Was it not you, MtheGM who said: if i feel it has caused needless offence to a recipient I don't regard it as censorship to suggest that an apology might be forthcoming: esp, in this instance, as we are told above [by someone quoting daughter, IIRC] that M Rnlds came to 'regret some aspects' of the song; which would I presume be the personal rather than the architectural, wouldn't you agree?"

As to the song, it is about the houses--here is the verse:

And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same
And there's doctors and lawyers
And business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

The point recurring point being that it is the boxes that are made of
ticky tacky that all look just the same--one could read it either way, of course,
owing to the fact that, from a writer's point of view, the scansion in such ditties
takes precedence over clarity of meaning--

My tea is done, and I have lost the chance to nap before getting my son ready for school,
but I am glad that I hadn't endeavored to explain the Hardy verses to you--