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Many people have misheard the lyric “kiss the sky” as “kiss this guy,” and while that’s wrong, very few people ever listened to Jimi Hendrix for the lyrics, so don’t lose sleep over it ...
Here are 15 of our favorite misheard lyrics in popular culture: 'We Built This City' Starship, 1985. What you thought you heard: "We built this city on sausage rolls."
A mondegreen (/ ˈ m ɒ n d ɪ ˌ ɡ r iː n / ⓘ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. [1] Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense.
A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Lynne shouts "Bruce!" In the liner notes of the ELO compilation Flashback and elsewhere, Lynne has explained that he is singing a made-up word, "Groos", which some have suggested sounds like the German expression "Gruß", meaning "greeting."
Two books which each gather over 500 misheard lyrics submitted to the site have been published. Hold Me Closer Tony Danza (and Other Misheard Lyrics) (October 28, 2007). Charles R. Grosvenor Jr , Sasquatch Books , ISBN 1-57061-533-0 and Hit Me With Your Pet Shark (and Other Misheard Lyrics) (October 1, 2008).
More of the perplexing misheard lyrics in the category included "The Reverend Blue Jeans" from Neil Diamond's "Forever in Blue Jeans," and "Just brush my teeth before you leave me, baby," from ...
The lyrics are famously easy to mishear. A 2010 survey found that the chorus line "Call me when you try to wake her up" was the most misheard lyric in the UK, beating second-place "Purple Haze", with the most common mishearing according to the survey being "calling Jamaica". [6]
In the late 1970s, this particular track appeared in a Top 10 of misheard lyrics (and is often on similar forums online). [ citation needed ] This was compiled by Noel Edmonds and the misheard lyric sounds like: "Because the best love songs are written with a broken arm ," as opposed to the correct lyrics "Because the best love songs are ...