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"Oklahoma was never like this..."
What the hell did Paul mean when he sang, "Oklahoma was never like this"?
This isn't a misheard lyric. Those are the actual words!
This ranks right up there with Billy Joel's "We had no Softsoap." But at least we knew what Billy was singing about, even if it was a ridiculous thing to worry about. I have no idea what Paul's reference to our 46th state is about. I remember radio DJ's making fun of it back in 1986.
Maybe he wasn't singing about the state of Oklahoma but rather a neighborhood in my area that was gentrified after a local newspaper spread a rumor that residents were eating horses. An online comment says the line is actually about the musical Oklahoma!, but that would make even less sense.
Then there's the video. The "Press" video was filmed on the London subway. Unlike TANK, the London subway actually went somewhere, so people actually used it. Paul picks his nose at 1:35. The woman at 2:48 acts as if somebody just let loose with a big, stinky fart.
It's a shame Paul didn't film this video on a TANK bus instead. So few people use TANK that he wouldn't have been bothered much. The few people using it would have been busy brawling among themselves, throwing cans out the window, or grabbing used wads of bubble gum off the floor.
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