# Unanswerable Questions (in songs) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 11, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140 "2003-06-11T16:34:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/41 "2003-06-12T00:51:10Z")
Wait a minute…how _can_ we sleep when our beds are burning? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/42 "2003-06-12T00:54:51Z")
Should I stay or should I go now? Why do you build me up just to let me down? Why’ja have to go and make things so complicated. Some answers: War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. What makes the world go 'round? It matters who you ask-- money or people. Who are you? Who? Who? Who? Who? Why I’m Biggirl! ---
**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:** [June 12, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/43 "2003-06-12T00:57:42Z")
How is it we are here? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/44 "2003-06-12T00:58:00Z")
If my words did glow with the gold of sunnnnshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung, would you hear my voice come thruuuu the muuuuusic, would you hollllllld it near as it were your own? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_Sandwhich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_Sandwhich)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/45 "2003-06-12T00:59:25Z")
And do people living in Toledo know that their name hasn’t travelled very well? And does anybody in Ohio dream of that Spanish citadel? ---
**Author:** ![Phelan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Phelan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phelan)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/46 "2003-06-12T01:00:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kunilou \* > \*\*Why do birds suddenly appear everytime you are near? \*\* They want to be, close to you? Or they could be buzzards circling… My questions: Is there anybody out there? Is there anybody in there? Is there anyone home? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/47 "2003-06-12T01:07:04Z")
Does anyone remember laughter? How does it feel to be on your own, a complete unknown, like a rolling stone? ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/48 "2003-06-12T01:09:05Z")
How will I know if he really loves me? I say a prayer with every heartbeat. How will I know if he’s thinking of me?? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/49 "2003-06-12T01:14:13Z")
“Is she really going out with him?” Eleanor Rigby “Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. Who is it for?” Father MacKenzie is “darning his socks in the night when there’s nobody there. What does he care?” “All the lonely people- where do they all come from?” And for that matter, where do they all belong?" ---
**Author:** ![the\_O-man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9f8e36/32.png) [@the\_O-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_O-man)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/50 "2003-06-12T01:15:43Z")
Whatever happened to Fay Wray? Whatever happened to Saturday night? When we made it, did you hear a bell ring? How’d you do I? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/51 "2003-06-12T01:16:32Z")
If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? If I swore you were an angel, would you treat me like the devil tonight? You never even call me, I wonder why you don’t call me, why don’t you ever call me by my name? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/52 "2003-06-12T01:16:45Z")
I think I love you so what am I so afraid of? I’ll tell you what I’m afraid of. I’m afraid that I’m not sure of a love there is no cure for-- that’s what! Where the party at? Where’s your head at? Can you hoes come out to play now? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/53 "2003-06-12T01:17:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Q: Why don’t we do it in the road? > A: Too much traffic. That’s what I always used to say. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/54 "2003-06-12T01:19:36Z")
Oh **DUH** - how did we forget this? “Who do you love?” ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/55 "2003-06-12T01:25:52Z")
Who’s that girl, running around with you? Is there something I should know? How can we dance when our earth is turning? Hey little sister, what have you done? Didn’t I didn’t I didn’t I see you crying? Do you feel what I feel? Can we make it so that’s part of the deal? Do you know the muffin man? > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Mariachi Loco \* > \*\*_¿Quién es ese negro?_ \*\* \< Nitpick \> If you’re talking Madonna, that should be \*Quien es ese **nina**? \< /Nitpick \> ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/56 "2003-06-12T01:30:49Z")
Who’ll stop the rain? ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/57 "2003-06-12T01:38:28Z")
Well, shoot, I got an answer for yas > [@](#): > > Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? Answer: He’s going down to shoot his old lady! He caught her messing around! That’s right! Joe’s lady was messin all around the town! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Phelan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Phelan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phelan)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/58 "2003-06-12T01:50:59Z")
Hello, is it me you’re looking for? Are you going to Scarborough fair? ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/59 "2003-06-12T02:06:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Where have all the cowboys gone? Point Barrow, Alaska, for the annual crab fishing festival. They’ll be back in a few days. > [@](#): > > Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140/60 "2003-06-12T02:08:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Do you know the muffin man? The song gets that one. The answer is “Yes, I know the muffin man.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unanswerable-questions-in-songs/181140.md?page=4)