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Can you mix tenses in one phrase? (Past and present) Today I was reading the lyrics of a song and the vocalist goes "I still love the way it moves and the details it loses when I walked off, and proved that I was more than". I would like to know if this is right or wrong, and whether I should understand the second part of the sentence as something that happens or already happened.
January 9, 2019
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