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While processing music submissions today, I came upon one collector who had submitted his complete Jimi Hendrix collection, including really nice front and back covers. One of the albums was Kiss The Sky, which immediately put a big smile on my face.

One of the numbers on this album is Purple Haze. Part of the lyrics:

Purple Haze was in my brain,
lately things don’t seem the same,
actin’ funny but I don’t know why
’scuse me while I kiss the sky.

The song’s lyric ‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky’ has been widely misheard as ‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy’. And that brings me to one of the most hilarious music related sites ever: The Archive of Misheard Lyrics, Kissthisguy.com. Yes, named after this famous faux pas, but rest assured more lyrics are misheard and messed up like this one.

Browse the Archive on Artist or Song title and find out if you sing it like it’s supposed to be or if you have created your own version. My personal misheard lyric is from The Police, ‘Message in a bottle’ (mostly misheard as ‘Massage in a brothel’). The real lyric is ‘A year has passed since I wrote my note’. But I always thought Sting sang ‘A year has passed since I broke my nose’. It didn’t make sense to me but I always thought that Sting had a really good reason for singing it, hey, it’s his song. When I found out what the real lyric was it all came together: he wrote a note and put it in the bottle. It never hurt his nose

Next to the real and misheard lyrics which is already a funread, the lyrics ‘victim’ can also post the embarassing moment of revelation. And to no surprise this is 9 out of 10 times *really* embarassing: while singing loudly with the music and surrounded by all your friends. Who laugh at you (not with you this time) and correct you instantly. So visit the Archive and check your favorite artist. You might want to prevent your embarassing moment…