I thought one of the YouTube comments was interesting (imagine that!): "One of my all time favorites too... I used to listen to it in College and try to figure it out while doing homework. It took me awhile to figure out as Overandoveture says, the entire song is filled with palindromes. Pretty impressive. (A palindrome is obviously something that reads the same from left to right or right to left), like the line "Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age". Even the The 27-word bridge is word-symmetrical. Classic." - Kurt Starnes