Things I wonder about instead of writing my term paper
Was it ever established what the lyric "I can't rate-rape myself" in "If You Love a Woman" means?
I'd always assumed it was a linguistic idiosyncrasy on Carl's behalf but I was listening to Mumford & Sons' "Little Lion Man" and it contains the lyric,
"Rate yourself and rape yourself,
take all the courage you have left"
[rest of lyrics here]
Is it therefore an actual English idiom???
ETA: A kind person on Youtube has informed me that it means "to judge oneself whilst being overly critical."
I'd always assumed it was a linguistic idiosyncrasy on Carl's behalf but I was listening to Mumford & Sons' "Little Lion Man" and it contains the lyric,
"Rate yourself and rape yourself,
take all the courage you have left"
[rest of lyrics here]
Is it therefore an actual English idiom???
ETA: A kind person on Youtube has informed me that it means "to judge oneself whilst being overly critical."
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