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[edit] List Of Songs With A Question In The Title

[edit] List Of Songs With Questions Asked In The Lyrics

  • 32 Footsteps- "What's the reason? Why'd she go? Where's my baby?", "Why'd she leave? Don't you know we're on the eve of 32 footsteps?"
  • All Night Blowout - "Whose left shoe is this? Does anybody know?"
  • Alphabet Lost And Found - "Where they gonna go without their letters? How could they survive without their letters? Where they gonna go to find their letters?"
  • Ana Ng - "Who was at the DuPont Pavillion? Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there?"
  • Another First Kiss - "How 'bout another first kiss?"
  • Anyone Can Fill My Shoes - "But when do I collect my pay?", "Where do I go to put in my complaint? Are you friend or foe?", "Don't you think I know how that all comes down to too much love for only one?"
  • Arkansas - "Will the ship return to anchor there and replace the sunken state?"
  • Au Contraire - "Don't you dig my chops?", etc.
  • Bastard Wants To Hit Me - "And who the hell is he?"
  • Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth - "Is it us or is this messed up?"
  • Best Of Spin The Dial - "What the fuck is wrong with me?"
  • The Big Big Whoredom - "What is it brings you down?"
  • Boss Of Me - "Can you repeat the question?"
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  • Careless Santa - "How can I forgive him?"
  • Certain People I Could Name - "Do I need to point or do you see the one I mean?", among others
  • Chess Piece Face - "What's gonna happen to Chess Piece Face?"
  • Courage the Cowardly Dog - "Who's gonna get the door?", "Who will protect our home?"
  • Damn Good Times - "Can she do the karaoke?"
  • Dead - "Did a large procession wave their torches as my head fell in the basket, and was everybody dancing on the casket?"
  • Disappointing Show - "What went wrong?"
  • Don't Break The Heart - "Is history too much for you to handle?"
  • Don't Let's Start - "(N) Do I need (apostrophe T) need this torture?"
  • Doris Cunningham - "Would you like to perform it? What's the name of this song?"
  • Dr. Evil - "Do you find his subtle ways invite you? Does he excite you?"
  • Drink! - "What words rhyme with buried alive?"
  • The Egg - "When was it new?", "What were they thinking?"
  • Even Numbers - "2, 4, 6, 8, Who do we appreciate?"
  • Everything Right Is Wrong Again - "Don't you want to know the reason why the cupboard's not appealing? Don't you get the feeling that everything that's right is wrong again?"
  • Exquisite Dead Guy - "How'm I supposed to let you know the way I feel about you?"
  • Extra Savoir-Faire - "What's a man like me supposed to do with all this extra savoir-faire? What is left for me to prove dear?"
  • Fake Out In Buenos Aires - "What is fake?"
  • Feign Amnesia - "Why half-settle for stuff that is half-new?"
  • Figure Eight - "Can you go around?"
  • Finished With Lies - "Couldn't we just put away the ancient history?"
  • Fritalian - "Is it French or is it Italian?"
  • Fun Assassin - "Where did we bury the time?"
  • Get By With A Little Help - "Would you lend me a pair of your finest brown loafers?"
  • Greasy Kid Stuff - "Can't you hear? Hear my plea?"
  • The Guitar - "Hey - Who's that playing - Hey - the guitar? Is it Jim?"
  • Hell Hotel - "What does he mean by this?"
  • Hot Cha - "Hot Cha, where are you?"
  • I Am A Human Head - "What do I really need? Where is my friend, the other head?"
  • I Can Hear You - "What's your order?"
  • I Hear A New World - "How can I tell them what's in store for me?"
  • I'm All You Can Think About - "Do you recall someone you haven't thought about in a long time?"
  • I'm Your Boyfriend Now - "Can't you admit that I'm your boyfriend now? Why don't you act like I'm your boyfriend now?"
  • I've Got A Match - "Which one of us is the one we can't trust? Why can't you be sensitive and good? Why don't you want to be understood?"
  • Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - "Why did Constantinople get the works?"
  • It's Not My Birthday - "So why do you lunge out at me?"
  • Kids Are Different Now - "Just what was I thinking? "
  • King Weed - "What about the adaptable and rugged housefly?"
  • Letter/Not A Letter - "What is that?"
  • Letterbox - "If I had a pair of eyes in the back of my head for each time you forgot to take out all the things you forgot to talk about when you took a bite out of my spine, I would have a lot of eyes on me by this time, wouldn't I?"
  • Lucky Ball And Chain - "What's the sense in arguing when you're all alone?"
  • Montana - "What are you staring at in that hospital bed?"
  • My Man - "Why then am I in bed? How can he stand? Why can't the message be sent?"
  • New York City - "So why don't you come to stay?"
  • Night Security - "Who's that guy?"
  • No! (Song) - "May I stay? Can I go?"
  • No Answer - "What's it like to be alive?"
