Paul loves enjambments
Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. For example, the poet John Donne uses enjambment in his poem "The Good-Morrow" when he continues the opening sentence across the line break between the first and second lines: "I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?"
These are the examples that I could think of right now of Paul hopping across lines (well, if you agree with where the cuts are placed, as lines in a song can be written in several ways, and if you agree that the breaks in syntax are unusual enough to be considered poetic/interesting enjambments) :
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I've just seen a face I can't forget
The time or place where we just met
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I was alone, I took a ride
I didn't know what I would find there
Another road where maybe I
Could see another kind of mind there
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Ooh, you were meant to be near me
Ooh, and I want you to hear me
Say we'll be together every day
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And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong, I'm right
Where I belong, I'm right
Where I belong
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There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit and meanwhile back
In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
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And when the broken hearted
People living in the world agree
There will be an answer
Let it be
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Mull of Kintyre
Oh, mist rolling in from
The sea, my desire
Is always to be here
Oh, Mull of Kintyre
Feel free to add more if you can recall any!
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