# The Song Synonym Thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [March 9, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263 "2014-03-09T13:05:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/21 "2014-03-15T20:07:36Z")
> [@Pandoranoid](#):
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> Piano Man
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> Excessive Currency, Excessive Complications
More Money, More Problems
Next up: Even Now Insane Subsequent to These Many Twelve Month Periods
. . . Okay, so maybe that wasn’t exactly a graceful translation, but it works, right? 😃
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/22 "2014-03-15T20:18:56Z")
> [@Octarine](#):
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> Even Now Insane Subsequent to These Many Twelve Month Periods
Still Crazy After All These Years
Next: Cylindrical Chimes
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/23 "2014-03-15T20:31:56Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Still Crazy After All These Years
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> Next: Cylindrical Chimes
Tubular Bells
Next: Moggie’s in the Crib
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/24 "2014-03-15T20:37:05Z")
Cat’s in the Cradle
Next: Pillory
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/25 "2014-03-15T20:42:38Z")
> [@Enginerd](#):
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> Cat’s in the Cradle
> Next: Pillory
Whipping Post? (Allman Brothers)
If so, next: Ms. Mars
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/26 "2014-03-15T20:47:52Z")
Veronica by Elvis Costello
Next: Toggle The Illuminations
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/27 "2014-03-15T20:51:26Z")
Hit the Lights by Metallica
Next: Futile Locomotive
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### Author:  [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/28 "2014-03-15T21:30:18Z")
> [@Enginerd](#):
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> Hit the Lights by Metallica
> Next: Futile Locomotive
Train in Vain?
If so, then Strolling Following 12 o’clock at Night
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/29 "2014-03-15T22:00:36Z")
> [@Octarine](#):
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> Strolling Following 12 o’clock at Night
Walking After Midnight
Next: Odes, Invocations & Guarantees
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/30 "2014-03-15T22:53:18Z")
Poems Prayers and Promises by John Denver
Next: High card in the deck
> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> Whipping Post? (Allman Brothers)
> [@Octarine](#):
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> Train in Vain?
These were both right, incidentally.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/31 "2014-03-15T23:15:53Z")
_ **Ace of Hearts,** _ by Alan Jackson
Woolgathering Devotee
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### Author:  [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/32 "2014-03-16T12:01:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Woolgathering Devotee
Is it “Dream Lover,” by Bobby Darin?
If I’m right, then I’ll submit “The Many Forsaken Individuals.”
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/33 "2014-03-16T14:45:07Z")
(I had in mind _Daydream Believer_ by the Monkees, but _Dream Lover_ works as well.)
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/34 "2014-03-17T15:33:33Z")
> [@Octarine](#):
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> “The Many Forsaken Individuals.”
“Lonely People” by America (?) If so,
Next: “Glowing Sun”
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/35 "2014-03-17T15:43:36Z")
“Shining Star” by Earth, Wind & Fire
“The Domicile of the Solar Orb as it Passes the Eastern Horizon”
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/36 "2014-03-17T15:48:00Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> “The Domicile of the Solar Orb as it Passes the Eastern Horizon”
“House of the Rising Sun” by the Animals
Next: “A Tactile Ashen Shade”
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/37 "2014-03-17T15:56:33Z")
“A Touch of Gray” by the Grateful Dead
“In The Palace of the Scarlet Sovereign”
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/38 "2014-03-17T16:01:33Z")
_In the Court of the Crimson King_
Next: “Ferrous Hominid.”
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/39 "2014-03-17T16:19:10Z")
> [@astorian](#):
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> “Ferrous Hominid.”
“Iron Man”, Black Sabbath.
Next: “Initially Masticated, Doubly Reticent”
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/40 "2014-03-17T16:33:54Z")
“Once Bitten, Twice Shy” by Great White
“Smudged Horizontals”
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