# Let's make a story using lines from songs.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973>\
**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\
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**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:** [December 3, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/121 "2012-12-03T22:38:14Z")

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Can’t you hear me knocking?  
Throw me down the keys.

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/122 "2012-12-03T22:41:22Z")

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I hear you knocking. But you can’t come in. I hear you knocking. Go back where you been …

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**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/123 "2012-12-04T01:45:37Z")

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That long black cloud is comin’ down  
I feel I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/124 "2012-12-04T15:09:36Z")

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Where do bad folks go when they die? They don’t go to Heaven, where the angels fly. They go to a lake of fire and fry.

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**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:** [December 4, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/125 "2012-12-04T20:46:02Z")

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Come on baby, light my fire.

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/126 "2012-12-04T20:48:07Z")

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And there’s fire on the mountain, lightnin’ in the air

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/127 "2012-12-04T23:19:49Z")

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Run, boys, run! The Devil’s in the house of the rising sun

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/128 "2012-12-04T23:36:38Z")

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Oh mothers… tell your children not to do what I have done. Spend your lives in sin and misery in the house of the rising sun.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/129 "2012-12-05T00:17:34Z")

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If you close the door I’ll never have to see the day again.

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/130 "2012-12-05T01:22:20Z")

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And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when, I’m stuck in Folsom Prison and time keeps dragging on.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/131 "2012-12-05T01:37:51Z")

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Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town.

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/132 "2012-12-05T01:50:12Z")

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We are all just prisoners here, of our own device

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/133 "2012-12-05T01:50:14Z")

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Lets rock, everybody, lets rock.  
Everybody in the whole cell block  
Was dancin to the jailhouse rock.

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**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/134 "2012-12-05T02:13:29Z")

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Everybody loves to see Justice done,  
On somebody else

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/135 "2012-12-05T06:15:36Z")

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Both sides were against me since the day I was born

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/136 "2012-12-05T10:20:20Z")

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You can cry in your coffee but don’t come bitching to me.

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/137 "2012-12-05T12:21:35Z")

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Babe but I cry all the time ! And each time I tell myself that I, well I can’t stand the pain ; but when you hold me in your arms I’ll sing it once again.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/138 "2012-12-05T13:00:47Z")

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Babe I’m leaving, I must be on my way, the time is drawing near

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**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/139 "2012-12-05T13:05:40Z")

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Well if you want to sing out  
sing out.  
And if you want to be free  
be free.  
'Cause there’s a million things to be.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/140 "2012-12-05T13:11:09Z")

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Born free, as free as the wind blows, as free as the grass grows, born free to follow your heart

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