Perhaps, but I bet you know the difference between good and bad regardless of the context.
Greg Lake rightly gets criticized for the "get me a ladder" lyric. The metaphor he creates by forcing "ladder" into the rhyme scheme is odd to say the least.
Or maybe it's not a metaphor? Maybe he wants a literal ladder? Maybe he wants to recreate Belushi's famous window scene in
Animal House?
Or maybe it's synecdoche and what he really wants is a fire truck? Maybe that creates another metaphor (his heart is on fire; the fire truck will put the fire out)?
Or maybe it's metonymy, and he's become so frustrated by his inability to get the girl (or whatever the fuck that song is about), that he's turned his pursuit to a stereotypical and undoubtedly offensive pursuit of homosexual sex at the the local fire station???
None of that, however, stops me from singing the stupid lyric when ever the song comes up and the mood strikes me.
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