# Verbose song lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 19, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244 "2010-11-19T18:44:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/521 "2010-12-02T02:44:09Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > Sticking with **Spoons** idea: > > a) In my field of view, a portal scarlet portal is present. I’d prefer to change the hue to absorb as much visible light as possible. Paint it Black, the Rolling Stones I suspect (b) and (c) in my previous post are outside many people’s experience; as hints they are both on well-received albums by fairly high profile artists. They’re not from the same time period as the rest of mine though. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/522 "2010-12-02T02:44:21Z")
Gentlemen, you are both correct (except **Enginerd** , I was thinking Rod Stewart’s “Tonight’s the Night”). No problem though, and well done! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/523 "2010-12-02T03:09:14Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > c) Soon after sunrise, but before I had risen for the day, I was pondering the effects of time upon her appearance, especially the color of her coiffure. “Tangled Up in Blue” by His Bobness ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/524 "2010-12-02T03:45:19Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > AC/DC - Big Balls! Correct of course! > [@DareToBeStupid](#): > > A. (might be tough, because the original doesn’t make much sense, either) > I find myself in quite a pleasurable condition, for upon this morn, > I discovered people with which I have good relationships. Nirvana - Lithium * * * Here are some **Spoons** style ones: A. A lunar eclipse pursues me in my saltations. B. Both your affections and your desire for retribution would be useful attributes should we endeavor to compose a potboiler novel together. C. Should any complications arise, it is mandatory that they be flagellated. D. Circuit used for transmitting electric signals over long distances, I request an appointment in my crepuscular state of existence. E. This evening, your popularity has experienced a dramatic surge in an archipelago consisting of over six thousand mountainous islands which lie in the deep azure Pacific. ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/525 "2010-12-02T04:00:51Z")
So easy, I post this not as a challenge, but for entertainment purposes only. I used to sing this version of the song so often with my brother and father when I was a child, I know it better than the real version: Three Myopic Rodents Three Myopic Rodents Observe how they perambulate Observe how they perambulate They perambulated over to the agriculturalist’s spouse Who amputated their appendages with a carving utensil Have you ever observed such an occurrence in your existence With Three Myopic Rodents Three Myopic Rodents… ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/526 "2010-12-02T04:06:41Z")
Ha, I learned almost the same version from my parents! ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/527 "2010-12-02T04:14:37Z")
> [@Electric\_Warrior](#): > > D. Circuit used for transmitting electric signals over long distances, I request an appointment in my crepuscular state of existence. “Telephone Line”, Electric Light Orchestra? ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/528 "2010-12-02T04:26:27Z")
> [@Achren](#): > > “Telephone Line”, Electric Light Orchestra? Yup 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/529 "2010-12-02T05:56:31Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Okay, I’ll post a few more. > > (a) It would be possible for me to secrete myself underneath the extensions of the azure distaff member of class _aves_ as melodic vocalizations are made by that entity; the chronometer that is equipped with a device that creates a commotion 360 minutes after the official start of the day would fail to operate. It does, however, operate according to its design and engineering and setting; and I rouse myself, wiping the material left there by Morpheus from the ocular organs belonging to me; the implement I typically utilize in order to shear the keratinous substance from my visage feels as though it was stored in an apparatus designed to keep things at lower-than-comfortable temperatures, and it is painful. Cheer Up Sleepy Jean - The Monkees > [@Spoons](#): > > (d) Zephyr occurring during the time of the June solstice operates to impart a pleasant mood in my person; rotating through the fragrance produced by a climbing plant in the cranial organ belonging to me. Summer Breeze - The Isley Brothers ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/530 "2010-12-02T06:36:19Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Cheer Up Sleepy Jean - The Monkees On reflection, the proper title may be “Daydream Believer.” ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/531 "2010-12-02T06:36:43Z")
> [@Electric\_Warrior](#): > > A. A lunar eclipse pursues me in my saltations. > … > C. Should any complications arise, it is mandatory that they be flagellated. > … > E. This evening, your popularity has experienced a dramatic surge in an archipelago consisting of over six thousand mountainous islands which lie in the deep azure Pacific. a) I’m being followed by a moonshadow (Cat Stevens) c) When a problem comes along… you must whip it! (Devo) e) You’re big in Japan, tonight (Alphaville) ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/532 "2010-12-02T14:06:06Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > a) I’m being followed by a moonshadow (Cat Stevens) > c) When a problem comes along… you must whip it! (Devo) > e) You’re big in Japan, tonight (Alphaville) All correct. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/533 "2010-12-02T17:31:59Z")
I think they’ve all been answered, but **Scuba\_Ben** said: > [@](#): > > Three-fifths of a bit has negligible purchasing power. > Three-fifths of a bit is worthless. > But increase my basic wage by that amount > Then my standard of living will _totally rock your socks off!_ 7 and a half cents doesn’t buy a hell of a lot, 7 and a half cents doesn’t mean a thing. But give it to me every hour, 40 hours every week, that’s enough for me to be living like a king. **HeyHomie** said: > [@](#): > > Were I in possession of US$ 982,664.06 [based on current exchange rates at the time stamp of this post] (Were I in possession of US$ 982,664.06 [based on current exchange rates at the time stamp of this post]), > One of my purchases would be a domicile for you (One of my purchases would be a domicile for you). > And were I in possession of US$ 982,664.06 [based on current exchange rates at the time stamp of this post] (Were I in possession of US$ 982,664.06 [based on current exchange rates at the time stamp of this post]), > One of my purchases would be some big-ticket items such as those designed by Martha Stewart; perhaps a piece named after the Earl of an English district, or perhaps a piece whose name is similar to that of a group of Turks. If I Had a Million Dollars - Barenaked Ladies **Polycarp** said: > [@](#): > > b. My immediate neighbor, with whom I recently contracted holy matrimony, has supervived more than half a dozen synonymous spouses. I’m Henry the Eighth, I Am - Hermans Hermits \*\*DareToBeStupid \*\*, #506 a, Lithium - Nirvana ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/534 "2010-12-02T17:58:27Z")
