What is "It"?Follow

Can you feel it, see it, hear it today?
If you can't, then it doesn't matter anyway
You will never understand it 'cause it happens too fast
And it feels so good, it's like walking on glass

It's so cool, so hip, it's alright
It's so groovy, it's outta sight
You can touch it, smell it, taste it so sweet
But it makes no difference 'cause it knocks you off your feet

You want it all but you can't have it

It's cryin', bleedin', lying on the floor
So you lay down on it and you do it some more
You've got to share it, so you dare it
Then you bare it and you tear it

You want it all but you can't have it
It's in your face but you can't grab it

It's alive, afraid, a lie, a sin
It's magic, it's tragic, it's a loss, it's a win
It's dark, it's moist, it's a bitter pain
It's sad it happened and it's a shame

You want it all but you can't have it
It's in your face but you can't grab it

What is it?
It's it
What is it?...

I'm still not sure what "it" is, but I'm open to ideas.

If a picture paints a thousand words,
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show the you I've come to know.
If a face could launch a thousand ships,
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you,
You're all that's left me too.
And when my love for life is running dry,
You come and pour yourself on me.

If a man could be two places at one time,
I'd be with you.
Tomorrow and today, beside you all the way.
If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die,
I'd spend the end with you.
And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out,
Then you and I would simply fly away

















wait...what?

I'm just glad this was my first thought, too.

It's it.

♫Kingdom....kindergarten...♪

Oh, sorry. I figured someone should include a Faith No More song that doesn't suck.

It's pretty versatile, considering all the things you can do to it.

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail - upgrade it,
Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick - erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag and drop it, zip - unzip it,
Lock it, fill it, call it, find it,
View it, code it, jam - unlock it,
Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch - update it,
Name it, rate it, tune it, print it,
Scan it, send it, fax - rename it,
Touch it, bring it, Pay it, watch it,
Turn it, leave it, start - format it.

Roll it up
light it up
smoke it up
Inhale, exhale

What about fuck? It can be used in almost any part of a sentence, and can even comprise an entire sentence, as in "fuck the fucking fuckers".

"Fuck" is behind a bit, since you can use "shit" in nearly every situation you can use "fuck" save literal definitions (unless you're into that), but "shit" can also be used in nearly every situation "it" can, several of which "fuck" cannot be used. "Fuck" does have a couple places where it can't be replaced by "shit" or "it" but both "shit" and "it" likewise have similar such places.

That said, I would wager combining "this" "that" "these" and "those" into variations of the same word would likely be similarly high up there.

Sorry, did I get my linguistics all over your fun thread?

Didn't Bill C essentially redefine 'it' to mean a ********?