Rhyming as fast as you can run: a meditation
I was listening to Jackson Browne's "Your Bright Baby Blues" and I swear I heard one of the lines in the first verse was "Run as fast as you can rhyme." I played it back immediately because couplings of words like that don't come along that often. The line turns out to be more in line with the story the song is telling of the isolated observer watching people self-assuredly going places while the lonely singer-songwriter is pining either lost love, lost direction, or both: Everybody's going somewhere Riding just as fast as they can ride I guess they've got a lot to do Before they can rest assured Their lives are justified Pray to God for me baby He can let me slide As it is, the song is an interesting enough exploration of purpose and direction in one's life, but I am still intrigued by the misheard lyric: running as fast as you can rhyme. It is the sense/nonsense notion that appeals to me in the line. The juxtaposition of two dispe...