# The Reply Is A Song Lyric **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 11, 2010, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726 "2010-04-11T12:09:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 58
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1141 "2010-07-19T18:24:28Z")
And I’m far, far away With my head up in the clouds And I’m far far away With my feet down in the crowds And I’m loose around the world But the sound of home is loud Still as loud ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1142 "2010-07-20T01:36:21Z")
Home Where my thought’s escaping Home Where my music’s playing Home Where my love lies waiting silently for me. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1143 "2010-07-20T17:18:17Z")
No more cows to be ropin’, No more strays will I see, Round the bend she’ll be waiting For my rifle, my pony and me ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1144 "2010-07-22T12:17:12Z")
Bus driver please look for me 'Cause I couldn’t bear to see what I might see I’m really still in prison and my love she holds the key A simple yellow ribbon’s what I need to set me free ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1145 "2010-07-22T12:21:29Z")
I love to hear those convicts squeal It’s a shame these slugs ain’t real But we can’t have dancin’ at the local county jail ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1146 "2010-07-22T16:14:01Z")
Load up your bullets Shot me through the head Gasp from where your standing You might think I’m dead When I hit the ground Look at me bleed Old man your sympathy is something I don’t need ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1147 "2010-07-23T13:15:20Z")
Just as every cop is a criminal And all the sinners saints As heads is tails Just call me Lucifer 'Cause I’m in need of some restraint So if you meet me Have some courtesy Have some sympathy, have some taste Use all your well-learned politesse Or I’ll lay your soul to waste ---
**Author:** ![cucuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@cucuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cucuy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1148 "2010-07-23T21:27:04Z")
Meet me in the middle of the day Let me hear you say everything’s okay Bring me southern kisses from your room Meet me in the middle of the night Let me hear you say everything’s alright Let me smell the moon in your perfume ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1149 "2010-07-23T23:19:51Z")
Kiko and the lavender moon Out dreaming 'bout green shoes Haircuts and cake And then he wishes The world away And then he kneels As if to pray ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1150 "2010-07-24T01:24:35Z")
Make the world go away Get it off my shoulder Say the things we used to say And make the world, make it go away ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1151 "2010-07-24T12:37:38Z")
Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway Half the world lives Half the world makes Half the world gives While the other half takes ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1152 "2010-07-24T17:37:30Z")
Won’t you come and join the party Dress to kill. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1153 "2010-07-24T17:50:21Z")
Why don’t you stay for the night ? (night !) Or maybe a bite ? (bite !) I could show you my favourite obsession. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1154 "2010-07-25T00:49:45Z")
I long to recall every kiss, every kind word I miss her so much I could die But the creatures of evil have captured her heart And that same old obsession still keeps us apart ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1155 "2010-07-25T03:58:58Z")
Here comes the woman With the look in her eye Raised on leather With flesh on her mind Words as weapons sharper than knives Makes you wonder how the other half die ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1156 "2010-07-25T09:19:25Z")
I found my own true love once On a blue Sunday. She looked at me and told me I was the only… one in the world Now I have found my girl ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1157 "2010-07-25T14:17:26Z")
Said you`d be true to me You said our love`s never gonna die Said you`d be true to me But baby you didn`t even try. I`ll make it alright From Monday morning till Friday night Oh, those lonely weekends. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1158 "2010-07-25T23:02:51Z")
Everybody’s working for the weekend Everybody wants a little romance Everybody’s goin’ off the deep end Everybody needs a second chance, oh ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1159 "2010-07-26T01:53:39Z")
I’m not angry, I’m just saying… Sometimes goodbye Is a second chance ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1160 "2010-07-26T02:05:14Z")
And the heartache The risk you run The chance you take when you love someone And the sorrow For the lonely one When the heartache comes [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726.md?page=59)