Originally Posted by
daviddesper
On her incredible 1979 "Dionne" album, there is a lyric technique in two of the songs, After You and Feeling Old Feelings, and I have often wondered if there is a name for this style of writing.
I am referring to the "double meaning" of some of the words. For example, the title phrase "After You" is used at some points in the song to refer to a period of time, such as "if you were to go away," but in another place or two in the song it is used as if to say "chasing after you." It is a very clever technique, whatever it might be called.
The same thing occurs in Feeling Old Feelings, even though the songs were written by different people. Does anyone know if this style has a name, providing of course that I have even made sense with my question?
Phenomenal album by the way that I still enjoy after almost 40 years, and I think these two songs, along with two others [[My Everlasting Love and All the Time) are all better songs than the two major hits, but that is a topic for another discussion.
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