Blinded By the Light

genre

 * progressive rock

artist

 * Manfred Mann's Earth Band

album

 * The Roaring Silence

significance

 * a chart-topper

trivia

 * Subject of one of the most famous misheard lyrics of all time, "wrapped up like a douche". The actual lyric is "revved up like a deuce". The confusion comes from the V in "revved" not being pronounced and a lisp on the C in "deuce", having it come out "re'ed up like a deusz". A deuce is a deuce coupe, a type of hot rod. In the original version, done by Bruce Springsteen, the line is "Cut loose like a deuce".
 * The lyrics are mainly about a carnival