# Anybody ever want to live out a song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 7, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430 "2004-09-07T01:32:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/1 "2004-09-07T01:32:45Z")
There are just some songs whose lyrics are so ingrained in your head, that when a situation comes up in real life, you want to follow the songs lead. For me, everytime I enter a bar, I’m tepted to order: One Bourbon, one Scotch and one beer. The only thing that keeps me from doing it is figuring the guy (or gal) has proably heard it a thousand times. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/2 "2004-09-07T01:51:26Z")
“At A Medium Pace”, by Adam Sandler. ::d&r:: ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/3 "2004-09-07T02:18:18Z")
Yep: _Mack the Knife_ by Bobby Darin. Okay, I’m not a thief nor do I want to kill anyone, but there’s that line where he “spends like a Sailor”. And with all them women lining up on the line on the right, you’re damn straight I wanna be Mack the Knife. Tripler I’ll be that shark that bites, with them pearly whites. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/4 "2004-09-07T02:27:56Z")
I want to live out Elf Power - “The Winter is Coming” as a spectator. I can just picture all the birds coming and taking away the people with this nice, serene sunset. I can also imagine the chaos whenever the trumpet line breaks. That song is actually my happy place, or it was for awhile. One of my favorite songs for no apparent reasons. “See the birds melt into the air… no one could protect them from the sun” I also have wanted to live out some of Sparklehorse’s songs. Especially “More Yellow Birds.” Just lovely, really. See the horses, the shore, the light as birds. Wonderful! Also, there are many times when I just want to live in the song. Just have it playing while something happens. For instance, I would love to murder or be murdered while Cat and Dog Dialogue - Ups and Downs was playing just to add surreal overtones. I can’t actually live out the lyrics since it doesn’t have any. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/5 "2004-09-07T03:26:37Z")
“Outta Here” by Kenney Chesney. _Let’s leave town on a permanent vacation, lock up the house and pack up the station wagon, make paradise our final destination, as long as we’re outta here_ It’s like my ultimate fantasy. I wish I could just pack up and leave, and head on down to Mexico for a few months or maybe forever. Maybe some day. God I hate Kansas. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/6 "2004-09-07T03:49:25Z")
_Mr. Bad Example_, Waren Zevon. I’ll live to be a hundred, and go down in infamy. ---
**Author:** ![FruitPie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@FruitPie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FruitPie)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/7 "2004-09-07T12:05:49Z")
Jethro Tull’s Aqualung… ‘Sitting on a park bench,eyeing little girls with bad intent’ Oh :eek: Perhaps not… ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/8 "2004-09-07T12:08:31Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > _Mr. Bad Example_, Waren Zevon. > > I’ll live to be a hundred, and go down in infamy. And here I was getting ready to suggest _Lawyers, Guns and Money_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/9 "2004-09-07T12:19:32Z")
“Bat Out of Hell” Meatloaf ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/10 "2004-09-07T14:40:07Z")
When I was young _Chevy Van_ was a fantasy. Of course, now it would just make me a dirty old man… ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/11 "2004-09-07T15:38:34Z")
After having dinner in a restaurant with a bunch of people from my high school speech team, and at least one other speech team, people started pointing at watches and saying “it’s nine o’clock on a Saturday”. Eventually I figured out the relevance, just before we all started singing Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/12 "2004-09-07T15:40:40Z")
Hit post reply and thought of another short tale. A small group I was involved with sang a fancy a capella arrangement (sung first by GLAD) of “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing”. One group member wanted a picture of “O for Ten Tongues to Sing”- which would have been the ten of us, all with our tongues sticking out. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/13 "2004-09-07T15:54:25Z")
I think I have been living out a song ever since it came out. The dates match my age. Jackson Browne - “Running on Empty” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/14 "2004-09-07T15:57:49Z")
**Desperado** by the Eagles. I don’t know how they could write that song wihtout knowing me. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/15 "2004-09-07T16:41:40Z")
Well, I don’t know about the rest of you zombies, but _I_ was a highwayman. Along the coast roads I did ride, a sword and pistol at my side . . . And I’ll _always_ come again, and again, and again . . . 😃_Such_ a geeky song, but I love it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/16 "2004-09-07T18:39:46Z")
I have stood on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. I’ve gone to parties were I didn’t get laid, but did get in fights. I have fought for my right to party, and vice versa. I’ve seen the sun go down in China Grove. I have fought the law, unsuccessfully. I’ve left on a jet plane. I have many friends in low places. ---
**Author:** ![Gahudh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Gahudh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gahudh)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/17 "2004-09-09T12:07:23Z")
Don’t know about WANT to, but I have had the severe misfortune to live out Adam Sandler’s _Piece of Shit Car_… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/18 "2004-09-09T14:28:48Z")
Midnight at the oasis Send your camel to bed Shadows paintin’ our faces Traces of romance in our heads Heaven’s holdin’ a half-moon Shinin’ just for us Let’s slip off to a sand dune, real soon And kick up a little dust ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/19 "2004-09-09T16:26:22Z")
I do believe I am living out every single one of Bonnie Raitt’s songs… ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430/20 "2004-09-09T16:46:26Z")
There’s plenty of times that I wanted to live out _I Don’t Like Mondays_, but I wouldn’t be shooting kindergarders… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-want-to-live-out-a-song/263430.md?page=2)