Listen to the lyrics. He explains everything very clearly.
What can’t Daryl Hall go for?
No can do.
You got the body now you want my soul
Don’t even think about it say No Go
…
Use the body now you want my soul
Oo forget about it say No Go
You’ll have to be an old-timer or somebody who can’t avoid Wikipedia to remember Phil Harris’s The Thingbut I have never heard any clues as to what was in “the box.”
When I was a kid listening to that song I had it figured for an ugly baseball glove, but that may be because my baseball glove was ugly.
Cheat on or lie to his lover:
[Girl:] After a while you’ll forget everything
It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night’s fling
And you’ll see that it’s time to move on
[Boy:] I won’t do that! No I won’t do that!
[Girl:] I know the territory, I’ve been around
It’ll all turn to dust and we’ll all fall down
And sooner or later, you’ll be screwing around
[Boy:] I won’t do that! No I won’t do that!*
Judging by the reactions of the people in the song, it was either part of a poorly taxidermied giant squid or the mummified remains of conjoined twins.
“But when I showed him the * * * , he turned around and ran.”
Doesn’t she mention that the subject of the song has a Lear Jet? I’m guessing it’s someone relatively famous.
Tell me who was that man? I’d like to shake his hand.
RR
I have a friend who has done some studying of music and he theorizes that Freda’s (well, the character in the song’s) husband may have been a closet-case. He married her and took her in because that’s what society expected him to do, but behind closed doors he can’t bring himself to love her because she doesn’t get him going.
I read somewhere (here presumaply) that most streets in Dubai don’t have any names. So directions go kinda like you wrote.
Hence, the song must be about Dubai 
According to Wikipedia, Bono says it’s about Belfast.
Or, more to the point, about a place that’s not like Belfast.
I can believe Dubai isn’t much like Belfast. Actually I don’t think anyplace on Earth is much like Dubai. Anyway, aside from the specific reference to Belfast, that’s more or less what I figured Bono was trying to say. The whole romantic neverwhere concept just sort of falls apart if you apply logic to it for a second.
Ah. Daryl Hall, Modern Faust.
There’s a joke about John Oates’ pornstache in there somewhere…
Where, exactly, HAS Joe DiMaggio gone?
Depending on your views on the afterlife he’s either in the Great World Series in the Sky, or else batting clean-up for the Hell’s Angels. 
Away. 
His destination is presumably not known to Mrs. Robinson, or to Eleanor Roosevelt.
I’ll bet he just said, “see you tomorrow, Joe.” The guy is just trading on John’s fame.
Dick Ebersol, a bigshot exec at NBC, won an auction some years back where Carlie performed the song and then whispered the answer in his ear. So, he knows as well.
Apparently, this.
That would be the kind of surface detail I mentioned. If Simon was writing about her high school boyfriend when she was in her late twenties, she probably realized that a line like “You walked into the pizza joint/Like you were walking into a mall/Your baseball cap was turned backwards/Your jersey it was football” would sound a little too teenage. So she would update it with references to somebody like Beatty’s or Jagger’s lifestyle. Plus that way she could honestly say that the song was not based on any one person.