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Songs containing or referencing questions.

Songs with a question in the title[edit]

Songs with questions asked in the lyrics[edit]

  • 100 Cars For Good - "Tell us, where should these 100 cars go?"
  • 200 Sbemails - "How can we face 200 Sbemails?"
  • 2082 - "Or is it only what the other you is dreaming?", "How can you still be living? / What does this mean?", "What was the look he gave intended to convey? / Was there something else he was trying to say?"
  • 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?"
  • Aaa - "What's behind the door / Behind the piled up furniture?" and over a dozen other questions
  • A Stranger's Eye - "But what's the name for when you are inside the eye of someone else? How do I say this thing that happened to me, to me, to me? What is it called when you're walking in a stranger's eye?"
  • Albany - "When was it new?", "What were they thinking?"; unique to the studio version: "Where should I stand?", "When will it hatch?"
  • All Night Blowout - "Whose left shoe is this? Does anybody know?"
  • All The Lazy Boyfriends - "So who's good for nothing?", "Did you say out loud that you think you've lost your edge?", Who needs a vacation? Who needs a direction? / Who needs motivation when you live in your head?"
  • 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?"
  • Always Be Giants - "Who's going to wear my sandals stained with Coca-Cola?"
  • 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?"
  • Answer - "When will you recognize that I am the answer to all your prayers?"
  • 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?"
  • Apophenia - "How could the street light / Blink on and off and / Spell out all your thoughts?", "Middleburgh Police Department how may I direct your call?"
  • Arkansas - "Will the ship return to anchor there and replace the sunken state?"
  • Ask Me Another - "People of New York City / Have you heard about RadioLoveFest?"
  • Au Contraire - "Don't you dig my chops?", etc.
  • Austin - "What're we gonna do with these bones?"
  • Authenticity Trip - "So, tell me, are you ready for the bitter truth?"
  • Bastard Wants To Hit Me - "How has it come to this pass? How can I get to my car?", "And who the hell is he?"
  • Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth - "Is it us or it that's messed up?"
  • Best Of Spin The Dial - "What the fuck is wrong with me?"
  • The Big Big Whoredom - "What is it brings you down?"
  • Bills, Bills, Bills - "Can you pay my bills? Can you pay my telephone bills? Can you pay my automo-bills?"
  • Boss Of Me - "Can you repeat the question?"
  • Brontosaurus - "Do you think this tale has gone on for too long?", "Who would have believed skin could be so porous?"
  • Brooklyn - "Now who knows what that spells?"
  • Call You Mom - "Why won't you let me call you that?"
  • The Cap'm - "Do you think there's somebody out there, someone else who's better than the one you've got?" "Did you say what I think you just said, my hat looks good on me?"
  • Careless Santa - "How can I forgive him?"
  • Caroline, No - "Where did your long hair go? / Where is the girl I used to know? / How could you lose that happy glow?", "Who took that look away?", "Oh, Caroline, why?", "Could I ever find in you again / Things that made me love you so much then? / Could we ever get 'em back once they had gone?"
  • Cave Fish - "Do you have no ideas? / Do you not see it too?", "But have you no eyes?", "Would that suffice to suggest that you’re not the only fish in this cave?", "Would it all come clear as plain as the sun? / Do you have no eyes at all? / Not even one?", "Will you see it now, or have you no eyes?"
  • Certain People I Could Name - "Do I need to point or do you see the one I mean?", among others
  • Charleston - "What's that sound coming out of the ground?"
  • Chess Piece Face - "What's gonna happen to Chess Piece Face?"
  • Chip The CHiP - "Is he human or is he a beast?", "Do you know why I stopped you?"
  • Climbing The Walls - "Can we please clear out this house?"
  • Cloisonné - "What's a Sleestak?"
  • Courage the Cowardly Dog - "Who's gonna get the door?", "Who will protect our home?"
  • Damn Good Times - "Can she do the karaoke?"
  • Daylight - "Who needs diamond rings, picture frames, fancy things / When paperbacks and radios tell the tale?"
  • 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?"
