Painfully stilted grammar used to force rhymes

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I.e. "I laughed at all your jokes/My love you didn't have to coax" from Maggie May by Rod Stewart.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I sure hope this is an isolated incident in pop music.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"there's no bee-ginning, there's be no-o end / cause on my-y luv, you CAN DEPEND"

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― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"there's no beginning" etc.: i don't think this one can be re-arranged into an actual statement that makes sense

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

My music teacher at school managed to make it even worse.

"there's no bee-ginning, there's be no-o end / but oh my love, I will be your friend"

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Though thinking about it, that doesn't so much force the rhyme as just sound shit.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 27 November 2003 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

bob wratten to thread

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 27 November 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Noel G to thread.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Ashcroft too.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"like a bird that flew, tangled up in blue" - Bob Dylan

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 28 November 2003 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"the only thing i knew how to do was keep on keepin' on, like a bird that flew/tangled up in blue"

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

boy i really missed you,
and all i wanna do it kiss you.
i used up all my tissues
cos theres more seriouser issues.

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 28 November 2003 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Other then the first example, none of these are really stitled grammar use.

― David Allen, Friday, 28 November 2003 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The second one is stilted too.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 28 November 2003 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"Generals gathered in their masses/just like witches at black masses" -- Ozzy Osbourne.

The zen state of couplets, because what could be a better rhyme than the SAME WORD? As such, it transcends grammar.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 28 November 2003 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this thread's premise implies inversion of word order in some form

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 28 November 2003 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't feel like figuring out what's goin on; so, does Keith Murray's entire first album count??

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 28 November 2003 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that song, but Lauren is totally right.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 November 2003 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yea, all day and nighttime yours, leave me never

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Although brilliant

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Genetic engineering to create a perfect race
could create an unknown lifeforce that could us exterminate"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"I don't really need to be the way I are
I don't really need to always go so far"

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"Slowly I picked my life up
Nowadays I pick the wife up
She works at marks and spencers
La la la Lech Walensas"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I think there must be a comma missing in that quote from "Maggie May".
'My love, you didn't need to coax' - isn't that much nicer?

Worse than "War Pigs" is "Spiderwebs" by No Doubt:
"No matter who calls
I gotta screen my phonecalls". Ergh.

― Schwingung (Damian), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

technically it's 'no matta matta matta matta who calls / I gotta scee-ee-ee-ee-een my phonecalls'

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Robbie Williams owns

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

James Hetfield to thread.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Robbie Williams - Monsoon (Chorus)

"So put your hands across the water
Mushroom
Monsoon
Come soon"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa, I really did savagely edit that No Doubt song!

― Schwingung (Damian), Friday, 28 November 2003 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Cuz if you ever need to find me, you know where I are
...With ME AND MY BASS GUITAR!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 28 November 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"I am an antichrist/I am an anar-chist"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

actually probably not so much a grammar mistake as an intentionally mispronounced word. but it's still pretty funny.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

How about an archaic pronoun used in a totally inappropriate context?
I'm thinking of Rogers' and Edwards' otherwise utterly fantastic composition for Diana Ross, Upside Down:

I say to thee, respectfully
I'm aware that you're cheatin'...

"Thee"? Huh. Let's boogie with the King James Bible, y'all.

― Palomino (Palomino), Sunday, 30 November 2003 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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