Especially when you consider that Wonderland is where they used to have the dog races (in Boston).
They might be giants does a lot of wordplay. Rhythm Section Want Ad from their first album made me chuckle with this:
“Speak softly, drive a Sherman tank,
Laugh hard, it’s a long way to the bank”
Old 97s have lots of clever lyrics. In Designs on You, where the singer is trying to convince an engaged woman to cheat with him, he says, “I won’t tell a soul except the people in the nightclub where I sing.”
Yet another from The Barenaked Ladies the song One Week
Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon
Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes
That make me think the wrong thing
From “Love Interruption” by Jack White:
I want love to, roll me over slowly
Stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.
I want love to, grab my fingers gently
Slam them in a doorway, put my face into the ground.