# Quick! Think of a song lyric! Now post what it was. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2010, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758 "2010-10-20T09:04:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/21 "2010-10-20T12:58:42Z")
It would break my heart if you broke the spell, heaven is waiting and waiting is hell. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/22 "2010-10-20T13:00:01Z")
I said, Bret, you got it going on. Not in a gay way, just in a “hey mate, I wanted to say that you’re looking okay, mate.” Why can’t a heterosexual guy, Tell a heterosexual guy that he thinks his booty is fly? Not all the time, obviously Just when he’s got a problem with his self esteem. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/23 "2010-10-20T13:00:52Z")
She was both proud and shy As she felt every eye And in every shop window She primped passing by. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/24 "2010-10-20T13:03:46Z")
See those hacksaws? Very very soon one of them will be ALL MINE! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/25 "2010-10-20T13:03:50Z")
Now she’s in purple, now she’s a turtle disintegrating Christine the strawberry girl Christine banana split lady ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/26 "2010-10-20T13:16:35Z")
“Look at us, we’re beautiful Look at us, we’re beautiful Look at us, we’re beautiful Look at us, we’re beautiful…” This is from the song I currently have in my head, “Beautiful” by Moby. ETA: I just played the song, and I don’t even think they’re right - I think the one line was just running in my head, over and over and over and over… ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/27 "2010-10-20T13:19:16Z")
I just watched the Conan O’Brien promo “Conan Washes His Desk” so the lyric that popped into my head was “pour some sugar on me.” ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/28 "2010-10-20T13:20:06Z")
Oop, no, wait, I must have just had the last part of the song in my head where he just sings that line over and over and over and over and over…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/29 "2010-10-20T13:20:20Z")
In chicken circles it’s Adolph Perdue Wants to feed featherless chicken to you I don’t take orders from Colonel Sanders Do you? **MDC** _Chicken Squawk_ ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/30 "2010-10-20T13:51:01Z")
_When I’m disconnected from the driving wheel I’m only half the man I should be But metal hitting metal is all I feel And everything is good as it possibly could be_ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/31 "2010-10-20T13:54:33Z")
I’ve been infected with [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAPzTFlVUN0) freaking earworm for about a week now. Ces soirees la! On drague, on branche, toi meme tu sais pourquoi Pour qu’on finisse ensemble toi et moi Qu’on aime tous ces soirees la ---
**Author:** ![Koldanar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@Koldanar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koldanar)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/32 "2010-10-20T13:57:14Z")
“We didn’t start the fire”. Dang it…heard it for a few seconds on Two and a Half men the other day. Now you got it stuck in my head. I’m gonna go listen to my Ipod to get rid of it. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/33 "2010-10-20T14:02:42Z")
“Come along with me Down into the world of feeling” Radio Clothahump (the music that I hear in my head constantly) is currently playing “Carpet of the Sun” by Renaissance. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/34 "2010-10-20T14:04:15Z")
This one was running through my head on the way into work: _Come on boys, Potato’s in the paddy wagon, Gotta get her out of there Come on boys, Potato’s in the paddy wagon, Momma says it’s more than fair._ –The New Main Street Singers ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/35 "2010-10-20T14:05:40Z")
“Heart removed neatly with a bowie knife. Pick up the blade and join the dots.” –“Vena Cava” by Angelspit ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/36 "2010-10-20T14:17:16Z")
This is what’s in my head right now. It’s very catchy. _Dil mein mere hai Dard-E-disco, Dard-E-disco, Dard-E-disco_… (My heart is filled with the pain of disco, pain of disco, pain of disco…) ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/37 "2010-10-20T14:29:51Z")
> [@sisu](#): > > Two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year. > > The best song line ever from Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb. You meant Wish You Were Here, of course. ETA: What \*\*Weedy \*\*said. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/38 "2010-10-20T14:33:16Z")
\*Johnny come lately, the new kid in town Everybody loves you, so don’t let them down \* Eagles (It was playing on the radio as I drove to work this morning) ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/39 "2010-10-20T14:59:27Z")
Beat on the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat! Oh, yeah, what can you do? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758/40 "2010-10-20T15:02:18Z")
I’ve had this stuck in my head all morning: A scientific theory isn’t just a hunch or guess It’s more like a question That’s been put through a lot of tests And when a theory emerges Consistent with the facts The truth is with science The proof is with science! From TMBG’s “Science is Real”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-think-of-a-song-lyric-now-post-what-it-was/557758.md?page=3)