--- Mark or Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob wrote:
> 
> > > It SHOULD be "you began to hang me up", right? >
> >
> 
> But as far as the sequencing of the words 'hang up
> me' goes, setting
> the double entendre aside, I think she's emphasizing
> 'me'.  In other
> words, you painted all of those other women and then
> you started to
> paint *me*.  I don't think you would get quite the
> same meaning from
> 'you began to hang me up'.

I agree with your point and also what you said about
grammar.  Songs are more like conversational speech
and conversational speech isn't always grammatically
or semantically correct - but people usually
understand you anyway.
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