Misheard lyrics thread

I found out just a few days ago that in Weezer’s My Name is Jonas, Jonas is ‘carrying the wheel’ and not as I had been hearing it, ‘carrying the whale’. About 25 years of assuming the song started with some kind of quirky modern take on the biblical Jonah/Jonas and the whale story.

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She’s got a new dress on
(on insulin!)
Sits by her radio
(on insulin!)
She’s got those x-ray eyes
(on insulin!)
Don’t know which way to go
(on insulin!)

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