  • Doctor Worm - "Good morning, how are you?"
  • Dog Walker - "Can you choose your weapon please? Don't you know I come prepared?"
  • 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?"
  • Drown The Clown - "Now, where were you?"
  • ECNALUBMA - "I knew that this would happen / Why does this always happen?"
  • Electric Car - "How can you deny an electric car? / Won't you take a ride with me?"
  • End Of The Rope - "How dumb can you be?", "Where did the end of the rope go? / I forget now, did I let go?"
  • 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?"
  • Experimental Film - "What's going to go in my experimental film?"
  • 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?"
  • The Fellowship Of Hell - "Who will use it now?"
  • 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?"
  • Gloria Says "This Guy's A Nut" - "But what does he get--how does he make money on this?", "Well, how the hell do you dial a stripper?", and so on, among many other questions
  • Greasy Kid Stuff - "Can't you hear? Hear my plea?"
  • Great - "Dave, where are you going with that hundred dollars in both of your fists?"
  • The Guitar - "Hey - Who's that playing - Hey - the guitar? Is it Jim?"
  • Hate The Villanelle - "Mumbles and stammers, but are those real crimes?"
  • Hell Hotel - "What does he mean by this?"
  • Hello Hello - the song consists almost entirely of questions
  • Hello Mrs. Wheelyke - "...Wouldn't you like to write with a pencil?"
  • Hi Honey I'm Home - "How was your day?"
  • Hiya Hi - "So that thing's a clinker / Who says it's not?"
  • 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 Am A Paleontologist - "Could it be an herbivore crushing plants with rounded teeth?" and "Is it a T-Rex?"
  • I Am Invisible - "Did you notice something? / Was there somebody there?", "Like when I eat my lunch / Does it disappear / Or do you see it going all the way down?", "Did the cat just learn how to fly?", "Did the cat turn on the dishwasher?"
  • I Am Not Your Broom - "What nonsense are you speaking, broom?"
  • I Broke My Own Rule - "What happens when…"
  • I Can Hear You - "What's your order?"
  • I Can Help The Next In Line - "Have you been with us before?", "Do we have a problem here?", "Have you been with us in the past?"
  • I Can't Remember The Dream - "Why can't I remember it when / I can't forget unpleasant thoughts?", "Why can't I remember the dream that I had?"
  • I Got My T-Shirt Back - I got a rebus. Don't believe us? / Then just check the signs"
  • I Haven't Been Right Yet - "See that building? Know who works up there?", "What's she doing? Who's that guy she's with?"
  • I Hear A New World - "How can I tell them what's in store for me?"
  • I Love You For Psychological Reasons - "Why does the mouse share the house with the louse?"
  • 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?"
  • Infinity - "How can I reach infinity?"
  • In Fact - "And now that mess has an entourage / All dressed in dungarees / What went wrong?"
  • I've Been Seeing Things - "What are you hiding in your violin case?, "Where'd they go now?", "What's she up to now?", "Am I the only one who knows?"
  • 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 Said Something - "I wasn't recording / Anyway why would I be?"
  • It's Fun To Steal - "But when do you stop to consider / The events in your recent past?"
  • It's Not My Birthday - "It's not my birthday, so why do you lunge out at me?"
  • Jackie The Clipper - "Can we end this soon?"
  • John Postal - "Do I know where I live?", "Do I know what I got?"
  • Judy Is Your Viet Nam - "Who knew she could be so reckless? Who knew you could be so wrong?"
  • Kids Are Different Now - "Just what was I thinking? "
  • King Weed - "What about the adaptable and rugged housefly?"
  • The Lady And The Tiger - "Do you surmise it's wise to have laser beams emitting from your eyes?"
  • Lake Monsters - "Is this a different world? / Are they really there?", "What happened to this world?"
  • Last Wave - "Perchance, a dance with a carcass in space?", "...antlers are what I need you to buy (why?)"
  • Let Your Hair Hang Down - "Why do we resemble concrete?", "Did we order all these rainclouds?", "Who overturned the party cart?", "Who said to stomp the fire out?", "Would it be so bad?", "Do we have to drag the drag around, is that the plan?", "Can't we leave the barking dogs and join the caravan", "Can you crawl from under the porch without a helmet?"
