Songs that rhyme a word with itself

Actually, FWIW, in the case of the two meanings 'mass' used by Black Sabbath in our example, and many other similar homonyms, dictionaries treat them as different words that just happen to be spelled and pronounced the same way...

 

The important source would be the rules of rhyme, whatever they are. I have understood before that definitions are irrelevant to rhyme, but maybe I was wrong.

 

I want to live
I want to give
I've been a miner for a heart of gold
It's these expressions
I never give
That keep me searching for a heart of gold

 

“Lonely Ol’ Night” - John Mellencamp


It’s a lonely ol’ night/Can I put my arms around you

It’s a lonely ol’ night/Custom-made for two lonely people like me and you

Not to be outdone, he proceeds to rhyme “way” with “way” in the same song.

 

“People come and go. Look at how they act/ putting down a scam. Catch em in the act.

Gordon Gano And Lou Reed.

 

Depeche Mode Somebody
"
Someone who'll stand by my side
And give me support
And in return
She'll get my support
"

 

Do You Want To Know A Secret

"I've known the secret for a week or two; nobody knows, just we two."

 

You just rhymed "up" with "up".
You're really phoning this in.
Does "mouse" rhyme with "mouse"?
No! It's the same word!​

 

This the one that bugs me, from the Boss' otherwise majestic Badlands:

Talk about a dream, try to make it real
You wake up in the night with a fear so real

 

Someone also mentioned "Walk On The Wild Side" later on in this thread.

What no one mentioned is that Lou Reed rhymes "at all" with itself multiple times throughout the song "Rock & Roll." Maybe Reed should get a special award for this.

 

In 40 years I never noticed the two betters

 

These rhymes are the ones that always made more of an impact in their verse

 

Neil Young has a nice rhyme in The Loner with the word “are”.

If you see him in the subway,
He'll be down
at the end of the car.
Watching you move
Until he knows
he knows who you are.
When you get off
at your station alone,
He'll know that you are.

 

I’m glad a couple of people have pointed this out. Always struck me as lazy and mediocre writing. I hate it when people re-use a word too soon. Leslie Bricusse (wrote ‘Goldfinger’ and other film hits) came up with one that irritates me hugely: “And if I had a flag I’d get my flag out”. I know it’s trivial, but that’s just crap.

Regarding the points made earlier about McCartney’s alleged mis-steps, he seems pretty relaxed about stuff like this. He reflected on the wayward line in Live and Let Die: “…world in which we live in” by acknowledging that “in which we’re living” is better English, but he kind of prefers the wording that’s “wronger”. That’s probably a healthy way of looking at life!

 

Heat Miser

rhymes 20 degrees with 90-100 degrees.

 

Driving my son to school I heard a song by The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber, where the first verse goes…

“I get drunk, wake up, I'm wasted
Still I realize, the time that, I wasted”

Mark

 

I'm not sure. I used to think in the one Steely Dan song the lyrics were something like "you swear a trip in Vegas that you're not a gambling man but you find your back in Vegas with a handle in your hand." Years later, after finally trying to figure out if that was right, it turned out the first part was "you swear and kick and beg us." I would not have known that if I didn't look it up online. Other than that (which doesn't count obviously) I can't really think of anything.

 

But the real view !

I'm not a young man any more !

nickels ... more

 

Erasure - Always

"Open your eyes, I see
Your eyes are open.
Wear no disguise for me.
Come into the open."

 

I wasted all my good times having " good times "

Eric

 

I'm not a young man any more !

 

Five nickels

You know I can get me some more

 

“I will be in the bar/
with my head on the bar”

This is in “The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get” by Morrissey. It’s sort of two different uses, but one is derived from the other. In any case, it always bothered me. Love, love, love the album though.

 

Big STAR. - For You

 

Lonesome death of Hattie Carroll-

She was fifty-one years old and gave birth to ten children
Who carried the dishes and took out the garbage

And never sat once at the head of the table
And didn’t even talk to the people at the table
Who just cleaned up all the food from the table