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One, two, three, four

I have been trying to write
A haiku for you
Some things I just can't do

Maybe you're beyond ancient
Asian poetry
Or maybe it's just me

I have trying to get
This haiku just right
All night for you alright

I'm through!

Maybe this poem was lost
In the sauce we spilled
That never got refilled

I've never thought much
of formulaic verse anyway
End rhymes are not my fort-

I have been trying to get
This haiku just right
All night for you alright

I'm through!

I'm trying not to try to hard
But you're hard to write down right
So I pen these trite attempts
At haikus for you tonight

hee hee ha ha ha ha ha ha

La da dee diddum
La da daddum doo
Diddle dum doo la deedle

There! That's sufficient.
I wrote a haiku for you
Well I tried at least
And that's not so bad
I'm working here
Can that be said for you?

I'm trying not to try too hard
But you're hard to write down right
So I pen these trite attempts
At haikus for you tonight

Words don't work like Webster says
They trip me up all night
I'm just trying to write for you
But you're hard to write down right
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Cover art for Haiku lyrics by Tally Hall

I love how he keeps failing at his haikus. Haikus should follow a 5/7/5 pattern. Look at the verses. The first one should be written like:

I / have / been / try/ing To / write / a / hai/ku / for / you Some / things / I / just / can't / DO

See the word "do"? It's a sixth syllable! And he can't get it right until he does the nonsense verse. That's so cool.

you're absolutely right!

my favorite part is

"I've never thought much of formulaic verse anyway and rhymes are not my fort-" <forte=strength, something someone is good at :) clever!

However, note to the editor Mr. BlackSPY407

the song might make more sense if it were typed using the haiku formula

for instance

5 La / da / dee / did/dum 7 La / da / dad/dum / doo / did/dle 5 Dum / doo / la / dee/dle

Please, do the song some justice! :)

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Cover art for Haiku lyrics by Tally Hall

Hey, I'm just saying what it means. And that's the whole point. Other than that, there's no meaning. So there you go. No need to be rude.

Cover art for Haiku lyrics by Tally Hall

I'm pretty sure it's "Maybe you're beyond ancient Asian poetry" rather than "big on."

cough Talk about point of the song...

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in the beginning, in the background noise. there's a guy that says "I forgot it was called walled lake western" i love it.

anyways. i love this song, all their songs are so easy to sing along to, i love bands like this.

"I've never thought much of formulaic verse anyway and rhymes are not my fort-"

It's supposed to be "end rhymes are not my fort", and for the longest time I figured that he just didn't know how to pronounce forte, but then I saw the brilliance...

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I don't think that you can say that that's the only point of the song. It would be more correct to say that it's the style of the song. It's a typical love song, basically stating that the person being sung about is too great or too complicated to express through words. The haiku format add a special touch to the song that makes it unique and interesting.

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I feel the best verse is where he finally gets the syllable count correct for a haiku, but only by messing up the rhyme by singing "fort" instead of "forte". ????

Cover art for Haiku lyrics by Tally Hall

It's too bad you didn't arrange the lyrics in haiku form like they're supposed to be.

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yea..thats sorta the point of the song -_-