# Completely random song lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 1, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010 "2004-05-01T16:38:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/21 "2004-08-12T13:28:15Z")
Well, I’ve been to Booker And I’ve been to Picanope I’ve been to St. Louis, too, I’ve been all around the world. I’ve been over to your house And you’ve been over, sometimes, to my house I’ve slept in your treehouse My middle name is Earl. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/22 "2004-08-12T13:37:31Z")
If God controls the land and disease, keeps a watchful eye on me, If he’s really so damn mighty, my problem is I can’t see, well who would wanna be? Who would wanna be such a control freak? Well who would wanna be? Who would wanna be such a control freak? * * * When I look in the mirror I can’t believe what I see Tell me, who’s that funky dude starin’ back at me? Broken, beaten-down can’t even get around without an old-man cane I fall and hit the ground Shivering in the cold, I’m bitter and alone * * * Riot shields, voodoo economics, it’s just business, cattle prods and the I.M.F. I trust I can rely on your vote. ---
**Author:** ![Ottoerotic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ottoerotic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ottoerotic)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/23 "2004-08-12T13:44:33Z")
If I was to walk till time saw no end. If I was to climb till the air was too thin. I could not find a picture fit the frame. As perfect as you. As perfect as you. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/24 "2004-08-12T14:40:09Z")
"Down on the corner, up on the avenue, People are pointin’, calling out after you. Hands on their hips, their eyes geting wider They can’t believe the thing that yer drivin’ 28 feet from bumper to bumper The last of the sweet old time gas guzzlers Hard to drive harder to park But when you do somebody remarks That’s a mighty big car" Fred Eaglesmith “A thousand dollar car ain’t even gonna roll 'til you throw at least another thousand down the hole. Spend your money and there you are: the owner of a two thousand dolaar thousand dollar car.” The Bottle Rockets ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/25 "2004-08-12T15:19:37Z")
“You can’t take a goldfish for walks.” ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/26 "2004-08-12T15:32:17Z")
“This king of the cowboys Holds fast his deception Rides their misgivings To rapturous reception Calls on the crowd Of white pointed heads To check under carpets (While we’re in our beds?)” ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/27 "2004-08-12T15:40:35Z")
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you and in those dreams whatever they be dream a little dream of me ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/28 "2004-08-12T16:18:30Z")
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders What the part that isn’t thinking isn’t thinking of Should you worry when the skull head is in front of you Or is it worse because it’s always waiting where your eyes don’t go? * * * I feel like Professor on Gilligan’s Island I’m surrounded by idiots * * * It’s a painted rock with google eyes It’s a match stick cross where Jesus died It’s a plaque that says “I Heart My Home!” It’s toothpicks, felt and Styrofoam Earth to grandma What the hell is that? * * * She was a cool blue red head She was a virgin vixen She had the eyes of Lassie She had the lips of Nixon Lips like Tricia Nixon… She was drawn to blood like a lean loan shark A tornado to a trailer park ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/29 "2004-08-12T16:42:45Z")
\*I was riding on the Mayflower when I thought I spie-\… Start again I was riding on the Mayflower when I thought I spied some land I yelled for Captain A-Rab, I’ll have you understand Who came runnin’ to the deck, said “boys, forget the whales, Look on over yonder, cut the engine, change the sails, Haul on the bowline,” we sang that melody Like all tough sailors do when they’re far away at sea. … I ran right outside and I hopped inside a cab I went out the other door, this Englishman said, “Fab” As he saw me leap a hot dog stand and a chariot that stood Parked across from a building advertising brotherhood I ran right through the front door like a hobo sailor does But it was just a funeral parlor and the man asked me who I was\* ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/30 "2004-08-12T17:15:41Z")
