"Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine. Gotta, gotta be down, because I want it all."
Those 20 words are basically scripture for anyone who has ever been in an under 18s nightclub, preferably in the mid-to-late noughties.
The lyrics and song "Mr. Brightside" lives on in all of us, regardless of whether you first heard it upon release in 2004 or on Spotify in 2014. The riff, the opening line and the closing 'I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" are all timeless.
Not a bad debut single for Las Vegas rockers The Killers, given it reached the top 10 in both the US and UK.
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I've got some bad news, though - we've been singing it wrong.
The one lyric almost 99.9 percent of the world has joint conviction in screaming inside the worst bars in Britain isn't even what we think it is.
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"You've all been singing it wrong" the band wrote on their Facebook page, below a drawing of lead singer Brandon Flowers emerging from the torso of legendary actor Nicholas Cage with the text "Coming outta Nic Cage and I've been doing just fine."
The post has notched up more than 50k likes.
Do you prefer this lyric? Does it ruin the song for you think that it's about Nic Cage experiencing some John Hurt/Alien type abnormality?
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