Definitely agree with the whole disillusioned upper-middle class couple with a coming child. I think the coolest part of this song though is how well it flows despite the fact that it is in free verse. There aren't even really any internal rhymes...it just works because of where they place the accents (I capitalized the accented vowels):
"Now they resIde out in Brooklyn HeIghts
Where the rich kids hIde and the years go bY"
Cool stuff. Also [now this is a big stretch, but I think it adds to the aesthetic of the song, whether it was intentional or not (I'm guessing it probably wasn't)] this structure almost parallels the narrative in this song. These kids are lost in their own story and they are able to keep it together because of their relationship; similarly the song really shouldn't sound as fluid as it does except for these happenstance syllabic relationships.
@slacker7667 Gonna be that guy: it's not free verse if it's got a recognizable accentual pattern (which it does: three stresses per line in the chorus, four in the verse). And it's got rhymes both within the lines and at the ends. I'd agree that it's good songwriting, though.
@slacker7667 Gonna be that guy: it's not free verse if it's got a recognizable accentual pattern (which it does: three stresses per line in the chorus, four in the verse). And it's got rhymes both within the lines and at the ends. I'd agree that it's good songwriting, though.
Definitely agree with the whole disillusioned upper-middle class couple with a coming child. I think the coolest part of this song though is how well it flows despite the fact that it is in free verse. There aren't even really any internal rhymes...it just works because of where they place the accents (I capitalized the accented vowels): "Now they resIde out in Brooklyn HeIghts Where the rich kids hIde and the years go bY" Cool stuff. Also [now this is a big stretch, but I think it adds to the aesthetic of the song, whether it was intentional or not (I'm guessing it probably wasn't)] this structure almost parallels the narrative in this song. These kids are lost in their own story and they are able to keep it together because of their relationship; similarly the song really shouldn't sound as fluid as it does except for these happenstance syllabic relationships.
@slacker7667 Gonna be that guy: it's not free verse if it's got a recognizable accentual pattern (which it does: three stresses per line in the chorus, four in the verse). And it's got rhymes both within the lines and at the ends. I'd agree that it's good songwriting, though.
@slacker7667 Gonna be that guy: it's not free verse if it's got a recognizable accentual pattern (which it does: three stresses per line in the chorus, four in the verse). And it's got rhymes both within the lines and at the ends. I'd agree that it's good songwriting, though.