# Respond to the previous poster by quoting a song lyric. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990 "2007-04-20T20:19:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/421 "2007-04-28T00:22:53Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] Are the stars out tonight? I don’t know if it’s cloudy or bright I Only Have Eyes For You, Dear. The moon maybe high but I can’t see a thing in the sky, 'Cause I Only Have Eyes For You. The Flamingos [/QUOTE] in your eyes the light the heat in your eyes I am complete _(Peter Gabriel)_ ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/422 "2007-04-28T00:25:59Z")
[QUOTE=GawnFishin’] in your eyes the light the heat in your eyes I am complete _(Peter Gabriel)_ [/QUOTE] Doctor, my eyes have seen the years Through the slow parade of tears without crying Now I want to understand I have done all that I could To see the evil and the good without hiding You must help me if you can Doctor my eyes Tell me what is wrong Was I unwise to leave them open for so long? Jackson Brown ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/423 "2007-04-28T00:36:33Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] Doctor, my eyes have seen the years Through the slow parade of tears without crying Now I want to understand I have done all that I could To see the evil and the good without hiding You must help me if you can Doctor my eyes Tell me what is wrong Was I unwise to leave them open for so long? Jackson Brown [/QUOTE] Doctor, Doctor, give me the news, I have a bad case of lovin’ you ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/424 "2007-04-28T00:44:38Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] Doctor, Doctor, give me the news, I have a bad case of lovin’ you [/QUOTE] was feelin’ . . . so bad, I asked my family doctor just what I had, I said, “Doctor, . . . (Doctor . . .) Mr. M.D., . . . (Doctor . . .) Now can you tell me, tell me, tell me, What’s ailin’ me?” (Doctor . . .) He said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) Yes, indeed, all you really need . . . (Is good lovin’) Gimme that good, good lovin . . . (Good lovin’) All I need is lovin’ . . . (Good lovin’) Good lovin’, baby. The Rascals ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/425 "2007-04-28T00:46:25Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] was feelin’ . . . so bad, I asked my family doctor just what I had, I said, “Doctor, . . . (Doctor . . .) Mr. M.D., . . . (Doctor . . .) Now can you tell me, tell me, tell me, What’s ailin’ me?” (Doctor . . .) He said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) Yes, indeed, all you really need . . . (Is good lovin’) Gimme that good, good lovin . . . (Good lovin’) All I need is lovin’ . . . (Good lovin’) Good lovin’, baby. The Rascals [/QUOTE] I told the witch doctor I was in love with you I told the witch doctor you didn’t love me too And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do He said that … (David Seville) ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/426 "2007-04-28T00:51:42Z")
[QUOTE=Zabali\_Clawbane] I told the witch doctor I was in love with you I told the witch doctor you didn’t love me too And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do He said that … (David Seville) [/QUOTE] I took my troubles down to Madame Rue You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth She’s got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine Sellin’ little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine I told her that I was a flop with chics I’ve been this way since 1956 She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign She said “What you need is Love Potion Number Nine” ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/427 "2007-04-28T00:58:10Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] I took my troubles down to Madame Rue You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth She’s got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine Sellin’ little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine I told her that I was a flop with chics I’ve been this way since 1956 She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign She said “What you need is Love Potion Number Nine” [/QUOTE] Gypsies tramps and thieves But every night all the men would come around And lay their money down Picked up a boy just south of Mobile Gave him a ride filled him with a hot meal I was sixteen he was twenty one _(Cher)_ ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/428 "2007-04-28T01:01:30Z")
[QUOTE=GawnFishin’] Gypsies tramps and thieves But every night all the men would come around And lay their money down Picked up a boy just south of Mobile Gave him a ride filled him with a hot meal I was sixteen he was twenty one _(Cher)_ [/QUOTE] No reason to get excited, the thief he kindly spoke, there aren’t many here among us, who feel that life is but a joke, but you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. (Jimi Hendrix) ETA: Simulpost! Can the next poster work with both strands, I wonder? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/429 "2007-04-28T01:01:44Z")
> [@](#): > > I took my troubles down to Madame Rue > You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth > She’s got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine > Sellin’ little bottles of Love Potion Number Nine > > I told her that I was a flop with chics > I’ve been this way since 1956 > She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign > She said “What you need is Love Potion Number Nine” I want a new drug One that wont make me sick One that wont make me crash my car Or make me feel three feet thick I want a new drug One that wont hurt my head One that wont make my mouth too dry Or make my eyes too red One that wont make me nervous Wondering what to do One that makes me feel like I feel when Im with you When Im alone with you ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/430 "2007-04-28T01:08:18Z")
