Exactly. Those are lyrics with a bit of depth and passion in them, some nice images, some hinting at a story that remains a partial mystery, and the sheer overblown melodrama of it all is exactly why some singers must have loved to belt it out, as I said.

As for "Bird is the Word", yeah...that's even worse than "My Baby Does The Hanky Panky", and for much the same reason. It has zero content, zero imagination, it's just a relentless assault on the senses pasted onto a heavy rythm track. It doesn't even merit Shakespeare's devastating comment: "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."