lol, well I'll have to admit it was kind of strange and annoying at first, but it's just a matter of sensing whether you go back to the beginning, the bridge or the last 8.

And it's really only because the average time for a recorded song is about 3 minutes which goes all the way back to the old 78 RPM records which only could fit that much time on them. That became the standard even though you could go much longer on 45's.