Neil Diamond – Play Me Lyrics
Lyrical criticism via Wikipedia:
The song also has its detractors, and “Play Me” is not the only Diamond song criticized by some for its lyrics. Janice Kennedy said the song was “an exercise in fingernail-on-blackboard painfulness: ‘Song she sang to me, song she brang to me.'” American humorist Dave Barry also cited those lines, claiming that they made him like the song. Martin Pearson also criticized that line, commenting “Ugh! It’s “brought”, you horrible little American!”
She was morning, and I was night time
I one day woke up
To find her lying beside my bed
I softly said “Come take me”
For I’ve been lonely in need of someone
As though I’d done someone wrong somewhere
But I don’t know where, I don’t know where
Come lately
You are the sun, I am the moon
You are the words, I am the tune
Play me
Song she sang to me
Song she brang to me
Words that rang in me,
Rhyme that sprang from me
Warmed the night, and what was right
Became me
You are the sun, I am the moon
You are the words, I am the tune
Play me
[Instrumental]
And so it was that I came to travel
Upon a road that was thorned and narrow
Another place, another grace
Would save me
You are the sun, I am the moon
You are the words, I am the tune
Play me
You are the sun, I am the moon
You are the words, I am the tune
Play me……