| 1 | ->''"While they ring round the same unvary'd Chimes,\ |
| 2 | With sure Returns of still expected Rhymes.\ |
| 3 | Where-e'er you find the cooling Western Breeze,\ |
| 4 | In the next Line, it whispers thro' the Trees;\ |
| 5 | If Chrystal Streams with pleasing Murmurs creep,\ |
| 6 | The Reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with Sleep"''. |
| 7 | -->-- '''Creator/AlexanderPope''', ''An Essay on Criticism'' |
| 8 | |
| 9 | [[SelfDemonstratingArticle A Stock Rhyme is a kind of rhyme / that everyone sees all the time.]] The reasons for this can vary: the rhyme choice may be extremely limited, as with ''love'', alternate rhymes may be unusual words that are not very widely applicable (fire/spire, life/fife), or the rhyme may be particularly well-suited to a popular type of song like SillyLoveSongs. Like with many stock tropes, a predictable rhyme can [[PainfulRhyme make an audience cringe]], but a sufficiently awesome artist can often [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools breathe new life into them]]. |
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| 11 | To qualify as a Stock Rhyme it should be used by at least several different artists without any apparent [[ShoutOut intentional reference]] to one another. Imperfect rhymes are okay. Some Stock Rhymes may be specific to a particular genre, such as "trigger/nigga" in gangsta rap or "Word/Lord" in Christian hymns. |
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| 13 | ---- |
| 14 | !Examples |
| 15 | |
| 16 | [[AC: Rhymes that are shorthand for entire genres]] |
| 17 | |
| 18 | * '''moon/June/spoon''' was extensively mocked in TheForties and TheFifties as a shorthand for factory-standard, Tin Pan Alley SillyLoveSongs. Even now, if you mention "moon-June-spoon songs", people will know what you mean. |
| 19 | ** An early and extreme example of this was "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", which rhymed the moon in its title not only with June and spoon, but also with croon, tune and soon. |
| 20 | ** Music/YokoOno mocked Music/PaulMcCartney for rhyming "June" with "spoon"; he actually did once rhyme "spoon" with "lagoon" in "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window". |
| 21 | *** [[Music/JohnLennon Her husband]] rhymed "You know that for ''sure''" with "You got to let it ''go''" and "You got to let it ''grow''" in ''Mind Games''. |
| 22 | ** Jonathan King wrote "Everyone's Gone to the Moon", which was, according to King, "a stupid song, that would actually rhyme 'moon' and 'June', but be so pretentious no one would notice" as a send up of [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen]]. He was right. |
| 23 | ** Subverted (for laughs) in a ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode, where Brain can't come up with ''any'' rhymes for June, despite obvious inspiration being all around him. He later decides to change it to "April". Made even worse when the song actually plays later in the episode: the song contains an overly-long list of "June" rhymes, and April is ''still'' the final word of the song. |
| 24 | ** Not entirely a dead rhyme; Rodney Atkins' "It's America" uses moon/June in the chorus. |
| 25 | ** Soft Machine has a song titled "Moon in June", which doesn't actually rhyme those words (they're not even in the lyrics at all). |
| 26 | ** Music/ProcolHarum used this rhyme in a somewhat different context than usual in "A Salty Dog": "Now many moons and many Junes have passed since we made land" (in which those words are synonymous with "months" and "years", respectively) |
| 27 | ** '70s soft-rockers Bread: "And Aubrey was her name / We tripped the light and danced together to the moon / But where was June?" |
| 28 | ** Music/{{Prince}}'s "Sign o' the Times" from ''Music/SignOTheTimes'' |
| 29 | ** Also appears quite recently: on ''Spiders'' by Music/SystemOfADown, Moon is rhymed with both June and Tune." |
| 30 | ** Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'': "You can spoon on the moon/With the prince, 'til it's June!" |
| 31 | ** June Moon and Joe Doe are the "rhyme scene investigators" in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXUM40PuWYI related Sesame Street sketch]]. |
| 32 | ** In one '60s strip of the British newspaper comic ''ComicStrip/ThePerishers'', young Wellington gets all cod-philosophical on the subject while looking at the moon with his dim friend Marlon. |
| 33 | --->'''Wellington''': Moon and June, how well they go together... but if June had been called Moptember or the moon had been called the blop, well, they just wouldn't have rhymed, would they?\ |
| 34 | '''Marlon''' ''(shining a torch in Wellington's direction)'': I can see right up your nose. |
| 35 | ** Lampshaded by Music/EltonJohn in "Tinderbox" from the autobiographical album ''The Captain & the Kid'': |
| 36 | --->Was he worried we might go too far\ |
| 37 | Maybe wind up rhyming moon and June |
| 38 | ** In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "The Substitute", substitute teacher Mr. E compliments Mikey's poetry but advises him "Lose the Moon/June stuff. You're better than that." |
| 39 | ** The Ames Brothers' version of "East of the Sun" on their ''Destination Moon'' album ends with the singers throwing in about every "moon-June" rhyme they could think of: |
| 40 | --->''Moon, spoon, June, croon, tune, soon, swoon, va-voom!'' |
| 41 | ** In Music/TheSmashingPumpkins rarity "Bye June", this is pretty much the only line in the entire song: |
| 42 | ---> Bye June / I'm goin to the moon / Hope you'll make it soon / 'cause I'm waiting on this moon |
| 43 | ** In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "How Come the Moon Changes Shape?", Carrot and Celery's love duet has the following lyrics: |
| 44 | --->"Let's fly our little saucer to the moon / It's a perfect Earthie evening in June" |
| 45 | ** The Traditional Pop standard "Down With Love" (used as the theme for ''Film/DownWithLove'') uses this ironically: |
| 46 | --->Down with love, let's liquidate all its friends\ |
| 47 | Like moons, Junes, roses and rainbows ends |
| 48 | ** The hook of Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Space Bound" (written by British singer-songwriter Steve [=McEwan=]), in order to reinforce that the song [[MurderSuicide does not turn out to be a happy love song]]. |
| 49 | --->I'm a space-bound rocket ship and your heart's the Moon\ |
| 50 | And I'm aimin' right at you, right at you\ |
| 51 | 250,000 miles on a clear night in June\ |
| 52 | And I'm aimin' right at you, right at you, right at you |
| 53 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', the episode "The Junkman Cometh" has Carl sing a brief song consisting entirely of these three words on repeat (as well as the word "spittoon") while he, Jimmy, and Sheen fly to the moon. |
| 54 | ** The classic Creator/WarnerBros song "I Love to Singa", popularized by the ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' short [[WesternAnimation/ILoveToSinga of the same name]], mentions "the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a" as subjects the singer enjoys singing about. |
| 55 | ** "Moon June Spoon" by AlternativeRock band Spot uses its TitleDrop ironically, as the singer spends the song struggling with his temptation to cheat on his partner ("life isn't [[Creator/NormanRockwell Rockwell]], life isn't moon june spoon"). The chorus ''does'' still end up rhyming "spoon" with "moon" though. |
| 56 | * '''lyrical/miracle/individual/spiritual''' is so synonymous with bad, geeky conscious/underground rappers that by now it's only ever used to make fun of them. |
| 57 | ** Case in point: WebVideo/FilthyFrank (in his [=PolitikZ=] persona) in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHYwprmWMfY REAL HIP HOP]]". |
| 58 | ** Music/{{Eminem}}: |
| 59 | *** Em, always up for making fun of other rappers, uses this in a skit during Shady Records' BET Cypher in 2011. After the other Shady Records acts have finished their verses, Joe Budden starts begging Eminem to rap, who acts like a clueless idiot ("wait, can I rap?"). When he takes the mic, he begins rapping [[HollywoodToneDeaf completely off the beat]]: |
| 60 | ---->'''Eminem''': Ayo. Lyrical miracle, spiritual individual, criminal, subliminal, in your swimming pool.\ |
| 61 | (''the other rappers start jeering and booing, Em sets the mic on the floor'')\ |
| 62 | '''Crooked I''': (''{{corpsing}}'') "Metaphysical"! |
| 63 | *** Eminem has also used this rhyme without irony several times. The most notable is his [[OldShame bad]], geeky conscious/underground rap album ''Infinite'', on the song "Tonite": |
| 64 | ---->I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me, with the agility to escape a killer bee colony |
| 65 | *** He also used it in the freestyle "R&B Bitches": |
| 66 | ---->And here I go with the lyrical, miracle, spiritual, let it go, every time, I'm incredible... |
| 67 | *** And in "Wicked Ways": |
| 68 | ---->It's a fuckin' miracle to be this lyrical |
| 69 | *** Eminem also listed 'lyrical miracle' in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oh-qgpkczU Stuff To Never Rhyme]]'', with Mr. Porter suggesting "if you're lyrical, you've gotta be a mortal human being". |
| 70 | ** Music/KendrickLamar, in his guest verse on Music/KanyeWest's "No More Parties in LA": |
| 71 | --->Make a nigga say big words and get lyrical\ |
| 72 | Make me get spiritual\ |
| 73 | Make me believe in miracles, Buddhist monks and Cap'n Crunch cereal |
| 74 | * '''bottles/models''' is such a GlamRap cliche that calling someone a 'bottles-models rapper' means their career is mostly about providing depthless [[AWildRapperAppears guest verses]] on party jams about being InDaClub. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | [[AC: Everything else]] |
| 77 | |
| 78 | * '''girl/world''' (Aqua's "Barbie Girl", Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Material Girl" and "4 Minutes", Music/CyndiLauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", Music/BillyJoel's "Uptown Girl", Music/BrooksAndDunn's "Rock My World (Little Country Girl)", Music/ToriAmos' "Upside Down", Music/HilaryDuff's "All Around the World", Music/GwenStefani's "Rich Girl", Beyonce's "Save the Hero", almost any song with a line ending in "girl.") |
| 79 | ** A particularly heinous example occurs in Misteeq's "Scandalous" rhyming not only 'girl' with 'world' but also with 'pearls' and 'twirl' |
| 80 | ** Subverted in "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" by Music/LedZeppelin: "You can tell your friends all around the world / there ain't no companion like a blue-eyed" In any other song, the next word would be "girl", but since this song is actually about Robert Plant's dog, the word is "Merle." |
| 81 | ** Also subverted in "My Kind of Girl" by Music/CollinRaye, which uses "Merle", "pearls", and "Tilt-a-Whirl" as rhymes. |
| 82 | ** George Strait's "How 'bout Them Cowgirls" uses "round world"/"cowgirls", which is an internal rhyme variant. |
| 83 | ** Music/JoeDiffie's "So Help Me Girl" also subverts this because the chorus is five lines long with an AABBC rhyme pattern, of which "And I can't help myself, so help me, girl" is the last line. |
| 84 | ** And of course, possibly the most famous example: [[Music/JourneyBand "Just a small town girl/Living in a lonely world..."]] |
| 85 | ** Also seen in Emilia's 1998 hit, "Big Big World." Unfortunately, it's like the best rhyme in this song. |
| 86 | ** And Music/BobDylan's "Brownsville Girl": "Brownsville girl/Show me all around the world" |
| 87 | ** "[[{{Music/Rihanna}} Want you to make me feel / Like I'm the only girl in the world...]]" |
| 88 | ** A more exact rhyme for "girl" is "(heart's in a) whirl." It's thankfully long obsolete, but it was one of several cliché rhymes lampshaded in an early Music/ColePorter parody of SillyLoveSongs. |
| 89 | *** There's an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PreciousPupp'' called "Girl Whirl". |
| 90 | *** In [[http://knapp-street.org/Feen/Schl.html this]] poem about ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'', it refers to the title characters as "these two girls", then adds that the poem will "get them in a whirl". |
| 91 | ** Music/SelenaGomez' "Forget Forever" rhymes "rule the world" and "perfect girl". |
| 92 | ** The chorus of Survivor's "High on You" breaks the rhythm for the sake of this rhyme: "I can't stop thinking 'bout you girl / I must be living in a fantasy world" |
