I'm a little conflicted about the authorship of "The Word". The chord progression is very Paul and the chorus is very John.
> In the first three lines "word" is by far the most stressed note, and they are all the SAME note. In the last line the stress is on "heard", which rhymes, and is again the same note.
That's how it's supposed to work. The downbeat (or the accent) is on "word" in each line and in the last line the lyric changes to "heard" instead of "word.
So I'm neither expecting syncopation here nor am I noticing anything unusual there.
> In the first three lines "word" is by far the most stressed note, and they are all the SAME note. In the last line the stress is on "heard", which rhymes, and is again the same note.
That's how it's supposed to work. The downbeat (or the accent) is on "word" in each line and in the last line the lyric changes to "heard" instead of "word.
So I'm neither expecting syncopation here nor am I noticing anything unusual there.