The song's chorus is a lyrical acknowledgment of the Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris singing partnership.

( In earlier seasons, the " Gossip Girls " and " Gloom, Despair .." sketches would both end with a repeat of the song's chorus, but in later years that practice was eliminated.

With help from Radio 1 breakfast show host Simon Mayo, who gave the song regular airplay and also used the chorus within a jingle, it became a hit, some 12 years after the song's original appearance in Life Of Brian, reaching number 3 in the UK charts and landing Idle a set on Top of the Pops in October 1991.

The song's chorus recounts, " Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you " equating the singer's longing to how much " Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor " which is " an awful lot, girl ".

On the July 4 show in Gothenborg, Steven Van Zandt brought back the famous " double-mike " ditty he and Bruce used to do in the 1970s with the song's chorus.

Instead, winds swept through the band's performance during the song's chorus, and the house didn't come down during the video.

In the film, the four Beatles are first seen by themselves, performing the initial chorus and verses, and then are joined by the audience who appear as the last chorus concludes and coda begins ; the audience sings and claps along with the Beatles through the song's conclusion.

Prior to the album's release, Slipknot gave away " Heretic Song ", titled " The Heretic Anthem " on the album, free on their website and was limited to a quantity of 666 copies to coincide with the song's chorus ; " If you're 555, then I'm 666.

Thinking he is referring to the song, Hank takes out his guitar and sings the song's chorus.

The break is roughly equivalent to the song's " climax ," as it is meant to be the most exciting part of a song before returning once more to its finale ( usually a return to the main chorus ).

Rap group, L. A. M. B, have a song entitled " I'm Your Boyfriend Now, Nancy ", based on Freddy Krueger, which samples Freddy's infamous quote for the song's chorus.

Since 2011, he has added new vocals to his live performance before the song's final chorus:

The section of music used is discussed in the article in relation to the song's lyrics, musical and vocal style, and also contains part of the song's chorus.

The main line of the song's chorus asks the sticky question: „ Soll ich's wirklich machen oder lass ich's lieber sein ?“ (" Should I really do it or should I let it go?

In the Kingston Trio recording, after the final chorus, the song's lead singer Nick Reynolds speaks the words: " Et tu, Charlie?

Leading to the chorus, Madonna switches to a pleading voice, singing the song's main hook in a high tone.

A segment of the song's main chorus is also included during the closing sequence of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

The song's chorus features the line, " Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto ", which has become a catchphrase.

The chorus, or refrain, uses five of the song's seven chord set, structured with the melody in a way that shifts the key from B-minor to its relative major of D:

The song's origins and age are uncertain: however, a counting song with similar lyrics, but without the ' Green grow the rushes ' chorus, was being sung by English children in the earlier half of the 19th century By 1868 several variant and somewhat garbled versions were being sung by street children as Christmas carols.

Lead single " Locket " made an impact on radio and music video channels, but its exposure was limited due the explicit language in the song's chorus.

Lester Bangs later wrote a scathing response to a question posed by Dylan in the song's chorus: " What made them want to come and blow you away ?".

During the chorus, the lyrics —" If you wanna be my lover / You gotta get with my friends "— address the value of female friendship over the heterosexual bond, while the ascending group of chords and the number of voices creates a sense of power that adds to the song's level of excitement.

She obliged, and he raped her at knifepoint ( many journalists mistakenly state she was raped at gunpoint, possibly due to the song's title ).

Humanities scholar Camille Paglia speculated that the song's lyrics might have been partly inspired by William Blake's poem " The Mental Traveller ": " She binds iron thorns around his head / And pierces both his hands and feet / And cuts his heart out of his side / To make it feel both cold & heat.

However, Scarbury could not follow the song's success, and after charting at # 49 with a follow-up single " When She Dances ", he once again disappeared from the charts.

She also says she initially did not want to record or perform the song because she felt it was far too personal to share, but eventually changed her mind after adding the song's final verse (" To those of us who knew the pain / Of Valentines that never came ...").

