Just another quick note about the first two lines... I don't know if it's what the first commenter meant by "reflexive" or "symmetry," but I noticed that they use the same words, just scrambled up (at least in the At the BBC version). The cool thing about this is the way Frank Black ends the second line; "There is something about this song" has all the words of the first line, except it's missing "a." In the At the BBC version, Black trails off at the end of the second line ("uhhh") so it's a perfect mapping. What you hear is "This is a song about something there / There is something about this song a..."
Sorry for being a huge nerd and possibly ruining the song with analysis, but I thought it was awesome that Black would put so much thought into two little lines.
Just another quick note about the first two lines... I don't know if it's what the first commenter meant by "reflexive" or "symmetry," but I noticed that they use the same words, just scrambled up (at least in the At the BBC version). The cool thing about this is the way Frank Black ends the second line; "There is something about this song" has all the words of the first line, except it's missing "a." In the At the BBC version, Black trails off at the end of the second line ("uhhh") so it's a perfect mapping. What you hear is "This is a song about something there / There is something about this song a..."
Sorry for being a huge nerd and possibly ruining the song with analysis, but I thought it was awesome that Black would put so much thought into two little lines.