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A Song About Grammar

from Too Long; Didn't Listen by Ellipsis

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The first song ever recorded by Ellipsis, reworked, re-recorded and made substantially better.

A rant about people who just don't seem to understand that just because THEY'RE on the internet, the correct use of grammar is still paramount to stop oneself looking like an idiot.

lyrics

YOU’RE and YOUR have different meanings
But YOU’RE and YOUR sound quite the same
It’s just a pity we don’t spell phonetically
Then you’d not be likely
To make a prat of YOURself...

Even the most intelligent people I know
Sound like fools
On the Internet
The simple distinction
Between "you"r and "you are"
Relegates them to the bottom of the social ladder
In our song about grammar.

Sometimes IT’S hard when you’ve got a guitar
To stop twanging ITS strings but that’s not the point.
The point, IT IS, IT'S easy to spell
Unless you’re a moron

Even the most intelligent people I know
Sound like fools
On the Internet
The failed distinction
Between an “it is” and a possessive
Is enough to make me a...manic depressive?


THEY’RE always trying to tell you
They don’t look like fools spelling things THEIR way
But when you see it THERE
It’s somehow ironic...quite ironic
In our song about grammar.

credits

from Too Long; Didn't Listen, released August 29, 2011
Anderson: Vocal, Viola
Denning: Vocal, Piano, Bass, Guitars
Innes: Backing vocal, Cello

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Ellipsis Surrey, UK

Ellipsis are (or is) less of a band than an idea, a loose but growing collection of friends who think that, when it comes to "music", anything, from any definable "genre", goes. Most of their music is available here for free and accompanying videos can be found on YouTube: youtube.com/weareellipsis ... more

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