# A clever but obscure detail about a song

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 10, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clever-but-obscure-detail-about-a-song/492693 "2009-04-10T21:53:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clever-but-obscure-detail-about-a-song/492693/1 "2009-04-10T21:53:54Z")

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My iPod screen reveals that in the song “Things Have Changed,” from the _Wonder Boys_ soundtrack, Bob Dylan sings “The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity” _exactly_ one minute before the end of the song. Never noticed that before.

Noticed anything like that in other songs? Lyrics, instruments, sound effects, tuning, tempo, etc.?

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clever-but-obscure-detail-about-a-song/492693/2 "2009-04-10T22:46:35Z")

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Okay, I’m revealing my age here, but…

When I first listened to Gordon Lightfoot’s [_Songs The Minstrel Sang_](http://www.metrolyrics.com/songs-the-minstrel-sang-lyrics-gordon-lightfoot.html) through stereo headphones, I was delighted that after Gord sang “When the sheriff was there”, the phrase “they were over here” emerged from the opposite headphone.