Contradictory Lyrics
Remember these lines from the theme song to Cheers?
You want to go where people know
People are all the same.
You want to go where everybody knows your name.
Or perhaps it was actually:
You want to go where people know
People aren't all the same.
You want to go where everybody knows your name.
The weird thing is that they both work as feel-good messages - either about our shared humanity, or our individual uniqueness. I guess there's no real opposition there, but it still feels kind of odd that they both make sense when they appear to contradict each other. And I still don't know which version is correct.
You want to go where people know
People are all the same.
You want to go where everybody knows your name.
Or perhaps it was actually:
You want to go where people know
People aren't all the same.
You want to go where everybody knows your name.
The weird thing is that they both work as feel-good messages - either about our shared humanity, or our individual uniqueness. I guess there's no real opposition there, but it still feels kind of odd that they both make sense when they appear to contradict each other. And I still don't know which version is correct.