# Songs that seemingly never end **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 16, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231 "2012-11-16T19:59:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/21 "2012-11-16T20:56:15Z")
> [@MrSquishy](#): > > “Her Majesty” doesn’t seem to. Ha. Different song. But you knew that… ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/22 "2012-11-16T21:08:02Z")
Crazy Game of Poker - OAR I think it might have just been a jam session recorded on the fly because eventually the singer sings something like “But now I’m just struggling, I don’t even know what to say anymore…” and then they just keep on jamming. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/23 "2012-11-16T21:13:52Z")
_“I got my mind set on you. I got my mind set on you. I got my mind set on you. I got my mind set on you.”_ ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/24 "2012-11-16T21:14:02Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > The one that gets to me is The Police’s Message In A bottle. “Sending out an SOS” is repeated 138 times before it mercifully fades out. They’re actually repeat offenders. _I can’t, I can’t I can’t stand losing I can’t, I can’t I can’t stand losing I can’t, I can’t I can’t stand losing I can’t, I can’t I can’t stand losing I can’t, I can’t I can’t stand losing I can’t, I can’t I can’t stand losing…_ ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/25 "2012-11-16T21:14:06Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Sorry. Can’t stand that damn tag at the end that sounds like a completely different song grafted onto a great rocker. Agreed. It’s a very nice piano melody, but it’s way out of place. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/26 "2012-11-16T21:16:55Z")
I too hate the ending to Layla. Should have killed it when the rockin’ part ended. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/27 "2012-11-16T21:18:30Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > _“I got my mind set on you. > I got my mind set on you. > I got my mind set on you. > I got my mind set on you.”_ But I don’t mind Weird Al Yakovic’s parody of it, _This Song is just Six Words Long_. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/28 "2012-11-16T21:18:32Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > _“I got my mind set on you. > I got my mind set on you. > I got my mind set on you. > I got my mind set on you.”_ Or, as Weird Al aptly put it, “This song is just six words long/this song is just six words long/this song is just six words long/this song is just six words long…” Although, of course, he was wrong. Even the original is seven words long… ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/29 "2012-11-16T21:29:22Z")
This is the song that never ends. It goes on and on my friends. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, Then they couldn’t stop because… ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/30 "2012-11-16T21:29:49Z")
Liz Phair’s Supernova has a ending where it sounds like the needle is stuck. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/31 "2012-11-16T21:31:07Z")
A Horse with No Name ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/32 "2012-11-16T22:24:32Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > "Now lets put on the extra loooooong version of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida … " 😃 Sometimes, the DJ, needs to drop a deuce. OK? ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/33 "2012-11-16T22:30:49Z")
I think “Hey Jude” and “Atlantis” started the endless-coda trend. Bowie picked up on this with “Memory of a Free Festival” and used it (to good effect, IMO) on a number of other songs, notably “Starman”. (I was in the car with my daughter last night and was flipping through the stations and caught the end of this song… she said “Real meaningful song there” and I explained about 1970s endless codas.) ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/34 "2012-11-16T22:32:15Z")
I can’t stand Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Susie Q. That same guitar lick over and over and over again with the same four completely boring lines sung over and over again with the words Susie Q interlaced within the lyrics approximately 760 times. Well, at least it feels like that much. I don’t know how long the song is and I’m too lazy to check, but with how repetitive it is, it seems to never end. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/35 "2012-11-16T23:54:50Z")
I heard one just today and had the same thought. _I’m getting closer to my home…_ mmm ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/36 "2012-11-17T01:33:22Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Although, of course, he was wrong. Even the original is seven words long… The lyrics might have seven words, but the title is just “Got My Mind Set on You.” And Weird Al’s is “This Song’s Just Six Words Long.” At the risk of sounding terribly uncool, the Harrison song was the first song I can remember considering to be my favorite song. I listened to the cassette single over and over again until it somehow got “lost.” (I still suspect my dad of destroying it so he didn’t have to hear it anymore.) I’m so glad to hear that there are other people who don’t like the end of “Layla.” It seems like everyone I know prefers the code, probably because of its association with **Goodfellas**. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/37 "2012-11-17T01:33:38Z")
After listening to it a million times, I somehow only recently noticed how repetitive the ending of TMBG’s “Birdhouse in Your Soul” is. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/38 "2012-11-17T01:42:37Z")
She’s a Brick, House… ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/39 "2012-11-17T02:16:37Z")
I Need a Lover That Won’t Drive Me Crazy ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231/40 "2012-11-17T02:17:49Z")
Foreigner’s _Cold As Ice_. Back when it was getting a lot of airplay, I had a friend who’d add his own jams during the endless end. He always had me in hysterics. You’re as cold as ice [so cold so cold] You’re as cold as ice [soooo fuckin’ cold] You’re as cold as ice [you freezin’ baby] You’re as cold as ice [popsicle love] You’re as cold as ice [feet like cubes] You’re as cold as ice [hand me my gloves] You’re as cold as ice [my teeth are chatterin’] You’re as cold as ice [no fire, just ice] You’re as cold as ice [I scream for ice] You’re as cold as ice [brrrrrrr] Etc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seemingly-never-end/641231.md?page=3)