I love U2 but the lyrics to 'All Because of You' wasn't one of their best moments: 'I like the sound of my own voice/I never gave anyone else a choice/an intellectual tortoise....'
Trying to rhyme 'voice' and 'tortoise' is pushing what's possible in the name of assonance to the absolute limit.
Great article! 😆
How about Duran Duran's belter from "Is There Something I Should Know?" -
Don't say you're easy on me
You're about as easy as a nuclear war
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I love U2 but the lyrics to 'All Because of You' wasn't one of their best moments: 'I like the sound of my own voice/I never gave anyone else a choice/an intellectual tortoise....'
Trying to rhyme 'voice' and 'tortoise' is pushing what's possible in the name of assonance to the absolute limit.
Hi Philip,
" Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" Puff Daddy : Young, Black and Famous with Money hangin' out the anus
On a loop in MDC.
I play with this Kitty like you play with your guitar. Maroon 5 ft. Caardie B
Am sure Oscar W had a quote to encapsulate their literary wothiness..
Malcolm