Music & That One Irritating Line…

[bijou]

We have a word for that misheard lyric (the mondegreen) and a word for that song you just can’t get out of your head (earworm).

So do we have a word for that line in a song that just screams out to you as wrong? I don’t mean a double negative, that’s quite common, just a line where the lyricist has had to torture the English language to get the thing to rhyme or fit in with the tune?

I have two examples; coincidentally they were both on the radio this week. First up, it’s ‘I’d Rather Leave While I’m In Love’ by Carole Bayer Sager, which contains the line:”Too many times I’ve seen the rose die on the vine,
Somebody’s heart gets broken, usually it’s mine….” Roses grow on vines? News to me, I always thought they grew on stems…

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[Duke Nukum]

I think roses grow on vines too.  Don't they?

[debk]

Climbing roses are "viney"....

[littlelamb]

I thought roses grew in bushes