Hi all,

I am enjoying this thread, and I'll admit to being the world's worst at hearing lyrics correctly, mainly because I focus more on the melody/musical arrangements. They could be singing pure drivel and I wouldn't care as long aas I like the music. On the other hand I never could understand other people's fascination with Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen because musically I (IMHO) think they belong in kindergarten.

Enough of this - 2 things:

The 3 mistaken lyrics I can think of straight away, and I know I'm part of a huge crowd in the first 2 instances.

Jimmy Hendrix - "scuse me while I kiss this guy" and I was so impressed with him coming out of the closet in such a spectacular and international way, until I realised that it is "kiss the sky"

Manfred Mann's Earth Band: "wrapped up like a douche" - don't ask me what that line really is, I have no idea.

A TV ad for Seiko watches: I could have sworn the jingle said "Seiko, losing time with Cheryl Ladd" until I finally worked out that it was "moves in time"

Secondly, have you seen this website? It's totally devoted to misheard lyrics. http://www.wco.com/~arsenio/tool/

The site is called "Tool Mondegreens" because of a misheard folk lyric - you'll have to look it up, I can't remember which tune it was.

Helen