# Lyrics that make you smile every time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333 "2011-03-29T02:08:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/41 "2011-03-30T14:44:50Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > You two need to have some cups and cakes already…what a gay time it will be! Or I could send her back to bitch school. On a slightly related note: A mighty wind’s a blowin’ ‘cross the land and ‘cross the sea It’s blowin’ peace and freedom It’s blowin’ you and me ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/42 "2011-03-30T14:51:02Z")
Kirsty MacColl: _There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis Just like you swore to me that you’d be true There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis But he’s a liar and I’m not sure about you_ ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/43 "2011-03-30T15:12:56Z")
This is a love song. Your love for me is not debatable Your sexual appetite’s insatiable You never ever make me waitable Delectable, inflatable you. “Inflatable You” - Tim Minchin Better yet: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP0Ts57nzbA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP0Ts57nzbA) ---
**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:** [March 30, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/44 "2011-03-30T15:50:37Z")
> [@](#): > > There’s a fever in the funkhouse now Rolling Stones, Tumbling Dice > [@](#): > > Everybody’s kissing each other > Brother with sister, son with mother > Smear my body up with butter > Take me to the freakers ball > > White ones, black ones, yellow ones, red ones > Necrophiliacs looking for dead ones > The greatest of the sadist and the masochists too > Screaming “Please hit me, and I’ll hit you” Dr. Hook, Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball > [@](#): > > Dial me a Valentine > She’s a smooth operator > It’s all so calculated > She’s got a calculator > She’s my soft touch typewriter > And I’m her great dictator Elvis Costello, Two Little Hitlers mmm ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/45 "2011-03-30T16:15:26Z")
_Waitress In the Sky_ by The Replacements: She don’t wear no pants and she don’t wear no tie Always on the ball, she’s always on strike Struttin’ up the aisle, big deal, you get to fly You ain’t nothin’ but a waitress in the sky _This Charming Man_ by the Smiths Why ponder life’s complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat? _There is a Light That Never Goes Out_ by the Smiths And if a double-decker bus crashes in to us to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die and if a ten ton truck kills the both of us to die by your side well the pleasure, the privilege is mine ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/46 "2011-03-30T16:38:01Z")
This verse from _Eurrotrash Girl_ by Cracker: > [@](#): > > Called my mom from a payphone > I said “I’m down to my last.” > She said “I sent you to college… > now go call your dad.” > And the waitress that he married, > well she hung up the phone. > You know she never did like me, > but I can stand on my own. But then, there’s a _lot_ of stuff that David Lowery writes that cracks me up! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/47 "2011-03-30T17:02:08Z")
More Elvis Costello, can’t really say why this makes me smile: “But she used to have a care-free mind of her own, and a devilish look in her eye, saying ‘You can call me anything you like, but my name is Veronica.’” And the bridge to Blues Traveler’s “Hook”. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/48 "2011-03-30T17:11:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Give my feet to the footloose > Careless, fancy free > Give my knees to the needy > Don’t pull that stuff on me > Hand me down my walking cane > It’s a sin to tell a lie > Send my mouth way down south > And kiss my ass goodbye John Prine, Please Don’t Bury Me ---
**Author:** ![BigShooter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f07891/32.png) [@BigShooter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigShooter)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/49 "2011-03-30T17:51:40Z")
“Sled Dogs after dinner close their eyes on their howlin’ ways Kurt cobain, reincarnated, sighs and licks his face Then they drift past strips of Seregeneti and the gates of sleepy hollow too You can pause and wonder, they pause and wonder, yeah I pause and wonder, too” “Don’t Wake Daddy” - The Tragically Hip I know… he rhymes “too” with “too.” I don’t care, though - I still love the song. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/50 "2011-03-30T18:04:32Z")
