# Paraphrased Lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 3, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611 "2009-06-03T18:58:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Wash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@Wash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wash)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/61 "2009-06-04T20:17:14Z")
A guess, but is W3 King for a Day by The Thompson Twins? W4: Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley ---
**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:** [June 4, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/62 "2009-06-04T20:17:48Z")
There go 3 and 4 JQ7. I am unable to do anything about my current condition. I’m tone deaf, ugly, and my lower extremities are scrawny. Do not inquire as to my impression of yourself, as you may be unpleasantly surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/63 "2009-06-04T20:19:53Z")
W1: I possess my father’s vehicle, an instrument for swing-type music, and a running bill at an Afro-centric-themed night spot. Zanzibar – Billy Joel (I’ve got the old man’s car. And I’ve got a jazz guitar. I’ve got a tab at Zanzibar.) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/64 "2009-06-04T20:22:51Z")
J6: My Generation - The Who. “People try to put us down, just because we g-g-g-get around.” ---
**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:** [June 4, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/65 "2009-06-04T20:29:26Z")
Yes. JQ8. There are several paths to achievinv your desires. I choose the superior ones, and I use the other ones as well. I even use my adversaries and lawlessness. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/66 "2009-06-04T20:31:42Z")
Now that I’ve guessed one (whether I’m right or not) I now feel that I’ve earned the cred to float one. If only I could think of something. How about this: JB1: You informed me that you would prefer go on haitus and decrease speed in order to achieve a personal sense of self-gratification. As a result I would like to inform you that I dislike you in the harshest possible terms. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/67 "2009-06-04T20:43:48Z")
All the ones I knew were answered before I got to them. But here’s a few, anyway. MR1: I simply fail to understand why I am having such difficulty acquiring one each of the items on my wish list. MR2: Rich college kids out of touch with the struggles of the impoverished just need to spend some time in a third world country. MR3: Check that out. It looks like the bombardment hasn’t completely destroyed the fort yet. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/68 "2009-06-04T20:48:11Z")
> [@Maeglin](#): > > MR3: Check that out. It looks like the bombardment hasn’t completely destroyed the fort yet. Don’t know if it’s what you had in mind, but these lines summarize the first verse of _The Star-Spangled Banner_, written by Francis Scott Key. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/69 "2009-06-04T20:51:41Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > Yes. > > JQ8. There are several paths to achievinv your desires. I choose the superior ones, and I use the other ones as well. I even use my adversaries and lawlessness. Sex Pistols - _Anarchy In the UK_ ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/70 "2009-06-04T20:53:26Z")
JB2: Truncated German article, perform, perform, perform. Truncated German article, infantile name for father, infantile name for father, infantile name for father. There is nothing more I wish to impart to the listener. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/71 "2009-06-04T20:54:53Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Don’t know if it’s what you had in mind, but these lines summarize the first verse of _The Star-Spangled Banner_, written by Francis Scott Key. You bet! I couldn’t decide if that one was pathetically easy or devilishly difficult. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/72 "2009-06-04T21:00:53Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > JB2: Truncated German article, perform, perform, perform. Truncated German article, infantile name for father, infantile name for father, infantile name for father. There is nothing more I wish to impart to the listener. It’s a French article, and a German pronoun. 🙂 That’s The Police. Edited to add: I forgot about the De at the beginning. Du is an article and a pronoun, you are absolutely right. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/73 "2009-06-04T21:15:32Z")
JQ1. I am cognizant of your reasons for departing. I realize you could not remain where you were. I am curious as to your current location. All things considered, leaving quickly was the proper decision. ---
