# Song Lines that sum up your world view at this very second **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2001, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031 "2001-01-14T21:37:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/21 "2001-01-14T23:18:10Z")
I’m drunk and right now I’m so in love with you and I don’t want to think too much about what we should or shouldn’t do lay my hands on Heaven and the sun and the moon and the stars while the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car nothing quite like the feel of something new * * * I’m not sure of what I should do when everything I’m think of is you all of my excuses turn to lies maybe God will cover up his eyes I know it’s not the right thing and I know it’s not the good think but kinda I want to * * * I just want something I just want something I can never have ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/22 "2001-01-14T23:20:30Z")
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/23 "2001-01-14T23:20:55Z")
_I’m much to young to feel this damn old…_ ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/24 "2001-01-14T23:24:54Z")
“'cause all I have left is my memories of yesterday. Oooh, Sour times. Nobody loves me, it’s true.” - Sour Times, the Velvet Chain version, not the Portishead version Damn, we have a lot of depressed/depressing people in here. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/25 "2001-01-14T23:25:00Z")
_“I know that my decision to change my life was not that hard”_ ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/26 "2001-01-14T23:28:33Z")
\*Without you the tides change the boys run the oceans crash the crowds roar the days soar the babies cry Without you The moon glows The river flows But I die Without you the world revives colors renew But I know Blue only Blue Lonely Blue within Me, Blue Without You.\* ---
**Author:** ![Ad\_Noctum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@Ad\_Noctum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ad_Noctum)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/27 "2001-01-14T23:30:10Z")
Bittersweet Symphone; The Verve “Yea it’s a bittersweet, symphony that’s life… try to make ends meet; yer a slave to Money then you die” ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/28 "2001-01-14T23:35:55Z")
see sig- ---
**Author:** ![applsmak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@applsmak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/applsmak)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/29 "2001-01-14T23:39:21Z")
“Yesterday…all my troubles seemed so far away…” ---
**Author:** ![Girlbysea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/30 "2001-01-14T23:40:20Z")
If I had it, to do, all over, I’d do it, all over with you… ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/31 "2001-01-14T23:41:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me. Rage Against the Machine. This has pretty much summed up my “world view” my whole life. > [@](#): > > How did it start? > Well I don’t know I just feel the craving. > I see the flesh and it smells fresh > And it’s just there for the taking. > These little girls they make me feel > so goddamn exhilerated. > I fill them up > I can’t give it up. > the pain that I’m just erasing. > … > I don’t know why I’m so fuckin’ cold > I don’t know why it hurts me. > All I wanna do is > get with you and make the pain go away. > Why do I have a conscience? > All it does is fuck with me. > Why do I have this torment? > All I wanna do is fuck it away. KoRn. Don’t think I’m some sort of psycho. I’ve been playing Vampire: The Masquerade and Mage: The Ascension a lot lately and this song is almost the very essence of my characters. > [@](#): > > And that’s about the time she walked away from me. > Nobody likes you when your 23 and you still act like you’re in freshman year. > What the hell is wrong with you? > My friends say I should act my age. > What’s my age again? What’s my age again? > That’s about the time that she broke up with me. > No one should take themselves so seriously. > … > I never wanna act my age. > What’s my age again? What’s my age again? Blink182. It’s mostly just the “no one should take themselves so seriously” part. > [@](#): > > So pardon me while I burst > into flames. > I’ve had enough of the world > and it’s people’s mindless games. > > and > > …don’t let the world > bring you down. > Not everyone here is > that fucked up and cold. Incubus. They kind of offset each other, and lessen my desire to put a bullet in the skull of every panda that won’t screw to save it’s species. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/32 "2001-01-14T23:42:31Z")
I live on a big round ball I never do dream I may fall And even if one day I do Well, I’ll jump off and smile back at you. I don’t even know where we are They’ll tell you we’re circling a star Well, I’ll take their word, I don’t know I’m dizzy, so it may be so Jesse Winchester, best incantation by Jimmie Dale Gilmore. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/33 "2001-01-14T23:54:31Z")
_“You know how complex women are”_ [sub] **Rush** - _Cold Fire_[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/34 "2001-01-14T23:55:18Z")
Been around the world, see that only stupid people are breeding. ---
**Author:** ![Dylan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e95f7d/32.png) [@Dylan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dylan)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/35 "2001-01-14T23:55:43Z")
- …run to the water and find me there burnt to the core but not broken… a million mile fall from grace thank god we missed the ground\* LIVE-Run to the water \*…Is it safe to look within and erase all that’s been? and all that’s been between…is it gone? tell me what went wrong 'cause baby, I’m not that strong and I’m walking wounded all alone are you comfortable and numb?..\* THE TEA PARTY-Walking wounded - ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/36 "2001-01-15T00:16:17Z")
“Life est Life Leben Is Leben”- Laibach. “Life Shifts up and down, everybody knows it’s wrong…why don’t you care?”-Skinny Puppy. “I’ll see you at your funeral baby…i’ll meet you in poland baby!”-Scraping Foetus of the Wheel. “After all…you wouldn’t listen to a woman…would you?”-Boyd Rice(NON). “Are you ready to accept my Domination?”-Converter. ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/37 "2001-01-15T00:34:28Z")
Paul Simon: > [@](#): > > You wanna be a leader? You want to change the game? > Turn your back on money, walk away from fame > You wanna be a missionary, you got that missionary zeal? > Let a stranger change your life, how’s that make **you** feel? > You wanna be a writer, don’t know where or when? > Find a quiet place, use a humble pen" Ani Difranco: > [@](#): > > And we lose sight of everything when we have to keep checking our backs > We should all just smile, come clean and relax Paul Simon (ok, so i really like Paul Simon…): > [@](#): > > These are the days of miracle and wonder, and don’t cry, baby, dont cry, dont cry, dont cry… ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/38 "2001-01-15T00:52:03Z")
How will I laugh tomorrow when I can’t even smile today? ---
**Author:** ![Frannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Frannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frannie)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/39 "2001-01-15T00:54:40Z")
Well, your railroad gate, you know I just can’t jump it Sometimes it gets so hard, you see I’m just sitting here beating on my trumpet With all these promises you left for me But where are you tonight, sweet Marie? ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/40 "2001-01-15T01:01:09Z")
_Now the world don’t move To the beat of just one drum What might be right for you May not be right for some_ Okay, the truth comes out, I base my entire life on sitcom theme songs. Happy now? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031.md?page=3)