Lyrically, it's perhaps one of the more simplistic Go-Betweens songs, but the arrangements – leisurely guitar lines, aptly placid, repetitive drums, and an unforgettable, soaring chorus – should make this a hit in an ideal world.
For Syria never was a simplistic battle between evil and good, between a barbaric dictator and a repressed people.
Second, participants made simplistic distinctions between two types of men: between 'well-meaning men' or 'men of conscience' on the one hand, and those 'other' men who assault women on the other.
And in the process, our simplistic distinctions between making and manufacturing begin to dissolve.
Yet making simplistic distinctions between London and elsewhere does not give the full picture.
The show doesn't draw simplistic parallels between a stage director and a führer.
Both began by presenting simplistic battles between good and evil forces before arguably becoming more complex as time went on.
The political effect at home is to create a simplistic divide between those for or against austerity, rather than leading a substantive debate on real structural reforms.
But we should be wary of seeing a simplistic choice between the dying past and a future based on the corporate model.
We seem to be set for a simplistic confrontation between healing honesty and sexual scar tissue, one that depends on an over-neatness in David's apprehensions.
