Oh shite! Grammar has come to songs and poems!   

Well, that's it, we may as well all give up and go home now, before our subjunctives begin to wither in the wind.

By the way, what IS a subjunctive? I seem to have reached near on 55 years old without bothering about it, but hey, perhaps I really need to!

Perhaps I need to find that 'Eats Shoots and Leaves' book one more time. Oh, that's right, I threw it out! Why? because in the introduction the author admitted she was more strung out by the use of inappropriate words in the media, used to describe the 9/11 disaster, than she was about the three thousand plus people who'd died.

At that point, I realised I was about to read the words of a woman who had her priorities SO wrong..and I chucked the book in the rubbish bin.


"I disagree, Georgiansilver. Grammar helps make meaning clear."


No. It is the way the singer interprets the song that makes the meaning clear..and if that singer is also the songwriter, then the meaning overrides ANY grammatical error...and to be honest, a brilliant song takes you WAY beyond grammar and into the realms of another world, where grammar was never even invented and humans judged all on emotions.