# Let's make a story using lines from songs. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 24, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973 "2012-11-24T11:42:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/21 "2012-11-25T22:12:36Z")
I am, I said To no one there, And no one heard at all. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/22 "2012-11-25T22:52:43Z")
Sometimes, I wish that I could stop you from talking when I hear the silly things that you say. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/23 "2012-11-25T23:05:00Z")
We were barely 17 and we were barely dressed. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/24 "2012-11-25T23:23:18Z")
Those foolish kids can’t be ready for the love that’s come their way. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/25 "2012-11-26T00:15:21Z")
Yes I’m ready, come and get it while it’s hot ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/26 "2012-11-26T00:20:48Z")
Like a devil, meant for better things, I will find my place on high ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/27 "2012-11-26T01:04:48Z")
I ran down to the levee but the devil caught me there, He took my twenty dollar bill and vanished in the air ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/28 "2012-11-26T02:53:57Z")
The devil went down to Georgia, he was lookin’ for a soul to steal ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/29 "2012-11-26T02:59:34Z")
I said hey Carmen, come on, let’s go downtown. She said, I got to go, but my friend can stick around. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/30 "2012-11-26T03:12:21Z")
For reasons unexplained, she loved the Monkey Man. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/31 "2012-11-26T05:03:22Z")
And he’s gonna break her heart to pieces, but she don’t want to see She’s a woman in love, but it’s not me ---
**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:** [November 26, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/32 "2012-11-26T14:36:58Z")
I don’t know how to love him. What to do, how to move him. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/33 "2012-11-26T14:38:45Z")
It ain’t me! It ain’t me! I ain’t no fortunate son! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/34 "2012-11-26T15:30:41Z")
All your friends are calling you a fool, cause you don’t know a good thing when you’ve got it in your hands. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/35 "2012-11-26T16:05:59Z")
The thoughts of a fool’s kind of careless I’m just a fool waiting on the wrong block ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/36 "2012-11-26T16:36:21Z")
What a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away. What seems to be is always better than nothing. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/37 "2012-11-26T17:30:15Z")
I got plenty of nothing, and nothing’s plenty for me. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/38 "2012-11-26T19:37:48Z")
But when there’s too much of nothing, it just makes a fella mean. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/39 "2012-11-26T20:48:11Z")
I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/40 "2012-11-26T22:07:26Z")
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