# Lyrics that sum up your life right now . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767 "2001-08-29T18:32:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/1 "2001-08-29T18:32:08Z")
For me: > [@](#): > > "When the day goes slow and there’s nothing to do. . . . > The kid’s got a cold, so I’ve got it too. > The bar that I frequent don’t open 'til 4; > I’ll be there when they unlock the door. > > ``` > This is it > I come here to drink > I come here to smoke > I come here to think > I love my wife, and I love my child, > But I'm staying here > A little while" > > ``` –“This Is It”, **The Ottoman Empire** , from the CD _Lester Square_, words and music by Clay Harper ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/2 "2001-08-29T18:55:27Z")
“every day keeps getting shorter, never seem to find the time” Pink Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/3 "2001-08-29T19:17:29Z")
_I’m a creep I’m a weirdo What the hell am I doing here I don’t belong here…_ ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/4 "2001-08-29T19:24:18Z")
… you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave… ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/5 "2001-08-29T19:34:00Z")
_If today was not an endless highway, If tonight was not a crooked trail, And if tomorrow wasn’t such a long time Then lonesome would mean nothing to me now …_ – Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/6 "2001-08-29T19:34:42Z")
From earlier in the same Pink Floyd song (hi, **Qadgop**!): > [@](#): > > And then one day you find ten years have got behind you > No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/7 "2001-08-29T19:37:27Z")
_Best Imitation of Myself_ by Ben Folds Five: \*I feel like a quote out of context Withholding the rest So I can be for you what you want to see I got the gesture and sound Got the timing down It’s uncanny, yeah, you think it was me … The “problem with you” speech You gave me was fine I liked the theories about my little stage And I swore I was listening But I started drifting Around the part about me acting my age Now if it’s all the same I’ve people to entertain I juggle one handed Do some magic tricks and The best imitation of myself … Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see… ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/8 "2001-08-29T19:46:20Z")
_I’ve been around the world and seen that only stupid people are breeding…_ ---
**Author:** ![Chickenhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Chickenhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickenhead)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/9 "2001-08-29T21:43:36Z")
Ti, a drink with jam and breaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/10 "2001-08-29T22:03:41Z")
- You call me strong, you call me weak, but still your secrets I will keep. You took for granted all the times I never let you down. You stumbled in and bumped your head, If not for me then you’d be dead, I picked you up and set you back on solid ground. \* ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/11 "2001-08-29T22:22:09Z")
Somehow, I’ll get myself into a coma. Spend my whole life dreaming. Baby’s gonna drift away. (Drugstore) ---
**Author:** ![beegirl13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@beegirl13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beegirl13)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/12 "2001-08-29T22:27:46Z")
_Do you ever get the feeling That the story’s too damn real and in the present tense? Or that everybody’s on the stage And it feels like you’re the only person Sitting in the audience_ ~Jethro Tull To continue the Pink Floyd trend: _There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me_ And from the same 3 Doors Down song that **galen ubal** quoted: _I really don’t mind what happens now and then As long as you’ll be my friend at the end_ [sub]Wow,look at that coding! This newbie is proud of herself. ::previews several times so as not to make a fool of herself with that statement:: [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/13 "2001-08-29T22:36:02Z")
All the world’s indeed a stage, and we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another’s audience outside the gilded cage. (Rush, thank you very much, and good night.) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/14 "2001-08-29T23:41:06Z")
[He] has that razor sadness That only gets worse With the clang and thunder of the Southern Pacific going by As the clock ticks out like a dripping faucet Till you’re full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin And you spill out Over the side to anyone who’ll listen … – _9th and Hennepin_ by Tom Waits ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2001, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/15 "2001-08-29T23:49:12Z")
I think Tennessee Ernie Ford sums it up best: \*…another day older and deeper in debt… ---
**Author:** ![Lucifer12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b38774/32.png) [@Lucifer12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucifer12)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/16 "2001-08-30T00:11:15Z")
Reaching out for a hand that we can’t see. Everybody’s got to hold on hope- it’s the last thing that’s holding me. _Hold On Hope_ Guided By Voices ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/17 "2001-08-30T02:01:17Z")
_If we met tomorrow for the very first time, would I start all over again? Would I try to make you mine?_ [sub]-No Doubt, A Simple Kind of Life[/sub] and _She grabs her magazines, she packs her things and she goes. She leaves the pictures hanging on the wall. She burns all her notes. And she knows she’s been here too few years to feel this old._ \ _And we always say that it would be good to go away someday. But if there’s nothing there to make things change, if it’s the same for you, I’ll just hang._ [sub]-Matchbox Twenty, Hang[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/18 "2001-08-30T02:18:44Z")
“Joyful Girl” by Ani DiFranco - I can’t get the url to work, but here’s the link: [http://www.danah.org/Ani/Dilate/JoyfulGirl.html](http://www.danah.org/Ani/Dilate/JoyfulGirl.html) > [@](#): > > \*i do it for the joy it brings > because i’m a joyful girl > because the world owes me nothing > and we owe each other the world > i do it because it’s the least i can do > i do it because i learned it from you > and i do it just because i want to > because i want to > > everything i do is judged > and they mostly get it wrong > but oh well > 'cuz the bathroom mirror has not budged > and the woman who lives there can tell > the truth from the stuff that they say > and she looks me in the eye > and says would you prefer the easy way > no, well o.k. then > don’t cry\* Also by Ani, from “The Million You Never Made”: [http://www.danah.org/Ani/NotAPrettyGirl/MillionYouNeverMade.html](http://www.danah.org/Ani/NotAPrettyGirl/MillionYouNeverMade.html) > [@](#): > > _and you can dangle your carrot > but i ain’t gonna reach for it > cuz i need both my hands > to play my guitar > and life is a sleazy stranger > who looks vaguely familiar > flirting with a bimbo named disaster > at the end of the bar > and i am telling you that i am different > than you are_ I love Ani. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/19 "2001-08-30T02:25:51Z")
Got a wife in Chino, babe And one in Cherokee First one says she got my child But it don’t look like me Set out running but I take my time A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight I just might get some sleep tonight. – “Friend of the Devil,” Robert Hunter/Jerry Garcia ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/20 "2001-08-30T02:38:17Z")
_Where am I today? I wish that I knew 'Cause looking around there’s no sign of you I’m holding out my heart but clutching it too_ Nickel Creek, _Reasons Why_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767.md?page=2)