**Author:** ![yevgeny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/839c29/32.png) [@yevgeny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yevgeny)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/74 "2009-06-04T21:18:47Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Gu4 - I like my women much younger, because they tend to be less concerned about my peccadilloes and odd mien, as well as being less inquisitive and more affectionate in general. But, oh crap, I think I may have just committed statutory rape. Oingo Boingo - Little Girls > [@Maeglin](#): > > MR2: Rich college kids out of touch with the struggles of the impoverished just need to spend some time in a third world country. Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia ---
**Author:** ![RedRosesForMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RedRosesForMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedRosesForMe)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/75 "2009-06-04T22:02:52Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > It was performed by The Dubliners before it was done by Thin Lizzy, and it’s an old Irish folk song anyway. I know, that was my point. I was hoping whoever got it didn’t mention Metallica, but Thin Lizzy? The Dubliners could kick all their asses. And whatever Irish minstrel first set it to music probably could, too. 😉 R6: I command you to exit your dwelling places, men bedecked in two-tone uniforms, and to engage me in masculine physical combat. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/76 "2009-06-04T22:35:10Z")
These should be easy: BtES1: It is evident to you from my mode of progression that I am a lothario who is too busy to chat. BtES2: In the past your appearance was pleasing, and you were charitable toward the indigent in those halcyon days–right? ---
**Author:** ![yevgeny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/839c29/32.png) [@yevgeny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yevgeny)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/77 "2009-06-04T22:40:38Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > These should be easy: > > BtES1: It is evident to you from my mode of progression that I am a lothario who is too busy to chat. > > BtES2: In the past your appearance was pleasing, and you were charitable toward the indigent in those halcyon days–right? Bee Gees - Stayin’ Alive Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone ---
**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:** [June 4, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/78 "2009-06-04T23:02:27Z")
JQ10. What is troubling you? Are you trying to decide whether to try to coexist with us, annihilate us, or canonize us? It doesn’t matter to us, and we take no blame for being too young. ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/79 "2009-06-04T23:02:39Z")
I think there are still several for which we ahven’t had answers. To recap: TJ1: I will slumber, slumber in your new cardiac organ. TJ2: Females, vehicles, and the battle for global domination between the second and fourth battles for global domination. TJ4: Not deceased is the male young person in a cubicle. TJ5: The female stated that an additional weapon let loose causes others to vocalize loudly. TMcG1: Collectively, we acknowledge a lack of options, males and females inclusive TMcG2: First person narrator was expelled into creation for reasons so self-evident they border on the redundant TMcG3: I have no visual sense of any of you males, collectively, achieving either a literal or figurative match of the sort currently being considered by me NIS1: The penultimate day of the week, the first person narrator experiences a state of amourous emotion. NIS2: To this location approaches the primary celestial object of this system, there is no cause for alarm. F5: Despite the encouragement of friends, unemployment sucks. F6: In retrospect, nearly a hundred was a very bad idea. R6: I command you to exit your dwelling places, men bedecked in two-tone uniforms, and to engage me in masculine physical combat. W2: You have what I require, and yet you maintain that you and the gentleman I observed you with have no romantic entanglement. W3: Would that I were a regent for one rotation of the earth, I would surely abdicate. Gu2 - Please, tell me about his sanity, his eyesight, and his mobility. Gu3 - My acquaintances are too well informed, therefor they cannot bring themselves to publicly be in my presence. RN2: Hie thee from this place, hie thee from this place, for there is no person who wishes to lose RN3: In the event that a human male is thought to be the perpetrator of a crime based on his thoughts, execute me by passing current through a seating device in recognition for transgressions I will commit at some later date JQ5: Put the nasal mucus in the rectal cavity JQ7: I am unable to do anything about my current condition. I’m tone deaf, ugly, and my lower extremities are scrawny. Do not inquire as to my impression of yourself, as you may be unpleasantly surprised. JQ9: I am cognizant of your reasons for departing. I realize you could not remain where you were. I am curious as to your current location. All things considered, leaving quickly was the proper decision. JB1: You informed me that you would prefer go on haitus and decrease speed in order to achieve a personal sense of self-gratification. As a result I would like to inform you that I dislike you in the harshest possible terms. MR1: I simply fail to understand why I am having such difficulty acquiring one each of the items on my wish list. Sorry if I’ve missed anyones answer… Thanks, thwartme ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611/80 "2009-06-04T23:17:54Z")
> [@thwartme](#): > > I think there are still several for which we ahven’t had answers. To recap: > > NIS2: To this location approaches the primary celestial object of this system, there is no cause for alarm. > > JQ7: I am unable to do anything about my current condition. I’m tone deaf, ugly, and my lower extremities are scrawny. Do not inquire as to my impression of yourself, as you may be unpleasantly surprised. Someone else already answered NIS2 (“Here Comes the Sun”). JQ7 is “Oh Well (Part 1),” Fleetwood Mac. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paraphrased-lyrics/498611.md?page=5)