[00:01] songwriter to be talking from their perspective but not to a specific you. Let's build on that to explore some other points of view that still have a very clear sense of who is speaking and to whom they are speaking. A song that
[00:17] kind of point of view is the song what's he building in there by Tom Weights. What's he building in there? What the hell is he building in there? He has subscriptions to those magazines. He never waves when he goes by. He's hiding
[00:31] something from the rest of us. He's all to himself. I think I know why. From a point of view perspective, we have the presence of an I pronoun. So, we know that the songwriter narrator is a character on the stage of this song.
[00:47] But we also have he and him. We also have this other person on stage, and he's not talking to that other person. This is the really interesting part this other person. He's talking about this other person. He's really talking
[01:04] to us, the listeners. When he says, "What's he building in there?" He's saying it out loud. He could be saying it to himself, but it feels like he's including us in the conversation in a gossipy kind of tone that makes this
[01:18] structure so effective because the person we're talking about or the person Tom Weights is talking about has no idea he's being talked about.