I didn’t realize there was a modern song using the same line. My teenagers use headphones ... and even when they don’t, I can’t understand most of the words, anyway. (They say they can’t understand, either.)
Speaking of words, we were listening to “The Who” on the Sirius radio last night coming home from church, and the display showed, “Mama’s Got a Squeeze-Box.” I’d always thought the line was, “Mama’s gotta sneeze, but Daddy never sleeps at night.” Mondegreens ...
LOL, I always mishear lyrics too. Some of the albums I own are older than me, since today’s mainstream music is so awful.
Ah, here you have the insidious secret of their marketing strategy. Before you can decipher the words, you have to listen, and listen, and listen several more times, until you can puzzle out all the words of the song.
By the time you realize that this garbage is something you really don't want in your brain, it's far, far too late.
Thus the kids brainwash themselves. That zombie look is there for a reason.
Lyrics can be found on-line, if not in the fold-outs that come in the CD cases.
We’ve so far been successful, in our house, at keeping our kids from developing such afflictions as “the iPod nod.” That’s the one where the kid see your lips moving and gives you a casual bob of the head indicating, “Your desire to give input has been noted. Fill me in later.”