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Originally Posted by allrevvedup
I think the idea of all the examples you've given that may have been tone down are examples of clever song writing more so than anything else. Some of it is tongue in cheek, but there's also a better chance of appealing to the masses with lyrics that don't refer to drugs, cursing or suicide. Which is exactly what Jim and Meat were trying to do with Bat II.
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Makes perfect sense to me. I too remember Meat referring to the change from drugs to drums. I think "hanged herself" would have spoiled the rhythm, "spit" conveys worthlessness much more cleverly imo than "shit", which has different connotations .. ie awful, bad etc .. whereas "spit" doesn't carry those and fits better, just as "damn" has a much better cadence than "~~~~". I certainly can't tell that in "of all the crap they're gonna put on the page" the word crap replaces "shit" (although I can hear "etiquette" and not "educate"
), and again I think the flow is better as it is on the recording.
Caryl