# I \*hate\* the switching of the person addressed in pop songs

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 21, 2014, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-switching-of-the-person-addressed-in-pop-songs/696064 "2014-08-21T03:29:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-switching-of-the-person-addressed-in-pop-songs/696064/21 "2014-08-26T22:06:26Z")

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Another good example is Sarah McLachlan’s song ‘Good Enough’. I think she’s great, and the song sounds great too. But the lyrics sort of flit around from one possible character or point of view to another, and I find it a little off-putting.

[Lyrics here](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahmclachlan/goodenough.html)

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**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-the-switching-of-the-person-addressed-in-pop-songs/696064/22 "2014-08-27T16:12:52Z")

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Paul McCartney was guilty of this early in his career, with the otherwise wonderful “And I Love Her”… the verses refer to her in the third person, but the bridge has the lyric “A love like ours will never die as long as I have you near me”. (He could just as easily have made it “… have her near me”.)

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