alt Hacker NewsGrowing up in the 80s, I've known (and sung) this song all my life. But I just saw this flowchart for the first time today:
https://jeannr.tumblr.com/post/165291081/i-made-a-flow-chart...
I believe that's the original source, but it looks cut off. Here's a full version:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/82/dc/b182dcc291495c013c98...
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Steinman was a genius. One of the greatest rock composers of all time and he picked his performers brilliantly.
It doesn't look like the second has been cut off to get the first, because the font is different. It looks like the second was an attempt to extend the first (also, it kills the joke)
Reminds me of when she was on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and they played a "finish the lyrics" game: https://youtu.be/vl7UfjtLzcQ?t=260
That's actually a really interesting visualization of a professionally structured verse.
Visual representation is your WORST friend: it will make things LOOK simple even if the real thing required the utter mastery to create.
Look at that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATbMw6X3T40
Did you know there's a long version? (Of the song, not the flowchart, though another reply has that too)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svz-W5w2bPM
There's a 7-minute version, with two more verses that aren't in the version you always hear on the radio. The one starting at 3:45 in that video is particularly powerful and chilling.