# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/21 "2001-08-30T02:42:03Z")
I will not wake you from your sleep Leaving you wandering, counting sheep No more sad and sunshine days Trust me dear, you’re better off this way. -“Airport Song,” by Guster “September is coming soon I’m pining for the moon And what if there were two Side by side in orbit Around the fairest sun.” -“Nightswimming,” REM ---
**Author:** ![BJS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@BJS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJS)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/22 "2001-08-30T03:05:56Z")
Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can, spins a web, any size, catches thieves just like flies Maybe that’s just me… ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/23 "2001-08-30T03:12:09Z")
“It’s a hard road when you know where you’re going And it’s harder when you know where you’re not.” - Trash Can Sinatras, _The BEst Man’s Fall_ ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/24 "2001-08-30T03:54:06Z")
we were inseparable you followed me around and I got used to you this new friend that I found I pictured us together I pictured us apart and I knew from that moment that you were capable of breaking my heart don’t tell my ears 'cause they’re not listening don’t tell my heart it doesn’t know what it’s missing don’t tell my eyes I know they won’t believe that you’re not in love with me six months of being friends was all that I could stand so I mustered up the courage to hold your hand you were bedazzled bewildered I guess it was just too soon and when I finally kissed you you walked out of the room – Fleming and John, “Shhh!” ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/25 "2001-08-30T04:08:43Z")
\*Every time I stare into the sun Angel dust and my dress just comes undone Every time I stare into the sun Be a model or just look like one\* **Asking For It** by Hole OR \*I can feel in my bones I’m going to spend my whole life alone.\* **Fuck and Run** by Liz Phair ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/26 "2001-08-30T04:25:42Z")
A lady came to our house, our house, our house, A lady came to see why I wasn’t in school. So we asked her to come in, And we gave her poison lemonade, And put her in the freezer where it’s nice and cool. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/27 "2001-08-30T04:25:49Z")
\*When you need a lover and you’re down so low, you start to wonder but you never know When it feels like sorrow is your only friend, knowin’ that tomorrow you’ll feel this way again When the blues come callin’ at the break of dawn, the rain keeps fallin’ but the rainbow’s gone When you feel like cryin’ but the tears won’t come, when your dreams are dyin’, when you’re on the run.\* –Firefall ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Rubin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billy_rubin/32/3622_2.png) [@Billy\_Rubin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Rubin)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/28 "2001-08-30T04:30:40Z")
“No one speaks English, and everything’s broken”-Tom Waits. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/29 "2001-08-30T05:27:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Leave me without a god > without belief without a cause > without a path that I should take > without a choice that I should make > > such an easy thought and now I had it but I lost it > and now I guess I need your help and now I guess I need your help and now I… ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/30 "2001-08-30T08:28:49Z")
Tomorrow’s coming round a hairpin curve in the road She’s got a run in her stocking And she’s missing a heel off her shoe … Got up this morning rolled out of bed I spilled a Diet Coke, called my mother, said “Hi” What I meant to say was “Why is your life a joke?” And I went down to that ugly bar And I clicked my heels three times just like you said And I climbed that road to your empty house The anticipation was a turnon … but you let me down Cuz I stood on that empty stoop alone I said I’m ready for my close up Mr. deMille I waited for the light but it never showed … Well I wanna know what you’ll do with that expensive piece of land That overlooks a billion years of history I have a sneaking suspicion you will never understand. Hey maybe I’ll see you down by the Rocky and Bullwinkle And we can talk to that charlatan psychic And she can paint a prettier picture of your future Cuz that day in my life … … never should have taken place … And this day in my life still cannot explain Why I listened in the first place … to you. Oh yeah, something else. I hope one day you call up your father And you have the guts to tell him how he hurt you And how he made you hurt another Cuz it makes me sad. – Poe, “That Day” ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/31 "2001-08-30T09:38:41Z")
“Austin,” except replace it with “Nova Scotia,” which doesn’t scan as well. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecb155/32.png) [@Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Dead_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/32 "2001-08-30T10:21:09Z")
_“I need to wash myself again to hide all the dirt and pain 'Cause I’d be scared that there’s nothing underneath And who are my real friends? Have they all got the bends? Am i really sinking this low?”_ - **The Bends, Radiohead** ---
**Author:** ![Evirus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bb73d2/32.png) [@Evirus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evirus)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/33 "2001-08-30T11:49:41Z")
“A man my age is very young, so I’m told. Why do I feel so old?” -Billy Joel “Sometimes it’s like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul.” -Bruce Springsteen ---
**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 30, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/34 "2001-08-30T13:41:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Evirus \* > **"A man my age is very young, so I’m told. Why do I feel so old?" -Billy Joel** Good choice. _Why Judy Why_ has always been a favorite of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/35 "2001-08-30T13:47:59Z")
And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives Where we’re gonna be when we turn 25 I keep thinking times will never change Keep on thinking things will always be the same But when we leave this year we won’t be coming back No more hanging out cause we’re on a different track And if you got something that you need to say You better say it right now cause you don’t have another day Cause we’re moving on and we can’t slow down These memories are playing like a film without sound \ Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now? Can we survive it out there? Can we make it somehow? I guess I thought that this would never end And suddenly it’s like we’re women and men Will the past be a shadow that will follow us round? Will these memories fade when I leave this town I keep, I keep thinking that it’s not goodbye Keep on thinking it’s a time to fly graduation, by vitamin c ---
**Author:** ![Spoonbender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spoonbender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoonbender)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/36 "2001-08-30T14:24:08Z")
_I’ve been waiting a lifetime For this moment to come I’m destined for anything at all…_ Green Day, _Waiting_ ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/37 "2001-08-30T15:28:08Z")
“You make me come. You make me complete. You make me completely miserably.” ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/38 "2001-08-30T15:41:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Evirus \* > \*\*“A man my age is very young, so I’m told. Why do I feel so old?” -Billy Joel > > “Sometimes it’s like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul.” -Bruce Springsteen \*\* Skull, not soul. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/39 "2001-08-30T15:53:01Z")
Estat ai en greu cossirier per un cavallier q’ai agut, a vuoill sia trotz temps saubut cum eu l’ai amat a sobrier; Ben volria mon cavallier tener un ser a mos bratz nut, car plus m’en sui abellida no fetz Floris de Blanchaflor. Ara vei q’ieu sui trahida car eu non li dinei m’amor, don ai estat en gran error en lieig e quand sui vestida. Well, as of the past three weeks, but that’ll change soon enough. Verve Pipe’s “The Freshmen” worked for me for a year or two, too. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767/40 "2001-08-31T02:04:04Z")
This could lead to excellence Or serious injury. Only one way to know: Go, go, go. Go ahead and wreck your life; That might be good. Who can say what’s wrong or right? Nobody can. —_The Spiraling Shape_ by They Might Be Giants [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-sum-up-your-life-right-now/78767.md?page=3)