As a current example in my own life, I will drop a verse that doesn't seem to "belong".

The current example, in Pretty Saro, which I love, I omit the floating verse about wishing he was a little bird so he could fly to his true love's window, and so forth.

First, it's a widely known floating verse, and seems to me to stick out as such like a sore thumb.

Second, all the rest of the song is sort of real-world, and the little bird verse steps aside from the realism, so to speak. Frankly, it seems kind of hokey.

Dave Oesterreich