As the song's repetitive verse loops like a mantra, the video descends into vivid snapshots of fax machines, buckets, badges, talking dolphins, care homes, crying pebbles, crystal balls, doves, sobbing teenagers, Henry Winkler, hippies eating bananas, eggs, lizards, an ice cube on fire, babies in space and so much more.
The repetitive verses offer a chance to practise more complex words.
Especially with songs that have repetitive verses, you have to find the differences - not just in the words and music - but in the character and what makes him sing the next verse.
On a raised platform, about a half dozen instrumentalists were playing strange lyrical music and incanting verses, repetitive and mesmeric.
These tunes, found in the 1867 volume "Slave Songs of the United States," contain only two lines per verse and are repetitive and cadenced.
"All My Life" starts with a fast, repetitive guitar part, and the verse crashes headlong into a roaring refrain: "Hey, don't let it go to waste/ I love it but I hate the taste".
The rhythms are soporific and mystical, the words sung low and sonorous, the verses many and repetitive.
On "Gone" he balanced the finger-pointing verses with a repetitive chorus that sounded more playful than indignant, murmuring, "Gone, going/Gone, everything/Gone, give a damn/Gone be the birds if they don't want to sing/Gone people, all awkward with their things/Gone".
"It was a bit repetitive, I had done two verses but I needed five".
By comparison Theme from M*A*S*H is a bit stale: the first two-and-half minutes are a repetitive meander through four near-identical verses with choruses so thin you can practically see through them, while the last third ups the tempo and rocks out but without any real bite.
Bukowski's lack of pretension, his repetitive subject matter and his seemingly simple free verse style often leaves the poets who came after dodging accusations of being Bukowski-esque.
