# Where are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 22, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820 "2005-09-22T01:54:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/21 "2005-09-23T20:38:19Z")
We’re on a road to nowhere Come on inside Takin’ that ride to nowhere We’ll take that ride (- _David Byrne_) ---
**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:** [September 23, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/22 "2005-09-23T20:46:28Z")
Where are you going? Can you take me with you? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/23 "2005-09-23T20:54:21Z")
Shite! I just realized that **Susan Foster** beat me to the punch with the Talking Heads reference. Oh well, here’s another: Where the woodbine twines (Have you met my friend Numa? She used to know a girl named Evie…) ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/24 "2005-09-23T20:54:58Z")
well I ain’t got no television set or stereo 'cos I live in a car don’t try to call me up on the telephone cos I won’t be home, I live in a car [U.K. Subs] ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/25 "2005-09-25T02:44:57Z")
I’m sitting in a railway station Got a ticket for my destination. I’m on a tour of one night stands My suitcase and guitar in hand And every stop is neatly planned For a poet and a one man band. I’m homeward bound. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/26 "2005-09-25T03:28:58Z")
Sittin’ downtown in a railroad station One toke over the line ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/27 "2005-09-25T03:32:59Z")
Sittin’ on the dock of the bay, watching the tides roll away – wastin’ time. ---
**Author:** ![Boregasm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Boregasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boregasm)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/28 "2005-09-25T04:26:27Z")
Hanging ten out on space and time… ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/29 "2005-09-25T12:58:12Z")
Down by the river Down by the banks of the river Charles That’s where you’ll find me Along with lovers, fuggers, and thieves Well I love that dirty water Boston, you’re my home ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/30 "2005-09-25T22:40:05Z")
Where am I? Stuck in the middle with you, of course ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/31 "2005-09-25T23:41:38Z")
Walking, at dusk, through narrow streets, and watching the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/32 "2005-09-26T00:08:54Z")
I’m going nowhere, And thank God I know the way. - Jason and the Scorchers ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/33 "2005-09-26T00:29:13Z")
For here Am I sitting in a tin can Far above the world Planet earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/34 "2005-09-26T01:04:43Z")
On the dark side of the moon, of course. Did you even need to ask? 😃 On weekends, I can be seen walking on the sun. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/35 "2005-09-26T01:19:10Z")
Roger Daltrey began singing, “Wherrrrrrrrre are you? Where? Where? Where? Where?” but realized that it just wasn’t very catchy. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/36 "2005-09-26T03:38:48Z")
Blue, blue, electric blue. That’s the color of the room where I will live. Blue blue. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/37 "2005-09-26T06:04:40Z")
[I’m standin’ in the doorway](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/gordon-lightfoot/61592.html) My head bowed in my hands… ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/38 "2005-09-26T06:23:14Z")
Where the sky meet the ground Where the street fold round Where the voice you hold don’t Make no sound ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/39 "2005-09-26T06:56:36Z")
I’m going where the wind don’t whine. I’m also in my big black car, because I want to show you just what my politics are. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2005, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820/40 "2005-09-26T11:50:14Z")
Now I’m where I want to be and who I want to be and doing what I always said I would, and yet I feel I haven’t won at all. Running for my life and never loking back in ase there’s someone right behind to shoot me down and say he always knew I’d fall. When this crazy wheel slows down, where will I be? Back where I started. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you/322820.md?page=1)