# Songs about boredom? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999 "2012-01-10T01:50:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/21 "2012-01-10T07:44:45Z")
[**del Amitri** - _Nothing Ever Happens_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnW8dmJ0Fl4) ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/22 "2012-01-10T08:54:56Z")
Bit of a Stretch Dept.: “So What?” /Anti Nowhere League “I Just Want To Have Something To Do” /Ramones ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/23 "2012-01-10T09:35:34Z")
_About_ boredom, but (emphatically) not about being bored: [Being Boring](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnvFOaBoieE) by Pet Shop Boys ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/24 "2012-01-10T13:43:21Z")
“Ridin’ Around in the Rain” by The Charioteers. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/25 "2012-01-10T14:09:15Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > “Counting Flowers on the Wall”, Statler Brothers yep that is the one that comes to my mind. title is “Flowers on The Wall” ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/26 "2012-01-10T15:13:55Z")
Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/27 "2012-01-10T15:18:53Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > “[Longview](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy5XR-oxCus&ob=av2n)” by Green Day This is the winner. > [@MrDibble](#): > > _About_ boredom, but (emphatically) not about being bored: [Being Boring](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnvFOaBoieE) by Pet Shop Boys Similarly, there’s _Baudelaire_ by … and You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead, which is about both: > [@](#): > > You’ll never see the light, / Quell this appetite, / Never see the light, / Never see the light, / When the boredom comes, / When you’re one of the boring ones ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/28 "2012-01-10T15:36:55Z")
The classic **You’re Blase** : > [@](#): > > You’re deep just like a chasm > You’ve no enthusiasm > You’re tired and uninsipired. > You’re blase. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/29 "2012-01-10T16:58:16Z")
How about “Too Much Time on My Hands” by Styx? It’s about a laid-off blue collar worker who spends his time drinking and wishing he had something better to do. * * * “I’m so tired of losing. I’ve got nothing to do and all day to do it. So, I go out cruising, But I’ve noplace to go and all night to get there” "\*\*\* Or “Working Man” by Rush, which is really about a guy in a dead end job who’s utterly bored with his life? _ **"Always seem to be wondering why there’s nothing going down here."** _ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/30 "2012-01-10T17:22:54Z")
25 or 6 to 4? Which, I just noticed, happend to be playing on my iPod as wrote that. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/31 "2012-01-10T17:24:47Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > 25 or 6 to 4? Hmm… good one, but it’s not EXACTLY about boredom. It’s about an exhausted composer trying to stay awake long enough to finish a song he’s working on. He’s sleepy and frustrated more than bored. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/32 "2012-01-10T17:32:19Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay. You beat me to it. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrb1TCQwxXA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrb1TCQwxXA) ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/33 "2012-01-10T20:50:40Z")
Big Black: [Kerosene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r5zTZthbFo) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/34 "2012-01-10T21:03:20Z")
The Beatles: “She’s Leaving Home”. If you listen to the lyrics, she’s basically leaving out of boredom. So it’s about escaping boredom. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/35 "2012-01-10T21:08:40Z")
A 1952 Eartha Kitt classic, [Monotonous](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXMwK18JQZs&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![Pitchmeister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pitchmeister/32/3459_2.png) [@Pitchmeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitchmeister)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/36 "2012-01-10T21:21:03Z")
German band [Die Ärzte - Langweilig](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M_5j0LvHfw) (Boring) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/37 "2012-01-11T00:37:18Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > What did Madeline Kahn sing in Blazing Saddles? > > I’m tired, tired of playing the game… Well, technically that was more about ennui… ---
**Author:** ![tadtooornamental](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@tadtooornamental](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tadtooornamental)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/38 "2012-01-11T01:43:23Z")
Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger (kinda) English Summer Rain by Placebo ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/39 "2012-01-11T02:09:10Z")
**I Wanna Be Sedated** - The Ramones: _Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated **Nothin’ to do and no where to go-o-oh** I wanna be sedated_ ---
**Author:** ![Postariti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Postariti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Postariti)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999/40 "2012-01-11T05:13:06Z")
Something To Do - Depeche Mode - “I’m going crazy with boredom” This song attempts to be helpful by suggesting two cures for boredom - 1. Let the songwriter put on your leather boots 2. Have sex with the songwriter (implied) The song also helpfully indicates you should be very, very drunk before doing either of those things. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-boredom/608999.md?page=3)