Has anybody else ever listened to a song that you haven't heard in years and then spent the next few days feeling completely out of sorts due to hearing something in the song that you were absolutely sure didn't belong? So sure that even after tracking down other versions of the song and hearing the same thing, you still told yourself "Nope, I know exactly how that song goes, Willie is singing it wrong on his recording" even though he oughta know how it goes better than you do?
So the other day I posted Willie Nelson's version of a song, and as I listened to it, I couldn't believe (and still refuse to believe) that it always had the word "have" at the end of the first two lines. I feel like my whole life has been a lie. I know 100% for certain that the words are supposed to be:
Maybe I didn't love you quite as often as I could
Maybe I didn't treat you quite as good as I should
I feel like it must be a conspiracy by English teachers that don't like the sentences ending in could" or "should" and so they made Willie add the word "have" just to mess with me. And somehow they even managed to get the original Brenda Lee recording changed just to make me think I'm crazy.
Yep, that must be what it is, a conspiracy. Because I KNOW I'm right so everyone else must be wrong.