# Song lyrics game: September 2012 edition **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 13, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632 "2012-09-13T21:26:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/1 "2012-09-13T21:26:47Z")
Figure it’s about time for another round of my favorite board game. The rules are simple, take a recognizable set of lyrics from a popular song and rewrite them in as obfuscatory a manner as possible without changing the meaning. If you recognize the lyrics another poster has put up, translate them back to the original. If you solve one, you are obligated to put a new one up in its place. Here’s a few to get the ball rolling; 1. What I must now ask of you might seem mad, for I have only now made your acquaintance. Nonetheless, I shall now provide you with my contact information, and request that you and I (should you deign to do so) engage in long-distance voice communication. 2. I assure you it is not my intent to murder you with a firearm out the window of a moving automobile. For though I find myself awkward in the company of others, I am so enamored with you that a double-walled plastic garbage receptacle would be necessary to contain my enthusiasm. 3. I was created in the image of the Lord. Therefore, I must be what He desires me to be, and the manner in which I am living my life must be the correct one. Have at it, then. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/2 "2012-09-13T21:32:33Z")
1. Call Me Maybe, Carly Rae Jepsen ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/3 "2012-09-14T01:21:08Z")
> [@](#): > > If you recognize the lyrics another poster has put up, translate them back to the original. If you solve one, you are obligated to put a new one up in its place. I am disappoint, Ponch8. You owe me a song lyric. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/4 "2012-09-14T02:01:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I am disappoint, Ponch8. You owe me a song lyric. Sorry, I didn’t see that. Here’s one: There is a locus in the business district of this municipality Where the aberrant portion of the populace present themselves It is an aperture in the rampart It is a begrimed donnybrook And they arouse me in a sexual manner When they divest themselves When they divest themselves The whole multitude, divest yourselves Hint: It’s by my favorite singer, whom I discuss ad nauseum on the SDMB ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/5 "2012-09-14T02:23:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > 1. I was created in the image of the Lord. Therefore, I must be what He desires me to be, and the manner in which I am living my life must be the correct one. > > Have at it, then. Lady Gaga, Born This Way. How far back can we go? “I swear baby, she’s a nut case, I’m not her baby daddy, I never had sex with her, I think we might have danced one night at a club, but that was it…I don’t care if the kid has ‘my eyes’, he’s not mine.” ETA “No, really, I’m not her baby daddy, she’s just saying that” ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/6 "2012-09-14T02:46:12Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I am disappoint, Ponch8. You owe me a song lyric. I also failed to translate the lyrics for #1. Now I have to type the lyrics to this stupid song. ☹ I just met you, and this is crazy, but here’s my number, so call me, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/7 "2012-09-14T02:52:31Z")
Oh, whoops, I didn’t use a ‘set of lyrics’ my post was just kind of a summary of the song. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/8 "2012-09-14T03:51:03Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > “I swear baby, she’s a nut case, I’m not her baby daddy, I never had sex with her, I think we might have danced one night at a club, but that was it…I don’t care if the kid has ‘my eyes’, he’s not mine.” > ETA “No, really, I’m not her baby daddy, she’s just saying that” Billie Jean, by Michael Jackson _My breakfast was overcooked by my spouse, one of my lower extremities was savaged by my own canine, my post-pubescent female progeny absconded from the home, and my male progeny apparently likes dudes. I would be able to handle all this were it not all occurring today._ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/9 "2012-09-14T16:19:59Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > _My breakfast was overcooked by my spouse, one of my lower extremities was savaged by my own canine, my post-pubescent female progeny absconded from the home, and my male progeny apparently likes dudes. I would be able to handle all this were it not all occurring today._ The Police… And It Would Be Okay, “On Any Other Day.” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/10 "2012-09-14T16:23:40Z")
