Yeah, cool discussion.
I can't agree that the crap mention in Everything obviously used to be sh*t. A) even if that were true, it is in no way obvious and B) phonetically I think crap works a lot better, and I see no reason to assume it was or should have been anything other than crap??
Re: Objects, you don't see I'll never know why she disappeared as her having fled and/or killed herself? I don't think it needs to be spelled out any more than it is.
That's a really interesting point you raise re: Just Won't Quit. But note that the original recording from Pandora's Box is also SPIT. Maybe a phonetic decision, didn't want the duplicate soft consonant / digraph sounds of CHeaper than SH*t ??
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