song lyrics

D'ya ever have the thing where you go years misunderstanding or misinterpreting lyrics to a song, and then the real meaning finally hits you? It's a weird experience, and I just had it with the Beatles' song 'She Said She Said'.

The song is on Revolver, and I've always (since I started listening to it when I was 9) thought it was a quirky, dark little song. Particularly because it (according to the lyrics as I understood them) apparently dealt with the dissolution of a relationship between a guy, and a woman who at some point had had a sex change operation, which she was now regretting, since things had been better when she was a boy. And that as a result of this regret, she was now in the midst of a suicidal depression, and the guy, instead of being comforting and supportive, was ditching her because he was too immature and superficial to be able to deal with the depth of her emotions.
(That's some heavy s**t for a 9-year-old!)

And most of my erroneous conclusions were based on punctuation. Or, the lack thereof.

The actual line goes like this:
She said, "You don't understand what I said." I said "No, no, no, you're wrong." When I was a boy everything was right. Everything was right.

But the way I had always heard it was this:
She said, "You don't understand what I said; I said, 'No, no, no, you're wrong. When I was a boy, everything was right. Everything was right.'"

Phew!