--- In [email protected], "Ellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> are you and/or the authors of the original article complaining about
> the lyrics themselves, or the fact that they don't rhyme well? 
> Because while the lyrics are terrible and grammatically atrocious,
> people rhyme liar and fire all the time with no problem.  I think it
> works in "light my fire" also by your favorite group the Doors.  Then
> there is always the perennial "liar liar pants on fire".  If it is
> just about bad lyrics in general, I think the esteemed Mr. Barry
> covered that in his classic work Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs.

No, I noticed as well that some of the rhymes in the article are
perfectly good as rhymes; clearly what's being objected to is the
contrived writing needed to get to them. And that's my problem with
'L.A. Woman': the entire line, "You know they are a liar" in which the
singular "a liar" disagrees with the plural "they are". 

David Patch

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