# What song describes you best? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 12, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743 "2001-04-12T19:38:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/1 "2001-04-12T19:38:22Z")
-or- What song do you consider to be closest to your own personal motto? Not that I’m a big fan, but under most circumstances the song that best describes my feelings would be Limp Bizkit’s **Break Stuff**. Not that I’m out looking for a fight or even confrontational in nature, but it best sums up my inner reaction to an average daily social interaction. Various other songs come to mind for different mindsets and moods, but are too many to list. What is/are yours? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/2 "2001-04-12T23:41:28Z")
Well, there are quite a few and they change every so often, but right now the two main ones are: _I Just Break 'Em_ by Eric Heatherly and _Who I Am_ by Jessica Andrews. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/3 "2001-04-13T00:26:52Z")
_Good Gorls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)_ Meatloaf _Skin_ Madonna and in my current mood: _Life is a Lemon (and I want my money back)_ Meatloaf ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecb155/32.png) [@Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Dead_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/4 "2001-04-13T00:35:04Z")
I don’t really have a song that describes me, but Don’t Change Your Plans by Ben Folds Five almost perfectly desribes my situation atm. But for a personal motto… I don’t know, The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Garbage? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/5 "2001-04-13T00:38:51Z")
**"I’m a Adult Now"** by _The Pursuit of Happiness._ ---
**Author:** ![Skwerl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Skwerl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skwerl)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/6 "2001-04-13T00:59:07Z")
I hardly ever really listen to the lyrics of a song, so I can only think of one: “She’s So High” by Tal Bachman. Everytime I hear that I’m all like “Oh, I _know_!” and “Totally!” and so on. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/7 "2001-04-13T01:35:53Z")
Hmmmm, it depends. Usually it’s **Strawberry Fields Forever** (It’s getting hard to be someone, but it all works out) or **I’m Only Sleeping** (Everybody seems to think I’m lazy, I don’t mind, I think their crazy.) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/8 "2001-04-13T01:43:15Z")
“Island of Life” by Kitaro & Jon Anderson. That song expresses my inner feelings better than any other. > [@](#): > > \*Without woman, earth would fade and die > Without woman, who am I ---
**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/9 "2001-04-13T01:49:03Z")
Sergio Leone -\* The man with the harmonica.mp3\* ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/10 "2001-04-13T02:45:40Z")
**Beginning to See the Light** by the Velvet Underground. Written & recorded before I was born, this song still holds meaning for me. I react to the idea of the song – I _am_ beginning to see the light. Right now, I’m learning new things every day. And I’ve been doing that and will keep on doing that until I attain Cecilhood. I feel that life gains its meaning through change. We change when we learn – when we see the light. This is a positive song for, although it may not be so for Lou Reed. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/11 "2001-04-13T03:05:19Z")
This is going to sound SO cheesy… If She Knew What She Wants by the Bangles for the lines: Some have a style That they work hard to refine So they walk a crooked line But she won’t understand Why anyone would have to try To walk a line when they could fly ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/12 "2001-04-13T03:25:47Z")
**TNT** , AC/DC ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/13 "2001-04-13T03:44:45Z")
_House of Fire_, Alice Cooper _Bed of Nails_, Alice Cooper ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/14 "2001-04-13T04:00:58Z")
**"Little Wing"** by Jimi Hendrix. I always loved that song, and my high school sweetheart told me once that it described me [perfectly](http://www.musicfanclubs.org/jimihendrix/): > [@](#): > > Well she’s walking through the clouds > With a circus mind that’s running round > Butterflies and zebras > And moonbeams and fairy tales > That’s all she ever thinks about > Riding with the wind. Also, it’s terribly cheesy, but **Smile** by Nat King Cole has carried me through some pretty rough moments. It describes my take on life pretty concisely. ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/15 "2001-04-13T04:18:55Z")
Immediate, gut response is actually the end of something by ani difranco…lyrics go: > [@](#): > > …I am a work in progress > dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding > offering me intricate patterns of questions > rhythms that never come clean > and **strengths that you still haven’t seen**. But that’s not really a full song that’s representative of me. For that, I would have to turn to another ani tune called “joyful girl”: > [@](#): > > …the bathroom mirror has not budged > and the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff that they say > and she looks me in the eye and says, > “Would you prefer the easy way? > No? Well, okay then, don’t cry.” > I wonder if everything I do > I do instead of something I want to do more > the question fills my head > I know there’s no grand plan here > this is just the way it goes > when everything else seems unclear > **I guess at least I know > I do it for the joy it brings > because I’m a joyful girl > because the world owes me nothing > and we owe each other the world** > I do it because it’s the least I can do > I do it because I learned it from you… ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/16 "2001-04-13T04:20:15Z")
Right now it’s “Flavor of the Week” by American Hi-Fi. F Giddy-Pig. ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/17 "2001-04-13T04:31:05Z")
“No Rain” - **Blind Melon** ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/18 "2001-04-13T12:45:40Z")
Tie between: Elton John’s _Rocket Man_ The Beattles’ _Fool on the Hill_ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/19 "2001-04-13T13:52:20Z")
The all-chicken version of “Holiday for Strings.” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2001, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743/20 "2001-04-13T14:01:15Z")
Sort of a tie between **Behind Blue Eyes,** by The Who and **Goodbye, Joanna** by Meg Christian. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-describes-you-best/61743.md?page=2)