I opted to abandon favorable urban employment, where a hominid required my services both nocturnally and diurnally; however, concerns about possible alternate realities have not caused me any insomnia. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/11 "2012-09-14T17:42:03Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I opted to abandon favorable urban employment, where a hominid required my services both nocturnally and diurnally; however, concerns about possible alternate realities have not caused me any insomnia. “Proud Mary”: Left a good job in the city, working for the man every night and day… _Infant of indigo denim, female of the city with a large population on the west coast, woman who performs tailoring functions for the ensemble…_ ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/12 "2012-09-14T17:53:53Z")
Elton John - Tiny Dancer: Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band Yonder at the intersection, out in the byway Young William and his cronies are performing Have a five cent piece with you, and dance ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/13 "2012-09-14T18:32:21Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Elton John - Tiny Dancer: > > Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band > > Yonder at the intersection, out in the byway > Young William and his cronies are performing > Have a five cent piece with you, and dance More CCR- “Down on the Corner” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/14 "2012-09-14T18:38:27Z")
While you have no guarantee of the permanence of my affection, nonetheless, until such time as white dwarves and red giants can no longer be observed in the firmament, skepticism is unnecessary, as I shall bolster your certainty. All save Yaweh Himself are ignorant of the repercussions I would suffer in your absence. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/15 "2012-09-14T20:29:26Z")
God Only Knows, by the Beach Boys. I’m beginning to shake and get some sweaty palms. No reason to think that you’ve told me lies, but this is a clusterfuck. I’ll sprint through the inclement weather, gasping for air, until I’m exhausted… I’m a bit absentminded, and I’m awaiting our rendezvous in the wrong location. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/16 "2012-09-14T21:32:58Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > God Only Knows, by the Beach Boys. > > I’m beginning to shake and get some sweaty palms. No reason to think that you’ve told me lies, but this is a clusterfuck. I’ll sprint through the inclement weather, gasping for air, until I’m exhausted… I’m a bit absentminded, and I’m awaiting our rendezvous in the wrong location. Exactly right… and yours sounds like “Fool in the Rain” by Led Zeppelin. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/17 "2012-09-14T21:46:06Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > God Only Knows, by the Beach Boys. > > I’m beginning to shake and get some sweaty palms. No reason to think that you’ve told me lies, but this is a clusterfuck. I’ll sprint through the inclement weather, gasping for air, until I’m exhausted… I’m a bit absentminded, and I’m awaiting our rendezvous in the wrong location. Yesss… and yours is “Fool in the Rain” by Led Zeppelin I consider concupiscence on your part for my person highly desirable; similarly, I consider the absolute necessity of my presence in your life a sine qua non; your adulation for me would be treasured. You are hereby beseeched to approach me with supplications of your own. I will endeavor to give my antiquated russet Oxfords a lustre, while donning an unused chemise, and curtail business activities prematurely in order to obtain a statement of amorousness. Is it not the case that I observed you in a lachrymose state? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/18 "2012-09-15T00:55:56Z")
I want you to want me, I need you to need me, I love you to love me, i’m begging you to beg me, etc. New one: I entered a small town in Pennsylvania feeling like I had died thirty minutes ago, for I was tired and needed sleep; yet when I asked a passer-by if there was any shelter to be found, his only word as we changed a physical gesture of introduction was a negative response. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/19 "2012-09-15T00:56:58Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Yesss… and yours is “Fool in the Rain” by Led Zeppelin Correct! > [@](#): > > I consider concupiscence on your part for my person highly desirable; similarly, I consider the absolute necessity of my presence in your life a sine qua non; your adulation for me would be treasured. You are hereby beseeched to approach me with supplications of your own. > > I will endeavor to give my antiquated russet Oxfords a lustre, while donning an unused chemise, and curtail business activities prematurely in order to obtain a statement of amorousness. > > Is it not the case that I observed you in a lachrymose state? This is I Want You to Want Me by Cheap Trick, I believe. The object of this song was a well-maintained vehicle capable of high speeds - the premier example with which I was familiar. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632/20 "2012-09-15T00:58:05Z")
Bah! ninja’ed by **Smapti** and the Band with the Weight! To repeat: The object of this song was a well-maintained vehicle capable of high speeds - the premier example with which I was familiar. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-game-september-2012-edition/634632.md?page=2)