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Lot Long
by Gary E. Andrews - 11/10/26 11:20 AM
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Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 844 Likes: 1
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Vic & Travis, Vic you thought the use of previous may be an issue? Well you guys got it tough because you are presenting songs on a FORUM where there are many Americans. Not sure how you bridge that gap as a songwriting team. I never gave a thought as to how anyone outside the US would understand my songs. Unique situation for you guys for sure. Your gonna find yourselves having to explain a LYRIC more than you would like because of your oversees songwriting tandem. BYW Vic, when I had to explain my use of the word “slips” it to Tessie in “Spread your wings & fly” to you and the meaning I really didn’t want to. I personally feel I should never have to explain a LYRIC if I did my job correctly. If I need to explain my LYRIC, I definitely wasn’t clear, at least to that listener. I looked up UK words or phrases Americans don’t use and while I didn’t see “previous” to mean “priors”, I will defer to your knowledge of the Language and slang oversees. There are many, many words I saw on the list which would be foreign to me and visa-versa. At this point I am assuming based on what you said, Brits use “previous” the way we use “priors” here in our prison system. I now “get it” based on your explanation, that “previous” has the EXACT same meaning as “priors” here in the US. So, you would not necessarily need to say what the previous or priors actually are. If I wrote “priors” in this song, I wouldn’t need to say what those priors are necessarily in all instances. When people in the prison system here in the US talk about their criminal backgrounds, they will generally use the phrase “priors” to mean all their previous criminal history lumped into ONE WORD, “priors”. They may or may not choose to elaborate what that prior was. In the UK the term is “previous”. It’s just not plural like “priors”, which makes it a tad bit quirky... Anyways, if that IS THE CASE, then in this instance previous works exactly the same as priors... Disregard my previous... 
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