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skalie
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Papa was a rolling stone....

....and anywhere he left his hat was his home....

...and when he died........

.........aaaallll he left us was..._________?

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What are you on?

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alone.

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skalie
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quote:
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what's going on?

....antibiotics, cheap beer, overanxiety and lack of sleep.......

and you?

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Sabine
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well.. well..

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skalie
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"all" he left us = noun
alone = adjective
a loan = noun

???

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Sabine
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I don't think lyrics are the best example of correct english grammer/spelling or anything else.

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skalie
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quote:
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I don't think lyrics are the best example of correct english grammer/spelling or anything else.

Best example of words to put to music, so far.

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Chew on this one, then:

Come into the garden, Maud...

...for the black bat, night, has flown...............

come into the garden, Maud,

....I am here at the gate..._________?

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And mama?

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hack-sawed?

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Mugtoe
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alone, dumbass

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Cage
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This is a bit of a reach back to junior high school, but I am fairly certain that, in sentences where the verb is a linking verb (as opposed to an action), it is legal to apply a predicate adjective to the subject of the sentence.

e.g.:
I am hot.

"I" is the subject. "am" is the linking verb, and "hot" is a predicate adjective.

It's a legitimate sentence, in spite of the facts:
"I" = noun
and
"hot" = adjective

So "alone" is gramatically correct in the example above.

Pedant.

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Well, attempted pedant, anyway. I'm not sure you're actually a pedant if you're wrong.

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Peter_Torque
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Grampa Loved The Rolling Stones (Bob Rivers' "Twisted Tunes"

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skalie
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*bows down to popular opinion*

, but.......

..........wouldn't it have been simpler if the lyrics had read.....

"but when he died, he left us all alone"

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Talarohk
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quote:
Originally posted by skalie
but.......

..........wouldn't it have been simpler if the lyrics had read.....

"but when he died, he left us all alone"

Simpler, yes.
"The question is whether or not to be, and whether it's better to just take crap or fight back and win."
Also simpler.

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skalie
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That didn't make sense Tal.

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quote:
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I don't think lyrics are the best example of correct english grammer/spelling or anything else.

Especially the Stones.

I can't get no.....sat-tis-fac-shun.

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Peter_Torque
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quote:
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I don't think lyrics are the best example of correct english grammer/spelling or anything else.

My favorite example is from Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die: ;

"~... and in this ever-changing world in which we live in, makes you gimmupabye...~"

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Musashi
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quote:
Originally posted by skalie
*bows down to popular opinion*

, but.......

..........wouldn't it have been simpler if the lyrics had read.....

"but when he died, he left us all alone"

i thought that actually is how the song goes

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Talarohk
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quote:
Originally posted by skalie
That didn't make sense Tal.

Apologies. What I was trying to say was that the lyrics are a creative and clever wordplay, "all he left us was alone". It could be simpler, yes, but that would remove the cleverness. The intended comparison was to Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be". I was trying to show that it could also be phrased much more simply, but that doing so removes the beauty of the words.
What I ended up doing, though, was to make myself pedantic and confusing. Sorry!