Doug Henwood:
> Well what damn sense does that make?
I'll suggest that we are supposed to supply an echo of "come together" from the previous line:
Music makes the people come together
(Never gonna stop)
Music makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel [ come together ]
(Never gonna stop)
This sort of trick is sometimes observed in instrumental music, where the repetition of a note is implied but not actually played; one hears it with the mind but not the ear, while meanwhile the meter or the grace of the performance is preserved.