Inspired indirectly by Rick Massimo's comment on
this thread, regarding "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream":
It's in there for no reason except to set up the rhyme "He said his name was Columbus and I just said 'good luck'."
I always thought that if he recorded the song about 10 years later, he could've said "I asked the captain what his name was, as if I gave a fuck."
This clicked with me, since I have always heard Natalie Imbruglia sing "I don't care, I have no luck, I don't really give a fuck." "I don't miss it all that much"??! It sounds like they rewrote it at the last second to make it "clean" (and for all I know, on the CD she swears!).
Also inspired by listening to "Zooropa" today for the first time, and one of the many things that gave me the giggles was the part where Bono fails to come up with this obvious wonderful completion:
My father is a rich man
He wears a rich man's cloak
Gave me the keys to His kingdom
Gave me a cup of Coke
Maybe "cup of gold" is more weighty and religious or something, but I mean, you've got "cloak" right there! Other examples? This could be a fun one.
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 16 September 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)
barney sumner's entire lyrical oeuvre to thread.
(of course, barney's at his best when words fail to rhyme and he instinctively fills in with something way better that, er, doesn't rhyme either, eg: "the sign that leads the way/the path we cannot take/you've caught me at a bad time/so why don't you piss off" and, rather more wonderfully, the moment of impromptu live genius that was: "how many times before/could you tell i didn't care/when you reached out in your sleep/and felt my big fat cock".)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)
Not really the same, but sometimes I mentally merge two lines from two different songs that rhyme. Example "Blackbird singing in the dead of night/come lads let's have a little fight."
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)
Merging: A buddy of mine always turns "It's all right, Ma, I'm only bleeding" into "It's all right, John, I'm only dancing," which is surely an improvement! (The Bowie song would probably also benefit from the swap although it's less dramatic there somehow...)
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)
"Jenny, Jenny, you're the girl for me / You don't know me but you make me so . . ." obviously should have been "horny" instead of "happy."
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)
I am still angry with Brian Eno for rhyming "very clever with maracas" with "selling second-hand tobaccos" (which sounds like sub-Monty Python crap) instead of something having to do with "Caracas," esp. because the characters are named Juanita and Juan!
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)