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Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1983

"Turnaround, bright eyes."

That isn't the lyric.

What you hear
"Turnaround, bright eyes."
What's actually sung
"Turn around, bright eyes." Total Eclipse of the Heart — Bonnie Tyler (1983)

Why the ear defaults

Less a mondegreen than a boundary re-segmentation — "turn around" vs "turnaround" change the grammatical role from imperative verb to abstract noun.

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