# Favorite Lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991 "2015-10-18T12:56:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LinusK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@LinusK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LinusK)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/1 "2015-10-18T12:56:53Z")
“Dumb” I’m not like them But I can pretend The sun is gone But I have a light The day is done But I’m having fun I think I’m dumb Or maybe just happy Think I’m just happy [x3] [full lyrics snipped] ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/2 "2015-10-18T13:25:02Z")
“Desperados Under The Eaves”-Warren Zevon I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel I was staring in my empty coffee cup I was thinking that the gypsy wasn’t lyin’ All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles I’m gonna drink 'em up And if California slides into the ocean Like the mystics and statistics say it will I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/3 "2015-10-18T14:14:42Z")
Please do not post excessive amount of copied lyrics. Post a few lines and link to full lyrics if you’d like. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/4 "2015-10-18T14:22:53Z")
“[The Mesopotamians](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMRTGv82Zo),” by TMBG Then they wouldn’t understand a word we say So we’ll scratch it all down into the clay Half believing there will sometime come a day Someone gives a damn Maybe when the concrete has crumbled to sand ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/5 "2015-10-18T15:53:59Z")
This rhyme from the Ramones’ Teenage Lobotomy charms me: Now I guess I’ll have to tell 'em That I got no cerebellum. ---
**Author:** ![LinusK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@LinusK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LinusK)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/6 "2015-10-18T19:08:11Z")
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died - [Leonard Cohen](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin-a2lTelg) ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/7 "2015-10-18T19:53:42Z")
> [@LinusK](#): > > “Dumb” > > I’m not like them > But I can pretend > The sun is gone > But I have a light > The day is done > But I’m having fun > I think I’m dumb > Or maybe just happy > > Think I’m just happy [x3] > [full lyrics snipped] Why is this good? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/8 "2015-10-18T20:34:47Z")
Umm, we already [have a thread for lyrics](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=726911) in the Thread Games Room… ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/9 "2015-10-18T20:39:19Z")
I’m not crazy about the song, but there’s a part I always liked: But you know that I’ll forgive you Just this once, twice, forever… 'Cause baby, you could take me to hell and back Just as long as we’re together And you do… _Wham!_ ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/10 "2015-10-18T22:37:11Z")
Time and love has branded me with it’s claws Had to go to Florida, dodgin’ them Georgia laws Po’ boy in the hotel called the Palace of Bloom Called down to room service, said 'send up a room -Bob Dylan, Po’ Boy mmm ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/11 "2015-10-18T22:43:07Z")
“And you cannot find your waitress With a Geiger counter And she hates you and your friends and you Just can’t get served without her.” – Tom Waits “The Piano Has Been Drinking” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/12 "2015-10-18T22:52:32Z")
“Two strangers learn to fall in love again. I get the joy of rediscovering you.” –“Faithfully”, Journey ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/13 "2015-10-18T23:58:02Z")
“Ninth and Hennepin”-Tom Waits And all the rooms they smell like diesel And you take on the dreams of the ones who have slept here And I’m lost in the window, and I hide in the stairway And I hang in the curtain, and I sleep in your hat And no one brings anything small into a bar around here They all started out with bad directions And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear One for every year he’s away, she said Such a crumbling beauty Ah, there’s nothing wrong with her that a hundred dollars won’t fix ---
**Author:** ![ChickenLegs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@ChickenLegs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChickenLegs)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/14 "2015-10-19T01:07:46Z")
Small Change got rained on with his on thirty-eight - Tom Waits Ahhooooo - Warren Zevon If love is aces Give me the jack - Maria McKee All the Federales say They could have had him any day They only let him slip away Out of kindness I suppose - Townes Van Zandt ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/15 "2015-10-19T01:16:17Z")
Truth is, after all, a moving target Hairs to split and pieces that don’t fit How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit - Rush Easy to bitch, easy to whine Easy to moan, easy to cry Easy to feel like there ain’t nothing in your life Harder to work, harder to strive Hard to be glad to be alive But it’s really worth it, if you give it a try - Cowboy Mouth You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day Try to run, try to hide Break on through to the other side - The Doors I think you love to play the victim I think you love to play the clown I think you were blind to the fact that The hand you hold is the hand that holds you down - Everclear ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/16 "2015-10-19T01:21:08Z")
No one do lyrics like Tom Waits! From “The Bills”, don’t remember the tune, but I like the message, “No where to go, and all day to get there”. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/17 "2015-10-19T02:09:30Z")
“Oh Heavenly sky, of streaming blue Enormous wind, the sails blow free Let wind and heaven go hang, but oh! Sweet Mary, let us keep the sea!” Bertolt Brecht, Ballad of the Pirates. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/18 "2015-10-19T13:28:55Z")
Don McLean’s American Pie. Not only are the lyrics pure poetry, but they are still being discussed 34 years later! And when Unca Cecil wrote a column on the [subject](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/908/what-is-don-mcleans-song-american-pie-all-about), he got a response from McLean himself! ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/19 "2015-10-19T15:02:49Z")
“Here Comes A Regular”-The Replacements Well a person can work up a mean mean thirst after a hard day of nothin’ much at all Summer’s passed, it’s too late to cut the grass There ain’t much to rake anyway in the fall And sometimes I just ain’t in the mood to take my place in back with the loudmouths You’re like a picture on the fridge that’s never stocked with food I used to live at home, now I stay at the house And everybody wants to be special here They call your name out loud and clear Here comes a regular Call out your name Here comes a regular Am I the only one here today? ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991/20 "2015-10-19T15:17:28Z")
_Overs_ by Paul Simon (off of Simon and Garfunkel’s _Bookends_, which contains a number of top-notch songs): How long can I delay? We’re just a habit Like saccharin And I’m habitually feelin’ kinda blue But each time I try on The thought of leaving you I stop… I stop and think it over. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-lyrics/734991.md?page=2)