csw621 wrote:Emadyville wrote:how do you even correct that for one?
and also, even tho you hope someone can't sleep they will still sleep so they can dream about it then.
i probably sound like a dick and i dont mean to sound that way im only curious cause i have never thought about that line...which i understand why in a sense it doesn't make sense...but also didnt know he has correct it at performances, which i still do not understand how you correct it
Rap Genius wrote:You ruined it now, I hope you can't sleep and you dream about it
And when you dream, I hope you can't sleep and you scream about it
I hope your conscience eats at you and you can't breathe without me
These are two very confusing lines - to the point that Em changed the first one to “I hope you go to sleep and you dream about it” for the Elton John version. The fact that the two lines seem to contradict each other shows how insane Stan’s become. Really though, it makes sense if you think about it a little bit, and take the third line into account: Stan hopes that Em fantasizes so much about the life he could’ve had with Stan that Em can’t sleep.
I don't see that as a flaw at all.
''çan't sleep'' is used by basically
everybody as a metaphor. It doesn't mean you LITERALLY have ZERO sleep, it means you have a troubled sleep... you wake up on and off, you don't get full hours etc.
So saying you can't sleep and dream about... = yeah, you ''can't sleep'' (comfortably and smoothly) BECAUSE you're dreaming about it. The bad dream/nightmare is disrupting what would otherwise be a peaceful, full night's sleep. That's how it sounds to me and I don't see a conflict in that language.
We use metaphors in almost every single line of our dialogue... ''blowing off steam'', ''it was a nightmare'', ''it was the worst'', ''battled through it''...
As an actual song though if you ignore that it is pretty much flawless.
