# Topic Playlist (Part 3)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [January 26, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687 "2024-01-26T15:37:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 232

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4621 "2025-06-24T17:10:21Z")

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**Songs of Sleeping**

1. I Can’t Wake Up to Save My Life - Richard Thompson
2. I’m Only Sleeping - The Beatles
3. You Can Sleep While I Drive - Melissa Bridget
4. How Do You Sleep? - John Lennon
5. Sleeping Single In a Double Bed – Barbara Mandrell

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4622 "2025-06-24T17:14:40Z")

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**Songs of Sleeping**

1. I Can’t Wake Up to Save My Life - Richard Thompson
2. I’m Only Sleeping - The Beatles
3. You Can Sleep While I Drive - Melissa Bridget
4. How Do You Sleep? - John Lennon
5. Sleeping Single In a Double Bed – Barbara Mandrell
6. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead - Warren Zevon

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4623 "2025-06-24T17:59:03Z")

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**Songs of Sleeping**

1. I Can’t Wake Up to Save My Life - Richard Thompson
2. I’m Only Sleeping - The Beatles
3. You Can Sleep While I Drive - Melissa Bridget
4. How Do You Sleep? - John Lennon
5. Sleeping Single In a Double Bed – Barbara Mandrell
6. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead - Warren Zevon
7. I’m Not Losing Sleep - David Bowie

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4624 "2025-06-24T18:49:25Z")

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**Songs of Sleeping**

1. I Can’t Wake Up to Save My Life - Richard Thompson
2. I’m Only Sleeping - The Beatles
3. You Can Sleep While I Drive - Melissa Bridget
4. How Do You Sleep? - John Lennon
5. Sleeping Single In a Double Bed – Barbara Mandrell
6. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead - Warren Zevon
7. I’m Not Losing Sleep - David Bowie
8. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4625 "2025-06-24T19:30:21Z")

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**Songs of Sleeping**

1. I Can’t Wake Up to Save My Life - Richard Thompson
2. I’m Only Sleeping - The Beatles
3. You Can Sleep While I Drive - Melissa Bridget
4. How Do You Sleep? - John Lennon
5. Sleeping Single In a Double Bed – Barbara Mandrell
6. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead - Warren Zevon
7. I’m Not Losing Sleep - David Bowie
8. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
9. Sweet Dreams - Air Supply

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**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4626 "2025-06-24T21:45:12Z")

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**Songs of Sleeping**

1. I Can’t Wake Up to Save My Life - Richard Thompson
2. I’m Only Sleeping - The Beatles
3. You Can Sleep While I Drive - Melissa Bridget
4. How Do You Sleep? - John Lennon
5. Sleeping Single In a Double Bed – Barbara Mandrell
6. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead - Warren Zevon
7. I’m Not Losing Sleep - David Bowie
8. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
9. Sweet Dreams - Air Supply
10. Dreaming While You Sleep - Genesis

**Restless songs**

1. Who Can It Be Now - Men At Work

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4627 "2025-06-24T22:11:04Z")

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**Restless songs**

1. Who Can It Be Now - Men At Work
2. Can’t Help Myself - Icehouse (then Flowers)  
  
 _"When I get this feeling_  
 _Gets in my system_  
 _Can’t put the brakes on_  
 _Oh, I can’t help myself."_

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4628 "2025-06-24T22:15:05Z")

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**Restless songs**

1. Who Can It Be Now - Men At Work
2. Can’t Help Myself - Icehouse (then Flowers)
3. Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer

The lights are on, but you’re not home  
Your mind is not your own  
Your heart sweats, your body shakes  
Another kiss is what it takes  
You can’t sleep, you can’t eat  
There’s no doubt, you’re in deep  
Your throat is tight, you can’t breathe  
Another kiss is all you need

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4629 "2025-06-24T23:22:22Z")

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**Restless songs**

1. Who Can It Be Now - Men At Work
2. Can’t Help Myself - Icehouse (then Flowers)
3. Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
4. Restless - The Bangles

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4630 "2025-06-24T23:36:57Z")

