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To: Skooz
And "A Day in the Life" is only interesting because of the change in musical styles (see "Bohemian Rhapsody" for an excellent use of this), but the poetry is stilted. Hotel California has plays on words: "Tiffany twisted", "Mercedes bends". It has metaphors: Dancing, voices, dinners. It has a better vocabulary: "shimmering", "corridor". The Beatles would have had to work around "shiny" and "hallway".
127 posted on 11/17/2003 4:29:54 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: AmishDude
As a third rate, hack, amateur poet, I must respectfully disagree.

The flow of the lyrics is superb, like pouring water from a jar. It is pleasing to hear as well as read. It is anything but stilted, and certainly not forced.

It's actually quite good.
133 posted on 11/17/2003 4:34:03 PM PST by Skooz (We keep you alive to serve this ship. Row well, and live.)
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"And "A Day in the Life" is only interesting because of the change in musical styles"

I'm speechless
137 posted on 11/17/2003 4:36:40 PM PST by republicofdavis
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