Saturday, January 6, 2024

"She Loves the Way They Love Her"

I was reviewing the bass part in the Into the Afterlife version of "She Loves the Way They Love Her" recently, and two days ago, I was thinking specifically about the line "Dreaming dreams of future time when she and me are all alone."  This may be just coincidental (the contexts are quite different), but a similar cognate accusative construction occurs in Joel 2:28, later cited in Acts 2:17:  "your old men shall dream dreams."

While verifying the lyrics yester-day, I also realized that since "lie" in the line "She loves ev'ry sweet-talkin' lie" is sung with a melisma (A E), there's a sense of number (for "ev'ry").