| re: I wonder why he's never altered the lyrics. |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 08:38 pm EST 02/22/20 |
| Posted by: Chromolume 08:27 pm EST 02/22/20 |
| In reply to: I wonder why he's never altered the lyrics. - Amiens 08:09 pm EST 02/22/20 |
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Good point. He has occasionally altered other lyrics - sometimes wholesale rewrites ("Now You Know" for instance), sometimes just a word or a phrase ("husband YOKED to wife," or the "fag" rhyme in the original "You Could Drive a Person Crazy"). Maybe he's just never come up with anything else that works as well - or he feels that the original lyric is so iconic to most people that changing it would just be too much of a problem?
One change that I'm glad hasn't seemed to take hold - this phrase from Sweeney:
(original)
Sweeney pondered and Sweeney planned,
Like a perfect machine 'e planned.
(proposed revision)
Sweeney pondered and Sweeney planned,
Like a fucking machine 'e planned.
I hate that revision. I get the more emphatic nature of the revision, but it seems to call attention to itself in an odd way (the f-word always does lol). Also, I just think that the image of a "perfect machine" is so much more apt in context. |
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