  • No One Knows My Plan - "Why the dancing, shouting? Why the shrieks of pain, the lovely music? Why the smell of burning autumn leaves?"
  • Now Is Strange - "I'd like to hear, what did you change?", among others
  • Now We Have To Go - "What if I don't want to go?"
  • Number Three - "If there's just two songs in ya boy, whaddaya want from me?"
  • O, Do Not Forsake Me - "One thousand years old, but what do you know?" ... "One thousand years old, but what do I know?"
  • One Everything - "What if you drew a giant circle? What if it went around all there is? Then would there still be such a thing as an outside? And does that question even make any sense?"
  • Particle Man - "What's he like? Is he a dot, or is he a speck? When he's underwater, does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead? Is he depressed, or is he a mess? Does he feel totally worthless? Who came up with Person Man?"
  • Poison Flowers - "Who's going to build my death ray?", among other questions
  • Prevenge - "Can you tell that I'm planning prevenge?"
  • Rhythm Section Want Ad - "Do you sing like Olive Oyl on purpose?"
  • Santa Claus - "Where have you been? Is there something for me inside that sack?"
  • Santa's Beard - "Why must she climb on his knee?"
  • The Second Longest Night - "Why don't you bring your friends inside?"
  • See The Constellation - "Can you hear what I see in the sky?"
  • Seven - "Won't you come in, Seven?"
  • The Shadow Government - "Where's the shadow government when you need it?"
  • The Share A Story Song - "How do you share a story?"
  • She's An Angel - "Why did they send her over anyone else? How should I react? When you're following an angel, does it mean you have to throw your body off a building? Can I hold for a long long time?"
  • Shoehorn With Teeth - "What's the sense in ever thinkin' bout the tomb when you're much too busy returnin' to the womb?"
  • Skullivan - "How does everybody take their tea?"
  • Snail Shell - "What it something you would do for anybody? Was it what you'd only do for me?", among others
  • Snowball In Hell - "You want it when? How long you been here, Joe? Why do you ask? Back on that old 'time is money' kick, right?"
  • Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - "Is this Horrible? Would you mind if we balance this glass of milk where your visiting friend accidently was killed? Would it be okay with you if we wrote a reminder of things we'll forget to do today otherwise, using a green magic marker, if it's alright, on the back of your head?"
  • The Spine Surfs Alone - "What will cure you?"
  • Spiraling Shape - "Who can say what's wrong or right?"
  • Swing Is A Word - "Who can snap my fingers? Where's my cat's pajamas?"
  • Take Out The Trash - "Why not take out the trash?"
  • Tavern In Pinsk - "Can you fault such common sense?"
  • Theme From Flood - "Why is the world in love again? Why are we marching hand in hand? Why are the ocean levels rising up?"
  • Thermostat - "When the indicator says you're out of oil should you continue driving anyway?", "Or was it a loud explosion?", "Or is the thermostat engulfed in flames?", "Or is it just me?"
  • They Got Lost (Song) - "Could you tell us where we are and the best way out of here?"
  • They Might Be Giants (Song) - "What are we gonna do unless they are?"
  • Thunderbird - "Man, are you thinking what I am? Well, what about it then?"
  • Till My Head Falls Off - "I ate forty-seven, so what happened to the other ten? Why do you suspiciously change the subject and break my concentration as I dump the bottle out and I count the Advil up again?"
  • Unrelated Thing - "Do you smile 'cause I'm funny? How come you never look me in the eye? Aren't you listening to me?"
  • Untitled - "And then it says 'Another child is born in India every time you call this number,' right?", among many other questions
  • Utah - "Weren't you the one I hurt? Weren't you the one that I betrayed? Did you stay angry with me?"
  • We Live In A Dump - "Why be realistic?", "What's good about that?"
  • We Want A Rock - "Where was I?"
  • We're The Replacements - "Hey where's Tommy? Where's the equipment?"
  • West Virginia - "Why don't you come outside with me?"
  • Where Your Eyes Don't Go - "Should you worry when the skull head is in front of you, or is it worse because it's always waiting where your eyes don't go?"
  • Withered Hope - "Are you going to say to me this can never be?"
  • The World Before Later On - "Where's my hovercraft? Where's my jet pack? Where's the font of acquired wisdom that eludes me now?", "Where's our tel-ray? Where's our space face? Where are all the complications we won't see around?"
  • Xanthus Saves - "What does he save?", "What does he heal?"
  • Yeh Yeh - "She asks me, Why don't I come to her flat and have some supper, and let the evening pass by by playing records, the sounds of groovy hi-fi?"

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