Deb Messling wrote:
> OTOH, I can think of instances where she overlooks the obvious rhyme in
> favor of a word she likes better. (Emily Dickinson did the same thing). An
> early version of A Case of You has her rhyming "live in a box of paints"
> with "drawn to those ones that ain't." In the recorded version, she adds
> the word "afraid," which blows the meter as well as the rhyme, but clarifies
> the meaning.
Every time I hear this I want to tell her to leave off the word "afraid".
It messes up a brilliant couplet.
Everything else she has done lyrically is perfekt.
RR
