Says the person who backed up their opinion with a video of a band that is conspicuously not the 1971 Doors.
I wasn’t referring to internet lyric sites, precisely because they’re outrageously inaccurate. I was referring to printed lyrics from 1971 onwards, and sat here wracking my brain trying to remember if I have any of those sources in my possession. Old books or magazines, LP liners. Nope. Knowing that I was right isn’t much of a cite.
I gave up, posted my response, and about 60 seconds later it dawned on me that I happen to own the new uber-definitive collection of Jim’s poems and lyrics, including photos (where available) of the handwritten originals. Furthermore, that 600 page book is in my Kindle which had literally been right there in my lap all the while.
So the “Christ sake” and all caps represented me slapping my own forehead, not that there was any way you or anybody else could have known it.
Great. I’m now someone who talks to himself and posts it online.
My apologies to Lucas_Jackson. I was under a tremendous amount of stress yesterday and the day before, I was prickly, not quite myself, and shouldn’t have been posting online. While I hope this explains my verbal outburst, it doesn’t excuse it.
Again, I apologize.
Except if you say “these”, you GET a rhyme with both the second and third lines, capping with the fourth. And the way its sung is commonly mistaken to be that way because that’s how it sounds.
Then you get a bunch of you/you/you/abused rhymes anyway. So it never struck my ear as some innovative structure, just bad rhyming.
I hate it when people sing it as “these” . I mean, the way Annie sings it does sound like “these” but then the line doesn’t make sense. It’s as if people think it has to rhyme with “seas”. That being said, it occurs to me now that I’ve never actually looked up the lyrics; it could be “these”, for all I know.
No, it’s brilliant. You expect "cup of tea, but get “cup of meat”. Like Shakespeare saying “sea of troubles” instead of “host of troubles”. (Thanks to I. Asimov for that comparison.)
(but it never bothered me. It’s such a great song that I don’t even ever noticed structural shortcomings)
. I mean, the way Annie sings it does sound like “these” but then the line doesn’t make sense. It’s as if people think it has to rhyme with “seas”. That being said, it occurs to me now that I’ve never actually looked up the lyrics; it could be “these”, for all I know.