# Intellectualize song lyrics game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056 "2003-07-17T03:58:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/261 "2003-07-21T01:46:19Z")
That last one’s “Mairzy Doats”, by Jerry Livingston, Milton Drake and Al Hoffman (I had to Google for the writers). Mairzy doats, and dozy doats, and liddle lamzy divey! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/262 "2003-07-21T02:44:42Z")
No one’s gotten mine yet, apparently, but I’ve improved it: In a list of objects in the solar system which exercise the weakest of the classical four forces upon objects on the Earth, ranked from weakest to strongest, the ultimate and antipenultimate objects on this list embody my existence. The relative statistical frequency of my reticence is high enough to imply that legal penalties for it are appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/263 "2003-07-21T04:42:41Z")
“Snug, Mine umbra and I, solitary and despondent are we. Mine umbra and I: bereft of others to whom we may unbosom ourselves. At midday we escalate, but percuss not upon the portal, for none are in residence save mine umbra and I, solitary and despondent.” is that “Me and my shadow”? I don’t know who sings it. ---
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/264 "2003-07-21T05:34:07Z")
Capacitor, is that Collective Soul’s “The world around me”? ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/265 "2003-07-21T06:14:01Z")
Here’s an easy one, heard it in the '80s hour on my way home… Bilabial motions are in evidence, and vibrations are released. The phonemes produced have measurable volume, yet I remain dubious. If anyone would like to look for my first one, it’s Matchbox 20… I still think I must have tweaked it too much. ---
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/266 "2003-07-21T06:27:07Z")
Repost it TeaRoses…let us beat our heads against it some more. The other one…“Talkin loud and sayin nothin” originally by James Brown, covered by Living Colour? ---
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/267 "2003-07-21T06:43:52Z")
L-g-b8: “Shout” by Tears for Fears? Ludovic: "Drops of Jupiter: by Train? ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/268 "2003-07-21T06:45:54Z")
Aw, you’re sweet, Mr. Boy: Here’s what I’ve said about it so far: TR1: A diagnosis from the DSM-IV is not the issue. It is merely a state of minor disequilibrium. I am aware that it is impossible for you to evaluate concurrently. Think of a song that’s on the radio a LOT right now. It’s Matchbox 20. And it’s not the verse, it’s the chorus, tweaked too much… Re: the second one: (TR2?) actually no, it’s not that one. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/269 "2003-07-21T06:55:56Z")
Mr.B, no it is not. It is though a very famous, not exactly chorus, more a refrain. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/270 "2003-07-21T07:01:07Z")
In fact, it is the second most famous first words in a certain genre of music, if not all of music. ---
**Author:** ![SnugTheJoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/271 "2003-07-21T07:06:48Z")
Skeezix, Lamia and MrBoy: you’re correct about “Me and My Shadow” and “Mairzy Doats.” ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/272 "2003-07-21T07:11:03Z")
Okay, one more time: **A simile to an area of inpenetrable massive overgrowth exists now and then, creating in yours truly a contemplation as to what manner I remain buoyant**. ---
**Author:** ![SnugTheJoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/273 "2003-07-21T07:15:52Z")
Don’t give up, capacitor, I’m racking my brains! I can get this, honest! ---
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/274 "2003-07-21T07:53:41Z")
I think I can decipher its parts, but when I assemble them, they don’t resemble anything I recognize. This is a goooood one Capacitor. I’m not a big fan, and I don’t listen to much radio these days, but is TR1: Matchbox 20 “Unwell” ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/275 "2003-07-21T07:59:01Z")
I’m stumped on alla the open ones… A repost (and if anyone’s guessed these, correctly or otherwise, I missed it, mea culpa) **SKEE01** : It is currently possible to observe your narrator, an experienced combatant, tempered by a large number of skirmishes which have taken place primarily in the realm of the non-physical. **SKEE02** : Diseased entities in combustion powered conveyances orbit the gaseous stellar bodies that I consider to be personal property. **SKEE04** : Proceed, and cling to the female under discussion, until the high volume emissions reach a conclusion. Proceed to accept her words at face value when she opines that there is no disturbance of note. There is no other entity but me who would traverse open combustion, simply for your sake. Additionally, none other would be willing to submerse himself in his own yearning for your presence. [sub]And I’m gonna WAG once more: **capacitor** ’s tune runs along the lines of “It’s a jungle out there, makes me wonder how I stay afloat” but I don’t have the foggiest idea what the song is. Am I gonna kick m’self when I see the answer?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/276 "2003-07-21T08:06:04Z")
Incoherently making animal noises I plummeted on the neck of a man Repeatedly following crazed vengeful people Walk forth happily out of oblivion headed to a sleep induced fantasy ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/277 "2003-07-21T08:20:23Z")
Good job, MrBoy1967! (can’t say I’m a big fan myself but that song is kind of catchy IMHO) I was hoping to combine this post with an answer but none of these are reminding me of anything, especially capacitor’s. I’m just going to sit here and stare at them all for a while. ---
**Author:** ![hammos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hammos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammos1)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/278 "2003-07-21T10:18:18Z")
I, and my companions, inhabit a sub-aqua transportation apparatus, the exterior surface of which reflects light of approximately 570nm in wavelength. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/279 "2003-07-21T12:58:38Z")
Nope, no one’s gotten mine yet. **Hammos** , Yellow Submarine. ---
**Author:** ![Meros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Meros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meros)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/280 "2003-07-21T14:21:55Z")
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