This song always makes me wanna hear Whistler's Delight (if you've never heard it, it's a brilliant little mashup by DJ Riko of this song and several other whistle-heavy tunes)!

Can someone clue me in the meaning, context or subtext of this song?
 

Is this a bot? As it says with the consistency of an atomic clock, the same daft shit all the time.

This song is soooo good it puts a spring in my step this spring night...

 

Well, they still rhyme, but I know what you mean about how some rhymes can get annoying in some tunes.  Anyhow, he doesn't use the word "tier"; it's just the second syllable of "frontiers", but still...  Maybe "war without beer" could have worked, but that would've resulted in many tears.

Far be it from me to point out rules, but I have always been very annoyed with the rhyme in this song:  tier and tear (because they are homophones, they are not really a rhyme).

Kind of trite. 

Those of you younger than, say, 40 won't be aware of what this song refers to, namely the much-loved and frankly often barmy UK TV gameshow "It's a Knockout", known also as "Jeux Sans Frontières". See the Wikipedia entry for more info on its origins, and a UK nostalgia website for pics and vid clips. As a kid our family used to sit down to Jeux Sans Frontières regularly, particularly the international competitions which were taken very, very seriously indeed by the teams involved, which was pretty damn stupid when you consider the nature of the games (wearing silly costumes, doing very silly things usually on slippery slopes, falling into gunge tanks, and much more) - the whole point of It's a Knockout was fun and parody, but it became self-parody when it took itself way too seriously. UK folk might remember it being presented by the irrepressible rugby commentator Eddie Waring, and the highly idiosyncratic Stuart Hall. They don't make programmes like that any more, right enough.

Kate Bush is singing "jeux sans frontieres", which, I believe, is the title of the song in French.  It was previously mentioned further down the list of comments.

Funny, I find him exactly the opposite. It is not that his music is bad, just boring and IMO uncreative, just doesn't grab me. And of course if voice is irritating to me as well. He is one of those artists I would not even think about one way or the other except that so many adore him, the irony is irritating.

my shameful mondegreen: She's so funky yeah

Funny, I find him exactly the opposite. It is not that his music is bad, just boring and IMO uncreative, just doesn't grab me. And of course if voice is irritating to me as well. He is one of those artists I would not even think about one way or the other except that so many adore him, the irony is irritating.

Your joking right?  Gabriel is one of those few artists that, in my opinion, manage to produce consistently creative and compelling material.  I think that while this is one of the few that can stand as a single, it is actually not one of his best.  Give this whole album (melting face, not greatest hits) a good listen and see if you can dig it.

she's so funky now

When I first heard it, I was sure he was saying "she's so fucking weird."  Even with that lyric it's a great song.