Re: Watching You Without Me

[James Smith <munnari!cc.nu.oz.au!CCJS@uunet.UU.NET>]

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From: CCJS@cc.nu.oz (James Smith)
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Subject: Re: Watching You Without Me
Date: 13 Nov 89 19:52:08 -1000
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Don't ignore don't ignore me, let me in and don't be long.

Jon Drukman writes:

> However, this answer is
> totally unsatisfactory!  Where the KBC claims the last phrase is
> "and don't be long" the music seems to have an extra syllable that
> just can't be accounted for with this ridiculous phrase!  In Joe's
> theory, the wording was "I'm alone here now" - the problem is that
> "alone" has the nice unstressed/stressed pattern that the music has,
> and "and don't" doesn't have enough syllables to cover.

Try stretching the 'me' to two syllables.  It works.

Jim

P.S. No offence meant.  I have a terrible habit of playing
devil's advocate.

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