# Building a house from song lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537 "2007-03-04T14:42:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![WorkInProgress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@WorkInProgress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WorkInProgress)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/101 "2007-03-07T22:00:56Z")
Oh, what a sweet home!! From the porch I can see that the skies are so blue. I can also see that the roof is on fire. No water needed. ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/102 "2007-03-07T22:37:43Z")
Man, this drawer has ten thousand spoons in it, and all I need is a knife. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/103 "2007-03-07T22:59:23Z")
[QUOTE=NoCoolUserName] So if I hit the big lottery, I’m gonna build me a house with a staircase that has a One Way sign, pointing up, and a second staircase with a One Way sign, pointing down. And a third staircase that ends in a blank wall. [/QUOTE] What, the third one just for show? Don’t forget to fill the yard with ducks and chickens and turkeys and geese. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/104 "2007-03-07T23:06:22Z")
[QUOTE=Poysyn] Also make sure you can hear that screen door slammin’ the night you call the old man out. [/QUOTE] And when Mary comes out with her dress waving. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/105 "2007-03-08T01:20:56Z")
Make sure your door is always open and your path is free to walk. That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/106 "2007-03-08T01:30:13Z")
Ooops. Wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/107 "2007-03-08T02:08:00Z")
[QUOTE=StarvingButStrong] I think you need a kitchen. . [/QUOTE] However, who did put those bullet holes in Peggys kitchen wall? As this is clearly not a House of Fun we probably don’t need this Ole House no longer, what with all the hinges, floor and shingles problems, which we don’t have time to fix. I suggest we build this new house in the city built on rock and roll and not the Dirty Old Town. For interior decorators I’d suggest we use the Kitchens of Distinction, they sound like they would be good at that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![IBJammin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cab0a1/32.png) [@IBJammin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IBJammin)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/108 "2007-03-08T15:34:54Z")
Well, I need four walls around me to hold my life . . . Preferably at the end of a long and winding road . . . ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/109 "2007-03-08T17:18:46Z")
[QUOTE=stolichnaya] Man, this drawer has ten thousand spoons in it, and all I need is a knife. [/QUOTE] Isn’t that an _unfortunate coincidence_, don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/110 "2007-03-08T17:49:27Z")
One thing is certain: you should build it on rock. Solid rock. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/111 "2007-03-08T18:42:47Z")
Make sure your house has a room somewhere that’s shut off from the chills of the night, has a coal fireplace, and a single big chair. And lots of chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/112 "2007-03-08T18:58:17Z")
As for the driveway, how about a long and winding road that leads to your door? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/113 "2007-03-08T20:23:02Z")
There’s a cardboard box for everything But this one holds a man… And we’ll build a house And a place for the kids to grow in Ask me when Well I’m damned if I know… [Martin Newell] Found a house that won’t repair itself With its windows cracking And a roof held together with holes… [XTC] No thugs in our house… are there, dear? We made that clear… [XTC] Judy’s in the bedroom/Inventing situations/Bob is on the street today/Scouting out locations… [Talking Heads] Bungalow/By the sea/Bungalow/In the sea air/Climbing rose/Time to spare/Luxury accomodation traps the sun… Saving it all up for you – Bungalow… [XTC] [QUOTE=DiggitCamara] One thing is certain: you should build it on rock. Solid rock. [/QUOTE] She’s a brick…house! [The Commodores] [QUOTE=WorkInProgress] I can also see that the roof is on fire. No water needed. [/QUOTE] Burning down the house! [Talking Heads] ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/114 "2007-03-08T23:44:45Z")
“It’s not a house,” said Judas Priest, “It’s not a house, it’s a home.” Nonetheless, it goes on sale every Wednesday morning, only to be taken off the market in the afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![escapegirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/838e76/32.png) [@escapegirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/escapegirl)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/115 "2007-03-09T00:07:35Z")
a tin roof…rusted. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/116 "2007-03-09T00:29:34Z")
You can look out your back door and sing, “Doo, doo, doo.” ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/117 "2007-03-09T02:44:31Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife. And you may ask yourself, “Well… how did I get here?” [/QUOTE] With my luck I’d find myself living in a shotgun shack. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/118 "2007-03-09T03:27:58Z")
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. It was kinda meh so I wouldn’t recommend it. On the other hand… How 'bout little pink houses, baby, for you and me? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/119 "2007-03-09T04:38:48Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] Make sure your house has a room somewhere that’s shut off from the chills of the night, has a coal fireplace, and a single big chair. And lots of chocolate. [/QUOTE] Wouldn’t that be luverly! The occupants should wake up to a Chelsea morning, with the sun through yellow curtains and a rainbow on the wall. ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537/120 "2007-03-09T08:38:52Z")
And if you are a rich man, you can have long staircase just for going up and one even longer coming down, and maybe even one leading nowhere, just for show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/building-a-house-from-song-lyrics/394537.md?page=7)