[Grammar] Spaces

[Maybo]

Far across the distance
And spaces between us
You have come to show you go on

Why is spaces plural?

source: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/celinedion/myheartwillgoon.html

 

[Rover_KE]

What is the source of your quote? It's ungrammatical. Who wrote it?

 

[Maybo]

What is the source of your quote? It's ungrammatical. Who wrote it?

It is a song "My heart will go on"

 

[Rover_KE]

Don't expect song lyrics to be grammatical or even to make sense.

 

[Tdol]

If a syllable needs filling in a song, then use the plural. Songs have needs that go beyond grammar.

 

[emsr2d2]

It is the song "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion.

See above.

 

[jutfrank]

If a syllable needs filling in a song, then use the plural. Songs have needs that go beyond grammar.

I don't think songs ever need to go beyond grammar but they sometimes do, yes. This for me is bad songwriting.

 

[Tdol]

I'd favour the needs of the tune over minor quibbles about grammar if I wrote music. ;-)

 

[jutfrank]

The writer of this song had similar views.

Good song! But that's exactly what I mean -- the choice of grammar is very conscious. It wouldn't work if it was Are you or are you not...?

 

[Rover_KE]

Outrageous liberties are taken with rhymes, too. Here's a toe-curler:

'Even the days are bedder
Now that we are togedder.

Even the nights are brighder
Now that I'm here beside yer'.

 

[Tdol]

And let's not forget every traditional grammarian's favourite- Is you is or is you ain't my baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7M4thNT_EY

 

[Maybo]

Is you is or is you ain't my baby<---------What does it mean? :shock: Are you my baby?