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" ... Even if you aren’t familiar with Kipling’s work, you have probably at least heard the first couplet of the poem: “If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...” ... "
" ... The best relationships — whether friends, romantic, working or even that fleeting one night hang — change us, make us better, make us grow. And in two lines Arthur summed up that as profoundly as Shakespeare himself could have. "When you showed me myself, I became someone else." If you were reading that line in a book or a poem you would stop dead in your tracks in awe. Here it's part of a perfect song, a song so good, Michael Stipe, alone, and with Chris Martin, and Peter Gabriel have covered it. "In The Sun," which I would also argue not only has the best lyric, but is arguably the best rock song of the twenty-first century, reminds me a great deal of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" and Reed and the Velvet Underground's "Pale Blue Eyes." Just like those two masterpieces do, "In The Sun" tells a vivid story that feels as much like a short film as it does a song. For the duration of the song they transport you into another world. If you can sum up the whole of human existence in a couplet it makes for the greatest song lyric of all time. ... "
" ... The song opens, "Never made it as a wise man/I couldn't cut it as a blind man stealing/Tired of living like a blind man/I'm sick of sight without a sense of feeling." One of the surest ways to write a bad lyric is to take yourself too damn seriously. And this couplet, coupled with Chad Kroeger's deep, booming, "I am an artist," vocal, just lends itself to be made fun of. ... "
" ... What Cain misses about Newspeak is that it isn’t at all like gerrymandering new linguistic territory so that the other side wins. It’s more like a sonnet, in which a confined space (just fourteen lines, traditionally three verses of four apiece followed by a rhyming couplet) produces some of the most surpassing, boundary-bashing expression in the history of the English language. Instead of thinking outside the box, it’s like building a better box. With any luck, we might hear, in Orwell’s refreshing words (describing the problem by enacting something of the solution), our timeworn phrases “tacked together like the sections of a pre-fabricated hen house.” ... "