I really hate clunky similes in songs. When they say something is like something else just because it rhymes. Is that a simile? The best example I can think of (which to be fair is actually quite good) is Snaps I'm serious as cancer when I say that rhythm is a dancer. Which I enjoy even though it's obviously overkill. How serious are you about the premise that rhythm is a dancer (whatever that even means)? CANCER. Ok dude, I mean - chill out a bit. If you want rhythm to be a dancer it can be a dancer. No need to invoke such a potentially serious condition. You don't get...... Janet Jackson rhyming rhythm nation with decapitation. Or Jamiroqui rhyming emergency on planet earth with I'm sorry to tell you there's been a problem with the birth.
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@TheBreadmonkey
Chris de Burgh comes in for a lot of stick but nobody mentions the way "That cold north wind they call 'la Bize' / Is swirling gently round my knees"
@TheBreadmonkey firstly, "cancer" and "dancer" don't even rhyme properly!
They could have had "lancer"! "Chancer"! "Glancer!" Even "answer"!!!
Second, the rhyme makes me think of this Bob Dylan lyric... "You speak to me in sign language... As I'm eating a sandwich". (Though to be fair, language and sandwich *do* rhyme. But only if you use a Bob Dylan voice.)
I'm serious as Geoffrey Chaucer
