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To: nanetteclaret
unless you think the writing in “Big Yellow Taxi” was vapid and lyrical

Indeed I do.

The primary purpose of a lyric is that it fits the music and that it rhymes and scans. If it also contains a memorable turn of phrase or an interesting verbal pattern like alliteration - "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot" - (5 p's in 12 syllables) then it's a bonus.

The lyrics for Jim Morrison's "Love Me Two Times" or T. Rex's "Mambo Sun" aren't deep, but they are lyrical.

52 posted on 09/25/2007 11:51:46 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake

OK. Moot point now, anyway, since I tired of her music 30 years ago.


55 posted on 09/25/2007 12:09:58 PM PDT by nanetteclaret (Our Lady's Hat Society)
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To: wideawake

The lyrics for Jim Morrison’s “Love Me Two Times” or T. Rex’s “Mambo Sun” aren’t deep, but they are lyrical...

...one could say the same thing for John’s Gospel...his word stock throughout is sparse and repetitious, but is there anything more lyrical than his prologue to the Gospel...


78 posted on 09/27/2007 5:59:59 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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