# Lessons I've learned from pop music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033 "2006-07-18T16:20:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/121 "2006-07-19T16:13:51Z")
Love is like Oxygen. Colitas has a pungent fragrance when heated. You can’t jump the track. Pink is one of Steven Tyler’s favorite colors. What’s the other? Apparantly, big, black horses like cherries. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/122 "2006-07-19T16:25:52Z")
It’s all the same…only the names will change. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/123 "2006-07-19T16:26:34Z")
[QUOTE=Ghanima] It’s all the same…only the names will change. [/QUOTE] Damn you. I’ve been trying to work a good Bon Jovi line since yesterday. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/124 "2006-07-19T16:52:13Z")
Rocks are insensate and islands shed no tears. ---
**Author:** ![UKCatGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@UKCatGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UKCatGirl)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/125 "2006-07-19T17:02:27Z")
You should never trust your soul to a backwoods lawyer from the South. Living in the fast lane will be a detriment to your mental health. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/126 "2006-07-19T17:12:08Z")
If you played the guitar until your fingers bled in 1969, those must have been the best days of your life. Oh yeah, and life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone. Even though some men just want to use your love tonight, they don’t want to lose your love tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Blanche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Blanche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blanche)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/127 "2006-07-19T17:12:46Z")
[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux] Anyone who has “arms” will inevitabley also have “charms.” [/QUOTE] Unless they are [Dinner Lady Arms](http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/Dinner-Lady-Arms-lyrics-Darkness/DC31C3AECC7CFE3A482570C2000EA2E8) . ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/128 "2006-07-19T17:21:26Z")
For all we’ve learned there are a few questions still outstanding: Who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong? Who wrote the book of love? How many roads must a man walk down? For the love of god, who let the dogs out? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/129 "2006-07-19T17:29:02Z")
[QUOTE=Nature’s Call] Here are some of the things “you’ve got to” do… …try a little tenderness …hide your love away …hold on for one more day …go [/QUOTE] …stop sobbing ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/130 "2006-07-19T17:33:43Z")
[QUOTE=Monkey Chews] Love is: A battlefield A drug A stranger A cannibal A river A razor A hunger A flower A marathon A sweet thing A blind ambition A four letter word [/QUOTE] …stronger than justice …thicker than blood …a big fat river in flood Love is like: oxygen a rock a butterfly ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/131 "2006-07-19T17:48:33Z")
[QUOTE=Nature’s Call] For all we’ve learned there are a few questions still outstanding: How many roads must a man walk down? [/QUOTE] :dubious: Forty Two ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/132 "2006-07-19T17:48:55Z")
I’ve found that while life is indeed a rock, it’s the radio that will roll you. If my heart is ever broken, someone will be there before I’ve cried two tears (but I’ll wind up crying 96 of them). You can’t fight the moonlight. There ain’t nothing gonna break-a my stride. That I love you just the way you are, and more than I can say–so come on, and let your love flow. Cause, after all, love will keep us together. If love doesn’t work out, though, turn on those sad songs, because we all know they say so much. And everybody knows a song sung blue. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/133 "2006-07-19T18:06:05Z")
[QUOTE=Chanteuse] Cause, after all, love will keep us together. [/QUOTE] Conversely, love will tear us apart again. I’m thinking the explanation must involve quantum physics or something. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/134 "2006-07-19T18:19:28Z")
I’ve seen the future, baby-- it is murder (doo doo doo). December boys have it bad. The power lines have floaters so the airplanes won’t get snagged. If your dad takes your car away, you’ll have just as much fun because you’ll still have lots of things to do. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/135 "2006-07-19T18:21:17Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m thinking the explanation must involve quantum physics or something. Or, at the very least, an uncertainty principle. Did you guys know that Detroit rocks to the Planet Rock? (Don’t stop.) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/136 "2006-07-19T18:35:40Z")
[QUOTE=Nature’s Call] Who wrote the book of love? [/QUOTE] _I know who wrote the Book of Love, It was an idiot! It was a fool! A slobbering fool with a speech defect and a shaking hand! And he wrote my name Next to yours…_ –Robyn Hitchcock ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/137 "2006-07-19T19:00:05Z")
I’ll never get to Clarksville now. When tiptoeing, especially to avoid damaging flowers, undo strain is placed upon the diaphragm and larynx. The specifications for a new pharmaceutical are daunting. I’m confused; you say go slow, and I fall behind; but if I fall, you’ll be waiting and you’ll catch me. And you say it again and again. [sub]It must be another one of those quantum effects.[/sub] If I had a hammer, my schedule for the day would be full. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/138 "2006-07-19T19:20:03Z")
Criminals often serve too little time and end up back on the streets where they do it again. If you’ve never met Napoleon, your life is probably too hectic. Slow down and find the time. Beware quickie divorces in Haiti. They often don’t work out as planned. If your world falls apart in a minor way, any major dude will tell you it will be OK. They are some damned odd people who live in Barrytown. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/139 "2006-07-19T19:21:11Z")
[QUOTE=Vevila] The reason why ships disappear in the Bermuda Triangle is because Elvis needs boats. [/QUOTE] Well certainly. That’s because Elvis is everywhere. In fact, Elvis is everything and everybody. He is still The King. ---
**Author:** ![Level3Navigator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Level3Navigator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Level3Navigator)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/140 "2006-07-19T19:22:15Z")
When I am on an emotional high, I have a hard time hiding that fact, and I think I am going to pee my pants and I think I might enjoy doing so. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033.md?page=8)