Which Will

I've been reading my stockpile of short stories and writing exercises. Many of my pieces have a character asking questions, usually to themselves. There is a lot of thinking and questioning going on. That seems like something I need to watch. I wonder why I do that so often and how else I might be able to write things.

All that thinking about questions and questioning my thinking made me think about questioning songs. Huh? What could I learn by listening to the questions songs asked me?

Am I right?
Am I the man?
Are You Living Humble?
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Are You Ready?
Are you Ready for the Country?
Are you sure Hank Done it this way?
Are You Sure The Name Of The Game Is Love?
Are you the One I've been waiting for?
Bill, When Are You Coming Back?
Brother? Can You Spare A Dime?
Can I Get A Witness?
Can You Hear Me?
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
Can You Rock it Like This?
Dare I Ask?
Did You See His Name?
Did You See Me?
Didn't He Ramble?
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)?
Didn't It Rain [Live]?
Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?
Do They Know It's Christmas?
Do Ya?
Do You Feel Like We Do?
Do You Know Him?
Do You Love Me?
Do You Think It's Alright?
Do You Wanna Dance?
Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)?
Does Anybody Out There Even Care?
Does everyone stare?
Does Jesus Care?
Does She Need Me? 1 & 2
Does She Talk?
Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?
Does Your Mama Know About Me?
How Blue Can You Get? (Live)
How can I face tomorrow?
How Come You Don't Call Me?
How Deep Is Your Love?
How High Can You Fly?
How High The Moon?
How Soon Is Now?
Mister Would You Please Help My Pony?
Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?
Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting?
Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)
Où s'en vont ces gais bergers?
Tommy Can you Hear Me?
Were You There?
What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
What About It?
What Am I Gonna Do With You?
What are you Doing?
What Are You Doing Sunday?
What Are You Raising Your Children For?
What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted?
What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)
What could I do?
What Did You Do To My Life?
What Difference Does It Make?
What Do I Care?
What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)?
What Else Is New?
What Happened Then?
What If We Give It Away?
What Is Life?
What Is Truth?
What Kind of Friend Is This?
What Kind Of Man?
What More Can Jesus Do?
What's Going On?
What's Good?
What's Happening Brother?
What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love And Understanding?
What's The New Mary Jane?
Whatcha Gonna Do?
What Ever Happened To All The Fun In The World?
When will I be loved?
When You Gonna Wake Up?
Where Could I Go But To The Lord?
Where Did Our Love Go?
Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?
Where Is My Mind?
Where Will I Be?
Who Am I?
Who By Fire?
Who Do You Love?
Who Drove The Red Sports Car?
Who Killed Davey Moore?
Who Loves the Sun?
Who Needs Love (Like That)?
Who Says A Funk Band Can't Play Rock?
Who's Crying Now?
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?
Who's In The Strawberry Patch With Sally?
Who's Lovin' You?
Who's That Girl?
Why Can't He Be You?
Why Can't I Be You?
Why Cry?
Why Do I Feel So Sad?
Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
Why Don't You Write Me?
Why Must I Wear This Shroud?
Why, oh why?
Why Me?
Why Me Lord?
Will Anything Happen?
Will The Circle Be Unbroken?
Will The Wolf Survive?
Will You Ever Be Mine?
Would I Lie To You?
Would You Believe?
Wouldn't It Be Nice?
?Y tu que has hecho?

Many of these songs don't have question marks in the title, but I added them so I could easily make a playlist. I did a search for "?" and then all the interrogatives I could think of. That brought to light all those questionable questions that might be statements. And then there are surprise punctuation marks.

Life on Mars?

Hymns and spirituals ask questions; Bob Dylan does too. Tony Orlando and Ween ask weird questions, but most people just seem lonely, insecure, or wondering why love has done them wrong. In my stories, the characters who ask a lot of questions seem to be lonely, insecure and questioning fate too. Maybe that's it. What do you think?