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re: Jim Steinman Vs Diane Warren

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samurai7 02:06 pm UTC 03/26/11
In reply to: re: Jim Steinman Vs Diane Warren - rockfenris2005 01:12 pm UTC 03/25/11

Perhaps she did write "wire" and Meat 'changed' it. He's been known to make 'changes' before, right? ;-) lol

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> > > > ILFY works for me musically, but the lyrics are pretty
> > > > bad. And I'll never know why she wrote, "I'd walk across
> > > > the fire for you, I'd walk on the WILD for you." Come
> > > > on, Diane, you've already jampacked the song with a trove
> > > > of trite, rote cliches. No point feigning artistic
> > > > ingenuity now. Why not just go for the obvious, natural,
> > > > easy, SENSICAL rhyme here: "I'd walk on the WIRE for you."
> > > > What you've written doesn't really even make sense. Is
> > > > that short-hand for "walk on the wild SIDE for you?"
> > > >
> > > > This has always bugged me.
> > >
> > > Ha ha. Well said.
> >
> > Well, there's a lyric in "Everything I do I do it for
> > you":
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> > You can't tell me it's not worth trying for
> > I can't help it, there's nothing I want more
> > I would fight for you
> > I'd lie for you
> > Walk the wire for you
> > I'd die for you...
> >
> > I could be really pedantic here and say that she not only
> > wrote a song like "Anything for Love" but this song as
> > well...
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> Except she says "wild" instead of "wire". I agree with
> Vin. I don't know why she wrote "wild" instead of "wire".
> The line doesn't really make sense to me. How do you walk
> ON the wild? You can walk IN the wild or THROUGH the wild.
> If you're writing a fantasy, you can walk OVER the wild if
> you're a witch that's levitating, or you can walk UNDER
> the wild and it's like something out of a Jules Verne
> novel...
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