Reply To: A Laptop Like You: An Appreciation of the Lyrics
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”)
I love the shift in meaning of “like”
I’ve really started to appreciate these kinds of finer aspects of JoCo’s lyricism lately, and its clear that P&S picked up on it too and used both the above-mentioned aspects in “Live” i.e.
“Or is it someone too scared to understand/ And so they stand in love’s way”
“So I had to make her, but can I make her mine?”
Another example of the off-kilter rhyme is the whole “lay” thing that came up recently on the wiki as you pointed out Bry, it rhymes with the first syllable of “lady” from the previous line.
It’s this sort of stuff which makes JoCo’s songs so deliciously funny and brilliant, and sadly that’s often the hardest part to get someone else to appreciate when sharing his music with them. The best I’ve managed is to get my friend and my husband to enjoy “Re Your Brains” because “lol he’s a zombie but he talks like he works in an office” /sigh