Yeah, Cluin, but given Anka's age when he wrote "Diana," she was probably just 2 or 3 years older than he.   (I think, in fact, the songs was written for a slightly older girl he had a crush on.) When you're a lad of 17, a 21-year-old female is "an older woman."


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GUEST(21 Apr 06),

I originally 'heard' McCartney's lyric the way you did, and I cringed too. But the actual lyric is:
"but in this ever changing world in which we're livin' ..."

Perfectly grammatical, just a case of underenunciation -- common in everyday speech.

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Foolestroupe, Joni M is, indeed, wunnerful!   
And, at the risk of being nit-picky, it's
" ... they charged all the people a dollar and half just to see 'em!" (as in "see them"), not "see-um" (as in "Tonto see-um heap big horse).   Again, most of us probably say "see 'em" a lot more often than we say "see them."

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LadyJean, in the hymn "Spirit Of the Living God," the original lyric is "melt me, mold me, fill me, USE me." I guess to some our minds that's still suggestive, but in the context of the Bible, it's pretty straightforward with no double-entendre.