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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:00 pm 
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What do you call a camel with three humps?

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What songs that you otherwise enjoy have lines that are missing syllables, don't rhyme correctly, or otherwise have a meter that throws you way out of the song?

One good example is this lyric from Steve Miller Band's "Rock 'n Me"

"Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A./Noooooooorthern California..."


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 Post subject: Missing a syllable!
PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:33 pm 
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Loneliness was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid...

That third line always bugged me. Too many syllables jammed in there, throws off the meter.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:09 pm 
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From "Hurricane":

"we want to put his ass in the stir,
we want to pin this triple murrrrder on him,
he ain't no Gentleman Jim."

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 2:01 am 
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What do you call a camel with three humps?

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"Throw me in the shadow water/Before I get too deep"

"Water" doesn't fit.


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:45 am 
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Steve wrote:
"Throw me in the shadow water/Before I get too deep"

"Water" doesn't fit.

I thought it was shallow water.

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 Post subject: Missing a syllable!
PostPosted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:18 pm 
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What do you call a camel with three humps?

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Dr. Chris Evil wrote:
Steve wrote:
"Throw me in the shadow water/Before I get too deep"

"Water" doesn't fit.

I thought it was shallow water.

Of course it is. One o' them late-night typos.

Here's another missing syllable:

"It's my way or the highway/This Christmas at my ba-a-a-aaar
I'll have to break your kneecaps if you bastards touch my car"


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