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fishing analogy
Songs are like a trawler net and its haul of fish. The net represents the melody scooping up the fish, or words, which together represent the complete song. However at intervals the net, i.e. the tune, is emptied of its fish, i.e. the words, which are replaced by a fresh haul, i.e. different words. Now I know exactly what the teams are thinking - what does i.e. mean? And what about protected fish? Certain species such as the Blue Fin Tuna face extinction. Just one more than your quota could cost you a penalty fine, and why waste money on a Tuna when no one will notice the difference anyway? At the piano …

freudian analogy
It is not nearly as complex as it sounds as all of you who study the work of Sigmund Freud will appreciate. For the purposes of psycho-analysis Freud divided the personality, or in our terms the song, into two components - these are the ego comprising moral values which is so obviously analogous to the tune, and the id which unconsciously contains primitive emotions and therefore equates exactly to the words. The personality, or song, steers between the two trying to reconcile and balance their conflicting demands against the constraints of the real world. Freud did prove that the ego and the id can be adjusted and modified through behavioural therapy, or in our terms literally by singing one song to the tune of another.

However, I should point out that Freud’s theories also conclude that the repression of sexuality often leads an infantile penis substitution fixation, or in our terms Colin Sell is at the piano again.

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