Altered Images
Back in the early 1980s, my family lived in England. Occasionally there would be music videos on TV between television programs. For years afterwards, I remembered one song that I ridiculed at the time for its rather simplistic and strange lyrics, as well as its improper use of the subjunctive, although I couldn’t recall the name of the band that had performed it.
Eventually the Internet came along, and I was able to enter those lyrics in a search engine and find out who it was: Altered Images. Being a somewhat nostalgic person, I bought their CD Destiny(The Hits), and I really like some of the songs, including the one I had long ago ridiculed:
The correct use of the subjunctive, by the way, would be: "If they were me, and I were you…." It’s a counterfactual hypothetical, because she is not you, and therefore the subjunctive should have been used. (They are not she, either, but the subjunctive was used correctly in that case.)