> [@fjs1fs](#): > > Bob Dylan’s “Positively 4th Street:” > > “I wish that for just one time you could stand in side my shoes, and just for that one moment I could be you. Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You’d know what a Drag it is to See You!!!” Much of early Dylan makes me smile. (Quotes from memory) There is Talkin’ WW III Blues, the funniest song about the agonizing holocaust outside of Lehrer. “I lit a cigarette on a parking meter, and walked on down the road. Just a normal day.” The there is “I Shall Be Free” The telephone rang, it would not stop It was President Kennedy calling me up He said ‘my friend Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?’ I said ‘My friend John, Brigitte Bardot’ And there is “Motopsycho Nightmare,” mixing a traveling salesman joke and a popular movie. I’m a doctor and it’s true I’m a cleancut kid and I’ve been to college too. and I was sleeping like a rat when I heard something jerkin’ There was Rita looking just like Tony Perkins ---
**Author:** ![dawson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@dawson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dawson)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/51 "2011-03-30T18:18:59Z")
Oh, (i know) you gonna take me home tonight (please) Oh, down beside that red firelight Oh, you gonna let it all hang out Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round GET ON YOUR BIKES AND RIDE! Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/52 "2011-03-30T20:05:45Z")
Ice Cube’s _Cave Bitch_ (a wonderfully tame expression of Cube’s racial preference for his sexual partners): \*At least I’d know, she’s comin’ from the Nubian And not the Ku Klux Klan that you be in And I don’t give a fuck if your family is rich You’re still a little cave bitch \* [[shortened excerpt]] And really, rhyming “comin’ from the Nubian” with “not the Klu Klux Klan that you be in” is pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/53 "2011-03-30T21:12:09Z")
[It’s a catchy tune, as well.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG2UUJLp8Zs) Well it’s 40 below And I don’t give a fuck Got a heater in my truck And I’m off to the rodeo [[shortened excerpt]] ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/54 "2011-03-31T03:37:39Z")
Back in the USSR Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out They leave the west behind And Moscow girls make me sing and shout That Georgia’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind The intertextuality, if I can call it that, of this bridge section is absolutely amazing. I was listening to this song for a very long time before i realized just what all this section was referencing. There’s a lot of really amazing Beatles lyrics out there that work on different levels, but these ones truly astonished me when I finally figured it all out. ---
**Author:** ![Jaguars](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaguars/32/5879_2.png) [@Jaguars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaguars)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/55 "2011-03-31T23:00:04Z")
\*Why can’t we be friends \*by War _‘I know you’re working for the CIA, They wouldn’t have you in the Mar-fy-aaaeeee’_ Not only the silly imagery but the shoehorned-in sentiment and enunciation. Makes me smile every time indeed. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/56 "2011-04-01T00:27:37Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Beastie Boys _Intergalactic_: > > \*When I wrote graffiti my name was Slop > If my rap’s soup my beats is stock > Step from the tables as I start to chop > I’m a lumber jack DJ Adrock > If you try to knock me you’ll get mocked > I’ll stir fry you in my wok > Your knees’ll start shaking and your fingers pop > Like a pinch on the neck from Mr. Spock \* You know, I swear AD Rock misspeaks the last line of this, and actually says “Like a pinch from the neck of Mr. Spock.” ---
**Author:** ![Doxicle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@Doxicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doxicle)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/57 "2011-04-01T02:25:11Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > From They Might Be Giants, “Birdhouse in Your Soul” Kudos! That one tickles me, too. A song that really makes me laugh is “Paradise by the Dashboard Light,” by Meatloaf. Girl: I gotta know right now, before we go any further, do you love me? Will you love me forever? Boy: Lemme sleep on it, baby, baby, lemme sleep on it. Lemme sleep on it, I’ll give you an answer in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/58 "2011-04-01T03:39:42Z")
“Sister Golden Hair”…dunno why, but it makes me smile. “Feels so good feeling good again”–Robert Earl Keen-love that one, also his "“They Just Want to Blow you Away.” ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/59 "2011-04-01T04:23:21Z")
No particular lyrics from these songs but the entire songs themselves do it for me: “Wonderful One” by Marvin Gaye “Little Things” by Marty Stuart ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/60 "2011-04-01T04:26:16Z")
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