# Asking the musical question . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565 "2000-03-28T16:58:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/21 "2000-03-29T06:37:00Z")
Whyyyyyyyyyy does the rain - fall from above? Why do fools - fall in love? Why do they fall in luh-uvvvvv? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/22 "2000-03-29T06:58:00Z")
Biggirl— Nothing. I dunno. Yes, they do. Quicksilver— Aristotle Onassis. His crew. Billy Stritch. Myron Van Horowitzki— Since July. I dunno, why can’t you? Have you tried? Gravel. Hell, no. Pretty damn soft, I’d say. Could be . . . See above. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/23 "2000-03-28T19:03:00Z")
Why do birds sing so gay? Why do birds suddenly appear - every time you are near? Baby, baby, where did our love go? ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/24 "2000-03-28T19:08:00Z")
Tell me, how do you mend a broken heart? How do you stop the rain from falling down? What makes the world go 'round? Esprix * * * [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/25 "2000-03-28T19:09:00Z")
Tell me why’d you cry and why’d you lied to me? Who are you, who, who, who, who? What kind of fool am I? ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/26 "2000-03-28T19:31:00Z")
Do you know the way to San Jose? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/27 "2000-03-28T19:41:00Z")
Hoo-boy, what did I start? OK, here goes. Bricker— A combination of nature and nurture, I think. You have hay in your hair. Right out the window, that’s where. Esprix— Time. Umbrella. Gravitational pull. Odieman— Because I was in a really bad mood. Aw, you know that! A gullible one, I guess. Wally— Turn South-Southeast at San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/28 "2000-03-28T19:43:00Z")
I walked 47 miles of barbed wire, Wore a cobra snake for a necktie. Got a little cabin by roadside Made out of rattlesnake hide. Its got a little chimney, up on top Made out of human skulls. Com’ on, take a walk with me, honey And tell me, Who do you love? Who do you love? ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/29 "2000-03-28T19:48:00Z")
How soon is now? * * * I am not deliciously saucy. ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/30 "2000-03-28T20:07:00Z")
How can a person go to work in the morning and come home in the evening and have nothing to say? ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/31 "2000-03-28T20:22:00Z")
What’s so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding? Ever fallen in love with someone you shouldna fallen in love with? Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night? ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/32 "2000-03-28T20:41:00Z")
How will I laugh tomorrow, when I can’t even smile today? * * * ## If you say it, mean it. If you mean it, do it. If you do it, live it. If you live it, say it. Joe Cool ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/33 "2000-03-28T20:42:00Z")
or was that _ **too** _ obscure? ---
**Author:** ![Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stevie_Rave_On)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/34 "2000-03-28T20:48:00Z")
- Say What? Is This Love? Do You Want to Know a Secret? What Goes On? What is and What Should Never Be? How Many More Times?\* ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/35 "2000-03-28T21:10:00Z")
Why can’t I be you? * * * “I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought.” - Seldom Bucket ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/36 "2000-03-28T21:43:00Z")
Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what’s going on? Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? ## Am I Evil? [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) “I never meant to hurt you,” you said, And buried yourself in lies instead. Next time I would rather be slain, Than forced to bear your mercy again. ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/37 "2000-03-28T21:51:00Z")
(And it’s one, two, three) What are we fightin’ for? ---
**Author:** ![xekul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xekul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xekul)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/38 "2000-03-28T22:14:00Z")
Do you cry? Do you pray? Do you wish them away? Are you still leaving nothing but bones in the way? * * * ``You’re just an empty cage girl if you kill the bird.’’ – Tori Amos. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/39 "2000-03-29T00:17:00Z")
Gee, Officer Krupke, what are we to do? Where is the life that late I led? Where is it now? What do the simple folk do to help them escape when they’re blue? * * * “No,” he replied, and smiled seraphically, as was his wont. ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565/40 "2000-03-29T00:19:00Z")
Does your mother know you’re out, Cecilia? What Presence? Will you still place your bet…on the neighbourhood threat? Will you still love a man out of time? Did you leave your pretty fingers lyin’ in the weddin’ cake? When they kick in your front door, how you gonna come? Who needs the Kwik-E Mart? Is you is or is you ain’t my baby? Is that love? Are you receiving me? How long has this been going on? (Gershwin) Where did you get that hat? What’ll I do? Isn’t this a Lovely Day (To get cought in the rain?) How about me? Hello! Hello! Who’s your lady friend? What difference does it make? _and many more!_ * * * **Launcher may train without warning.** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-the-musical-question/15565.md?page=3)