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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Do you substitute your own lyrics in pop songs?

Holding out for a hero with a knife ... Bonnie Tyler. Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns
Holding out for a hero with a knife ... Bonnie Tyler. Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns

When I am not sure of the lyrics of pop songs, I make my own up – eg Bonnie Tyler’s Holding Out for a Hero goes “… and he’s gotta be larger than life” but I change the last line to “and he’s gotta be good with a knife”. Anyone else do this? You know you do!

John Richards, Oxford

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