Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1977
"I've got two chickens to paralyze."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"I've got two chickens to paralyze."
What's actually sung
"I've got two tickets to paradise." Two Tickets to Paradise — Eddie Money (1977)
Why the ear defaults
"Tickets to paradise" and "chickens to paralyze" share the same metric footprint. Eddie Money laughed about it in interviews — fans still shout the chicken version at concerts.
Hear another line wrong?
Play the misheard duel — pick the real lyric, round by round.