4 Lines of Counting Crows Lyrics and Why They’re Awesome

[@Barely_Out_Of_Tuesday]

Thanks for the upload! Love it :)

[@veron_imusic5691]

Love it thanks.

[@Bodyknowledge77]

Hi Anthony. I would have the line as; "The smell of hospitals *and* winter". Not and not "in". It could specifically have a significance to Adam Duritz but do hospitals have a different smell in the winter than in other seasons?

[@SuccessForYourSongs]

Interesting point, and thanks for posting it. Everywhere I look it up online has "in," but even if it is "and," it would seem to convey the same idea. I.e., if you're talking about "hospitals and winter" together at the same time, that would effectively be the same as "hospitals in winter." Either way they're happening together. I guess the only difference would be in the "and" version you're smelling both the hospitals AND the winter, and in the "in" version, just the hospitals. Do you see it a different way than that?

[@Bodyknowledge77]

@@SuccessForYourSongs He could have also gone with "or" instead of "in". It might be a case of "rhyme desire"(I might just have come up with that?)? Because "winter" and "in" rhyme obviously. For instance a more extreme example is the original lyrics of Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again". "Here I go again on my own. "Like a hobo I was born to walk alone". Sometimes there's some special reason for the choice and then other times it's just lazy lyrics, as you know obviously.

[@SuccessForYourSongs]

@@Bodyknowledge77 Yes, could be. Good analysis.

[@judejohnsonmusic]

@@SuccessForYourSongs I kinda feel like hospitals and winter separates them, two sad things, hospitals IN winter makes it one super sad cold thing, winter can also imply a sense of loss or dying, subtle but maybe more impactful

[@SuccessForYourSongs]

@@judejohnsonmusic Good points

[@adan5347]

😁 *promosm*.