The trick: the advice ends on a word, and the very next word is a name that rhymes with it. Back, Jack. Plan, Stan.

No waiting for the next line. The rhyme pays off before you can blink, five times in a row.

(Of course, Simon fudged the rhyme a bit on “discuss much,” but we’ll let that slide.)

True story: Simon wrote the chorus while teaching his three-year-old son, Harper, how to rhyme.

It became his only No. 1 hit as a solo artist. He called it “a fluke hit that I slipped into by accident.”