  • Let's Get This Over With - "Can this page of strange gibberish get a final punctuation mark?"
  • 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?"
  • Listless - "What good is a plan if you're unwilling to commit?"
  • London - "When shall I shower in the one remaining hour before the show? Will I get to shower in the one remaining hour? Will there even be the time? Do I sleep in my clothes?"
  • Long White Beard - "Can you stand the excitement?"
  • Lost My Mind - "Do you ever even think of me?"
  • Lucky Ball & Chain - "What's the sense in arguing when you're all alone?"
  • Lullabye To Nightmares - "Have you ever seen a bloody egg? Wouldn't you like to try? Have you ever heard the blackbird's song?"
  • Make It The Same - "Was I wrong to let you go?"
  • Maybe I Know - "But what can I do?"
  • Meet The Elements - "May I introduce you to our friends the elements?"; "Hey, who let in all these elephants?"
  • Moles, Hounds, Bears, Bees And Hares - "Some call them bunnies — who cares?"
  • Mono - "Who likes the podcast, that podcast in mono?"
  • Montana - "What are you staring at in that hospital bed?"
  • Mountain Flowers - "Do you notice something different?"
  • Mr. Mischief Night - "How long have I been shivering beneath your gate?"
  • Mrs. Bluebeard - "Is this what's supposed to happen / When you're only trying to do right in this wicked world?", "Is this how you thank somebody / For their selfless loyalty? Is this what you do?"
  • Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2 - "Won't you come with me to music jail?"
  • My Man - "Why then am I in bed?", "How can he stand?", "Why can't the message be sent?"
  • My Other Phone Is A Boom Car - "Why must I answer to a public that doesn't appreciate me yet?"
  • The Neck Rolls Aren't Working - "Why'd you make me have to say 'then, then?'", "How can you stay mad at the air horn? / Just look it's adorable / How can you not put your ear to it?"
  • Negative Ad - "Who can stop They Might Be Giants and their liberal rock agenda?"
  • New York City - "So why don't you come to stay?"
  • Never Knew Love - "Was anyone else but me surprised?", "Has there ever been love?"
  • Nice 'N' Easy - "Hey baby, what's your hurry?"
  • Night Security - "Who's that guy?"
  • Nine Bowls Of Soup - "Please can I have one, Mr. Icthyosaur? Is there one that's kind of extra? Can I have it for my own? What's all the soup for anyway? Why do you need nine bowls?"
  • No! - "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?"
  • Oh You Did - "Why won't you take directions / Or listen to instrections?", "How did the carton of milk get filled with shaved off puppy hairs?"
  • 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?"
  • Or So I Have Read - "And did you know that mixing paint with milk will make it clear?"
  • 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?"
  • Philadelphia - "How do you spell T.L.A.?", "Where did the passion go? / How did we become so alone?"
  • Poison Flowers - "Who's going to build my death ray?", among other questions
  • The Poisonousness - "Can anybody help me / Turn off the poisonousness?", "What am I becoming?", "Can anybody stand up? / Dispose of the villainousness?", "What else can be learned?"
  • The Power Of Dial-A-Song - "What can I do to make them understand?"
  • Prepare - "Are all your affairs in order now?"
  • Prevenge - "Can you tell that I'm planning prevenge?"
  • Put It To The Test - "Are you sure that that thing is true? Or did someone just tell it to you?"
  • Put Your Hand On The Computer - "Doesn't that feel better now?"
  • Replicant - "Replicant, replicant, where have you been? Replicant, what is that stuff in your hair? Replicant, why do you lie on the ground?", "What have you got there behind your back?"
  • Right Before Showtime - "What are we gonna tell the people?", "Hour three: What about you, Zebediah?", "Hour ten: Can anyone think of a topic?", "Hour eleven: What about you Mrs. Henderson?", "Hour fourteen: Who am I kidding?", "Hour twenty-one: But is it really the truth? / Hour twenty-two: Or is it artifice? / Hour twenty-three: And what's the difference, really?"
  • Rock Club - "Have we played this club before? ", "Is that really the P.A., or just somebody's radio left in the corner of the room?"
  • 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?"
  • Say Nice Things About Detroit - "Can't you pretend to pretend?"
