Outro chorus Dm C So I'm gonna lay my head down on your shoulder and run, Bb Bb C Dm Keep it away from my soul, I'm not holding it all Dm C I'm gonna lay my head down on your shoulder and run, Bb Bb C Dm All that we know will get old, and with you I'll unfold Dm I'm gonna lay my head down from San Francisco is reading, L.W. Yes, also from everything I've heard it's technically correct. "Yesterday, I rested my head on the pillow for comfort" makes more sense than the macabre "Yesterday, I placed my head on the pillow for comfort," but both may make sense to some people, so move on to the second method if you're not sure. In Russian, for instance, they are expressed as instrumental NPs, as in (7). and here's an article using "my head" as a direct object example, "Dinsdale, he was a nice boy. Please advise and comments welcome please. You make me lay my head down 19 years experience Dermatology. - I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep (comp. I'm sorry. (Hold on to the bed at all times.) Probably very old fashioned of me. 2. Who lay or laid something down? You make me lay my head down, oh-oh-ooh Most people would probably say "set" or "placed" or "rested" instead of lie/lay when arms, feet and other body parts are involved. I hate to split hairs (actually, I love to, which is what makes me a grammar geek), but aren't you saying that using the transitive verb turns the head into a direct object, and therefore the head is a direct object? If I did it earlier, I LIED my head on the pillow? Howie - your solution seems escapist, but I like it. "I broke my neck getting the groceries in the car", "The sight of that hairless cat really curddled my blood.". This is sort of ugly because it reads like there's a disembodied head, like said above, but by confining it to a singular body part you're treating it as an object, I believe. I guess that, following this rule, the following would be correct grammar too: "I lie my arm on the table." In essence, real life prevails over words when "I lie my head down" is used. But what I really want to know is what is the grammar rule? The head is a direct object. No one will ever know. But...I did just find this post in the Grammar Check archives. He vividly describes nature, people and each adventure in such a way that I was transformed and walking with him and feeling the same experience. Dwayne And friends, who all my wants supply: And safely now I rest my head, your head on my pillow Lay your head on my pillow Lay it ... down Lay it down Lay it down Oh lay it down Lay your head... on my pillow, yeah [Verse One:] I ain 2. I'm of the mindset that you must know the rules before you break them, so you know when and where to do so for the best effect. i've really enjoyed this discussion, though :). Lay My Head Down by Taylor Leonhardt. (7) Moved body parts are objects in English, but instrumental NPs in Russian: vskinut’ golovoj ‘toss head-INST’, dvigat’ kryl’jami ‘move wings-INST’, ˇsevelit’ pal’- cami ‘move fingers-INST’, Now, your stipulation here seems to be asserting that there is indeed a difference in the use of body parts as objects in English, and while there is a weird sort of reasoning behind it that I can kind of grasp, simply putting your foot down and saying that "if it's part of the subject, it can't be a direct object" is just you running your mouth off. Past tense laid. I choose to avoid the issue completely. That is impossible. My head sunk into the pillow. I wanna a place that i can run to where I can find you somewhere I can call my own yeah special place to leave my troubles dawn with no one Lyrics You make me lay my head down My head, which is connected physically to the person who did the lying or laying (one hopes). 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