| 93 | ** "Roni" by Music/BobbyBrown: "The truth about Roni, she's a sweet ol' girl / About the sweetest little girl in the whole wild world" |
| 94 | ** "[[Music/NoDoubt I'm just a girl in the world/That's all you'll ever let me beeeee!!!]]" |
| 95 | ** The theme tune to ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', a cartoon about a boy with ten sisters, has the lyric "One boy and ten girls. Wouldn't trade it for the world." |
| 96 | ** In ''Film/TheSmurfs'', the rap about Smurfette notes, "Not another single girl in the whole Smurf world". |
| 97 | ** ExploitedTrope: Music/{{Eminem}}, known for his complex and unexpected rhyme schemes, loves to do a groanworthy rhyme of ''girl'' and ''world'' whenever he wants to [[NotHimself emphasise that his character is being manipulative or insincere]]. |
| 98 | *** In "My Fault", a song about a worthless date-rapist causing a girl's suicide by giving her hallucinogens at a party, the hook reinforces his character's lack of serious interest in her plight: |
| 99 | ---->I never meant to give you mushrooms, girl\ |
| 100 | I never meant to bring you to my world |
| 101 | *** In the MisogynySong "Superman", the hook, in which his [[AlterEgoActing alter-ego]] Slim Shady sweet-talks women in a Music/LLCoolJ-ish way in order to use them for sex, uses this in contrast with an, uh, less cliched rhyme: |
| 102 | ---->I wanna save you, girl, come be in Shady's world.\ |
| 103 | (Oh boy, you drive me crazy!) (''[[SuddenlyShouting BITCH, YOU]] [[MoodWhiplash MAKE ME HURL]].'') |
| 104 | *** In "Just Lose It", Slim accidentally admits to paedophilia and has to start VerbalBackpedaling: |
| 105 | ---->Yeah, boy, shake that thing.\ |
| 106 | Whoops, I mean, 'girl'. Girl girl girl.\ |
| 107 | (Do you know that you're my world?) |
| 108 | *** "Intro (Curtain Call)", the skit introducing the [[StylisticSuck intentionally putrid]] "FACK", is delivered by a group of multitracked Eminems singing like a doo-wop quartet: |
| 109 | ---->Girl (Girl, girl, girl)\ |
| 110 | You're my world (world, world, world)\ |
| 111 | You're my pearl (pearl, pearl, pearl)\ |
| 112 | You're my world (woooorld)...\ |
| 113 | Ayo, [[{{Squick}} here's a song for the ladies]]... |
| 114 | ** "Weight of the World" from ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'': |
| 115 | --->'Cause we're gonna shout it loud\ |
| 116 | Even if our words seem meaningless\ |
| 117 | It's like I'm carrying the weight of the world\ |
| 118 | I wish that some way, somehow\ |
| 119 | That I could save every one of us\ |
| 120 | But the truth is that I'm only one girl. |
| 121 | ** "Chantilly Lace" by Music/TheBigBopper opines that "there ain't nothin' in the world like a big-eyed girl." |
| 122 | ** "He's Flying" from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has a part where Mrs. Puff's pet snail gets stuck up a tree, leading her to sing "I've had her since I was a little girl / But now it looks like the end of her world." |
| 123 | ** "Kyle's Mom's a Bitch" from ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'': |
| 124 | --->Well, Kyle's mom's a bitch, she's a big fat bitch\ |
| 125 | She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world\ |
| 126 | She's a stupid bitch if there ever was a bitch\ |
| 127 | She's a bitch to all the boys and girls |
| 128 | * '''baby/maybe/lady/crazy''' (Buddy Holly's use is tame compared to the Eagles' "Take It Easy", the Spin Doctors' "Two Princes", the Four Seasons' "Walk Like A Man", anyone who sang "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby" or "Hey, Good Lookin'", "Maybe" from ''Annie''...) |
| 129 | ** Used among others by OFWGKTA member Tyler, the Creator (as Big Nasty) in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybPs-4ejI0o this video.]] |
| 130 | ** 'Call Me Maybe' by Music/CarlyRaeJepsen has an entire chorus made up of this rhyme (rhyming crazy/maybe, then baby/maybe) |
| 131 | ** 'Butterfly' by Crazy Town has this as its chorus as well. |
| 132 | ** "[[Series/GoodLuckCharlie Hang in there, baby, things are crazy, but I know your future's bright/Hang in there, baby, There's no maybe, everything turns out alright...]]" |
| 133 | ** "Blinding Lights" by Music/TheWeeknd has this in the first verse. |
| 134 | ** In ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'', one of the available songs for your UsefulNotes/{{Mii}}s to sing is "Maybe Baby", an AffectionateParody of SillyLoveSongs. |
| 135 | ** Music/{{Eminem}} tends to rhyme 'baby', 'crazy' and 'lady' with the name of his alter ego, '(Slim) Shady', and occasionally the name of his daughter, 'Hailie'. (Plus, when he tends to rhyme 'crazy' and 'baby', it's less likely to be because he's lovesick for his girl, and more likely to be that he's [[AxCrazy insane]] because he's [[WouldHurtAChild doing something terrible]] to a literal infant.) |
| 136 | *** "Guilty Conscience", in Dre's verse about the construction worker Grady considering shooting his wife (which Eminem [[{{Ghostwriter}} ghostwrote]]): |
| 137 | ---->'''Dre:''' Alright, Shady, maybe he's right, Grady\ |
| 138 | But think about the baby before you get all crazy |
| 139 | *** His guest verse in "What The Beat" (along with RhymingWithItself): |
| 140 | ---->Cause I ain't crazy, I say shit that's crazy to crazy people\ |
| 141 | to make 'em believe I'm crazy so they can relate to me\ |
| 142 | and maybe [[CannotTellFictionFromReality believe in Shady]] so they can be evil, baby\ |
| 143 | I like that! I'm only as crazy as people made me |
| 144 | *** "My Band": |
| 145 | ---->'Sup. Ladies.\ |
| 146 | My name's Slim Shady.\ |
| 147 | I'm the lead singer of D12, baby! |
| 148 | *** In his guest hook for "Shady Baby" by Obie Trice (not Em's finest work as a lyricist): |
| 149 | ---->You can’t stop us, Shady baby\ |
| 150 | So come party with my crazy group\ |
| 151 | Yeah, we're wilin’, yeah we're crazy!\ |
| 152 | (Whoo!) Yeah, come on, Sha-a-a-ady! |
| 153 | *** "When I'm Gone": |
| 154 | ---->That's Slim Shady, yeah, baby, Slim Shady's crazy.\ |
| 155 | Shady made me, but [[OutOfCharacterMoment tonight Shady's rock-a-bye baby]]. |
| 156 | * '''together/forever''' |
| 157 | ** Typical example from Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now": "And we can build this dream together / Standing strong forever" |
| 158 | ** Peter Cetera's "Glory of Love": "We'll live forever/Knowing together/That we did it all for the glory of love." |
| 159 | ** Belinda Carlisle's "Circle in the Sand" uses this rhyme each time it leads up to the chorus: "Oh baby, when you look for me, can you see forever? I begin, baby, where you end, we belong together." |
| 160 | ** Lee Carr deserves a special mention for releasing a song called "Together", but never rhyming the title itself with anything. "Forever", "each other", and "another" never even ''appear'' in the song. |
| 161 | ** Together/weather is pretty popular too, usually taking the form of something like "we'll always be together/no matter what the weather". |
| 162 | *** "Happy Together" by The Turtles manages to avoid saying "forever", but, seemingly to break up the monotonous repetitions of "happy together," randomly asks "How is the weather?" |
| 163 | *** Music/{{Sting}}'s "We'll Be Together" has arms/charms and weather/together in the same verse. |
| 164 | *** In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' song "This Day Aria", Chrysalis says that she'd be lying if she said, "That through any kind of weather, I want us to be together". |
| 165 | *** "[[Theatre/LesMiserables And still I dream he'll come to me / And we will live the years together / But there are dreams that cannot be / And there are storms we cannot weather]]." |
| 166 | ** The ''WebAnimation/ASDFMovie'' song "The Muffin Song" has "You and I were bound together, especially since cartoons live forever." |
| 167 | ** ''Film/TheAdventuresOfElmoInGrouchland'' has "together forever the world seems fine" as a song lyric. |
| 168 | ** The song "Better Days" by Music/SuperM has the line "'Cause no storm is forever, we're gonna get through this together." |
| 169 | ** "Careless Whisper" by Music/GeorgeMichael has "We could have been so good together / We could have lived this dance forever." |
| 170 | ** Music/RickAstley has a song called "Together Forever." So does ''Music/Pokemon2BAMaster''. |
| 171 | ** "Forever" by Music/{{Kamelot}}: |
| 172 | --->Will you revive from the chaos in my mind\ |
| 173 | Where we still are bound together\ |
| 174 | Will you be there waiting by the gates of dawn\ |
| 175 | When I close my eyes forever? |
| 176 | * '''heart/start/apart''' |
| 177 | ** In the early 20th century, the stock rhyme for "heart" was "Cupid's dart." Jerome Kern apparently loathed this one. |
| 178 | ** In ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' rhymes "I'm torn apart" with "If I only had a heart." |
| 179 | * '''party/Bacardi''' (Music/MariahCarey's "It's Like That", Huey Dunbar's "Bacardi Party", Jagged Edge's "Where the Party At?", Nada Surf's "Bacardi", Official Kardinal's "Bacardi Slang", Benzino's "Rock the Party", [[Music/FiftyCent 50 Cent's]] "In The Club", Music/FlightOfTheConchords "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor", and many others) |
| 180 | ** Comedian Mike Birbiglia's "Guitar Guy At The Party", more of a bit than a song, contains this rhyme along with a couple of other awful rhymes. Apart from the few that suck, the rest of the song doesn't rhyme at all. |
| 181 | ** "Hello, Hello There" from ''Theatre/BellsAreRinging'' averts this in a bizarre way by non-rhyming "party" with "salami." |
| 182 | ** Music/CardiB has taken to rhyming "party" with '''Cardi'''. |
| 183 | ** Music/{{Eminem}}, in "Drug Ballad", does a complex variation by rhyming "Marky Mark", "party start", "Bacardi Dark" and "hardly talk". |
| 184 | * '''margarita/señorita''', similar in concept to the above. |
| 185 | ** "[[Music/EltonJohn Then along came a señorita, She looked so good that I had to meet her/I was ready to approach her with my English charm/Then her brass-knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm]]" |
| 186 | * '''fingertips/lips/hips''' ("Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus comes first to mind) |
| 187 | ** Music/FranzFerdinand's "Michael" (and just lips/hips in "Tell Her Tonight"). |
| 188 | ** "This Love" by Music/Maroon5 |
| 189 | ** "Elevation" by Music/{{U2}}. |
| 190 | *** "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" had lips/fingertips and fire/desire. |
| 191 | ** "Denial Twist" by Music/TheWhiteStripes |
| 192 | ** "Sheela Na Gig" from ''Music/{{Dry}}'' by Music/PJHarvey |
| 193 | ** "Who Wants To Live Forever" by Music/{{Queen}} |
| 194 | ** Subverted in "Addicted to Spuds" by Music/WeirdAlYankovic: "Your greasy hands, your salty lips/Looks like you found the chips" |
| 195 | ** Music/MotleyCrue's "Girls, Girls, Girls" |
| 196 | ** Music/FrankOcean's "Forrest Gump" |
| 197 | ** Music/{{ABBA}}‘s “Kisses of Fire” |
| 198 | ** There's also the poem about food being [[WeightWoe a minute on the lips but a lifetime on the hips.]] |
| 199 | * '''self/shelf/else/health/wealth''' (the Music/{{Divinyls}}' "I Touch Myself", Georgia Satellites' "Keep Your Hands to Yourself"). Tends to be pretty awkward because there's rarely a legitimate reason to discuss a shelf that doesn't involve rhyming. |
| 200 | ** "Are you happy with yourself?/Put the book back on the shelf" ("Put the Book Back on the Shelf", Belle & Sebastian) |
| 201 | ** "Lay your whole life upon a shelf / Got no one to blame but your own damn self" from "Carry On" by Pat Green |
| 202 | ** Music/LedZeppelin's ''Misty Mountain Hop'' does this, although obscured by the song's rather complex rhythm: |
| 203 | -->Why don't you take a good look at your''self'' and describe what you see\ |
| 204 | And baby, baby, baby, do you like it?\ |
| 205 | There you sit, sitting spare like a book on a ''shelf'', rusting\ |
| 206 | Ah, not trying to fight it |
| 207 | ** Bob Dylan's "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of hearts" has this: "Big Jim was thinking to himself/Maybe down in Mexico or a picture upon somebody's shelf". |
| 208 | ** Music/{{Weezer}}'s "Keep Fishin'": It's just the thought of you in love with someone else / it breaks my heart to see you hangin' from a shelf". |
| 209 | ** "Y.M.C.A." by the Music/VillagePeople: "No man does it all by himself / I said young man, put your pride on the shelf" |
| 210 | ** "Ch-Check It Out" by Beastie Boys: |
| 211 | -->Yo money, don't chump yourself\ |
| 212 | Put that shit back on the shelf |
