The lyrics are banal with very obvious rhymes.
There's the obvious rhyme of "outside/crucified," with the added reverberation of the consonant ends in "blood" and "custard."
He wrote most of the second line - "He will catch nothing" - handing the pen over and expecting Miss Moore to fill in the obvious rhyme, and he was quite surprised when she did not.
Stile had not filled in the obvious rhyme.
That wouldn't do, not even with music to make the bad rhyme and scansion less obvious.
When someone without an ounce of creativity tried to tag him with Wilt the Stilt, he scorned it - the rhyme too obvious, the symbolism too limiting.
Some are afflicted with obvious rhymes and fuzzy New Age yearnings.
"Time Out of Mind" is not only a dour elegy but also a collection of droll, direct, jilted-love songs, full of playfully obvious rhymes and little jokes on the rhythm-and-blues tradition.
Her writing tends toward the obvious rhyme, but her earthy alto shows real emotional range, saying more than her songs sometimes do.
Rapping, a minor part of the album, became a major annoyance onstage, since by hip-hop standards it was so weak: rhythmically stiff and full of obvious rhymes ending in "tion."