy Next to Rebecca at the Gym! But most of all, thank you Night Ranger. Without you, this wouldn’t be possible.
peace
Matt
heh….too many possibilities here. Y’know, Night Ranger was my very first concert ever. At Astroworld. If that isn’t very wrong on so many levels, I don’t know what is.
You got out alive, that’s what matters. :-) The first real “big” concert I went to was Mike and the Mechanics, my friend Beth who was OBSESSED with Genesis took me.