Ah, well, I don't want to start (again) the argument about songwriters
versus poets, but until I go listen to the song, I won't really know
how good or bad that quoted lyric is. On the page (screen), it's not
much to me. Well, of course I want to: songs are NOT poems. There.
For a wonderful version of what we might call 'popular poetry' (or at
least verse), try:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7tvdNVZ4Cw>
It's been around for awhile, but I didn't know about it till a friend
poiinted me there.
Doug
On 8-Jun-07, at 4:11 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> It's Nick Cave's fault!
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