  • 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?"
  • Shape Shifter - "Where did my world go?", "How was I to know they meant the UPS delivery man / The koi in the tank and the anchorwoman?", "What used to be my house, is it that purple tentacle? Or is that the TV repairman? The clarinet? The vegetable stand?"
  • 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?"
  • She Was A Hotel Detective - "Is she lonely?", "Will she shoot you?"
  • (She Was A) Hotel Detective - "Why don't you check her out?"
  • Shoehorn With Teeth - "What's the sense in ever thinkin' bout the tomb when you're much too busy returnin' to the womb?"
  • (Since You Joined) The Corporation - "Did you promise not to tell?"
  • 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?"
  • Solid Liquid Gas - "Could you make rock so warm it would be liquid?"
  • 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?"
  • Stone Cold Coup D'État - "What is that certain je ne sais quoi?"
  • Stuff Is Way "Did you just what? Is what you yes? Did you whatever, whatever you I guess?", "Who had you was?"
  • Swing Is A Word - "Who can snap my fingers?", "Where's my cat's pajamas?"
  • Synopsis For Latecomers - "Okay, you're asking how container ships were found / Abandoned in the desert sands, covered in snakes / And who composed the ransom note / And taped it to the face of the equestrian monument?", "Who ate the babies, who ate the babies?"
  • Take Out The Trash - "Why not take out the trash?"
  • Tavern In Pinsk - "Can you fault such common sense?"
  • TECVM CIRCVMAMBVLARE NOLO - "Why then do you want to walk around with me?"
  • Thankful For Your Service - "Do you think that I think I'm somehow better than you?"
  • 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 - "Could you tell us where we are and the best way out of here?"
  • They Might Be Giants - "What are we gonna do unless they are?"
  • This Microphone - "Who's keeping score? Who wins that war?"
  • Thunderbird - "Man, are you thinking what I am? Well, what about it then?"
  • Thinking Machine - "What does it mean?", "What?"
  • 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?"
  • Tippecanoe And Tyler Too - "Who has heard the great commotion, motion, motion, all the country through?"
  • Town To Town - "Tom Vu, won't you help me?"
  • Towson - "What's it like in there?"
  • Tumbleweed - "Did you realize that 'vacation' implies all the vacantness left when they go?"
  • Unctuous Robot - "I know you are, but what am I?"
  • Underwater Woman - "Who is she talking to?"
  • 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
  • Upside Down Frown - "Are your eyes playing tricks, or should you get your glasses fixed?"
  • Utah - "Weren't you the one I hurt? Weren't you the one that I betrayed? Did you stay angry with me?"
  • The Velvet Ape - "Who dares to hold the violet cape of The Velvet Ape?"
  • Walking My Cat Named Dog - "People, whatcha think of that? (People, what d'you think of that?)"
  • 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?"
  • We've Got A World That Swings - "What's before me? What's the hassle?"
  • Whence That Wince - "Oh, whence that wince, my wench?"
  • 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?"
  • Whole Lot Of Glean - "Remember how much you wanted this job?"
  • 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?"
  • Worried Sleep - "Weren't we all?"
  • Wreck It Apart - "Why'd you have to go and wreck it apart?", "Whatcha trying to prove by acting so tough?", "Whatcha trying to do by rattling my cage?", "Did you take some bad pill sometime that makes you be this way?"
  • 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?"
  • You Are Old, Father William - "Do you think, at your age, it is right?", "Pray, what is the reason of that?", "Allow me to sell you a couple?", "Pray, how did you manage to do it?", "What made you so awfully clever?", "Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?"
  • You Probably Get That A Lot - "Do you mind?", "Can I just tell you"
  • You're On Fire - "Is that your car they're towing?"
Songs consisting entirely or almost entirely of questions[edit]

Songs mentioning questions[edit]

Honorable mention[edit]

  • S-E-X-X-Y - "X / Because it's extra, baby / Y / Because it's extra, baby"
  • Why? - TMBG’s 18th studio album and 5th kids’ album

See also[edit]

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