| 213 | ** "Already Gone" by Music/{{Eagles}}. |
| 214 | ** Pink's "Don't Let Me Get Me" |
| 215 | ** Music/{{Gym Class Heroes}} "Stereo Hearts": "If I was just another dusty record on the shelf, would you take me out and play me like everybody else?" |
| 216 | ** Music/{{TheNineteenSeventyFive}} "The Sound": "And we left things to protect my mental health, but you call me when you're bored and you're playing with yourself" |
| 217 | ** ''Film/GeorgyGirl'': The main theme rhymes "rearranging yourself" with "dropping down from the shelf". |
| 218 | ** There's the rhyme about how being an early riser makes you "healthy, wealthy, and wise". |
| 219 | ** "Ghost Town" by Music/TheSpecials has "Why must the youth fight against themself / Government leaving the youth on the shelf." |
| 220 | * '''fire/desire/higher''' (as in The Carpenters' "Merry Christmas Darling": ''The logs on the fire/fill me with desire'') |
| 221 | ** Used by many well-regarded bands e.g, Music/JimiHendrix, Music/BobDylan, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/TheDoors etc. |
| 222 | *** Also, on the same album (In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3), in the titular song, the chorus goes "Man your own jackhammer/man your battle stations, we'll have you ''dead'' pretty soon, and now/sincerely written from my brothers blood machine/man your battlestations, we'll have you home pretty soon". The first half has no rhyme, but the second..."Sincerely written from my brother's blood moo-shay-on, man your battle staaaaaaaaaations" |
| 223 | *** Creator/EdgarAllanPoe gave some of the earliest examples, except that he's talking about actual fire that burns you to death rather than the standard lust bit. |
| 224 | ** "Flame" by Pete Townshend. "Flame, you set me on fire/Nothing can take me any higher/I'm fueled on emotion and full of desire." |
| 225 | ** In perhaps the most distilled example of this trope, Music/{{U2}} manages to work both fire/desire and lips/fingertips into a single verse in "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." |
| 226 | *** Music/{{U2}} also pulls off fire/higher/desire in-- what else?-- "Desire". |
| 227 | *** So does Music/{{Alabama}} in "There's a Fire in the Night". |
| 228 | ** Augustana manages this with the song "Fire" "Fire burning me up/Desire taking me so much higher/And leading me home" |
| 229 | ** Les Claypool uses the fire/desire rhyme in the Primus song "Lacquer Head", though he compensates by rhyming "in-betweens" with "gasoline" immediately afterward. |
| 230 | ** All three see use in the rock song "Give In To Me" by Music/MichaelJackson. "Love is a feeling/Give it when I want it/Cause I'm on fire/Quench my desire" and later it changes up to "Love is a feeling/Quench my desire/Give it when I want it/Taking me higher." |
| 231 | ** Marilyn Monroe's "I Wanna Be Loved by You". "I couldn't aspire to anything higher than to fill the desire..." |
| 232 | ** Cleverly subverted by Survivor in "Burning Heart", in which for once CaptainObvious ''does'' come to the rescue, causing "fire" to rhyme with its obvious-but-never-used natural counterpart "spire". |
| 233 | ** The entire catalog of Electric Six. Their first album is Fire. It is called fire because the word 'fire' is repeated and rhymed abundantly in the album. |
| 234 | ** The Music/MarianasTrench song "Pop 101", which is a TakeThat to pop music in general, {{lampshade}}s this in the chorus. |
| 235 | ** "[[Music/{{Rainbow}} Come down with fire/Set my spirit higher/Someone's calling my name/Come and make me holy again.]]" |
| 236 | ** "[[Music/{{Sabaton}} Sent over seas to cast into fire/Fought for a purpose with pride and desire/ Blood of the brave they would give to inspire/Cobras Fumantes, your memory lives!]]” A rather odd example in that the fire is ''gunfire'', not flames or lust. |
| 237 | ** Dan Hartman's "Relight My Fire" (later CoveredUp by Music/TakeThatBand) rhymes [[TitleDrop the title]] with "your love is my only desire." |
| 238 | ** "Ring of Fire" by Music/JohnnyCash says, "I fell down to the burning ring of fire. Down, down, the flames were burning higher." |
| 239 | ** Music/{{Kygo}}'s "Firestone" has all three in the first verse, along with "inspire". |
| 240 | ** ''Literature/TheSillyBook'' has "Uncle Billy ate some fire. His temperature grew higher and higher." |
| 241 | ** Arguably the most common rhyme within {{Eurobeat}} music. Makes sense, considering lyrics were never meant to be the genre's strongest point. |
| 242 | ** Also fairly common in the Series/EurovisionSongContest. "[[Music/HelenaPaparizou You're a fire/and desire/When I kiss your lips, you know, you take me higher]]" |
| 243 | ** "[[Music/{{BackstreetBoys}} You are my fire/The one desire...]]" |
| 244 | ** "[[WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss Here we sing about wants and desires/Depravity, savagery, loins hotter than fire!]]" |
| 245 | ** "Brothers in Arms" by Music/DireStraits: |
| 246 | --->Through these fields of destruction\ |
| 247 | Baptisms of fire\ |
| 248 | I witnessed your suffering\ |
| 249 | As the battle raged higher. |
| 250 | * '''love/above/of'''. Also --/glove/shove/dove. Songwriters are often advised to avoid rhyming "love". |
| 251 | ** Kenny Rogers' "Tomb of the Unknown Love" uses love/above/love in the chorus, ''and'' shove/love in the first verse. |
| 252 | ** "From Austin back to Chaucer\ |
| 253 | My weary eyes I shove\ |
| 254 | But never come across a\ |
| 255 | New word to rhyme with love." |
| 256 | ** Lampshaded by Creator/OgdenNash in his poem "Spring Song" |
| 257 | -->While ye, ye otherwise useless dove,\ |
| 258 | Remember, please, to rhyme with love. |
| 259 | ** Again, Bob Dylan's Brownsville Girl: "Teeth like pearls, shining like the moon above/Brownsville girl, you're my honey love" |
| 260 | ** ''Theatre/{{Curtains}}'' makes fun of this in "I Miss the Music", when Aaron says, "Don't talk about love, or you'll have to say 'fits like a glove' or 'certain as push comes to shove, you'll pine for the person you're constantly thinking of'. Then he goes into stock rhymes for "life"... |
| 261 | ** "[[Music/MileyCyrus The only thing our hearts are made of/Are the acts of forgiveness and love/The only thing when push comes to shove/Are the acts of forgiveness and love]]" |
| 262 | ** Creator/PGWodehouse once wrote an article comically lamenting that not only are all these rhyming choices painfully clichéd, they are also literally ''the only words in the English language'' that rhyme with "love," which happens to be [[SillyLoveSongs the most common subject songwriters need to address]]. Proof that LifeIsntFair! |
| 263 | ** "I Love My Food" from ''VideoGame/OnlyTheBraveCanRescueTheKidnappedPrincess'' repeatedly uses the line "I love my food/All of my food." |
| 264 | ** "Gravity of Love" by Music/{{Enigma}}: "In the eye of storm, you'll see a lonely dove / The experience of survival is the key to the gravity of love." |
| 265 | * '''table/able''' |
| 266 | ** At one point in ''Series/TheWorstWitch'', Miss Cackle says a spell about something being on the table, then "let me vanish you if I'm able." |
| 267 | ** The ''Music/PreschoolPopstars'' song "Wait Until I Cook It" rhymes "I don't think I'm able" with "put it on the table". |
| 268 | * '''long/gone/on''' |
| 269 | * '''trigger/nigga/bigger/golddigger/Schwarzenegger/quicker/liquor''', too many gangsta rap songs to count. When rhyming with "nigga", they'll often pronounce the other word as if it ended in an "-ah" sound. "Quicker" and "liquor" only work [[AccentDepundent in some accents]]. |
| 270 | ** "[[Music/{{KanyeWest}} Now, I ain't sayin' she a gold digger / But she ain't messin' with no broke niggas]]" |
| 271 | ** ''Literature/TheButterBattleBook'' has a mention of feeling bigger and having his hand on the trigger. |
| 272 | ** "[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry5 Frustration is getting bigger / Bang, bang, bang, pull my Devil Trigger!]]" |
| 273 | ** Music/{{Eminem}} extremely does ''[[NWordPrivileges not]]'' use [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion this one]] in "Who Knew": |
| 274 | ---->And last week I seen this Schwarzenegger movie\ |
| 275 | Where he's shootin' all sorts of these motherfuckers with an Uzi |
| 276 | :: And makes a similar joke in "Criminal": |
| 277 | ---->I drank more liquor to fuck you up quicker\ |
| 278 | Than you'd wanna fuck me up for saying the word, "..." |
| 279 | * '''waiting/anticipating''' |
| 280 | ** "You Can't Hurry Love" by the Supremes. |
| 281 | ** And "Try A Little Tenderness" by Otis Redding. |
| 282 | ** And "Rockin' Into The Night" by ''.38 Special''' |
| 283 | * '''apartment/heart meant''' (Music/BillieHoliday's "These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)", Music/RodStewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?", Material Issue's "What Girls Want", Rachel Platten's "53 Steps") |
| 284 | * '''california/warn ya''' (The Trade Winds' "New York Is a Lonely Town", John Stewart's "Omaha Rainbow", Bob Dylan's "Sign on The Window", Albert Hammond's "It Never Rains in Southern California", Music/GaryAllan's "She's So California"... and about EleventyZillion other California songs.) |
| 285 | ** Wax's "California" rhymes California with "warned you." |
| 286 | *** Josh Gracin's "We Weren't Crazy" makes it a ton worse by going with "California" and "warn us". |
| 287 | *** The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers use this rhyme in "Around The World", but then in "Dani California" they used the less expected "''mourn'' ya". |
| 288 | ** "Because, It's Midnite" by [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Limozeen]]. |
| 289 | ** "Kids in America" by Music/KimWilde. |
| 290 | ** "California Gurls" by Music/KatyPerry featuring Snoop Dogg. Somehow Snoop D-O-Double-G is able to rhyme "all up on ya" with "California". |
| 291 | ** Billie Eilish's "All the Good Girls Go to Hell". |
| 292 | * '''fly/sky/high''' |
| 293 | ** One of the most compressed examples of this is Yves La Rock's "Rise Up" ("I try to fly a while so high / direction sky") |
| 294 | ** Of course, Sky High in Daytona USA had it too. Except "fly" sounded like "fry". |
| 295 | ** Just one of many crimes against music in R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly." |
| 296 | ** The Moody Blues song "Blue World" used all three in the same line: "Fly me high, touch the sky/Leave the earth below...." |
| 297 | ** The very first verse of Music/LennyKravitz's "Fly Away" rhymes all three of these words. In an arguable case of RhymingWithItself, "dragonfly" shows up as a rhyme in the same stanza. |
| 298 | ** "High" by Hyper Go Go. |
| 299 | ** A song Peppa makes up in ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' has the lyric "Flying high, in the sky, flying [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment high and high and high.]]" |
| 300 | ** Josie Jump's song in ''Series/{{Balamory}}'' has the lyric "Sometimes I get the feeling I want to jump up high. I got to keep on running so fast I think I'll fly." |
| 301 | ** In ''Series/SesameStreet'', the song "That's Being a Cat" has the lyric "Jump up someplace six feet high, like a monkey on the fly." |
| 302 | ** "Here Comes the Flood" by Music/PeterGabriel has "The jaded underworld was riding high / Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky." |
| 303 | ** "Valhalla" by Music/BlindGuardian begins with "High in the sky / Where eagles fly." |
| 304 | ** "Defying Gravity" from ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'': |
| 305 | --->So if you care to find me\ |
| 306 | Look to the western sky\ |
| 307 | As someone told me lately\ |
| 308 | Everyone deserves a chance to fly |
| 309 | * '''home/come''', and '''Word/Lord'''; These are ridiculously common in Christian hymns. |
| 310 | ** '''mild/child''' is another staple of hymnals. |
| 311 | *** "Silent Night" rhymes "virgin mother and child" (referring to Mary and Jesus) with "tender and mild". |
| 312 | ** '''blood/good/food''' as well. |
| 313 | ** '''praise/days''' is very common in modern worship music, with "days" usually ending the phrase "all (of) my days". It's common enough that it's entered normal parlance in certain Christian circles, such that it's not unusual to hear a sermon or read a book with, say, "for all your days" in a place where it would feel more natural to have "for the rest of your life" otherwise. |
| 314 | * '''Heaven/seven''' (as with "love", there just aren't too many English words rhyming with "heaven") |
