Flawed lyrics

“I swear to God I’ll survive, if it kills me”

Lewis Capaldi- Survive

Can’t believe no one noticed the problem with that before they released it.

‘I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me’

Mountain Goats

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Closing time, time for you to go out
To the places you will be from

Wut? What kind of nonsensical word salad is that?

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Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses

So annoying

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Yeah hes nicked that and all the swine

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Said it before and I’ll say it again but ‘tell me what you think about me’ is not a question.

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Are we human or are we dancer

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I was more thinking of things along the lines of “At Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender” in ABBA’s ‘Waterloo’ which is factually incorrect as Napoleon abdicated rather than surrendered.

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I’ve been to the year 3000
Not much has changed but we live underwater

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I keep it 300, like the Romans
Three hundred bitches, where the Trojans?

Lots going on in those two lines

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Paging @AlanisMorrissette

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Concrete jungle where dreams are made of

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You’re something like a phenomena

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Ah I like that line, it ties nicely into the idea that “every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end”

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“I wrote this song two hours before we met”

Bit presumptuous there, Jarv

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Also your great great great grandaughter is at least 750 years old.

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Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded?

Um, that’s where we are right now?

Her stories are boring and stuff
She’s always calling my bluff

Love that record but that is such a clanking rhyme.

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Frank Oceans verse on Earl’s track Sunday.
“Your hickeys on my aorta and tattoos you could only see”. Surely that should be ‘tattoos only you could see’

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“They’re burning all the witches even if you aren’t one” - Taylor Swift

Would be really convenient if there was a short, snappy term for this, and she could’ve avoided this awkward meter. But as we all know, there isn’t.

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