Math Errors in Songs

By Saxon, track 20,000 feet, on album Strong Arm of the Law:

"Forget the time
Ten miles high
Living my fantasies
At twenty thousand feet
Twenty thousand feet, twenty thousand feet"

10 miles high is 52,800 feet
20,000 feet is 3.78 miles

jus' sayin'

 

"One And One Is One" Too much Medicine in the Head

 

2 + 2 = 5 is a great track by Radiohead

 

Unos, dos, tres, catorce!

 

He says "Quatro," yes?

 

"It was down in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home..."

 

Speaking of such, Professor Longhair's immortal "Go to the Mardi Gras":

"You will see the Zulu King
Down on St. Claude and Dumaine..."

Those streets don't actually intersect.

 

"In life, one and one don't make two... one and one make one" - noted mathematician Pete Townshend

 

2 + 2 = ? by the Bob Seger System. Garage punk masterpiece.

 

Nope. He sings, "Unos, dos, tres, catorce!" One, two, three, fourteen!

 

Love Minus Zero (No Limit)

 

Time passes slowly up here in the mountains.
Bob Dylan sang on New Morning.

This is incorrect, any solution to Einstein's field equations will have time passing just a little bit faster than at sea level, due to the mountains being a small amount further away from the center of mass of the earth

 

If we are talking about Kraftwerk, then yes, most definitely! After all these guys are very good with numbers!

 

No, I was thinking Woolly Bully.

 

Eight Days A Week

 

The only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk

That's two things.

 

"Eight Miles High" refers to the cruising altitude of commercial airliners which is actually 6 to 7 miles. "Eight" sounded better and also references the Beatles song.

 

And if he's on a drunk, will he get off him when the drunk sobers up?

 

Supertramp - The Logical Song:
"...1, 2, 3, 5"

Technically not an error? After all he merely decided to skip the number 4.

 

Apparently, Kate Bush makes an error in reciting decimal places of pi in the song "Pi" from Aerial. She sings "5 8 2 3 1" at the 51st place when she should have sung "5 8 2 0 9".

I think this can be forgiven.

 

Nilsson's "One" has the line:
"One is the number divided by two". But any number can be divided by 2, so ...

 

She's still perfect to me.

 

The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years from Home

See you on Aldebaran, safe on the green desert sand
It's so very lonely, you're two thousand light years from home
It's so very lonely, you're two thousand light years from home

(Aldebaran is about 65 light years from the solar system . Maybe it depends on where "home" is in the song.)