> > Not to mention dangling participles.
>
> Actually, there are no dangling participles in the
> sentence I was talking about :)
>
> > >In any case, when Jim mentions the coda of
> > > the song, he is clearly referring to the "Bless all the
> > > girls" bit towards the end.
> >
> > If he is referring to that lyric, then I am not one to
> > argue, but I don't think so......the definition of coda is
> > not the last word, but the last set of notes. What exists
> > there at the music level that would have such a feature?
> > Anyone want to share that file somewhere? You must be
> > aware that I did not listen to the song. Disconcerting
> > again?
>
> I was not meaning to refer solely to the lyrics. I was
> merely using them s a signpost to point out the coda part
> of the song. The term "coda" does not refer to the either
> the notes nor the words. It refers to the structure as a
> whole. It's the sort of the music equivalent of saying
> "epilogue."
Further: Looking up epilogue and coda I find them to be different and not similar: epilogue referring to speech, and coda referring to music.
Modern popular music is something that is akin to music but not the same as music as has been defined by the classics. Indeed of course there are stories put to music during all centuries, but it was not said of a combined music and lyric that it is part and parcel the music. Music is music only; words are words only. In a combination of music ans words, what word could be applied? Neither coda nor epilogue, by the looks of it. So, if we would simply refrain from being the ones to create the lexicon on this site, let us just apply the classical meaning for the description made by a classical thinking composer, saying coda, and meaning music, in a song that the lyrics themselves were an awful experience to write, much less an awful experience to recount.
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