Well you can’t have that, _but_, if you’re an American citizen, you _are_ entitled to: a heated kidney shaped pool, a microwave oven (don’t watch the food cook,) a Dyna-gym, I’ll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home, a king size Titanic Unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum, a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi, real simulated Indian jewelry, a Gucci shoe tree, a year’s supply of antibiotics, a personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth, and Bob Dylan’s new unlisted phone number, a beautifully restored Third Reich swizzle stick, Rosemary’s baby! a dream date in kneepads with Paul Williams, a new Matador, a new mastodon, a Maverick, a Mustang, a Montego, a Merc Montclair, a Mark 4, A Meteor, A Mercedes, An MG, or a Malibu, a Mort Moriarty, a Maserati, a Mack truck, a Mazda, a new Monza, or a Moped, a Winnebago, hell, a herd of Winnebagos, we’re givin’ 'em away, or how about a McCullough chain saw, a Las Vegas wedding, a Mexican divorce, a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot, _or_ a baby’s arm holding an apple. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/31 "2004-08-12T19:15:17Z")
\*Yeah, listen Vyrna There ain’t nothing in here but your own sweet mind If it bothers you we can turn it off With your silly red shoes and your grecian urn And your feet potted out of a veiled cocoon Like an overweight butterfly on a thin red scone A rotting statue on a feathery dawn Invented you one summer’s morn At least I’m not a coathanger Vyrna Kowl you’re a headbanger\* **Soft Boys** ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/32 "2004-08-12T20:10:19Z")
I like big butts and I cannot lie… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/33 "2004-08-12T20:52:43Z")
Rolypoly fishheads are never seen drinking cappuccino in Italian restaurants with Oriental women!!!Yeah!!! * * * There’s a light in the distance… See it coming closer, with the force of ages Centuries gone by. Protectors of the right, defenders sworn to fight!!! Dino Rangers Roar!!! Power Rangers Score!!! * * * He looks around around He sees angels in the architecture Spinning in infinity He says, “Amen!” and “Hallelujah!” * * * She is like a cat in the dark And then she is the darkness She rules her life like a fine skylark And when the sky is starless ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/34 "2004-08-12T21:48:58Z")
_A pistol was still smoking, a man lay on the floor. Mister Oswald said he had an understanding with the law. He said he heard about a couple living in the USA. He said they traded in their baby for a Chevrolet. Let’s talk about the future now we’ve put the past away._ ---
**Author:** ![Roberta\_Plant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c89c15/32.png) [@Roberta\_Plant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roberta_Plant)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/35 "2004-08-12T22:20:33Z")
And when I wake up in the morning To feel the daybreak on my face There’s a blood that’s flowin’ through the feeling With a knife to open up the sky’s vein Some things…will never change They just stand there looking backwards Half unconscious from the pain * * * Baby beluga, baby Beluga, sing your little song, Sing for all your friends, we like to hear you. * * * A million old soldiers will fade away But a dream goes on forever I’m left standing here, I’ve got nothing to say All is silent within my dream A thousand true loves will live and die But a dream lives on forever The days and the years will go streaking by But the time has stopped in my dream ---
**Author:** ![shimmery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@shimmery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shimmery)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/36 "2004-08-12T22:25:45Z")
Look for a while at the China Cat sunflower Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun. Copperdome bodhi, drip a silver kimmona like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/37 "2004-08-13T01:16:19Z")
_“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”_ – **Kris Kristofferson** ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/38 "2004-08-13T04:57:38Z")
\His goal in life was to be an echo Driving alone town after toll after toll A fixed bayonet through the great southwest To forget her. She appears in his dreams But in his car and in his arms A dream can do anything A cheap sunset on the television set could upset her But he never could. \ ---
**Author:** ![CurlyD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@CurlyD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurlyD)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/39 "2004-08-13T16:42:10Z")
Out beyond the ethernet the spectrum spreads DC to daylight, the cowboy mogul rides Never worry where the gold for all this glory’s gonna come from Get along dogies, it’s coming out of your hides ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/completely-random-song-lyrics/243010/40 "2004-08-13T17:51:30Z")
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