偷看一眼 sounds like "Ta kan yi yan": wrong lyrics (as happened with 一切都这么美好 which is sung as 一切都变得美好) or weird pronunciation?

Question

In the song 忘不了 by Teresa Teng (lyrics here), one line goes:

偷看一眼

That is, according to online lyrics. Except in this video, both at 00:25-00:26 and at 1:18-1:20, I hear:

Ta kan yi yan

So are the lyrics wrong, or is it me mishearing, perhaps its /t^hau/ with the /u/ being almost undetectable, and that is some regional/dialectal pronunciation? How should it be spelt if "Ta kan yi yan" actually makes sense?

Edit

While browsing Youku to respond to @dan's comment with a Youku video, I found this, where the line is:

他看一眼

That certainly matches the sounds I hear, but what does it mean?

Answer 1

Trying to make sense of a tweet-length song is hard, but since the song is from a romance movie in 1980, it could be a boy meeting a girl for the first time.

• His first glance warmed her and brightened her world.
• His second glance established the fond love and sealed her fate.

That is all I can think of.