Aside: Doh! The phrase “There aren’t many among us, who feel that life is but a joke” should be “There are many among us” I do believe. Can’t believe I typed that! _Digs out her Hendrix_ ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/431 "2007-04-28T01:17:38Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher] I want a new drug One that wont make me sick One that wont make me crash my car Or make me feel three feet thick I want a new drug One that wont hurt my head One that wont make my mouth too dry Or make my eyes too red One that wont make me nervous Wondering what to do One that makes me feel like I feel when Im with you When Im alone with you [/QUOTE] I think we’re alone now, There does’t seem to be anyone around. I think we’re alone now, The beating of our hearts is the only sound. - Tommy James and the Shondells ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/432 "2007-04-28T01:41:00Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady] I think we’re alone now, There does’t seem to be anyone around. I think we’re alone now, The beating of our hearts is the only sound. - Tommy James and the Shondells [/QUOTE] Kiss me goodbye pushing out before I sleep can’t you see I try swimming the same deep water as you is hard “the shallow drowned lose less than we” you breathe the strangest twist upon your lips “and we shall be together…” “kiss me goodbye bow your head and join with me” and face pushed deep reflections meet the strangest twist upon your lips and dissapear the ripples clear and laughing break against your feet and laughing break the mirror sweet “so we shall be together…” (The Cure) ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/433 "2007-04-28T04:39:05Z")
[QUOTE=Zabali\_Clawbane] Kiss me goodbye pushing out before I sleep can’t you see I try swimming the same deep water as you is hard “the shallow drowned lose less than we” you breathe the strangest twist upon your lips “and we shall be together…” “kiss me goodbye bow your head and join with me” and face pushed deep reflections meet the strangest twist upon your lips and dissapear the ripples clear and laughing break against your feet and laughing break the mirror sweet “so we shall be together…” (The Cure) [/QUOTE] Like the sun through the trees you came to love me Like a leaf on the breeze you blew away _(Justin Hayward)_ ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/434 "2007-04-28T04:43:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Kiss me goodbye pushing out before I sleep > can’t you see I try swimming the same deep You tell me that you want me You tell me that you need me You tell me that you love me And I know that I’m right 'Cause I hear it in the night I hear the secrets that you keep When you’re talking in your sleep I hear the secrets that you keep When you’re talking in your sleep - The Romantics ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/435 "2007-04-28T04:53:29Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher] You tell me that you want me You tell me that you need me You tell me that you love me And I know that I’m right 'Cause I hear it in the night I hear the secrets that you keep When you’re talking in your sleep I hear the secrets that you keep When you’re talking in your sleep - The Romantics [/QUOTE] That late in the night when the lights are all out then she slips off her stockings and shoes she makes you her lover and lets you discover the smiles she keeps, she keeps for you She keeps no, she keeps no she keeps no secrets from you _(Angels)_ ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/436 "2007-04-28T05:05:19Z")
[QUOTE=GawnFishin’] That late in the night when the lights are all out then she slips off her stockings and shoes she makes you her lover and lets you discover the smiles she keeps, she keeps for you She keeps no, she keeps no she keeps no secrets from you _(Angels)_ [/QUOTE] I thought love was only true in faerie tales meant for some-one else but not for me love was out to get me that’s the way it seemed disappointed haunted all my dreams And then I saw her face! Now I’m a believer not a trace of doubt in my mind! I’m in love, wooooooh I’m a believer, I couldn’t leave her if I tried ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/437 "2007-04-28T05:06:52Z")
[QUOTE=GawnFishin’] That late in the night when the lights are all out then she slips off her stockings and shoes she makes you her lover and lets you discover the smiles she keeps, she keeps for you She keeps no, she keeps no she keeps no secrets from you _(Angels)_ [/QUOTE] Just when you think you got it down Resistance nowhere to be found They whisper, promises in the dark. - Pat Benatar. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/438 "2007-04-28T05:26:18Z")
…Don’t get sad When people that you trust stab you in the back So, you thought they were your friends? Now you know (now you know) There’s one thing in life that holds You’re on your own (you’ve gotta grow) – The The (Matt Johnson), “The Whisperers” ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/439 "2007-04-28T12:22:45Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] …Don’t get sad When people that you trust stab you in the back So, you thought they were your friends? Now you know (now you know) There’s one thing in life that holds You’re on your own (you’ve gotta grow) – The The (Matt Johnson), “The Whisperers” [/QUOTE] And now I’m all alone again Nowhere to turn, no one to go to. Without a home, without a friend without a face to say hello to But now the night is near And I can make-believe he’s here ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/440 "2007-04-28T12:42:48Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] And now I’m all alone again Nowhere to turn, no one to go to. Without a home, without a friend without a face to say hello to But now the night is near And I can make-believe he’s here [/QUOTE] **{I’m baa…aack!}** 🙂 Tonight’s the night… gonna’ be alright… **{“Tonight’s the Night” by Rod Stewart}** * * * TBJ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990.md?page=23)