# Songs that lists things **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251 "2014-02-13T15:23:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/161 "2019-02-11T17:37:04Z")
One of my absolute favorite songs and I didn’t think of it until I heard it at lunch? It’s the heart afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance. It’s the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance. It’s the one who won’t be taken, who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live. The Rose by Bette Midler ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/162 "2019-02-11T18:18:00Z")
A great song that I guarantee 99.9% of you have never heard. The New York Rock and Roll Ensemble, classical rock several years ahead of Electric Light Orchestra, got signed by Ahmet Ertegün of Atlantic Records in 1966. They composed an ode to the company on their first album. “[Studeao Atlantis](https://youtu.be/KX-IDpC9kVo)” is a mock-middle eastern chant whose lyrics are the names of the people at Atlantic and of the group. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/163 "2019-02-11T21:33:52Z")
Songs about lists and no mention The Go-Go’s [Girl of 100 Lists](https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/16402/)? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/164 "2019-03-13T14:58:10Z")
The absolutely funniest list in any song has to be in [Forest Lawn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hc--o2QSVw), written and originally performed by Tom Paxton. ---
**Author:** ![gvntofly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@gvntofly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gvntofly)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/165 "2019-03-13T19:19:08Z")
Wishlist by Pearl Jam I wish I was … a sacrifice, but still lived on I wish I was … the souvenir you kept your house key on ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/166 "2019-03-27T13:40:32Z")
[Love Changes Everything](https://genius.com/Andrew-lloyd-webber-love-changes-everything-lyrics) from Aspects of Love ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/167 "2019-03-27T15:25:15Z")
Over FIVE YEARS before The Impossible Dream gets mentioned? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/168 "2019-10-04T13:39:55Z")
One of the few Rod Stewart songs I actually like is [You’re In My Heart](https://genius.com/Rod-stewart-youre-in-my-heart-the-final-acclaim-lyrics) My love for you is immeasurable My respect for you immense You’re ageless, timeless, lace and fineness You’re beauty and elegance You’re a rhapsody, a comedy You’re a symphony and a play You’re every love song ever written But honey, what do you see in me? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251.md?page=8)