| 315 | ** Worse is Heaven/given, extra points if they change it to Heav'n and Giv'n to make it fit in one syllable. |
| 316 | ** "It Ain't Necessarily So" from ''Theatre/PorgyAndBess'' has the excuse that Heaven/seven is a reference to craps (which is featured elsewhere in the show), a game in which LuckySeven is a major rule. The same rhyme in "Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo." from ''Theatre/DamnYankees'' can also be counted as a craps reference. |
| 317 | ** In "Inside the Fire", Disturbed manages to rhyme heaven, eleven, and "Devon", the unusual but valid name of the song's female character. |
| 318 | ** [[Music/TheBeatles One, two, three, four, five, six, seven/All good children go to heaven]] from "You Never Give Me Your Money" on ''Music/AbbeyRoad''. |
| 319 | ** [[VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution One, two, three, four, oh, oh, seven/All the good guys go to heaven]]. |
| 320 | ** [[Music/ThePixies "If Man is five/Then the devil is six/Then God is seven/This monkey's gone to heaven..."]] |
| 321 | ** Music/MarilynManson's "Cryptorchid" shoehorns this one with the bizarre line "When a boy is still a worm it's hard to learn the number seven". |
| 322 | ** Randy Houser's "Song Number 7" ("...took me all the way to heaven"). |
| 323 | ** [[Music/{{Sabaton}} "Then the one hundred eighty-nine/In the service of Heaven/They're protecting the holy line/It was Fifteen Twenty-Seven/Gave their lives on the steps to Heaven/Thy will be done!"]] |
| 324 | ** "Anyway the Wind Blows" by J.J. Cale (and later on, Brother Phelps): "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven / Better change your ways or you won't get to heaven / Eight, nine, then, gonna stop at eleven / Eleven just lays 'round with seven." |
| 325 | ** The nursery rhyme "This Old Man" has the lyric "This old man, he played seven, he played nick-nack up to heaven." [[UnexplainedRecovery He's inexplicably alive come the next verse, though]]. |
| 326 | ** The children's book ''Literature/FatherChristmasNeedsAWee'' says, "Seven, pure heaven" with the seven glasses of milk and "Seven, more heaven" with the seven toys. |
| 327 | ** "Rock Around the Clock" rhymes seven with "seventh heaven". |
| 328 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Wakko Warner says something about heaven, then says, "Too bad I'm only seven." The strange part is, he's actually eleven, which ''also'' rhymes with heaven. |
| 329 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Tifa's bar is called Seventh Heaven. |
| 330 | ** Another use of "Seventh Heaven" is in... well, ''Series/SeventhHeaven'', right in the show's title. |
| 331 | * '''dance/chance/romance'''. There's a Junior Senior song which is actually ''titled'' "Dance, Chance, Romance". |
| 332 | ** Chris De Burgh's "Lady In Red": "I've never seen so many men ask you if you wanted to dance / Looking for a little romance / Given half a chance" |
| 333 | ** And in "Mr. Right Now" by the Povertyneck Hillbillies, which has one of the most cliché bridges ever: "How do you feel about a little romance / Can I buy you a drink or do you wanna dance / What do you think, are you willing to take the chance?" |
| 334 | ** And in "Shine On" by Music/JamesBlunt: "Are they calling for our last dance? / I see it in your eyes / Same old moves for a new romance / I could use the same old lies" |
| 335 | ** See also Music/MichaelJackson's [[http://www.mjfanclub.net/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=212:blood-on-the-dance-floor&catid=96:lyrics&Itemid=97 "Blood on the Dance Floor"]]. |
| 336 | ** "Barbara Ann" hits all three in the first two lines ("Went to a dance looking for romance / Saw Barbara Ann and I thought I'd take a chance...") |
| 337 | ** "[[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Heartcatch Paradise]]" starts rhyming "chance" and "dance", not with "romance", but with "change". |
| 338 | ** "Roni" by Music/BobbyBrown: "Give it a chance, girl / You'll find romance" |
| 339 | ** The song "For the First Time in Forever" from ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Frozen2013}} Frozen]]'' has the lyric "And I know it is totally crazy to dream I'd find romance, but for the first time in forever, at least I've got a chance." |
| 340 | ** "And We Danced" by The Hooters: |
| 341 | --->And we danced\ |
| 342 | Like a wave on the ocean, romanced\ |
| 343 | We were liars in love and we danced\ |
| 344 | Swept away for a moment by chance |
| 345 | * '''lonely/only''' (Music/RoyOrbison's "Only The Lonely") |
| 346 | * '''cry/die/try''' or '''crying/dying/trying''' |
| 347 | ** The ''Series/SesameStreet'' song "It's All Right to Cry" has the lyric, "You can't keep the tears back, you don't have to try. It's all right to cry." |
| 348 | ** Y the fly from the kids' book ''Ook the Book'' has, "I will try, not to cry". |
| 349 | ** "The Long and Winding Road" by Music/TheBeatles: |
| 350 | --->Many times I've been alone\ |
| 351 | And many times I've cried\ |
| 352 | Anyway you'll never know\ |
| 353 | The many ways I've tried |
| 354 | ** The ending of "Time What Is Time" by Music/BlindGuardian has "God he knows how long I've tried / Feel there is no reason to cry." |
| 355 | * '''good/hood''' |
| 356 | ** In non-hip-hop music, '''good/should/would/could'''. "Finishing The Hat" from ''Theatre/SundayInTheParkWithGeorge'' rhymes "understood" with the other four. |
| 357 | *** ''Literature/TheCatInTheHatComesBack'' has the line "This is good. This is what they should do and I knew that they would." |
| 358 | *** ''Series/SesameStreet'' has the song "Pride", with the lyric, "When you've done the best you could, you feel really, really good." |
| 359 | *** In ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'', some of Brother's classmates tease him for being a TeachersPet with the rhyme "Brother, Brother is so good. He does everything he should." |
| 360 | * '''groovy/movie''' Four songs in the 1960s, apparently not connected: "Do You Believe in Magic" by The Lovin' Spoonful in 1965, "Spooky" by Classics IV in 1967 (covered by Dusty Springfield in 1970), "Like an Old Time Movie" by Scott [=McKenzie=] in 1967, and "Elenore" by Music/TheTurtles in 1968. Also, "Manchester England" from ''Theatre/{{Hair}}''. |
| 361 | ** Used in the song "Headlong" by Music/QueenBand in 1991. ("You're getting in a fight, then it ain't so groovy / When you're screaming in the night, "Let me out of this cheap B-movie!") |
| 362 | ** Used in "Great Day" by Madvillain in 2004. ("Groovy dude, not to prove or be rude, but/ This stuff is like what ya might put on movie food") |
| 363 | ** This rhyme actually got used in "The Way" by Ariana Grande featuring Mac Millar in 2013, well after the point where anyone would otherwise be likely to use the word "groovy" without being sarcastic (or without referencing ''Film/AustinPowers'' or ''Film/EvilDead2''). Though even when getting into slant-rhymes, very few other things rhyme with "movie". |
| 364 | ** "[[WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory You look a lot more blond in your movie, baby. That's alright, let's just keep it groovy baby!]]" |
| 365 | * '''soul/rock n roll''' (as in Music/BobSeger's "Old Time Rock and Roll") |
| 366 | ** "[[Music/EricClapton Betcha didn't think I knew how to rock 'n' roll/Or how that rhythm reaches right down into your very soul/Ain't no need for me to be a wallflower/'Cos now I'm livin' on Blues Power!]]" |
| 367 | * '''care/prayer''' |
| 368 | ** The song "Blue Moon" has "You heard me saying a prayer for someone I really could care for." |
| 369 | * '''about/without''' |
| 370 | ** Another common rhyme for "about" is "shout". |
| 371 | *** The ''WesternAnimation/GenerationO'' song "Proud to be Loud" rhymes "spout", "about", "out", and "shout". |
| 372 | *** The limerick about the mouse in someone's stew has, "Cried the waiter, 'Don't shout, and wave it about.'" |
| 373 | *** The ''Series/SesameStreet'' song "Do the Dog", says, "I've got a new dance to tell you about. A dance to make you bark, not scream or shout." |
| 374 | ** Also, "out" with "about", seen in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' song "I'm Mad" and the phrase "out and about". |
| 375 | ** In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', the Doctor's imaginary song has the lyric "You have just gone without, for seven years about." |
| 376 | * '''be/me''' (Very mundane, but very overused as well. Music/MontgomeryGentry's "Roll with Me" uses it ''twice''.) |
| 377 | ** Rhett Akins' "That Ain't My Truck": "She's been going out with him, she's been going out with me / Said she'd let us know by tonight which one it would be" |
| 378 | * '''day/way''' |
| 379 | ** A mundane rhyme that even afflicts classic geniuses like John Lennon and new quality musicians like Modest Mouse. |
| 380 | *** "[[Music/GeorgeHarrison Soon will be the break of day/Sitting here in Blue Jay Way]]". |
| 381 | ** "[[PlaygroundSong Rain, rain, go away / Come again another day]]" |
| 382 | ** [[Music/{{Eminem}} "In the papers, the news, every day, I am / I don't know, it's just the way I am."]] |
| 383 | * '''Blarney/Killarney''' ("Christmas in Killarney" and many other songs about {{Oireland}}) |
| 384 | * '''this/kiss''' |
| 385 | ** The song "Please Don't Think it's Funny" from ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' rhymes "if you want an extra kiss" with "feel like this". |
| 386 | * '''walk/talk''' and '''walkin/talkin''' |
| 387 | ** Music/BillyJoel's "Uptown Girl" comes to mind; of course, it also has the inevitable "girl"/"world" rhyme. |
| 388 | ** "What's The Use Of Wond'rin'" from ''Theatre/{{Carousel}}'' goes out on a weak note with "walk"/"talk", because Hammerstein had found "stay or go"/"know" not too convincing either. |
| 389 | ** The first two lines of "Fixer-Upper" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen2013}}'' are "Is it the clumpy way he walks or the grumpy way he talks?". |
| 390 | ** The [[Film/PitchPerfect Cup Song]] has "You're gonna miss me by my walk / You're gonna miss me by my talk, oh". And no, it's not "You're gonna miss me by my taco". |
| 391 | ** "[[Music/TheBeeGees Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk / I'm a woman's man, no time to talk]]." |
| 392 | ** The narrator of "Gangsta's Paradise" by Music/{{Coolio}} warns the listener to watch "how you talkin' and where you walkin'." |
| 393 | ** The common expression "talk the talk, walk the walk." |
| 394 | * '''miss you/kiss you''' |
| 395 | ** Worst offender is "Me and my heart we got ''issues''/Don't know if I should hate you or ''miss you''/Damn I wish that I could ''resist you''/Can't decide if I should slap you or ''kiss you''". |
| 396 | ** Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "Miss You" from ''Music/SomeGirls'' has it in the very first verse. |
| 397 | ** Also '''kiss me/miss me''', such as in Music/BrooksAndDunn's "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone" ("You'd better kiss me, 'cause..."). |
| 398 | *** "She Loves Me Like She Means It" by Orrall & Wright uses "misses me"/"kisses me". |
| 399 | ** Music/{{Pink}}'s "Leave Me Alone, I'm Lonely": ''Go away, give me a chance to miss you.''/''Say goodbye it'll make me want to kiss you.'' |
| 400 | * '''song/along''' (most often involving the phrase "sing along") |
| 401 | ** One of the most egregious examples is the otherwise-cool "It Was an Absolutely, Finger-Lickin', Grits and Chicken, Country Music Love Song" by Bomshel, which uses song/along/song/song in the chorus, making for a rare Stock Rhymes[=/=]RhymingWithItself combo. |
| 402 | ** It's much more justified and less obvious a cliche when the song really ''is'' asking you to sing along because it's supposed to simulate the live performance atmosphere (e.g. "With a Little Help from My Friends"). |
| 403 | ** "The Campfire Song Song" from WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants |
| 404 | ** "Life's a Happy Song" from ''Film/TheMuppets2011'' |
| 405 | ** "The Song Remains The Same" by Music/LedZeppelin. |
| 406 | * '''eyes/realize/disguise'''. "Lyin' Eyes" by the Music/{{Eagles}} and "Save the Hero" by Beyonce are good examples. |
| 407 | ** Music/EricCarmen's "Hungry Eyes" is another popular one. |
| 408 | ** In love songs "eyes" is often rhymed with "sighs" or even "skies" (like "the skies above"). More recently, a lot of rap songs rhyme "eyes" with "thighs." |
| 409 | ** "[[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Transformers! More than meets the eye! / Transformers! Robots in disguise]]!" |
