Saturday, December 28, 2024

Comic rhymes and lines in Nick Cave songs

In my Nick Cave listening, I've been highly amused by his wit, especially in his rhymes, as in the rhymes for "Gibraltar" in "Rock of Gibraltar" ("Nocturama", 2003): "falter", "alter", "altar", and "Malta". There's also the rhyme of "hysteria" and "wisteria" in "Nature Boy" ("Abattoir Blues", 2004). The title of that album also includes this wonderful passage: "I went to bed last night and my moral code got jammed. / I woke up this morning with a Frappucino in my hand." That's just a small selection of the rhymes and lines that made me laugh with pleasure while I have been walking and listening to Cave in the past three days. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 28 December 2024) 

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