I agree, John. It is cute. It's also one hell of a good piece of music, with a very original tune.

Cute is okay for this one.

Now for beautiful songs, regal songs, songs with gravity and dignity...well, there are plenty of those in the catalogs of Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Emmy Lou Harris, Van Morrison, Dire Straits, and many others, and I love 'em.

But cute is okay now and then. It does not deserve to be on a "worst song" list, and I think the reason it's there is that a lot of people are just too damned literal...or else they don't like anything that's happy...or cute. A bit of cynicism, perhaps? A bit of world-weariness?