| 410 | * '''beauty/duty''' |
| 411 | ** Used three or four times in ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance; or The Slave of Duty''. One annotated edition actually wondered why, considering the play's secondary title, that it wasn't used even more. |
| 412 | ** Less elevated, but by now as clichéd, is beauty/cutie. |
| 413 | *** "[[Music/{{Queen}} Bicycle races are coming your way/So forget all your duties, oh yeah/Fat Bottomed Girls they'll be riding today/So look out for those cuties, oh yeah/On your mark, get set, go!]]" |
| 414 | *** "[[Music/JimmyBuffett But it's a real beauty/A Mexican cutie/And how it got there, I haven't a clue]]." |
| 415 | * '''town/down'''. |
| 416 | ** "New York, New York" from ''Theatre/OnTheTown'' adds "groun'" to this rhyming pair. |
| 417 | ** Used ''twice'' in the chorus to John Rich's "Shuttin' Detroit Down", which only makes it worse by [[LyricalShoehorn forcing]] it with the phrase "[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment New York City town]]". |
| 418 | ** "Harder Than Steel" by Music/TheMegas: "This is your chance, this is your town / You don't just break the mold, you beat it down!" |
| 419 | ** "[[Film/RockyIV No Easy Way Out]]" by Robert Tepper: |
| 420 | --->I don't wanna pacify\ |
| 421 | I don't wanna drag you down\ |
| 422 | But I'm feeling like a prisoner\ |
| 423 | Like a stranger in a no-name town |
| 424 | ** The New York Mets' fight song, "Meet the Mets": |
| 425 | --->Eastside, westside\ |
| 426 | Everybody's coming down\ |
| 427 | To meet the M-E-T-S Mets\ |
| 428 | From New York town! |
| 429 | ** "Strange Days" by Music/TheDoors: |
| 430 | --->Strange days have found us\ |
| 431 | Strange days have tracked us down\ |
| 432 | They're going to destroy\ |
| 433 | Our casual joys\ |
| 434 | We shall go on playing or find a new town. |
| 435 | ** "Canned Heat" by Music/{{Jamiroquai}}: |
| 436 | --->I had no reason to be carefree (no no no)\ |
| 437 | Until I took a trip to the other side of town (yeah yeah yeah)\ |
| 438 | You know I heard that boogie rhythm, hey\ |
| 439 | I had no choice but to get down, down, down, down |
| 440 | * '''drink(ing)/think(ing)'''. Ridiculously common in country music. |
| 441 | ** "[[Music/FingerEleven I hold out for one more drink/before I think I'm looking too desperately]]" |
| 442 | ** "[[Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews You've been thinkin' while I've been drinkin'/We both know that it's just not right.]]" |
| 443 | ** In ''Series/SesameStreet'', when Cookie Monster is chastising his friend for drinking juice instead of brainstorming something, he tells her, "We need to be thinking, not drinking." |
| 444 | * '''change/rearrange'''. Also shows up in "Lyin' Eyes". |
| 445 | ** Music/{{Kiss}}' "All Hell's Breakin' Loose": "And we won't change or rearrange" |
| 446 | ** Part 5 of Fates Warning's ''A Pleasant Shade of Gray'': |
| 447 | -->''Watched the days just pass'' |
| 448 | -->''As the seasons changed'' |
| 449 | -->''And the shifting sands'' |
| 450 | -->''Slowly rearranged'' |
| 451 | ** Music/{{Tesla}}'s "Changes": |
| 452 | -->''Time's makin' changes, time's makin' changes in my life'' |
| 453 | -->''Time's rearrangin', changin' you and me'' |
| 454 | ** ''Series/SesameStreet'' has "Just because they rearrange, doesn't mean their numbers change." |
| 455 | ** "Where Are You, Christmas?" from ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' has "My world is changing. I'm rearranging." |
| 456 | ** The ''Film/GeorgyGirl'' theme has "Don't be scared of changing and rearranging yourself". |
| 457 | ** "Tides of Time" by Music/{{Epica}} has "Sometimes I feel I don't want this change / I think we all have to rearrange." |
| 458 | * '''minute/in it''' |
| 459 | ** "This is my dream and I'm gonna stay in it / For another nine minutes" from "Another Nine Minutes" by Yankee Grey |
| 460 | ** Used e.g. in Music/TobyKeith's "Should've Been a Cowboy" ("she'd have said yes in a New York minute / they never tied the knot, his heart wasn't in it") |
| 461 | ** ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' has "Leave every minute, for all that is in it." |
| 462 | ** "One Night in Bangkok" from ''Music/Chess1984'' has "Time flies, doesn't seem a minute / Since the Tyrolean spa had the chess boys in it." |
| 463 | ** "When You're Evil" by Music/{{Voltaire}} has "It's a game, I'm glad I'm in it / 'Cause there's one born every minute." |
| 464 | * '''cup/up'''. |
| 465 | ** ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' has "When Cindy Lou Who was in bed with her cup, he went to the fire and stuffed the tree up." |
| 466 | * '''knowledge/college''' (Music/ThePolice's "Wrapped Around Your Finger," Music/SteelyDan's "Reelin' in the Years," Music/LouReed's "Adventurer") |
| 467 | ** [[PlaygroundSong Girls go to college to get more knowledge, boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider!]] |
| 468 | ** ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' has "Three years of college and plenty of knowledge." |
| 469 | * In the mid-2000s, there was a fad in hip-hop for changing the pronunciation of words to end in an "urr" sound; this allows the forced rhyme of '''there/here/hair/yeah/her/stare/care''' and numerous others. This was started by Music/{{Chingy}} in his song "Right Thurr". |
| 470 | ** Music/KanyeWest used this in "All Falls Down". Note that much of it is redundant, and that he then breaks into a more organic sound for the syllable when the character makes her decision about what to do with her life: |
| 471 | --->Now, tell me that ain't insecurr\ |
| 472 | The concept of school seems so securr\ |
| 473 | Sophomore, three yurrs, ain't picked a carurr\ |
| 474 | She like, "Fuck it, I'll just stay down hurr and do hair"\ |
| 475 | 'Cause that's enough money to buy her a few pairs\ |
| 476 | Of new Airs, 'cause her baby daddy don't really care |
| 477 | ** Music/{{Nelly}}, "Air Force Ones", uses this throughout. |
| 478 | ** Music/{{Eminem}} would occasionally borrow this tic in the 00s: |
| 479 | *** "Jimmy Crack Corn" |
| 480 | ---->So full of joy, boy, am I absurd?\ |
| 481 | Even Chingy would tell you: "That boy don't curr!" |
| 482 | *** "Invasion (The Realest)" has a line interpolated from Nelly's "Air Force Ones", complete with the warped pronuncuation: |
| 483 | ---->Then I'ma get to stomping in my ''Urr''[[note]]"Air"[[/note]] Force Ones\ |
| 484 | But you won't be able to tell if it's two ''purrs''[[note]]"pairs"[[/note]] or it's one |
| 485 | * '''air/care''' in too many songs to count. |
| 486 | ** "Rapper's Delight" by Music/TheSugarHillGang may be the earliest example. |
| 487 | ** [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} "...and 'Hands in the air' rhymes with 'Just don't care', and we're done."]] |
| 488 | ** "[[Music/PinkFloyd Breathe, breathe in the air]]/[[Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon Don't be afraid to care]]". |
| 489 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'' has an episode where Myth/{{Merlin}} delivers a wizard-themed PissTakeRap imploring the audience to "put your staffs in the air like you just don't care." |
| 490 | ** "Jump Up, Super Star!" from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' rhymes "jump up in the air" with "jump without a care." |
| 491 | * '''insane/profane''' |
| 492 | ** Slayer (Kerry King, mostly) like to use this one. Even when it makes no sense in the context of the song. I'm looking at ''you'', "God Send Death". |
| 493 | * '''crazy/lazy''' ([[Manga/KOn K-ON!'s]] EndingTheme, for instance) |
| 494 | ** Sometimes you have to wonder how little "lazy" would be used in songs if it weren't for this. Joe Jackson's "Don't Wanna Be Like That" also throws in "hazy", just for the rhyme. |
| 495 | ** Even Music/TheBeatles are guilty of this... twice. |
| 496 | *** "I'm Only Sleeping" from ''Music/{{Revolver|Beatles Album}}'': "Everybody seems to think I'm lazy / I don't mind, I think they're crazy." |
| 497 | *** "[[SillyLoveSongs Honey Pie]]" from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'': "Honey pie / You are making me crazy / I'm in love, but I'm lazy..." |
| 498 | ** Music/{{Oasis}} in "The Importance of Being Idle," which is reminiscent of "I'm Only Sleeping." |
| 499 | ** Best Coast had the misfortune of using it in ''three'' songs, which has resulted in their {{flanderization}} into a band that cannot go one couplet without talking about how things are crazy and simultaneously lazy. |
| 500 | ** "[[Music/NatKingCole Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer]]" |
| 501 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'', the poem the talking alarm clock says involves "You might think I'm loud and crazy, but you could never call me lazy!". |
| 502 | ** The ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' song "Crazy Bus" has the line "Crazy, lazy, crazy, crazy bus!". |
| 503 | ** The ThemeTuneRap introduced in the final season of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' begins with "He's fat and he's lazy / He sleeps and he's so crazy." |
| 504 | ** ''Advertising/WackyZanyVideo'' features the Kool-Aid Man performing a rap number about slacking off which he dubs his "lazy crazy kooky track." |
| 505 | * '''crazy/Swayze''' is a rarer variant localised to hip-hop (where Swayze is slang for "[[Film/Ghost1990 turned into a ghost]]", e.g. dead). Notable because the only reason this slang term exists is so a rhyme could be found for 'crazy'. |
| 506 | * '''ten/again''' |
| 507 | ** The poem "The Girl Who Doubled" has "And two downstairs, and two in the bath makes ten (Maths wasn't her strongest subject), I think I've doubled again.") |
| 508 | * Worse, '''again/in''' (or anything ending in "in"). Found mostly in country music, where the dialect makes "again" sound like it does rhyme with "in". |
| 509 | ** Taken to extremes with Billy Dean's "Only the Wind", where he rhymes "again" with "''wind''". |
| 510 | * '''rhyming/timing''' or '''rhyme/time''': |
| 511 | ** ''Series/SesameStreet'' has two songs with this rhyme. One is about "Rhyme Time" and the other is about "I like to rhyme all of the time". |
| 512 | ** "Creep" by Music/StoneTemplePilots has "Alls I gots is time / Got no meaning, just a rhyme." |
| 513 | ** The "party time" rap from ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'' has "I'll be bustin' the moves and I'll be bustin' the rhymes / We'll be bustin' up laughing 'cause it's party time!" |
| 514 | ** "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by C+C Music Factory has "The jam is live in effect and I don't waste time / On the mic with a dope rhyme." |
| 515 | ** "Tricky" by Music/RunDMC is a song about how it's "tricky to rock a rhyme that's right on time." |
| 516 | * '''charms/'''[hold you in my] '''arms'''. Like several of the examples above, made worse by the fact that nobody would ever say anything like "I love all your charms" unless they were singing a song and planning to work some arms into the lyrics at some point. |
| 517 | ** Kaskade's "Steppin Out'" is a straight example (''your lovely charms / when you're in my arms''), along with dance/romance. |
| 518 | ** Another straight example comes from "Ain't Nobody" by Music/{{Rufus}} and Music/ChakaKhan: "At first you put your arms around me / Then you put your charms around me" |
| 519 | * '''holly/jolly''' in Christmas music. |
| 520 | ** Lampshaded by Creator/TerryPratchett in, appropriately enough, ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'': |
| 521 | -->'''Susan:''' This is a time to be jolly. With mistletoe and holly. And other things ending in "olly". |
| 522 | ** Lynn Anderson's "Rose Garden" finds another word to rhyme with jolly: '''melancholy'''. |
| 523 | * '''make up/break up''' is not as interesting a dichotomy as several musicians seem to think. |
| 524 | ** Music/TheRonettes: "The best part of breakin' up/is when you're makin' up" |
| 525 | ** The chorus of Kim Sozzi's "Break Up": "We should break up / Cause baby I love it when we kiss and make up" |
| 526 | ** Music/KatyPerry's "Hot 'n' Cold" has "We fight and break up, we kiss and make up". |
| 527 | * '''toy/boy''' (usually something about treating a guy like a toy) |
| 528 | ** Sinitta, "Toy Boy". |
| 529 | ** The 2018 winner of the Series/EurovisionSongContest, "Toy" by Netta (representing Israel): |
| 530 | -->I'm not your toy (I'm not your toy)\ |
| 531 | You stupid boy (you stupid boy) |
