LYRICS IN PRINT: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT

With the SURU show over, there's only one way to recover: a "Lyrics In Print" post.

So I guess it's not "Blinded by the light / wrapped up like a douche" after all...

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By the Light Lyrics

Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night

Madman drummers bummers,
Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older,
I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin,
The calliope crashed to the ground
But she was...

Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night

Some silicone sister with a manager mister told me I go what it takes
She said "I'll turn you on sonny to something strong,
play the song with the funky break"
And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside
And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride
Asked me if I needed a ride
But she was...

Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
She got down but she never got tired
She's gonna make it through the night
But mama, that's where the fun is
Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
But mama, that's where the fun is
Some brimstone baritone anticyclone rolling stone preacher from the east
Says, "Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone,
that's where they expect it least"
And some new-moan chaperone was standin' in the corner,
watching the young girls dance
And some fresh-sown moonstone was messin' with his frozen zone, reminding him of romance
The calliope crashed to the ground

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Every time I hear this song, I think, "Wow Manfred Mann, you sure have a way with words. I know exactly what you're talking about. Especially 'In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat.' That line may have saved my life."

Oh wait, no. This is the song that sounds like it's just rhyming random words. I know Springsteen wrote the original, but I have this suspicion that Manfred Mann sniffed a bunch of pixie dust and changed the words.

By the way, if you want to know more about this song, you can wiki it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_by_the_Light...but in this case, I think ignorance is bliss.

"Blinded by the light...wrapped up like a douche..."