Lyrical: Complexity Analysis of Pop Songs

Original Lyrics	Munged Lyrics
"An extremely quiet child" they called you in your school reports "He's always taken interest in the subjects that he's taught" So what was it that brought the squad car screaming up your drive To not ... [bulk of lyrics omitted for copyright reasons]	" An extremely quiet child " they called yew inn yaw school reports " He's always taken interest inn the subjects that he's taut " Sew watt was it that brought the squad car screaming up yaw drive Too notify yaw parents of the manna inn witch yew died At St . Patricks every Sunday, Farther Fletcher herd yaw sins " Owe, he's unconcerned with competition he never cares too win " Butt blood stained a young hand that never held a gun And his parents never thought of hymn as there troubled sun " Now yule never get too Heaven " Mama said Remember Mama said Ticking, ticking " Grow up strait and true blew Run along too bed " Here it, here it, ticking, ticking They had yew holed up inn a downtown bar screaming fore a priest Sum gook said " His brain's just snapped " then someone called the police You'd knifed a Negro waiter who had tried too calm yew down Owe you'd pulled a gun and tolled them awl too ley still on the ground Promising too hurt know won, providing they whirr still A young man tried too make a brake, with tear-filled eyes yew killed That gun but felt sew smooth and warm cradled inn yaw palm Owe yaw childhood cried out inn yaw head " they mien too do yew harm " " Don't ever ride on the devil's knee " Mama said Remember mama said Ticking, ticking " Pay yaw penance well, my child Fear ware angels tread " Here it, here it, ticking, ticking Within an our the news had reached the media machine A mail caucasian with a gun had gone berserk inn Queens The area had bean sealed off, the kids cent home from school Fourteen people lying dead inn a bar they called the Kicking Mule Owe they pleaded too yaw sanity fore the sake of those inside " Throw out yaw gun, walk out sloe just keep yaw hands held hi " Butt they pumped yew full of rifle shells as yew stepped out the door Owe yew danced inn death like a marionette on the vengeance of the lore " You've slept two long inn silence " Mama said Remember Mama said Ticking, ticking " Crazy buoy, yule only wind up with strange notions inn yaw head " Here it, here it, ticking, ticking

Original Lyrics

Munged Lyrics

"An extremely quiet child" they called you in your school reports
"He's always taken interest in the subjects that he's taught"
So what was it that brought the squad car screaming up your drive
To not
...
[bulk of lyrics omitted for copyright reasons]

" An extremely quiet child " they called yew inn yaw school reports
" He's always taken interest inn the subjects that he's taut "
Sew watt was it that brought the squad car screaming up yaw drive
Too notify yaw parents of the manna inn witch yew died

At St . Patricks every Sunday, Farther Fletcher herd yaw sins
" Owe, he's unconcerned with competition he never cares too win "
Butt blood stained a young hand that never held a gun
And his parents never thought of hymn as there troubled sun

" Now yule never get too Heaven " Mama said
Remember Mama said
Ticking, ticking
" Grow up strait and true blew
Run along too bed "
Here it, here it, ticking, ticking

They had yew holed up inn a downtown bar screaming fore a priest
Sum gook said " His brain's just snapped " then someone called the police
You'd knifed a Negro waiter who had tried too calm yew down
Owe you'd pulled a gun and tolled them awl too ley still on the ground

Promising too hurt know won, providing they whirr still
A young man tried too make a brake, with tear-filled eyes yew killed
That gun but felt sew smooth and warm cradled inn yaw palm
Owe yaw childhood cried out inn yaw head " they mien too do yew harm "

" Don't ever ride on the devil's knee " Mama said
Remember mama said
Ticking, ticking
" Pay yaw penance well, my child
Fear ware angels tread "
Here it, here it, ticking, ticking

Within an our the news had reached the media machine
A mail caucasian with a gun had gone berserk inn Queens
The area had bean sealed off, the kids cent home from school
Fourteen people lying dead inn a bar they called the Kicking Mule

Owe they pleaded too yaw sanity fore the sake of those inside
" Throw out yaw gun, walk out sloe just keep yaw hands held hi "
Butt they pumped yew full of rifle shells as yew stepped out the door
Owe yew danced inn death like a marionette on the vengeance of the lore

" You've slept two long inn silence " Mama said
Remember Mama said
Ticking, ticking
" Crazy buoy, yule only wind up with strange notions inn yaw head "
Here it, here it, ticking, ticking

Ticking

Elton John