| 532 | ** The Christmas carol variant: '''toys/girls and boys''' |
| 533 | *** Music/HeatherAlexander's self-parody "December of Cambreadth" cries out with savage Celtic glee, "How many of them can we bring toys?!" That makes it worthwhile. |
| 534 | ** "I've Got a Cold for Christmas", which appears to be a comedy folk song, rhymes "On Christmas Day when all the kids were playing with their toys, we noticed in the corner stood a sad and lonely boy." |
| 535 | ** In ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns'', Michael sings that he feels like a boy, with a shiny new toy. |
| 536 | * '''rest/best''' - as used in advertising: "You've tried the rest, now try the best" and so on. |
| 537 | ** Also showed up awkwardly in the chorus of Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" ("When I die and they lay me to rest / I'm going to go to the place that's the best") |
| 538 | ** Music/TinaTurner: "You're simply the best/better than all the rest!" |
| 539 | ** In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'', when Greg tries to start a snow removal service, his slogan is "You've tried the rest, now go with the best". |
| 540 | ** ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'' has a song about how "rest is best" when you're sick. |
| 541 | ** In the early nineties, Ford used this as their slogan in their truck commercials: "The best never rest". Enthusiasts still associate the slogan with them thirty years later despite it no longer being in official use. Creator/{{cs188}} [[https://youtu.be/gDCFs5A1E1A also had some fun with this]]. |
| 542 | ** ''Series/SesameStreet'': The song "Take a Rest" rhymes the title with "sometimes it's best". |
| 543 | ** ''WesternAnimation/SixtyFourZooLane'' has Georgina sing that she's "the best, much better than the rest". |
| 544 | ** ''Series/TheTweenies'' has Doodles the dog say that "sometimes a bone at home and a rest is the best". |
| 545 | ** ''Music/JodyWatley'': "But now you're like the rest/Unworthy of my best/Hasta la vista, baby!" |
| 546 | ** "Our House" by Music/{{Madness|Band}}: |
| 547 | --->Father wears his sunday best\ |
| 548 | Mother's tired, she needs a rest\ |
| 549 | The kids are playing up downstairs |
| 550 | ** The Pokérap from ''Music/Pokemon2BAMaster'' begins with "I want to be the best there ever was / To beat all the rest, yeah, that's my cause." |
| 551 | * '''swagger/[[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Jagger]]''' was a brief fad in the 2010s. Music/{{Kesha}}, [[Music/BlackEyedPeas apl.de.ap]], Cher Lloyd, And She Whispered, and many others who jumped on that fad provide examples. |
| 552 | ** WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows said in his review of Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger" (which, thankfully, does ''not'' contain the word "swagger") that he wishes there were such a word as "schmogerty" so that a more underappreciated rock star like [[Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival John Fogerty]] could get his due as a stock rhyme. |
| 553 | ** Material Issue actually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] this expectation a good 20 years before it became a fad among artists in "What Girls Want": "I want a man with lips just like Mick Jagger / Music/RodStewart's hair and Music/KeithRichards' '''stagger'''." |
| 554 | ** In Music/{{Eminem}}, Mr. Porter and Royce da 5'9"'s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oh-qgpkczU Stuff To Never Rhyme]]'' video, he specifies that if you have swagger, you can not be like Mick Jagger. Royce suggests you can be like Lou Ferrigno or someone instead. |
| 555 | * '''war/for''', usually for the sake of wondering "what this fighting is for" or somesuch. |
| 556 | * '''goodbye/cry/lies/eyes'''. |
| 557 | ** In "Shine On" by Music/JamesBlunt: "And when silence meets my last goodbyes / The words I need are in your eyes" |
| 558 | * '''rain/brain/pain/insane''' |
| 559 | ** e.g. Breathe's "Hands to Heaven" had: "I can't believe this pain / it's driving me insane" |
| 560 | ** "[[Music/PinkFloyd Night after night, going 'round and 'round my brain/His dream is driving me]] '''[[CarefulWithThatAxe INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNE!!!]]'''" |
| 561 | ** Music/TheKillers' "Uncle Jonny": He's convinced himself right in his brain / That it helps to take away the pain". Though the same song includes a couple of somewhat less-used rhymes, namely "refrain" and "cocaine". |
| 562 | ** Music/CypressHill's "Insane In The Brain." |
| 563 | ** Music/AnimalCollective's "Summertime Clothes": "Let's leave the sound of the heat for the sound of the rain / It's easy to sleep when it wets my brain" |
| 564 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WNQlMIXPdc this]] song, a woman notes that her back pain is driving her insane. |
| 565 | ** Music/{{Eminem}} uses this in "Role Model", although in an unusual context: |
| 566 | --->Will someone please [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction explain to my brain]]\ |
| 567 | That I just severed the main vein with a chainsaw and I'm in pain? |
| 568 | * '''advice/think twice''' |
| 569 | * '''friend/end''' (usually something like "I'll be your friend to the very end") |
| 570 | ** "[[Music/{{Queen}} Friends will be friends]]/right to the end!" |
| 571 | ** In ''Series/SesameStreet'', Elmo sings, "Elmo is Ruthie's friend. Ruthie's friend until the end." |
| 572 | ** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has an episode called "The End in Friend". |
| 573 | * '''mirror/clearer''' (Music/MichaelJackson's "Man in the Mirror" from ''Music/{{Bad}}'', Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s "Dream On", Sleigh Bells' "Bitter Rival") |
| 574 | ** "Human" by [[Music/{{RagNBoneMan}} Rag'n'Bone Man]]: "Take a look in the mirror, and what do you see / Do you see it clearer, or are you deceived / In what you believe?" |
| 575 | * '''wife/life/knife/strife''' |
| 576 | ** Goes back to 1866 with the folk song "Tom Dooley": "I met her on the mountain / There I took her life / Met her on the mountain / Stabbed her with my knife" |
| 577 | ** "[[Music/{{Wings}} Out of work again, the actor entertains his wife/With the same old stories of his ordinary life/Maybe he exaggerates the trouble and the strife/Well, I don't know]]." |
| 578 | ** Music/{{Eminem}}, a enthusiast of lyrics about wife violence, has done this many times: |
| 579 | *** His guest verse on "Watch Dees": |
| 580 | ---->I hate my life. That's why I degrade my wife.\ |
| 581 | Got out a paper plate to make a sandwich, and just ate the knife. |
| 582 | *** "I'm Shady": |
| 583 | ---->So bring the money by tonight\ |
| 584 | 'Cause your wife said this the biggest knife\ |
| 585 | She ever saw in her life |
| 586 | *** "Kill You": |
| 587 | ---->Blood - guts -\ |
| 588 | guns - cuts -\ |
| 589 | knives - lives -\ |
| 590 | [[TheThreeFacesOfEve wives - nuns - sluts]] |
| 591 | *** "The Warning" has a variation, where voice clips of Music/MariahCarey's alleged voicemails to him are cut in to emphasise the rhyme. Note also the use of a cliché, 'cuts like a knife', to emphasise the ironic obviousness: |
| 592 | ---->It cuts like a (''knife'') when I tell you get a (''life'')\ |
| 593 | But I'm movin' on with mine, Nick, 'cause that's your (''wife'') |
| 594 | ** "The Good Doctor" by Music/TheProtomen begins with "My father worked the mines 'til the day it took his life / Stole him from his only son and it stole him from his wife." |
| 595 | ** The IMP jingle from ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' promises that "We'll kill your husband or your wife / We'll even let you keep the knife!" |
| 596 | ** "Ball and Chain" by Music/SocialDistortion: |
| 597 | --->Well I've searched and I've searched\ |
| 598 | To find the perfect life\ |
| 599 | A brand new car and a brand new suit\ |
| 600 | I even got me a little wife |
| 601 | * '''death/breath''' Appropriately enough, shows up in "Breath", Music/CledusTJudd's parody of Music/FaithHill's "Breathe" ("I can smell your breath, it's choking me to death / The only who doesn't know is you...") |
| 602 | ** ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeetTwo'': Sven's song rhymes "final breath" with "black death". |
| 603 | ** The video game ''VideoGame/BreathOfDeathVII''. |
| 604 | ** "Jump Around" by Music/HouseOfPain: |
| 605 | --->But if you [battle me] you're a fool, 'cause I duel to the death\ |
| 606 | Try and step to me, you'll take your last breath |
| 607 | ** "The Black Halo" by Music/{{Kamelot}}: |
| 608 | --->Come wind, come snow, come winterland\ |
| 609 | I have resigned myself to death\ |
| 610 | Come will to the show the hidden hand\ |
| 611 | So I can draw my final breath |
| 612 | ** "[[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian Always look on the bright side of death / Just before you draw your terminal breath]]." |
| 613 | ** "One" by Music/{{Metallica}} has the line "Hold my breath as I wish for death." |
| 614 | ** "The Trooper" by Music/IronMaiden describes "The smell of acrid smoke and horse's breath / As I plunge on into certain death." |
| 615 | * '''poet/know it''' (as in, "you're a poet and you don't even know it") |
| 616 | ** Music/BeastieBoys, "Car Thief": |
| 617 | --->I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it\ |
| 618 | I don't buy cheeba, I grow it |
| 619 | ** Music/VanillaIce, "Ice Ice Baby" |
| 620 | --->Take heed, 'cause I'm a lyrical poet\ |
| 621 | Miami's on the scene, just in case you didn't know it |
| 622 | * '''car/far''' |
| 623 | ** The ''Music/{{Songdrops}}'' song "I Won't Give Up 'Til I Win Your Heart" has, "I put some gas inside your car but not the kind that takes you far", referring to [[ToiletHumour farting]]. |
| 624 | * '''roam/home''' (most notably in the classic "Home! Sweet Home!") |
| 625 | ** In ''Series/SesameStreet'', when the Itsy Bitsy Spider is waiting for her eggs to hatch, she says that she can't roam and is staying at home. |
| 626 | ** In ''Music/TheShaggs'' songs, including "That Little Sports Car" and "My Pal Foot Foot." |
| 627 | ** "Sailing for Adventure" from ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'' rhymes "wherever we may roam" with "the sea is always home." |
| 628 | * '''history/mystery''' ("Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery". "Reach for the Sky" by Music/SocialDistortion, as well as countless themes to educational shows.) |
| 629 | ** [[Franchise/DuckTales ''Might solve a mystery, or re-write history…”]] |
| 630 | * '''mine/divine''' |
| 631 | ** Ira Gershwin felt justified with using this obvious rhyme in "Mine" from ''Let 'Em Eat Cake'' because he also managed to think of "more than another Valentine." |
| 632 | ** Oscar Hammerstein II was somewhat embarrassed about using this in "All The Things You Are," but couldn't think of anything that fit the tune better. |
| 633 | * '''Reno/casino''' (e.g. in the chorus of Doug Supernaw's "Reno," the verse of the Gershwin song "Beginner's Luck") |
| 634 | * '''Knees/please''' (e.g. in the chorus of The Kinleys' "Please" or "Don't Make Me" by Music/BlakeShelton) |
| 635 | * '''Mars/stars''' (it's probably easier to count the space-themed songs that DON'T do this.) |
| 636 | ** "[[Music/JethroTull In the doorway of the stars/Between Blandford Street and Mars]]" |
| 637 | ** In ''Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator'', the nonsense poem rhymes "moons un stars" with "Venus, Mars", which causes the president to assume he's a Venusian or a Martian. |
| 638 | ** Music/KanyeWest's guest verse on Music/KatyPerry's "ET": |
| 639 | --->I know a bar out in Mars\ |
| 640 | Where they drive spaceships instead of cars |
| 641 | ** Music/{{Eminem}}, "Can I Bitch": |
| 642 | --->Tell me 'bout the sun, rain, moon and stars!\ |
| 643 | Intergalactical metaphors from Mars! |
| 644 | ** Music/FrankSinatra, "Fly Me To The Moon" |
| 645 | ---> Fly me to the moon\ |
| 646 | Let me play among the stars\ |
| 647 | And let me see what spring is like\ |
| 648 | On Jupiter and Mars! |
| 649 | ** 1921 song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwEpe0eg98I "Flying Around The Stars"]] proves that this rhyme is OlderThanTelevision. |
| 650 | ---> I will make a call on Venus\ |
| 651 | Stop and get my gasoline on Mars\ |
| 652 | For I want to take a trip to heaven\ |
| 653 | And go flying around the stars |
| 654 | * '''Tomorrow/Borrow/Sorrow''' (e.g. in Music/MaroonFive's "Payphone", among many other examples.) |
