To console myself that I had not become one, I thought of all the rap lyrics featuring the brand.
We Go Home is streaked with such familial and generational connections, with many of the lyrics featuring references to famous Leonard Cohen hits.
The song was used as the soundtrack for a television ad hawking some feline vittles several years ago and apparently the ad's lyrics (featuring such choice couplets as "Chow-chow chow chow chow") have replaced the original in some area of my brain that really should be dedicated to something more useful.
Carey described "Fly Like a Bird" as the most personal and religious track from The Emancipation of Mimi, with its lyrics featuring a veritable prayer to God: "Fly like a bird, take to the sky, I need you now Lord, carry me high!".
A singer whose lyrics featured oral sex, drug use and mental illness made the officials nervous.
"Cherokee," the opener, is one of the least tense songs on the record, yet its lyrics feature its darkest notes.
But Jamaica is now exporting a new batch of reggae singers who sing some songs whose lyrics feature violent attacks on gay people.
But earlier drafts of the lyrics, featured in the book, show him playing with variations: your bedroom, this bedroom, the bedroom.
PJ Harvey has been criticised for the lyrics featured in her new song The Community of Hope, with local figures of authority branding her summation of a neighbourhood in Washington DC as "incomplete".
Although later versions of the song dropped the word, the original lyrics featured the line: "He's been tanning niggers out in Timbuktu, now he's coming back to do the same to you".