> [@Dahnlor](#): > > So easy, I post this not as a challenge, but for entertainment purposes only. I used to sing this version of the song so often with my brother and father when I was a child, I know it better than the real version: > > Three Myopic Rodents > Three Myopic Rodents > Observe how they perambulate > Observe how they perambulate > > They perambulated over to the agriculturalist’s spouse > Who amputated their appendages with a carving utensil > Have you ever observed such an occurrence in your existence > > With Three Myopic Rodents > Three Myopic Rodents… In-a-gadda-da-vida? mmm ---
**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:** [December 2, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/535 "2010-12-02T18:56:47Z")
I have just completed my secondary education in its entirety It would seem that I am very, very popular I am compelled to move to rythyms not unlike a harlequin There is a communiqué stating That my desires include being an uncontrolled individual Affirmative, I am an uncontrolled individual ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/536 "2010-12-02T22:35:27Z")
a. A male person of my acquaintance, who has just attained his majority and completed his military obligation, whose youth was spent a short distance north of the New Mexico border, is now on his _Wanderjahr_. In the near future, I shall depart with him. Because he is a professional equestrian showman in the Western tradition, my father and mother disapprove of him. Indeed, it is my father’s prediction that his departure will leave me disconzsolate. Nonetheless, I vow to pursue him down that thoroughfare which to my knowledge is most in need of repaving. As I said, in the near future, I shall depart with him. b. Is it possible that that set of pedal appendages betrod the verdant Pennines prior to the Sack of Rome? And that the sacred Agnus Dei was put to graze on British pasturage? c. O namesake of Mrs. C.S. Lewis whose native land is that portion of the underworld reserved for the heroic and virtuous: drunkenly we enter the conflagration, your celestial chancel! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/537 "2010-12-02T23:08:28Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > a. A male person of my acquaintance, who has just attained his majority and completed his military obligation, whose youth was spent a short distance north of the New Mexico border, is now on his _Wanderjahr_. In the near future, I shall depart with him. Because he is a professional equestrian showman in the Western tradition, my father and mother disapprove of him. Indeed, it is my father’s prediction that his departure will leave me disconzsolate. Nonetheless, I vow to pursue him down that thoroughfare which to my knowledge is most in need of repaving. As I said, in the near future, I shall depart with him. “Someday Soon,” Judy Collins (written by Ian Tyson, I think?) > [@](#): > > b. Is it possible that that set of pedal appendages betrod the verdant Pennines prior to the Sack of Rome? And that the sacred Agnus Dei was put to graze on British pasturage? “Jerusalem,” setting of words from William Blake ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/538 "2010-12-03T00:08:54Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > “Someday Soon,” Judy Collins (written by Ian Tyson, I think?) > > “Jerusalem,” setting of words from William Blake Yes, yes to the parenthetical, and yes. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/539 "2010-12-03T12:28:32Z")
Already done, but I was bored: A diminutive shadowy figure of a man is in view. I call out twice to a member of the commedia dell’arte and enquire as to his willingness to undertake a particular Andalusian folk dance. High-decibel electrical discharges of a meteorological nature inspire in me great trepidation. I, a famous Florentine natural philosopher and four of his namesakes, and the chief protagonist of a trilogy of plays by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais are all (by implication) considered particularly splendid by the standards of the aforementioned natural philosophers’ native country. My status as an urchin has made me a pariah; however, some feel that this status necessitates mitigation of a sentence of capital punishment as would otherwise be given for the commission of a particularly heinous act. That which is obtained with minimal exertion may similarly be lost effortlessly. I petition for immediate release from incarceration. You invoke the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful and vigorously and repeatedly decline my request despite exhortations from others and myself to grant it. I thrice namecheck a musical containing songs composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and once more reiterate my petition on the grounds that a Semitic deity once worshipped in the Philistine city of Ekron has reserved an infernal being for my specific use. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/540 "2010-12-03T13:11:47Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Already done, but I was bored: > > A diminutive shadowy figure of a man is in view. I call out twice to a member of the commedia dell’arte and enquire as to his willingness to undertake a particular Andalusian folk dance. High-decibel electrical discharges of a meteorological nature inspire in me great trepidation. I, a famous Florentine natural philosopher and four of his namesakes, and the chief protagonist of a trilogy of plays by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais are all (by implication) considered particularly splendid by the standards of the aforementioned natural philosophers’ native country. My status as an urchin has made me a pariah; however, some feel that this status necessitates mitigation of a sentence of capital punishment as would otherwise be given for the commission of a particularly heinous act. That which is obtained with minimal exertion may similarly be lost effortlessly. I petition for immediate release from incarceration. You invoke the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful and vigorously and repeatedly decline my request despite exhortations from others and myself to grant it. I thrice namecheck a musical containing songs composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and once more reiterate my petition on the grounds that a Semitic deity once worshipped in the Philistine city of Ekron has reserved an infernal being for my specific use. “I see a little silhouetto of a man…” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Queen [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244.md?page=28)