A musician's need to a annunciate, or a fan's habit of mishearing?

This is one of my most favorite songs from AFI. Often times when I hear it on the radio, I try to sing along and yet no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to keep up with the lyrics. Then one day, I finally said," That's it! Time to end this once and for all!" I switched on the computer, typed in "silver and cold lyrics" on Google, and scanned the lyrics with a critical eye. What I saw was completely mortifying. All this time I've been singing the wrong lyrics. I began to cry. Not only because the real lyrics were so beautiful, but also because of my shameful ignorance and idiotic interpretations. So here's my advice to all of you: always look up the lyrics before yo decide to sing along with any song...to save yourself some humiliation.