John Parr

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John Parr's, "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)"

The Misheard Lyrics:

You're just a prince of H***
And you're tryin' to break free.

The Real Lyrics:

You're just a prisoner
And you're tryin' to break free.

The Story: Occasionally I will start singing along to piped-in music when shopping. It's sort of like free karaoke and it's usually just to embarrass my friends when I serenade them. The other night we stumbled by a drugstore to pick up a few things and this song comes on. I'm a little tipsy so I start singing, loudly and badly. I get to the part with above lyrics (that I had assumed were correct) and right before the chorus kicks in some other customer yells out 'it's 'prisoner,' not 'prince of H***,' you fool!' That stopped me cold while I thought about it and my friends were on the floor laughing from the expression on my face. - Submitted by: Rik Baylor

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