It's only natural

Should feel happy, should feel glad
I'm alive, and it can't be bad.

My poor rheumatic back
Yes, yes, it's my autumn almanac.

Because I love to live

But his mother knows the best about
The matrimonial stakes

Isn't it just hilarious? These lines are a bit inconsistent; also, girls CAN'T be boys and vice-a-versa. I mean, yeah, that kind of stuff totally grosses some people out but I just think it's a riot!

The guitar strumming really sounds a lot funny before he says 'I met her in a club'.

ummmmm yeah okay we got you ... now what do you wants us to do?

Was Ray Davies Having A Bad Day Or What. Surely Once Is Enough Ray.

Girls will never be boys and boys will never be girls. Girls will always be girls and boys will always be boys. That's the way it's always been, and that's the way it's always going to be.

'By your side' is a *place*, not a time!

Did he take your sense of rhyme, too?

Look at the last word in that line and then you do the math. I dig this song anyway.

Spin that vinyl dude! Would you ever let 2007 teenager manually set a needle down on your WHITE ALBUM? Dated. The terms 45, 33 -1/3 and 78s: All now as Dated as a Dictaphone when I was a teen. Depressed? Just put on an IPOD and walk in traffic. This song was written befor the Sony Walkman craze: Before that you had to stay in your room and either groove to your personal music collection or sulk to it.

Mrs. Mop is a card game. Old Mother Riley refers to a music hall act in which Irish washerwoman Old Mother Riley was played by Arthur Lucan (born Arthur Towle), and his wife Kitty McShane played Old Mother Riley's daughter.

Donald Duck

Coca-Cola

"Lola", an earlier hit for the Kinks themselves!

The Kinks are a British band, that during the years 1964 - 1965 were competing well with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in Great Britian, but had only modest success in the States at that time. But the Kinks, or more specifically lead singer (and the writer for most of their tunes), Ray Davies (who would continue to lead the group amid several line-up changes), would continue to have chart success in both Britain and the United States and worldwide well into the 1980's (with such hits as "Lola" & "Come Dancing"). Unfortunately the Kinks have been one of those rare groups, that despite having chart success, have yet to have a #1 song on Billboard Magazine's HOT 100 charts. "You Really Got Me", originally released in August 1964 and having success in both the States and Britain, has been covered by many artists over the years, with probably the most well-known and recognizable one (at least to Classic Rock station listeners) being Van Halen's 1978 version that didn't change a thing with the lyrics.

Looking back on how things have changed can be depressing.

The Kinks enjoy'd a mini-revival of sorts round about this time, and used the material Ray Davies had written about the economic sinkhole that was the average British citizen's plight, and launched a pretty profitable "Give The People What They Want" tour. Ironic