This song made a lot of sense to an angst-filled teenager when it came out. Poetically, it's a series of contradictions, which seemed just right at that age.

"And I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I'd said."

There was a song, with a seeming nonsense lyric from the nursery rhyme about an old man who hit his head--what was that? And also McCartney's "Uncle Albert". Perhaps there is a sentience underlying all of these that comes with the period; something poetical or literary that was making the rounds.

I like the term "earworm." It certainly describes some of the songs discussed here. Like that darned "Robin Hood" theme. :)

SRS