Caught here in a foreign place

The story:

As the singer sings the word "fiery", he simplifies the "long I" sound to ahh when singing this song, something that is often done in rock And he also sore of clips the "long e" sound at the end of the word, so it sounds sort of like a "short I". So the word "fiery" sort of sounds like FAHHHHR-ih.

Now, in my accent (I'm from the East Coast) I pronounce the word foreign like FAR-in, rather than FOR-in, as most Americans do. So when the singer pronounced fiery like FAR-ih, I just figured he was saying "foreign".

The words "blaze" and "place" sound similar enough that, once I misheard the word "fiery", and thought he was saying foreign, when I heard the next word, which was really "blaze", I figured he was saying "place"