Reply To: A Laptop Like You: An Appreciation of the Lyrics
I enjoyed this post a lot, geeklikemetoo. I would’ve been interested to see some intra-canon analysis and comparison, a little of which has been mentioned in the comments before. It’s certainly not the only use of that particular kind of “off-kilter” rhyme (first one that springs mindwards is The Future Soon — “make dolphins speak / … spend my nights and weekends”), and as Mark says, the delay before reaching the true subject of the song is something we see in First of May and Millionaire Girlfriend (and others, of course) as well. I love the shift in meaning of “like” (which is the same thing Jutze played off of, in his German “Code Monkey”). I sound awfully negative, I fear — I want to stress that you really did do a good job of getting me to reconsider a song I hadn’t spent much time thinking about.