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It's a long day, livin' in Reseda.
There's a freeway runnin' through the yard.
Geography fail: no freeways run through the L.A. city district of Reseda (which is in the San Fernando Valley portion of L.A.). To the north, route 118 passes through Northridge; to the south, U.S. highway 101 passes through Tarzana; and to the east, there is I-405 which passes through Van Nuys. (Btw, Tom makes a few other references to the San Fernando Valley in this song.)
Submitted by: nally
Don't you want me, baby?
This line could also go under the repetitive category, but it's nonsensical because if you have to ask that question to someone, they don't want you. Especially if in the context of the song, it implies that the person doesn't want him (which seems to be the case here).
Submitted by: WorkmanD.
Was it the pull of the moon now, baby
that led you to my door?
The earth pulls on the moon, not vice versa. Maybe the songwriter failed astronomy?
Submitted by: sXe LeXi 5X2
I wish I loved Jesus the way that my wife does.
You have a husband, Natalie, not a wife.
Submitted by: sXe LeXi 5X2
Roxette's,
"The Centre Of The Heart"
What am I gonna do when I get a little excited, a little in pain?
Tell me what am I gonna say when I find the centre of my heart
is a suburb to the brain?
First off, you wouldn't sing that line if you didn't already know that the centre of your heart was a suburb to the brain, and thus you would know what you said when you found out. Second of all, what the **** is that supposed to mean anyway? I think Per Gessle is on drugs (can I say that?) or something.
Submitted by: Jonas Dygd
Every time I look at you, I go blind.
After hearing this line repeated so many times (as it can also go under Repetitive Lyrics), I always have to wonder, why don't you just stop looking at her?
Submitted by: Scintilla
Then later on, on the drive home
I called her mom from a pay phone
If he was on the drive home, he'd have to get out of the car in order to use a pay phone, since those are situated on land (which might have been done in the context, but this is not specified). He could have used his cell phone in order to make that call, since cell phones were in use in the late 1990s (when this song was written). Still, "on the drive home" seems to imply that he was in the car the whole time.
Submitted by: Mr. Critic
Everybody is a star
Who can rain and chase the dust away
People aren't stars--the kind that are up in the sky--and most people are not the celebrity kind of star. Furthermore, people and stars can't produce rain.
Submitted by: Candy Welty
Strange as it seems, you can't treat a woman mean.
Oh... Okay. You mean it's perfectly normal to treat women like crap? That's probably not what this means, but it can easily be interpreted this way.
Submitted by: Aaron
And I was so much older then
When I was young
The two lines are exact opposites. You can't be younger and older at the same time.
Submitted by: RJSchex
