Grammar

[Euridice]

Well you know they're not called New Romantics for nothing.

[Melaszka]

As it's my favourite song of his, well sometimes...I was always amused/a bit bothered by one of the lines in "Before the Bullfight".

"every word's sunk in deep like the blades of a knife through my heart"

Multi bladed knife? Really? Or just a failure to reconcile the plural "blades" and the singular of "knife"?

Perhaps it was a Swiss army knife?

[godisinthesilences]

or perhaps being stabbed more than once hence the use of blades?

[Melaszka]

or perhaps being stabbed more than once hence the use of blades?

Yes, I know that's what he means. I was just being facetious. I don't think there's anything wrong with taht sort of use of metonymy - Shakespeare does similar things - and I think it's a great line. But tallulahtaurus's post did make me laugh all the same.

[tallulahtaurus]

Totally goes to show the literal worth of grammar sometimes, I guess because to me a blade doesn't multiply if you're stabbed twice by it, to me it's still just one.