In Stevie Wonder’s delightful “Sir Duke,” off of his masterpiece double album, Songs in the Key of Life, you’ll find a terrible marriage of lyric and melody in the second verse.
Not only is the line itself a bit nonsensical, you have this weird accent on “the,” which is a big no-no. And a line that begins with “be,” separated from its helping verb.
If it had been my song, I would have changed it. I wouldn’t have let it see the light of day with a lyric like that.
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