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Originally posted by Inner Insanity
Maybe because murder can be a noun. Murdered doesn't make sense because it's past tense but the line is followed by "that is what this must be", present tense. Grammatically murdered is incorrect and sounds awkward if you say the full line that way.
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No, think of it like this! You walk into a crime scene and you see two lovers that have been killed in a bedroom… "Young love murdered"
You now come into the assumption "that is what it must be"!
What you witness has happened already, but you are seeing it in the present! So, it's not incorrect to say… "Young love murdered, that is what it must be!" because you are grammatically correct in assuming a past event has happened and you are witnessing it now.