# What song sums you up best? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 26, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327 "2003-03-26T17:12:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/61 "2003-03-30T01:21:18Z")
“Possession”, Be Bop Deluxe: “I’m going crazy with the speed of living, I’m leaving parts of me all over the place… I think I’ve found a piece that looks like my heart, But then again… Maybe it’s just my face…” ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/62 "2003-03-30T01:41:39Z")
She’s a Jar by Wilco Today, at least. ---
**Author:** ![RawkStah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@RawkStah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RawkStah)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/63 "2003-03-30T05:21:13Z")
Well, my blog’s title comes from OpIvy’s “Knowledge” _All I know is that I don’t know. All I know is that I don’t know nothin’._ When I’m living a life of fiction, my theme is “Born With A Tail” by Supersuckers. _You know I’m in league with Satan! And you know there’s no debatin’ my hell-bound trail! I was born with a tail!_ and _I’m evil, and I run free! There’s molten lead all in me, so let’s get to hell! Got the goods, gonna bring it on, my mother done brought me up wrong, And you can use my dick for a walkin’ stick as well!_ When I’m down, it’s “Debaser” by The Pixies. Specifically: _Wanna grow Grow up to be Be a debaser_ Most of the time, it’s “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up” by Tom Waits. Not so much the seeing the parents fight, but just the general sentiment. ---
**Author:** ![Pixelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@Pixelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixelle)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/64 "2003-03-30T11:13:10Z")
“Work is a four letter word” - The Smiths 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![summerbreeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@summerbreeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/summerbreeze)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/65 "2003-04-02T21:48:03Z")
Guess my screen name says it all. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/66 "2003-04-02T21:58:10Z")
Waiting for the Hammer To Fall - Queen ---
**Author:** ![CadburyAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@CadburyAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CadburyAngel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/67 "2003-04-02T22:18:48Z")
“When You’re Good To Mama (Mama’s Good To You),” from Chicago. I’m a big believer that “the system works, the system called reciprocity,” and there are “a lot of favors I’m prepared to do.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/68 "2003-04-02T23:35:04Z")
During my adolescence, it would be “Subdivisions” by Rush. Now, “Time” by Pink Floyd seems to sum up my life. ---
**Author:** ![one\_energy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f6c823/32.png) [@one\_energy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/one_energy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/69 "2003-04-03T04:28:50Z")
“The Boy With A Thorn In His Side” by The Smiths…I suppose. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/70 "2003-04-03T17:43:00Z")
“The King of Pain” by the Police. _There’s a little black spot on the sun today (that’s my soul up there) It’s the same old thing as yesterday (that’s my sould up there)_ and “Witchi-Tai-To” by Brewer & Shipley. _What a feelin’ spring is bringin’ round my head Makes me feel glad that I’m not dead"_ I feel the pain and sadness of the universe far more than I would like, but I also feel ecstacy and awe at its wonders. ---
**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/71 "2003-04-03T18:58:30Z")
Once In A Lifetime _ **Talking Heads** _ And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself-Well…How did I get here? Same as it ever was…Same as it ever was…Same as it ever was… ---
**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:** [April 3, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/72 "2003-04-03T19:00:16Z")
Pink Floyd, “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict” ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/73 "2003-04-03T19:16:43Z")
Feelin’ Alright–Joe Cocker ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/74 "2003-04-03T19:23:53Z")
so, **Biffy** , is it “Mary” or “Back”? While we’re at it, “Submarine” or “Summery”? 😃 'hokay, I thought of a new one that would describe me. **Interstate Love Song** , by STP, in honour of all the online people I meet that lie, and otherwise fall short of my hopes ☹ > [@](#): > > Leavin’ on a Southern Train, > only yesterday, you lied. > Promises, what I seemed to be, > only watch the time go by. > All the things that you said to me. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/75 "2003-04-03T20:05:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ludovic \* > **so, Biffy, is it “Mary” or “Back”? While we’re at it, “Submarine” or “Summery”? 😃** I’m firmly in the “Mary” camp. I wasn’t even aware of the submarine/summery controversy; I’ve always heard the former. I’ll have to check it out when I get home. Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![IDemandBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e57/32.png) [@IDemandBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IDemandBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/76 "2003-04-03T20:07:13Z")
“Favorite Things” from Incubus’s S.C.I.E.N.C.E. album: “Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things…” Sums up my divorce nicely. 🙂 –IDB ---
**Author:** ![Darkrabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Darkrabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkrabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/77 "2003-04-03T20:17:43Z")
Either, “Intruder” by Peter Gabriel or “Isao Tomita - Neptune the Mystic” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/78 "2003-04-03T20:25:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shagnasty \* > \*\*“My Ding-a-Ling” by Louis Armstrong \*\* Isn’t that Chuck Berry? Or did Louis cover it? I don’t know how anyone wrote 'Desperato" without meeting me first. - The Queen of Diamonds let you down, she was just an empty fable. The Queen of Hearts you claim you never met. Your twisted fate has found you out and it’s laid you on the table. They stole your dreams and paid you with regret. \* ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/79 "2003-04-03T20:45:49Z")
I have a few. One of which is the Five for Fighting song _Superman_. But, more than anything, I think I’d have to say _Mess_ by Ben Folds Five: “And I don’t believe in God, so I can’t be saved All alone, as I’ve learned to be In this mess I have made” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327/80 "2003-04-04T01:27:25Z")
I am a hoipolloi skater boi who was rejected by a snobbish girl. Sadly, I can’t think of any songs of relevance. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-sums-you-up-best/164327.md?page=5)