Kelly Clarkson tried to cover a classic rock song — and it almost ‘killed’ her

Those high notes? Not a problem. The lyrics? That’s another story.

Just when you thought Kelly Clarkson could sing anything, she’s been taken down by a Jon Bon Jovi song.

On June 6, “The Kelly Clarkson Show” shared a blooper-filled video of its host repeatedly mixing up the lyrics to Bon Jovi’s 1990 hit “Blaze of Glory” for a “Kellyoke” segment.

“That is the song that almost killed me,” Clarkson jokes in the video’s intro. “Not even because I can’t sing it, I just can’t read.”

Clarkson goes on to explain that the song’s high notes weren’t the problem. Its lyrics? That’s another story.

“Here’s the thing. I grew up on that song, I know that song. But in rehearsal, I messed it up, like, a gazillion times,” says the Grammy winner. “Not even because I wasn’t hitting the notes. I just couldn’t read. I just kept saying the wrong words.”

The situation became “so ridiculous,” says Clarkson, that she had to “let it go like Elsa,” referring to the “Frozen” character’s signature song.

“And then I had someone come rescue me,” she adds.

The hilarious video then shows Clarkson mangling her way through the lyrics of “Blaze of Glory” while performing it with her backing band.

The first time she blunders, Clarkson stops and tells her studio audience, “Oh, man, my learning disability kicked in and I said, ‘Let the boy like die a man.’ Yep. And it’s definitely not that.”

After another mistake moments later, she raises her hand in frustration, uttering an obscenity.

Clarkson pauses to work out her frustration by emitting a blood-curdling scream before diving back into the song …. only to screw up its lyrics again.

“Let me fake —” she sings, catching herself. Then, to her audience, she yells, “Let me fake my final stand?!” before sliding down to the floor in embarrassment.

The fourth time she derails the song, Clarkson raises her hands to her head in anger. “I can’t say the right words!” she tells her audience.

The video’s footage then switches to a moment when guest Jon Bon Jovi arrives.

“Look who it is, Jon Bon Jovi,” the show’s announcer tells the audience as the rocker walks over to greet Clarkson.

Clarkson falls to her feet, bowing before the singer. “I can’t say the right words!” she tells him after the two hug each other.