Well it’s one “sentence” but it’s also the half first verse. In songs and poems 1 line really functions as sentence, especially when there’s rhyming schemes. And let’s face it, those are mostly short words, I doubt that comes in higher than elementary school on the reading grade scale.
And all your other spam of examples follow the same. Small words, short clips, probably grade school reading. Most songs and poems run at less than 12 syllables a line, it’s simply not a structure that lends itself to difficult reading.
Oh come on now. You’re about to lose an argument after it was already conceded to you. MY point was that one sentence ran for half the first verse.
Are lines of verse usually very short? Sure. But there’s no reason a sentence has to be one line.
Most lyrics are, but do you really think this is a grade-school reading level? “Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand between their loved home and the war’s desolation, blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land, praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation?”
Commonplace songs have commonplace lyrics. Great songs have great lyrics. Really great songs have great lyrics that seem commonplace.
Some bonus songs.
“When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody’s help in any way, but now [that] these days are gone and I’m not so self assured, now I find I’ve changed my mind and opened up the doors”
“Remember, Christ our savior was born on Christmas day to save us all from Satan’s power when we had gone astray.”