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Post by nowwesayitoutloud on Feb 5, 2007 4:08:53 GMT -5
"He knows you like the back of his hand". The twist to that cliché: read like as an active verb. Maybe that's not really his intent, but after about a year I started hearing it that way. It took me five years, but it suddenly dawned on me too that "like" could be a verb there.
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Post by kgp on Feb 5, 2007 10:42:36 GMT -5
"He knows you like the back of his hand". The twist to that cliché: read like as an active verb. Maybe that's not really his intent, but after about a year I started hearing it that way. It took me five years, but it suddenly dawned on me too that "like" could be a verb there. I'd completely forgotten I'd written that. I've noticed there are a lot of songs where he (Paul as narrator) is a third-party observer -- not the bad boyfriend, but someone watching this go on and being relatively powerless to stop it. It makes me think of (and I guess gives weight to) that article where he said he really understands women because he had a lot of sisters. He's kind of putting himself in that sympathetic, older brother role.
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Post by brady on Feb 16, 2007 17:34:20 GMT -5
My Dad is unquestionably underated. Paul seems to shoot from the hip of his heart and describe his dad way better than prose ever could. I feel like I know Paul, Paul's dad, and their relationship after hearing the tune. I also drew a connection between this song and this famous painting --> www.artlex.com/ArtLex/s/images/symbol_eyck_arnolph_lg.jpgThe inanimate objects Paul uses to describe Pops Westerberg are similar to those used in this painting to describe the two's wedding.
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