Like many other neurotics, I suffer from recurring song stuckage. Songs get stuck in my head. There is no cure for song stuckage, or "earworm" — that's what a University of Cincinnati marketing professor has called it. While you can't cure earworm, you can treat it.

A weapon that works for me sometimes, (except on The Lion Sleeps Tonight, which apparently fell to earth from Krypton) is lyric substitution.

See what lyric substitution can do for the Tears for Fears song, Everybody Wants to Rule the World:

Drum roll: "Everybody wants to fool with Earl."When you do such as that to a song, the tune that seemed fixed in orbit around your brain will wobble on its axis. It's a fairly dependable song-stuckage killer.