{"id":17199,"date":"2018-03-27T10:45:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T17:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17199"},"modified":"2018-03-27T19:19:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T02:19:21","slug":"changing-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/03\/27\/changing-a-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing a word"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Country songs fairly often do this thing where the chorus or another repeated part of the song (possibly slightly altered each time) is recontextualized in each iteration to mean something different.<\/p>\r\n<p>I recently noticed a particularly well-done (imo) variation on that, in the 1992 song \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two_Sparrows_in_a_Hurricane\">Two Sparrows in a Hurricane<\/a>.\u201d The song starts out like this:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div class=\"stanza\">\r\n<p>She\u2019s fifteen and he\u2019s barely driving a car.<\/p>\r\n<p>She\u2019s got his ring and he\u2019s got the keys to her heart.<\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s just a matter of time.<\/p>\r\n<p>They\u2019ll spread their wings and fly.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>And then toward the end of the song, that verse is repeated, with one number changed:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div class=\"stanza\">\r\n<p>She\u2019s eighty-three and he\u2019s barely driving a car.<\/p>\r\n<p>She\u2019s got his ring and he\u2019s got the keys to her heart.<\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s just a matter of time.<\/p>\r\n<p>They\u2019ll spread their wings and fly.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Which completely changes the meaning of the verse.<\/p>\r\n<p>So now I\u2019m interested in other examples of songs in which a part of the song is repeated, with one word different, to change the meaning. Any suggestions?<\/p>\r\n<p>Feel free to also toss in your own one-word-alterations of lyrics if you like.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17289,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17199\/revisions\/17289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}