The Things I Say, a country song unfurling a first-person narrative disarming in its directness, ends in a startling back-masked passage.
In the latest issue of Scientific American, Bernd Heinrich and Thomas Bugnyar - scientists based at Vermont University in Canada and St Andrews University in Scotland, respectively - reveal a series of experiments that provides startling backing for the idea that ravens are the brainboxes of the natural world.
Whenever the rat tried dozing off, as revealed by changes in measured brain waves, the disc would rotate and a wall would shove the rat towards the water, startling it back awake.
The harried homemaker wearing her house slippers bumps into you just then, squeezing in between your cart and the hummus, startling you back to reality.
But three weeks ago the monkey, a rhesus macaque, jumped on Mrs. Fowler's back, startling her, which in turn startled him.
Opposition members shouted back, startling their opponents into silence.
We sneaked a look at something large and startling in the back.
There he is in the first room of this startling exhibition, gazing back from his self-portraits, a sage and infinitely gentle soul: Rembrandt the master.
As for Japan's trade-damaging tensions with China, the hawkish Mr Abe wants to put them to one side for now.His startling victory brings back a prime minister whose previous year in office, in 2006-07, washamblesbleshambles
It's been startling to go back to those same programmes in the days after the election to hear the surprise in the voices of the presenters, no matter where they're placed on the political spectrum.