| 655 | ** This one also shows up in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven": "Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow / From my books surcease of sorrow" |
| 656 | ** The poem "Jonathan Blake Ate Too Much Cake" has "There's no need for sorrow. If you come back tomorrow, I'm sure he'll be ready to play." |
| 657 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' has the lullaby "You'll feel better tomorrow but this song you can borrow." |
| 658 | * '''Season/Reason''' (many examples, but there's even a song titled "The Reason for the Season") |
| 659 | ** ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' has "The Grinch hated Christmas, the whole Christmas season, but please don't ask why; no one quite knows the reason". |
| 660 | ** Used for a SampledUp GeniusBonus in Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Rhyme or Reason", where a lyric from Music/TheZombies' "Time of the Season" ("it's the time of the season for lovin'") is interpolated by Eminem into "there's no rhyme or no reason for nothin'!" - a rhyme for the entire sentence. |
| 661 | * '''magic/tragic''' |
| 662 | * '''Night/Light/Flight/Delight''' |
| 663 | ** Especially ''night'' with ''morning light'', as in the Go-Go's "Tonite", which at least softens the blow by omitting ''light'' ("We rule the streets tonight/ until the morning, oh, oh") until the last refrain. |
| 664 | ** The word "night-light." |
| 665 | ** "Solsbury Hill" by Music/PeterGabriel: |
| 666 | --->Climbing up on Solsbury Hill\ |
| 667 | I could see the city lights\ |
| 668 | Wind was blowing, time stood still\ |
| 669 | Eagle flew out of the night |
| 670 | ** "Summertime Sadness" by Music/LanaDelRey: "I got my red dress on tonight / Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight." |
| 671 | ** The chorus to "Enter Sandman" by Music/{{Metallica}} begins with "Exit light / Enter night." |
| 672 | ** "[[Music/LeonardCohen And it's not a cry that you hear at night / It's not somebody who's seen the light / It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.]]" |
| 673 | ** "Starlight" by Music/{{Starset}}: |
| 674 | --->We're only here for just a moment in the light\ |
| 675 | One day it shines for us, the next we're in the night |
| 676 | ** "Moonlight" by Music/{{Kamelot}}: |
| 677 | --->Shine on silver from the sky into the night\ |
| 678 | Gaia shivers and I need your leading light |
| 679 | ** Music/JonathanYoung: |
| 680 | *** His cover of "[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Sono Chi No Sadame]]" has "Brothers, two stars that run across all the heavens in the night / And they're stirring the surface of the dark and the surface of the light." |
| 681 | *** His cover of "[[Manga/DeathNote The World]]" has "I made a promise for a change, a revolution in the night / Like a flower, dark and blooming from my love, not light." |
| 682 | ** "[[VideoGame/DiscoElysium Liquid Nights and Disco Lights"]] by Music/MiracleOfSound. |
| 683 | ** ComicBook/GreenLantern's iconic BadassCreed: |
| 684 | --->In brightest day, in blackest night\ |
| 685 | No evil shall escape my sight\ |
| 686 | Let those who worship evil's might\ |
| 687 | Beware my power, Green Lantern's light |
| 688 | ** "Snuff Out the Light," a {{cut|Song}} VillainSong from an early version of ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': |
| 689 | --->Apparitions of eternal darkness\ |
| 690 | Spiraling in circles through the night\ |
| 691 | Creatures of beguiling blackness\ |
| 692 | No more squinting in the light |
| 693 | ** "Devils Never Cry" from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' has "Bless me with your gift of light / Righteous cause on judgement night." |
| 694 | ** "Take Me Home Tonight" by Eddie Money has the refrain "Take me home tonight / I don't wanna let you go until you see the light." |
| 695 | ** "The Mind Electric" by Music/MiracleMusical begins with "Think of these thoughts as limitless light / Exposing closing circuitry of fright". |
| 696 | ** "The Island" by Music/{{Pendulum|Band}}: |
| 697 | --->What are you waiting for\ |
| 698 | Just surrender here tonight\ |
| 699 | What are you waiting for\ |
| 700 | As we go towards the light |
| 701 | * '''You/do/blue/too''' |
| 702 | ** Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now": "Whatever it takes I will stay here with you [...] Whatever it takes is what I'm gonna do" |
| 703 | ** "Are Your Eyes Still Blue" by Shane [=McAnally=]: |
| 704 | -->Are your eyes still ''blue''\ |
| 705 | I still remember how they used to shine\ |
| 706 | Or did that change ''too''\ |
| 707 | After the day you said goodbye?\ |
| 708 | You did what you had to ''do''\ |
| 709 | (Out with the old, in with the ''new'')\ |
| 710 | If I saw you, would I even know it's ''you''\ |
| 711 | Are your eyes still ''blue''? |
| 712 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'': It's kind of a given they'd rhyme "Blue" and "you" since they have a character called Blue, FakeInteractivity, and lots of songs. |
| 713 | ** The ''Series/SesameStreet'' song "Take a Breath" has "Your face is turning blue, get some air inside of you". |
| 714 | * '''door/floor''' (e.g. "Gettin' You Home (The Black Dress Song)" by Chris Young: "Walkin' through the front door / Seein' your black dress hit the floor...") |
| 715 | ** The ''Series/SesameStreet'' song "Accidents Happen" rhymes "Run through the door" with "Go on the floor". |
| 716 | ** The song "How Dry I Am" has "I found the key, but where's the door? It's too late now, it's on the floor." |
| 717 | ** The Song of Durin from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' describes Moria as having "Golden roof and silver floor / And runes of power upon the door." |
| 718 | ** [[Music/WasNotWas "Open the door, get on the floor / Everybody walk the dinosaur]]!" |
| 719 | ** "Kick! Punch!" from ''VideoGame/PaRappaTheRapper'' has "Kick, punch, turn and chop the door / Or I will fall to the floor." |
| 720 | ** "Greased Lightning" from ''Film/{{Grease}}'' has "With a four-speed on the floor, they'll be waitin' at the door." |
| 721 | * '''Remember/surrender''' (e.g. "I Have to Surrender" by Ty Herndon; "A Night to Remember" by Music/JoeDiffie) |
| 722 | ** "[[Music/DemiLovato Please remember, remember December/Don't surrender]]." |
| 723 | * '''Taxi/back seat''' |
| 724 | ** Hot Chelle Rae's "I Like It Like That" |
| 725 | ** Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" |
| 726 | ** Lil Jon's "El Taxi" |
| 727 | * '''stupid/Cupid''' |
| 728 | ** Lampshaded in ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'', where it comes up in a bit of nonsensical doggerel. |
| 729 | * '''music/choose it/lose it/use it/abuse it''' |
| 730 | ** The Beach Boys' "Rock and Roll Music" comes to mind. |
| 731 | ** "Star Man" by Music/DavidBowie has "Let the children use it, let the children lose it." |
| 732 | * '''scoop/poop''', as in the phrase "pooper scooper" and many articles related to poop are titled something like "The Scoop on Poop". |
| 733 | ** Music/KanyeWest's "Lift Yourself" ends with [[StylisticSuck whatever the fuck this is]]: |
| 734 | --->Poopy-di scoop\ |
| 735 | Scoop-diddy-whoop\ |
| 736 | Whoop-di-scoop-di-poop\ |
| 737 | Poop-di-scoopty\ |
| 738 | Scoopty-whoop\ |
| 739 | Whoopity-scoop, whoop-poop\ |
| 740 | Poop-diddy, whoop-scoop\ |
| 741 | Poop, poop\ |
| 742 | Scoop-diddy-whoop\ |
| 743 | Whoop-diddy-scoop\ |
| 744 | Whoop-diddy-scoop, poop |
| 745 | * Another toilet-related one, '''toilet/spoil it'''. |
| 746 | ** ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' rhymes "Otherwise we'd spoil it" and "Hosing down the toilet". |
| 747 | * '''steeple/people''' |
| 748 | ** There's the kids' rhyme "This is the church, this is the steeple, open the door and see all the people". |
| 749 | ** Lucille Bogan's 1935 song "Shave 'Em Dry": |
| 750 | --->Now your nuts hang down like a damn bell sapper\ |
| 751 | And your dick stands up like a steeple\ |
| 752 | Your god damn ass-hole stands open like a church door\ |
| 753 | And the crabs walks in like people |
| 754 | ** An [[WhatCouldHaveBeen unused line]] from Music/{{Eminem}}'s "My Name Is": |
| 755 | --->Back in the Medieval, I went up in a cathedral\ |
| 756 | put a bomb in the steeple and killed a heapful of people |
| 757 | ** The joke, what is the difference between a church bell, and a robber? [[spoiler: One peals from the steeple, the other steals from the people.]] |
| 758 | * '''bike/like''' |
| 759 | * '''lyin'/cryin'/tryin''' |
| 760 | ** From Music/{{Toto}}'s "Lion": |
| 761 | --->Lyin' in a sweat\ |
| 762 | Tryin' to forget\ |
| 763 | All of my loving for you, girl |
| 764 | * '''sad/bad/mad''', especially in kids' songs about emotions. |
| 765 | ** Music/{{Eminem}} uses this in "Rhyme or Reason" to emphasise his own childishness: |
| 766 | --->No! If he had, he wouldn't have ended up in these rhymes on my pad!\ |
| 767 | I wouldn't be so mad! My attitude wouldn't be so bad!!\ |
| 768 | Yeah!! Dad!! |
| 769 | ** In ''Literature/HopOnPop'', there is a character who was sad because his day was bad. |
| 770 | ** "Bad Guy" by Music/BillieEilish. |
| 771 | ** The Brothers Strong from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' are named Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and Strong Sad. |
| 772 | ** "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' begins with "Some things in life are bad / They can really make you mad." |
| 773 | ** The chorus to "My Spirit Will Go On" by Music/DragonForce has "One more time to escape from all this madness / One more time to be set free from all this sadness." |
| 774 | ** “[[Music/TheWho No one knows what it's like / To be the bad man / To be the sad man / Behind blue eyes]].” |
| 775 | ** "Bad Girls" by Music/DonnaSummer: "Bad girls / Talkin' bout the sad girls." |
| 776 | ** "[[Music/TheBeatles Hey, Jude, don't make it bad / Take a sad song and make it better]]." |
| 777 | ** "One Week" by Music/BarenakedLadies: "How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad / Trying hard not to smile though I feel bad." |
| 778 | ** "Forever Young" by Music/{{Alphaville}} rhymes "sad man" with "madman." |
| 779 | * '''man/can''', as in the rhyme, "[so-and-so, so-and-so], he's our man, if he can't do it, no one can." |
| 780 | ** "Mickey" by Toni Basil: |
| 781 | --->So come on and give it to me any way you can\ |
| 782 | Any way you wanna do it, I'll take it like a man |
| 783 | ** "Taste the Blood" from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'': |
| 784 | --->To take me out you must fight like a man\ |
| 785 | You've yet to prove that you can |
| 786 | * '''delicious/nutritious''' |
| 787 | * '''yummy/tummy''' |
| 788 | ** "Yummy Yummy Yummy" by Ohio Express. |
| 789 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', the beginning of Felix and Annette's support chain has the latter sing "Today's dinner is steak and then a cake that's yummy yum / Now it's time to fill my tummy tummy tum!" |
| 790 | ** One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' has Luz call King a "ferocious demon," which is immediately contrasted with a shot of him holding up a cupcake and saying "Cupcakes in my tummy tum makes the King say yummy yum!" |
| 791 | ** Advertising/MonsterCereals once had a mummy-themed cereal called Fruity Yummy Mummy with the tagline "Fruity Yummy Mummy makes your tummy go yummy!" |
| 792 | * Any poem about teapots, most famously "I'm a Little Teapot", will have '''spout/out'''. |
| 793 | * '''boring/snoring''' |
| 794 | * '''Voice/choice''' |
| 795 | ** "Solsbury Hill" by Music/PeterGabriel: |
| 796 | --->He was something to observe\ |
| 797 | Came in close, I heard a voice\ |
| 798 | Standing, stretching every nerve\ |
| 799 | Had to listen, had no choice |
| 800 | ** "It Takes Two" by Rob Base: "I won't stutter, project my voice / Speak clearly, so you can be my choice." |
| 801 | ** "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons I swear it's Springfield's only choice / Throw up your hands and raise your voice! / Monorail! Monorail! Monorail]]!" |
| 802 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyIslandTour'' features a minigame called The Choicest Voice. |
| 803 | ** From Music/{{Toto}}'s "The Turning Point": |
| 804 | --->It might be by choice\ |
| 805 | Or a small inner voice,\ |
| 806 | I can't say\ |
| 807 | * '''block/Glock/cock''' - another GangstaRap cliché. |
