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Unread 04-22-2017, 10:50 AM
Roger Slater Roger Slater is offline
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I really like a good refrain and am sometimes "inspired" by seeing how songs use refrains and they seem to take on greater or different meanings as the song progresses. Three great refrains from three truly great songs:
  • "Why can't I free your doubtful mind, and melt your cold cold heart?"
  • "Don't think twice, it's alright."
  • "Hard times, come again no more."
I should also mention Dylan's refrain, "You left me standing in the doorway, crying," which changes in tone from verse to verse, and which also is noteworthy for coming in the penultimate line of each verse rather than the final line.

(Dylan's great refrains are too numerous to mention. "The only thing that I did wrong/ was stay in Mississippi a day too long"; "Trying to get to heaven before they close the door" . . . I'll stop now.)
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