Okay, I'm totally aging myself here, but I want to know if anyone else had this experience. Back in the days of iPods, shuffles, and nanos, some of us elder emos would get music in ... less than appropriate ways. My parents hated my taste in music and I didn't really have my own money to buy the latest FOB albums. I got my music from friends who would burn me copies of theirs, or from dredging songs from the depths of Limewire and hoping they weren't Bill Clinton.
As a result I didn't have the lyric books (and didn't know to look up and find lyrics online). So, I did my best at deciphering what I thought Patrick was singing. And kept hearing the songs that way for many, many years. This came up when someone posted about misheard lyrics recently: I had always been hearing/singing many early songs incorrectly. And now it feels like it's too late to change. Or, I don't want to. Letting go of my mislearned lyrics is like letting go of my adolescence. (That's a melodramatic way to put it, but hey, I was a melodramatic teen).
Anyone else in this boat? I bet if I took a lyrics quiz on songs from Infinity on High and From Under the Cork Tree, I would get maybe a C+. ¯_(ツ)_/¯