"Sometime in the Morning"

Yester-day I listened to the first disc of the deluxe edition of More of the Monkees, and I workt on my transcriptions a bit.  I think it was because I was looking at the lyrics while listening to them that I noticed something about "Sometime in the Morning," specifically about the bridge:

Now in her childlike eyes
You see the beauty there
You know it was always there
And you need no longer wear a disguise

The "there" of "You know it was always there" is a perfect rhyme with the "wear" of "And you need no longer wear," and those two phrases have the same number of syllables (seven), so - as far as rhyme and syllable count are concerned - "a disguise" isn't necessary.*  There's even a bit of a pause in Micky's vocal between "no longer wear" and "a disguise," which seems to underscore that it's poetically unnecessary.

In the same way that the phrase "a disguise" isn't necessary to fill in some more syllables of that line or rhyme with the previous line, the lyric itself is also saying - a bit more literally - that a disguise isn't necessary.

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*Of course, in order to make sense, that line does need "a disguise" because - even though it's an infinitive here - wear (in this sense) is a transitive verb and needs an object.

"Monkee Mother"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Monkee Mother" - the twenty-seventh episode of The Monkees series - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (20 March 1967).  It was written by Peter Meyerson and Robert Schlitt, directed by James Frawley, and featured the songs "Sometime in the Morning" and "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "When The Monkees can't pay the rent, their landlord moves a more mature tenant (played by Rose Marie) into their pad."

"Monkees at the Circus"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Monkees at the Circus" - the twenty-second episode of The Monkees series - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (13 February 1967, incidentally Peter Tork's twenty-fifth birthday).  It was written by Dave Panich, directed by Bruce Kessler, and featured the songs "She" and "Sometime in the Morning."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "When an old-fashioned circus company faces extinction The Monkees step in to save the day."