# The Finish the Lyric Game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 26, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698 "2011-02-26T14:16:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/1 "2011-02-26T14:16:03Z")
The rules are simple: finish the line or write in the next one, then post the beginning of another line from another song, e.g.: [Post #1] There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold… [Post #2] …and she’s buying a stairway to heaven. Yeah you know when I drink alone… [Post #3] …I prefer to be by myself. (new song lyric here)… and so on. Just try not to make it too obscure, and post enough of the starting lyrics so as to not be impossibly ambiguous. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/2 "2011-02-26T14:17:04Z")
I’ll start it off with an easy one: I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin’ about half past dead… ---
**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:** [February 26, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/3 "2011-02-26T14:22:01Z")
I just need some place where I can lay my head and daisy chains and laughs ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/4 "2011-02-26T17:19:08Z")
Got to keep the loonies on the path. Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery… ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/5 "2011-03-14T03:58:19Z")
…None but ourselves can free our mind I bet your mama was a tent show queen… ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/6 "2011-03-14T05:10:40Z")
> [@Mixolydian](#): > > I bet your mama was a tent show queen… “…and all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen.” _ **“I don’t want to drink my whiskey like you do…”** _ ---
**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:** [March 14, 2011, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/7 "2011-03-14T09:59:06Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > _ **“I don’t want to drink my whiskey like you do…”** _ I don’t need to spend my money but still do. _I’ve got one foot on the platform, the other foot on the train…_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/8 "2011-03-15T03:50:44Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I don’t need to spend my money but still do. > > _I’ve got one foot on the platform, the other foot on the train…_ Nice to see someone get a Slade reference! “I’m gooooooing back to New Orleans… to wear that ball and chain.” * * * “But it’s not my conscience that hates to be untrue.”\*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/9 "2011-03-15T12:44:01Z")
…I asked of my reflection “Tell me what there is to do?” _ **I got a Gibson without a case…** _ ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/10 "2011-03-15T12:58:31Z")
But I can’t get that even tanned look on my face. Well, I’m not the world’s most masculine man… ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/11 "2011-03-15T13:31:38Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > Well, I’m not the world’s most masculine man… … but I know what I am, and I’m glad I’m a man, And so is Lola. _ **“Get out in the field, put the mule in the stable.”** _ ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/12 "2011-03-15T14:42:16Z")
Ma she’s a cookin’, put the eats on the table You will never understand it 'cause it happens too fast… ---
**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:** [March 15, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/13 "2011-03-15T14:52:16Z")
## And it feels so good it’s like walking on glass Twelve hours out of mackinaw city, stopped in a bar to have a brew ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/14 "2011-03-15T15:00:13Z")
Met a girl and we had a few drinks and I told her what I’d decided to do * * * I was gone for fourteen days, I coulda been gone for more ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-finish-the-lyric-game/572698/15 "2011-03-15T15:18:38Z")
Held up in an intensive care ward Lyin’ on the floor * * * momma used to whoop me but I’d go see him again