Lyrics of the song "And you my love" by Chris Rea
I have been wondering for several years why the lyrics for this song is:
"For I know full and well tonight
This is how that I must pay"
What in the world is the purpose of that that? You may think that it's added to help the song flow better musically, but in fact it's the opposite. It creates an awkward point in the song where Chris Rea must pronounce that very quickly. Grammatically, it sounds awful to me. I've been thinking about this weird line for several years and I guess today my curiosity has finally reached a breaking point. Has anyone got a clue? Is this a British/Irish thing? Btw the song is otherwise very good and worth listening to 
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For one thing, the expression is "full well", not "full and well", so his language credentials are weak going in. As for your "that", it is not possible in my US dialect, but it is within poetic license because the grammar adds up. Then again, he's from Middlesbrough, which means that his dialect will include many locutions that will sound alien to the rest of us, and this might be one of them.
- For one thing, the expression is "full well", not "full and well", so his language credentials are weak going in.
- As for your "that", it is not possible in my US dialect, but it is within poetic license because the grammar adds up.
- Then again, he's from Middlesbrough, which means that his dialect will include many locutions that will sound alien to the rest of us, and this might be one of them.
- I wouldn't lose sleep over it, if I were you.
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For one thing, the expression is "full well", not "full and well", so his language credentials are weak going in. As for your "that", it is not possible in my US dialect, but it is within poetic license because the grammar adds up. Then again, he's from Middlesbrough, which means that his dialect will include many locutions that will sound alien to the rest of us, and this might be one of them
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