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Originally posted by sodascouts
Hi,

Stevie has made a very common error in that she hasn't kept her verbs consistent.

"I should have turned away and ran" might sound OK at first to some people, but let's take out the "turned away" and see what's left: "I should have ran." Obviously that's wrong. Both verbs have to be in that "have" tense to match up. Correct: "I should have turned away and run."

The other mistake is the "can." Again, tense-related problem here. "Should" matched up with "could," not "can." "I should have turned away and run as fast as I could."

I think the reason no one fixed it is because the mistakes, ran/can, are the words that make up the rhyme. Stevie would have had to make a lyrical change- she couldn't have just replaced the words. I guess it was a case of two wrongs making a right, in their eyes. lol

Thanks!

Maybe it was one of the cases where Stevie refused to change her lyrics, like they discussed in the Mark and Brian show. Who knows.