# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/101 "2001-01-17T20:43:54Z")
**Genseric** My take on working for a living: “I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in, and stops my mind from wandering where it will go…” ---
**Author:** ![wyldelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@wyldelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wyldelf)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/102 "2001-01-17T21:03:09Z")
_It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to_ ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/103 "2001-01-17T21:07:52Z")
I see skies of blue, and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself… what a wonderful world. … I hear babies cry, I watch them grow; They’ll learn much more than I’ll never know. And I think to myself… what a wonderful world … The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky, Are also on the faces, of people going by. I see friends, shaking hands, saying how do you do They’re really saying, “I love you.” … Yes I think to myself… what a wonderful world. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/104 "2001-01-17T21:48:56Z")
New song again. (I’m a musical freak, what can I say…) And thanks to Coldy for sending me this song. 🙂 > [@](#): > > Sister can you hear me now > The ringing in your ears > I’m down on the ground > My luck’s been dry for years > > I’m lost in the dark > And I feel like a dinosaur > Broken face and broken hands > I’m a broken man > > I’ve hit the wall > I’m about to fall > But I’m closing in on it > I feel so weak > On a losing streak > Watch my taillights fade to black > > I read a thing about this girl > She was a hermit in her world > Her story was much like mine > She could be my valentine > > And although we’ve never met > I won’t forget her yet > She cut herself off from her past > Now she’s alone at last > > I feel so sick > Lost love’s last licks > But I’m closing down on it > I feel so weak > On a losing streak > Watch my taillights fade to black > > Lost my life in cheap wine > Now it’s quiet time > Cappy Dick nor Jesus Christ > Could not help my fate > > But I’m underneath a gun > I’m singing about my past > Had myself a wonderful thing > But I could not make it last > > I’ve hit the wall > I’m about to fall > But I’m closing in on it > I feel so small > Underneath it all > Watch my taillights fade to black - Buffalo Tom, “Taillights Fade” ---
**Author:** ![DigitalMuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@DigitalMuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalMuse)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/105 "2001-01-18T02:15:21Z")
I can taste your innocence so young and sweet like mother made ya Everything froze in ice these motherfuckers just got wicked Well I can’t explain this little man taken over can’t explain the way that I feel Everyone got twisted up Everyone got behind my back and broke it cuz it’s my world Everyone got twisted up all your friends got behind My back and broke it cuz It’s my world 1, 2, 3 here I come with the wicked You are the love I never found ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/106 "2001-01-18T03:02:12Z")
From “Now I Know,” by the Cowboy Junkies: > [@](#): > > Now I know, now I know what it means to be broken > Now I know, now I know what it means to be bared > You in the chair perceptibly sinking > I’m on my knees once again made aware > of the world out there > Grief is a word to describe the absense of feeling > Now I know, now I know what it means to be broken ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/107 "2001-01-18T03:14:03Z")
Another few lines that just keep running through my head that I can’t get rid of: “Eyes of a fallen angel Eyes of a tragedy.” Three Libras by A Perfect Circle ---
**Author:** ![adam420](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@adam420](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adam420)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/108 "2001-01-18T03:18:49Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s a bullshit three ring circus sideshow > Of Freaks here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA > The only way to fix it is to flush it all away > Any fuckin time > Any fuckin day Aenema by tool ---
**Author:** ![Erika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@Erika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erika)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/109 "2001-01-18T03:19:53Z")
feels like reckless driving when we’re talking it’s fun while it lasts, and it’s faster than walking but no one’s going to sympathize when we crash they’ll say “you hit what you head for, you get what you ask” and we’ll say we didn’t know, we didn’t even try one minute there was road beneath us, the next just sky ~~ Ani DiFranco, Falling Is Like This ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031/110 "2001-01-18T03:35:28Z")
[sub] > [@](#): > > If you’d accept surrender, I’ll give up some more > Weren’t you adored > I cannot be without you, matter of fact > I’m on your back, I’m on your back, I’m on your back > If you walk out on me, I’m walking after you > If you walk out on me, I’m walking after you > Another heart is cracked in two, I’m on your back _Walking After You_, The Foo Fighters > [@](#): > > Sunny days > Where have you gone? > I get the strangest feeling you belong > Why does it always rain on me? > Is it because I lied when I was seventeen? > Why does it always rain on me? > Even when the sun is shining > I can’t avoid the lightning > > Oh, where did the blue skies go? > And why is it raining so? > It’s so cold > I can’t sleep tonight > Everybody’s saying everything’s all right > Still I can’t close my eyes > I’m seeing a tunnel at the end of the lights _Why Does it Always Rain on Me?_, Travis > [@](#): > > He’s going the distance > He’s going for speed > She’s all alone, all alone, all alone in a time of need > Because he’s racing and pacing and plotting the course > He’s fighting and biting and riding on his horse > He’s going the distance > No trophies, no flowers, no flashbulbs, no line > He’s haunted by something he cannot define _The Distance_, Cake [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lines-that-sum-up-your-world-view-at-this-very-second/50031.md?page=5)