SloMo is probably the only one who knows what I'm talking about it...

[luckimunki]

Why is it:
I took her hand,
but it was not in matrimony;
I told my side,
but it was never testimony.

Instead of:
I took her hand,
but it was not in mantrimony;
I took the stand,
but it was never testimony.

This annoys me every time I hear the song.

Comments

[luckimunki]

Yeah, I feel like it must have been my way originally and they changed it. But I think both them sound fine, and not going for the obvious rhyme annoys some weird lobe of my brain.

[crankyliberal]

Because if you took the stand it would be testimony? That would seem to follow by definition. Wheras you can tell your side outside of a courtroom.

It makes more sense the first way if you get anal about the definition of testimony, which I realize might not be what was intended.

[fastlearner]

I can spot BNL lyrics miles off.

I'd say they went with the first because that's their rhyming scheme in the song: abcb. Pretty sure their 1st and 3rd don't rhyme in any of the other verses... though that CD is out in the car, and I can't be assed to take the 40 steps it would require to retrieve it.

I just wanna know how they weigh attention span.