# Maybe YOU know the words to this song!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-you-know-the-words-to-this-song/9968>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 25, 1999, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-you-know-the-words-to-this-song/9968 "1999-10-25T20:47:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-you-know-the-words-to-this-song/9968/1 "1999-10-25T20:47:00Z")

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Does anyone know the words to this song? Here’s what I know…

It goes something like “I close my eyes and I kiss you because (the birds of Shane?) it’s a lonely view.”

Birds of Shane? Burdens of Shame? Bells in the Shed? What the hell is it?

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**Author:** ![boli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@boli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boli)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-you-know-the-words-to-this-song/9968/2 "1999-10-25T20:48:00Z")

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With the birds I’ll share this lonely view.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue

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**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-you-know-the-words-to-this-song/9968/3 "1999-10-25T20:53:00Z")

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Ah, of course! It just sounds like:  
“Wit duh birds uh shai dis uh lone lee view”.

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-you-know-the-words-to-this-song/9968/4 "1999-10-26T20:27:00Z")

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:::making note for good book title: _ **The Birds of Shame** _:::

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**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 1999, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-you-know-the-words-to-this-song/9968/5 "1999-10-27T03:40:00Z")

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I expect to see my name in that book somewhere as credit for that title!  
:: browsing Amazon to see if sucha book already exists ::

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_ **SanibelMan** _  
“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.”  
– Henry David Thoreau

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**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 1999, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-you-know-the-words-to-this-song/9968/6 "1999-10-27T03:50:00Z")

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I’m glad I read this thread, because until now I thought it was “With the blood we shed it’s a lonely view”. I thought it was a pretty gruesome song 🙂