Richard Thompson/"Tempted" -- One time Chelle was in my car for some reason and this came on my iPod and she realized it was the Squeeze cover and started singing and she knew all the words. I'm always amazed when people know all the words to anything, because I almost never do.

I know melodies, sure, often after only hearing a song once. So I hum. But I don't process lyrics that way. They have to be really, dramatically pronounced and different and out-there for me to think about them. Otherwise, they just kind of seep into the overall sound -- I'm much more interested in the way Kurt Cobain is singing "a denial" than in the fact that he's saying "a denial."

But sometimes I'll hear a lyric out of the musical context and it will surprise me. They are, I guess, there for a reason.