A few incidents have been suggested as inspirations for the song's cryptic lyrics, which recall in tone those of " She Said, She Said ":

She says she has met Cohen twice since the song's initial popularity ; once after a concert Cohen performed in the 1970s and once in passing in the 1990s when she danced for him, but Cohen did not speak to her ( and possibly did not recognise her ).

She often fought with Walden in the studio concerning the song's production, and as a result Walden became her least favorite among the producers who worked on her debut album.

A source close to Carey claimed that hearing the song's use meant a lot to her, saying " She was blown away when she heard.

She has described the song's genre as " very dancey, kind of pop – not ' 80s, but kind of with that in it.

" The song's harmonic progression resembles those of Beatles songs such as the G-flat / F / E-flat / D-flat descending bass line (" Bad to Me ") and the vi-iii movement (" Please Please Me ," " I Want to Hold Your Hand ," " She Loves You ," " And I Love Her ," and others ).

She was also credited with providing vocals for the song's chorus.

A line from " Bastard " (" A certain Mr. Kaizer took me in / He is the proud owner of the world's heaviest siamese cat ") and the song's overall crowd response became a source of inspiration for Ottesen, and after gnom dissolved after disappointing record sales, he formed Kaizers Orchestra.

The song's lyrics are self-referencing, explaining how the song came to be (" Garry called me up and asked if I would write his theme song ") and asking what the listener thinks of it.

The song's most famous line is " Hooray for Captain Spaulding / The African explorer / ' Did someone call me schnorrer?

The band had slightly altered the song's lyrics, replacing Morrison's original " she comes to my room, then she made me feel alright " with " she called out my name, that made me feel alright " after influential Chicago station WLS had banned Them's original version.

Recalling how his agency's clinics were filled in 1985 with girls wearing clothes that were an imitation of Madonna's style, Moran said that the song's message is " that getting pregnant is cool and having the baby is the right thing and a good thing and don't listen to your parents, the school, anybody who tells you otherwise — don't preach to me, Papa.

The song has very few lyrics, save for a verse by Rose Stone and the song's chorus: Don't call me " nigger ", whitey ./ Don't call me " whitey ", nigger.

The song's chorus, in which Beck sings the lines " Soy un perdedor / I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

'), asserts some self-belief (' God gave me style, God gave me grace ') and then hits upon the bottom line as the song's mood suddenly improves with another fat and glorious chorus: ' Yeah, when you work it out I'm the same as you .... your guess is as good as mine.

The song's lyrics are minimalist, mainly consisting of the lines " I don't need to sell my soul / He's already in me " and the song's title repeated throughout.

The song's final line, however, reveals that he possesses her love only within the confines of his own imagination: " But in reality / she doesn't even know me.

Carey explains in the song's lyrics how although people can try to make her feel down and depressed, no matter what happens, she can't let them win: " There's a light in me that shines brightly.

Author Chris Nickson explains on the song's switch in relationship, as the lyrics change to If you just believe in me / I will love you endlessly / Take my hand / Take me into your heart / I'll be there forever baby / I won't let go / I'll never let go.

The song's lyrics convey a request to " Mr. Sandman " to " bring me a dream " – the traditional association with the folkloric figure, the sandman.

An integral part of the song's chorus is Cash's character requesting, " Jim, Jim, so you're ridin ' on ahead / Well if that's how it's going to be / When you reach those streets paved with gold / Jim, stake a claim out for me ".

The first single from 1995's otherwise buoyant Post and a featured track on the Tank Girl soundtrack, the song's pounding industrial beat, menacing synth bass, and unusually aggressive lyrics (" And if you complain once more / You'll meet an army of me ") stand in sharp contrast to the rest of the album and to most of her previous work.

George Harrison said that the first part of song's title originated from a quote by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ; however, as for the "... except me and my monkey " part, he attested that he did not " know where that came from " though McCartney believes it was a reference to Lennon's heroin habit.

There may be a connection between this musical constancy of the tonic and the song's lyrics such as " It's all too much for me to see, a love that's shining all around here.

On the album Ben Folds Live, Folds explained: " People ask me what this song's about ...

One of the song's signature lines, " take a look at me now ", was first used-in a similar melody-in their earlier single " Since I Told You It's Over ".