Walk a Thin Line

[MikeVielhaber]

Originally Posted by mitzo

I also hate the use of double negatives and "ain't" (if you do not talk like that why sing like that?) but FM seem to rarely play that game. This WATL horrendous "song" thing is a sort of exception.

You do a lot of things in songs that you wouldn't do in normal speech. You have to fit it with the music. How well does it scan? Is it the right amount of syllables? And so forth. My normal speech patterns don't rhyme and are not poetic.