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In Christina Perri's song A Thousand Years, according to all lyrics websites at 1:46 the lyrics is "standing in front of me".
https://youtu.be/rtOvBOTyX00?t=106
But to my ear she clearly sings "in fries of me" which doesn't make sense, what did she sing actually?
She's saying "standing in front of me", as the lyrics say.
She either slightly mispronounces it (exhaling a little more air than she intended to) or the microphone distorted it a little, which makes the T slightly elongate and sound a bit like an S, which is where your ear is getting a little confused: but she's definitely singing "standing in front of me"
I'm fairly sure in this case that it's mostly due to bad mastering of the audio for this video: You can hear the same effect on other T and D sounds in the song, along with a "hiss" on S sounds, which become over-exaggerated and sound a little like static. If you listen to the album version of the song, her mispronunciation is still there, but it's far less obvious due to better audio
