Harness Your Hopes Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Bitt3rBuffal0 

Cover art for Harness Your Hopes lyrics by Pavement

I don't know if this was as tongue in cheek clever as they meant it to be but these two stanzas look closer. It's a call and response for rhyming words described:

Well show me A word that rhymes with Pavement And I won't kill your parents And roast them on a spit --> (Displacement)

And a-don't you try to etch it --> (Engravement) Or permanently sketch it --> (Also engravement) Or your gonna catch a bad bad cold --> (Ailment)

Maybe I'm looking into that too closely but it's still interesting that they could have incorporated layered wordplay

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