MOZZ71 agree with you. "Tangled up Puppet" makes me think of my granddaughters, "ABetter Place to Be" difficult times in life, "Cat's in the Cradle" my boys followed in their father's footsteps. Taxi and the sequels, loved his music.
Just an utterly awful song. Disliked it on release, which has grown over the years into hating it. It offends my ears, and gets turned off as soon as I hear it.
There’s a great documentary about Paul Weller, and he was asked why he looked miserable during the filming of the video of DTKIC, and his response was “because it was a dreadful song”.