Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1977
"Big old jet, a liar."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"Big old jet, a liar."
What's actually sung
"Big old jet airliner." Jet Airliner — Steve Miller Band (1977)
Why the ear defaults
The syllable boundary between "jet" and "airliner" is soft in the recording. Listeners re-segment it as two shorter words and end up with a noun and an insult.
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