You can say that again

I was listening to an oldie today, We Five's "You Were On My Mind." I love the opening lines: "When I woke up this morning/ You were on my mind/ And you were on my mind."

You see, normally, "and" signifies something new is about to happen. But this guy (or gal--two are singing) is so obsessed with "you" that he (or she) is doing two things: Thinking about you and, uh, thinking about you.

My favorite example of redundancy in popular music is probably from the chorus of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence": "The man who shot Liberty Valence/ He shot Liberty Valence." Now you might have already figured the man who shot Libert Valence shot Liberty Valence, but you can't be too safe.