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**Restless songs**

1. Who Can It Be Now - Men At Work
2. Can’t Help Myself - Icehouse (then Flowers)
3. Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
4. Restless - The Bangles
5. Black Coffee - Peggy Lee

_I’m feelin’ mighty lonesome,_  
_Haven’t slept a wink._  
_I walk the floor from nine to four,_  
_And in between I drink,_  
_Black coffee …_

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4631 "2025-06-24T23:38:58Z")

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**Restless songs**

1. Who Can It Be Now - Men At Work
2. Can’t Help Myself - Icehouse (then Flowers)
3. Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
4. Restless - The Bangles
5. Black Coffee - Peggy Lee
6. 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago

It’s about a guy struggling to write a song in the middle of the night.

_Fighting just to stay awake  
Wondering how much I can take  
Should I try to do some more?  
25 or 6 to 4_

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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4632 "2025-06-25T00:05:51Z")

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**Restless songs**

1. Who Can It Be Now - Men At Work
2. Can’t Help Myself - Icehouse (then Flowers)
3. Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
4. Restless - The Bangles
5. Black Coffee - Peggy Lee
6. 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
7. Oh No - The Commodores

_I can’t sleep anymore, baby_

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4633 "2025-06-25T01:15:29Z")

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**Restless songs**

1. Who Can It Be Now - Men At Work
2. Can’t Help Myself - Icehouse (then Flowers)
3. Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
4. Restless - The Bangles
5. Black Coffee - Peggy Lee
6. 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
7. Oh No - The Commodores
8. Up All Night - The Boomtown Rats

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4634 "2025-06-25T03:05:00Z")

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**Restless songs**

1. Who Can It Be Now - Men At Work
2. Can’t Help Myself - Icehouse (then Flowers)
3. Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
4. Restless - The Bangles
5. Black Coffee - Peggy Lee
6. 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
7. Oh No - The Commodores
8. Up All Night - The Boomtown Rats
9. Here It Goes Again - OK Go

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4635 "2025-06-25T06:08:10Z")

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**Restless songs**

1. Who Can It Be Now - Men At Work
2. Can’t Help Myself - Icehouse (then Flowers)
3. Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
4. Restless - The Bangles
5. Black Coffee - Peggy Lee
6. 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
7. Oh No - The Commodores
8. Up All Night - The Boomtown Rats
9. Here It Goes Again - OK Go
10. Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen

_I get up in the evening, and I ain’t got nothing to say  
I come home in the morning, I go to bed feeling the same way_

New category:

**Songs about animals**

1. The End of the Game - Sting (foxes and hounds)

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4636 "2025-06-25T07:14:41Z")

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**Songs about animals**

1. The End of the Game - Sting (foxes and hounds)
2. The Drovers Dream - traditional  
  
mentions: kangaroo, dingo, pelican, crane, bandicoot, koala, possum, crow, frilled neck lizard, emu, frog, goanna, snake, adder, alligator, jackass, magpie, brolga, parrot

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4637 "2025-06-25T07:35:12Z")

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**Songs about animals**

1. The End of the Game - Sting (foxes and hounds)
2. The Drovers Dream - traditional
3. The Unicorn - The Irish Rovers

_There was green alligators and long-necked geese_  
_Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees_  
_Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you’re born_  
_The loveliest of all was the unicorn …_

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**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4638 "2025-06-25T08:31:27Z")

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**Songs about animals**

1. The End of the Game - Sting (foxes and hounds)
2. The Drovers Dream - traditional
3. The Unicorn - The Irish Rovers
4. Sheep - Pink Floyd

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4639 "2025-06-25T10:19:47Z")

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**Songs about animals**

1. The End of the Game - Sting (foxes and hounds)
2. The Drovers Dream - traditional
3. The Unicorn - The Irish Rovers
4. Sheep - Pink Floyd
5. Run for the Roses – Dan Fogelberg

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4640 "2025-06-25T13:07:39Z")

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**Songs about animals**

1. The End of the Game - Sting (foxes and hounds)
2. The Drovers Dream - traditional
3. The Unicorn - The Irish Rovers
4. Sheep - Pink Floyd
5. Run for the Roses – Dan Fogelberg
6. Piggies - The Beatles

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