expanding my collection of “songs with non-rhyming lyrics that can be made into rhymes, or at least nearer-rhymes, by changing only the end of the non-rhyme”
To Be With You (Mr. Big)
Come on baby, come on over
let me be the one to chauffeur
(improved. not only inviting her to his place, but offering to drive her there too. classy.)
Out Of Touch (Daryl Hall & John Oates)
You’re out of touch, I’m out of time
But I’m out of my head when you’re not a rhyme
(surrealist. paradoxical. makes it a rhyme by making it not a rhyme. mind blown.)
Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)
I want your love and I want your revenge
I want your love, I don’t wanna be French
(would have juxtaposed bizarrely with the fact that the lyrics switch into French immediately afterwards. a change that perfectly explains its own absence in the canon version.)