| 808 | ** Royce da 5'9" suggests on Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Stuff To Never Rhyme" video that you should never have a Glock on your block. Eminem suggests that it's OK to have a Glock on your block, so long as you don't have it cock ("it's too much"). Eminem's interest in this point might be related to the hook of his late 90s single "Just Don't Give A Fuck": |
| 809 | --->So when you see me on yo' block with two Glocks screamin', "Fuck the world" like [[Music/TupacShakur 2Pac]]... |
| 810 | ::(Note how Eminem does at least ''expand'' the rhyme to make it feel fresher - "yo' block"/"two Glocks"/"two-Pac") |
| 811 | * '''see/me/be''' - ubiquitous TeenPop or SillyLoveSongs rhyme, when used in variations of "''(can't you) see/(you're meant for) me/(you and I were) meant to be''", etcetera. |
| 812 | ** The CopycatMockery BoyBand section in [[Music/{{Eminem}} D12]]'s "My Band" uses this as part of the StylisticSuck: |
| 813 | --->Girl, why can't you see you're the only one for me... |
| 814 | * '''bed/head''' - usually in some variation of "(go to) bed/(rest my) head". |
| 815 | ** The colloquial phrase 'bed-head'. |
| 816 | * '''rhymes/chimes''' |
| 817 | ** The page quote. |
| 818 | ** Lampshaded in the skit on Music/{{Eminem}}'s ''Kamikaze'' album, where Em is [[TakeThatCritics driving over to the house]] of a "[[InternetJerk Yahoo! motherfucker]]" whining about him rhyming 'rhymes' with 'chimes' on ''Revival''. Eminem explains he actually rhymed the whole sentence: "Such a breeze when I pen rhymes / I just got that air about me like wind chimes". (A lot of vowel modification was used to make this possible.) |
| 819 | * '''nice/twice''', as in the phrase "a (noun) so nice, I/we had to (verb) it twice." |
| 820 | * '''lunch/crunch/munch''' |
| 821 | * '''thunder/asunder''' |
| 822 | * '''fine/'''[make you] '''mine''' |
| 823 | ** "He's So Fine" by The Chiffons. |
| 824 | ** "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet: |
| 825 | --->So one, two, three, take my hand and come with me\ |
| 826 | Because you look so fine that I really wanna make you mine |
| 827 | * '''sword/lord''', particularly in songs with religious imagery or fantasy-themed songs. |
| 828 | ** "The Last Stand" by Music/{{Sabaton}} uses this in its first verse and chorus. |
| 829 | ** "Emerald Sword" by Music/RhapsodyOfFire has "For the glory, the power to win the black lord / I will search for the emerald sword." |
| 830 | ** Music/DanBull's "[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]] Epic Rap" has "In the name of the Nords / I pray to the lords / You all get a taste of the blade of my sword." |
| 831 | ** "[[Series/GameOfThrones Halfman's Song]]" by Music/MiracleOfSound: |
| 832 | --->No cheekbones chiselled on a feline face\ |
| 833 | No skill or savvy with a sword\ |
| 834 | But this game we all play is won in wily ways\ |
| 835 | And sly is this littlest lord. |
| 836 | ** "The Plagues" from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': "I send my scourge, I send my sword / Thus saith the lord." |
| 837 | ** The finale number of ''Theatre/LesMiserables'': |
| 838 | --->They will live again in freedom\ |
| 839 | In the garden of the lord\ |
| 840 | They will walk behind the ploughshare\ |
| 841 | They will put away the sword |
| 842 | * '''star/car''' |
| 843 | ** "Drive My Car" by Music/TheBeatles. |
| 844 | ** The theme song to ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': |
| 845 | --->Drivin' in my car, livin' like a star\ |
| 846 | Ice on my fingers and my toes and I'm a taurus |
| 847 | ** "Spirit Never Die" by Music/{{Masterplan}} mentions the singer having "a fast car like a rock star." |
| 848 | ** "I'm Back (to Rise!)" from ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct2013'' begins with "I used to be the flashiest star / Chilling with cash and cars." |
| 849 | ** The chorus of "Kiss Kiss" by Music/HollyValance begins with "You don't have to act like a star / Try your moves in the back of the car." |
| 850 | ** "O My Soul" by Music/BigStar: "I can't get a license to drive in my car /But I don't really need it, if I'm a [[SingerNamedrop big star]]" |
| 851 | * '''heard/word''' |
| 852 | ** "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from ''Film/MaryPoppins'': "But then one day I learned a word that saved me achin' nose / The biggest word you've ever heard, and this is how it goes!" |
| 853 | ** "Hallelujah" by Music/LeonardCohen: "There's a blaze of light in every word / It doesn't matter which you heard." |
| 854 | ** The title song in ''Film/{{Grease}}''. "Grease is the word, is the word that you heard." |
| 855 | ** "Pancho and Lefty" by Music/TownesVanZandt laments how nobody heard the former's dying words. |
| 856 | ** "Surfin' Bird" by the Trashmen: "Well, everybody's heard about the bird / B-b-b-bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word." |
| 857 | ** The folk song "Home on the Range" mentions how "seldom is heard a discouraging word" in the idyllic setting of the song. |
| 858 | ** "Enter Sandman" by Music/{{Metallica}} has the line "Hush, little baby, don't say a word / And never mind that noise you heard." |
| 859 | ** "Stressed Out" by Music/TwentyOnePilots begins with "I wish I found some better sounds no one's ever heard / I wish I had a better voice that sang some better words." |
| 860 | * '''emotion/devotion''' |
| 861 | ** "I Second That Emotion" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. |
| 862 | ** "I Will" from ''Film/TheRoom2003'': |
| 863 | --->When I see your face\ |
| 864 | It stirs up my emotions\ |
| 865 | Your style and grace\ |
| 866 | It inspires my devotion |
| 867 | ** The chorus of "Ocean Soul" by Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} begins with "Losing emotion / Finding devotion." |
| 868 | ** "Faith" by Music/GeorgeMichael: |
| 869 | --->Oh, but I need some time off from that emotion\ |
| 870 | Time to pick my heart up off the floor\ |
| 871 | Oh, when that love comes down without devotion\ |
| 872 | Well, it takes a strong man baby, but I'm showing you the door |
| 873 | ** "If I Only Had a Heart" from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' has the line "Just to register emotion, jealousy, devotion." |
| 874 | * '''touch/much''' |
| 875 | ** "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" by Frankie Valli has the rhyme "You'd be like heaven to touch / I wanna hold you so much." |
| 876 | ** The pop standard "Unchained Melody" rhymes "I've hungered for your touch" with "and time can do so much." |
| 877 | ** The final verse of "Hallelujah" by Music/LeonardCohen begins with "I did my best, it wasn't much / I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch." |
| 878 | ** "That Don't Impress Me Much" by Music/ShaniaTwain: "That don't impress me much / So you got the brains, but have you got the touch?" |
| 879 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TheYearWithoutASantaClaus'', the Snow Miser and the Heat Miser both have a line in their respective musical numbers describing what happens to the things they touch followed by a boastful "I'm too much!" |
| 880 | |
| 881 | [[folder:Non-English examples]] |
| 882 | * German: '''Herz''' (heart) '''/ Schmerz''' (pain). "Herzschmerz" even became a kind of German trope for overly sentimental songs, poems and other media. Singer Heinz-Rudolf Kunze, a bit ashamed of slowing turning into the former (from an indie singer) once did a poetry slam with his audience to find different rhymes: März (March), Scherz (jest), Sterz (butt, mostly of birds), Kerz' (candl'), Nerz (mink)...To the best of knowlegde, nobody suggested the German Qwertz keyboard yet. |
| 883 | ** Another common rhyme in German is '''Liebe''' (love) '''/ Triebe''' (urges, drives, also shoots (of plants)). The poet Arno Holz famously said early in the 20th century that the first to rhyme "Liebe" and "Triebe" was a genius, but the fiftieth to do so was a cretin. About half a century later poet and satirist Robert Gernhardt countered this by saying that the first man to rhyme "Liebe" and "Triebe" was a decent craftsman, but nothing more, but the one who does it for the fiftieth time and manages to write an original verse is a real genius. |
| 884 | ** Gernhardt also pointed out the popularity of '''Sonne''' (sun) '''/ Wonne''' (delight, bliss) and '''Brust''' (breast, chest) '''/ Lust''' (pleasure, joy, delight, lust). |
| 885 | ** Definitely '''Kuss''' (kiss)/'''Schluss''' (end) is missing from the list, otherwise one couldn't write a decent BreakupSong. |
| 886 | * Swedish: '''dig/mig''' ("you/me"), '''hjärta/smärta''' ("heart/pain"). Like its German counterpart, "hjärta-smärta" is also often used to refer to the genre of sentimental, unoriginal ballads as a whole. |
| 887 | * Russian: '''Любовь/кровь''' ("love"/"blood"). Nowadays only notoriously bad pop music still uses it. |
| 888 | ** {Romeo and Juliet}'s Russian translation even uses this as an adaptation of the "love/dove" one. |
| 889 | * French: '''amour/toujours''' ("love/always") and similar to Swedish, '''toi/moi''' ("you/me") That latter one can also be rhymed with a whole lot of other words, particularly '''joie''' (joy) and '''voix''' (voice) |
| 890 | * Portuguese: '''mim/fim/assim''' ("me/end/this way"), '''agora/hora/embora/fora''' ("now/time, hour/away/out") along with some present tense verbs in the third person (e.g.'''chora''' [cries], '''adora''' [loves], '''mora''' [resides]), and '''beijo/desejo''' ("kiss/desire") are extremely common. Also, '''amor/dor/calor/flor''' ("love/pain/heat/flower"). '''Amigo''' ("friend") will almost always be rhymed with '''comigo/contigo''' ("with me"/"with you"). |
| 891 | ** Similarly to Spanish, rhyming two verbs with the same conjugation is a far too common trick. Additionally, verbs ending in -er (e.g. '''esquecer/ver/dizer''', "forget"/"see"/"say") can easily rhyme with '''você''' ("you"). |
| 892 | ** '''Jesus/luz/cruz''' ("Jesus"/"light"/"cross") is used extensively in Gospel music. |
| 893 | * Spanish: '''canción/corazón''' ("song/heart"), '''amor/dolor''' ("love/pain"). '''quiero/muero''' ("I want"/"I die"), '''diferente/gente''' ("different"/"people"), '''contigo/amigo''' ("with you"/"friend"), '''mano/hermano''' ("hand"/"friend"), Also, since verbs only have so many endings, it's really simple to rhyme them; for example, a common rhyme is '''amar/soñar''' ("to love"/"to dream"). Another common "trick" is to simply use the diminutive of the word: all feminine words rhyme and all masculine words do too. It's usual to rhyme "bonito" ("pretty") whith the diminutive of any masculine word |
| 894 | * Hebrew: |
| 895 | ** In Hebrew both ancient and modern there are two plural endings, ''-im'' and ''-ot''. Since the final syllable (at least in modern and Sephardic Hebrew) is accented 90% of the time, and the plural endings are entire [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable#Rime syllable rimes]], in many Hebrew songs there are incredibly long stretches of ‘rhyming’ lyrics, to the point that it is considered an easy way out. This applies to many prayers as well, as in the G'vurot prayer: "mekhaye metim berakhamim rabim, somekh noflim verofei kholim wumatir asurim." Among people who are more familiar with the techniques used in poetry abhor this kind of rhyming, known as ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeoteleuton homeoteleuton]]'', or, in Hebrew, ''kharuz dikduki'' (‘grammatical rhyme’). A half-decent way to make this acceptable would be at least to make sure that the consonant beforehand is the same (''noflim''--''kholim'' is somehow acceptable, ''metim''--''rabim'' is not). |
| 896 | ** Since Hebrew vocabulary, like all Semitic languages, is made up from triconsonantal[[note]]Some are bi-consonantal, and Modern Hebrew neologisms often have four, but three is standard.[[/note]] roots fitting into a template of vowels and affixes between and around them[[note]]Some phonologists, most notably Outi Bat-El, challenge this notion, but it’s been acceptable since the first grammarians and is still generally held true today[[/note]], there are many words that rhyme with each other, most notably verbs. A good Hebrew rhyme would usually rely on words from different lexical categories (''e.g.'' verbs and adjectives) or creative near-rhymes instead. |
| 897 | * Like Spanish, Polish has flexion, meaning that endings carry gramatical information, hence a lot of verbs in the same form will rhyme, eg. "rymuje/kreskuje". Unlike Spanish, Polish inflects nouns and adjectives, too, broadening the rhyme pool. |
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