stackyFACTSYour auditory processing system is desperate to make sense of mumbling singers, so it actively hallucinates lyrics that are not there. A mondegreen happens when you confidently sing 'excuse me while I kiss this guy' instead of 'the sky'. Your perception fundamentally rewrites the artistic intent just because the audio was mildly ambiguous.
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