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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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Songwriting (urgent!)
0 Hi, I have an urgent question. 02 br
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00 I'm a songwriter, right now I'm writing the lyrics for a new song (Have I been missing out?). 02 br
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00 I'd like to use this sentence: " I'm ready to move on, I'm willing to let the bygones be gone by". 02 br
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00 My question: Can I say/sing ".. 01 b 00 be gone by 02 b 00 " ? I know it's more common to say let bygones be bygones, or bygones be gone etc, but my sentence has to end with "by"..because of the rhyme...so...anyone..? Please..? Thanks in advance! 0-
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00 I'm a songwriter, right now I'm writing the lyrics for a new song (Have I been missing out?). 02 br
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00 I'd like to use this sentence: " I'm ready to move on, I'm willing to let the bygones be gone by". 02 br
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00 My question: Can I say/sing ".. 01 b 00 be gone by 02 b 00 " ? I know it's more common to say let bygones be bygones, or bygones be gone etc, but my sentence has to end with "by"..because of the rhyme...so...anyone..? Please..? Thanks in advance! 0-
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0 that's not the question Mr Micawber... 02 br
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00 Mr Brownstone ;-) 0-
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00 Mr Brownstone ;-) 0-
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01 cite 10 Anonymous 12 cite 10 Hi, I have an urgent question. 12 br
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0 Thanx Goodman for your kind suggestion, but I'm not really looking for another way to put it, I'd just like to know if I can put it like this? The last part of the sentence I mean.. " I'm ready to move on, I'm willing to let the bygones 01 b 00 be gone by 02 b 00 ". 02 br
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00 I'm foreign you see, English is not my native language..so I don't know for sure
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00 I'm foreign you see, English is not my native language..so I don't know for sure
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0 Hi guys, 02 br
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00 As MrM has noted, it's a song so the writer has a lot of freedom. 02 br
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00 Literate song-writers typically play with words, word-order, etc. Less literate song-writers just use bad grammar because they don't know any better. I have better grammar than a lot of song-writers,but they often sell millions of CDs and get rich, and I don't
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00 As MrM has noted, it's a song so the writer has a lot of freedom. 02 br
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00 Literate song-writers typically play with words, word-order, etc. Less literate song-writers just use bad grammar because they don't know any better. I have better grammar than a lot of song-writers,but they often sell millions of CDs and get rich, and I don't
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0 Clive said it all. 02 br
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00 To me, if the lyrics is in rhyme, it sounds better, but that's just me 0-
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00 To me, if the lyrics is in rhyme, it sounds better, but that's just me 0-
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0 Oke, then..thanx a lot guys! I guess it's alright then.. 02 br
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00 And Clive, you're right.. the next sentence goes (following after "...be gone by"): " Ï'm ready to walk on, shedding my old skin, keep my head up high." ....so you see, it does rhyme after all! 05 0 010id 1
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00 And Clive, you're right.. the next sentence goes (following after "...be gone by"): " Ï'm ready to walk on, shedding my old skin, keep my head up high." ....so you see, it does rhyme after all! 05 0 010id 1
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