# Pop Music Asks the Eternal Questions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 14, 2002, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665 "2002-12-14T01:35:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![marinwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@marinwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marinwood)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/41 "2002-12-16T07:47:38Z")

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“Wouldn’t It Be Nice?” - Beach Boys

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**Author:** ![marinwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@marinwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marinwood)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/42 "2002-12-16T07:53:53Z")

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Urp - someone already posted my Beach Boys one. Since I can’t edit that post, here are two queries from Todd Rundgren:

“Couldn’t I Just Tell You?”  
“Don’t You Ever Learn?”

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**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/43 "2002-12-16T08:09:53Z")

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How can you heartbreak a stranger?

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**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/44 "2002-12-16T11:28:11Z")

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What more can a poor boy do?-Split Enz  
If there was a fire would they leave me to burn?- Split Enz-  
Can I Have Another Piece of Chocolate Cake, Can I Buy another cheap Picasso fake? -Crowded House- Chocolate Cake  
What’ll I tell him, When He comes to me for absolution? Crowded House- There Goes God  
How Will you Go? -Crowded House  
What’s the Matter With You? Split Enz  
How can someone wicked walk 'round free? Split Enz- I See Red  
Where’s My faith?is it lost? Neil Finn -Sinner

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**Author:** ![okielady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/fbc32d/32.png) [@okielady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okielady)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142665/45 "2002-12-16T12:53:35Z")

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What do you want from me? (Pink Floyd)  
How can you mend a broken heart? (Bee Gees)  
Where do broken hearts go? (Not sure - Whitney Houston maybe?)  
How do I get you alone? (Heart)

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