That Lyrics Thing
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the_rckOkay. I have to do a variation on this because it's too tempting to pass up, but I don't play music on my computer (I know there's some on there that was there when we bought the machine used, but... I haven't played any of it and am not sure I know any of it). Basically, I pulled a bunch of my CDs and tapes and picked lyrics I liked. I couldn't come up with any good way to randomize things, though.
Rules:
Open your Winamp, iTunes, etc.
Step 1: Put it on random.
Step 2: Pick your favorite lines from the first 20 songs that play.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from.
Step 4: Mark out the songs when someone guesses correctly. (I’ll be bolding the ones guessed correctly.)
Or do things my way if you don't use anything that allows for randomization.
Some of these may be a little obscure. Others are, I think, very obvious.
1) On a Midsummer night, when the moon shines above,
He'll appear with such beauty and grace
That a maiden will sigh, and forsake human love
For a horse with a horn on his face.
He'll lie down and settle his head in her lap,
With his hard gleaming horn on her thigh --
If I were to try that, I'd prob'ly get slapped,
And the chance of arrest would be high.
2) If I had three wishes,
They'd all be for you.
If I had my way,
You'd be mine.
Oh, the reach wouldn't matter
If I had a ladder.
If I weren't so short,
We'd be fine.
3) I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
4) I laid my head on the railroad track
Waiting on the Double E
But the train don't run by here no more
Poor, poor, pitiful me.
5) Just remember, in the winter, far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed that with the sun's love, in the spring, becomes the rose.
6) And I wonder if you know
That I never understood
That although you said you'd go
Until you did I never thought you would
7) Backs broke, bending, digging holes to plant the seeds
The owners ate the cane and the workers ate the weeds.
Putting wood in the stove and water in the cup,
You worked so hard that you died standing up.
8) It's gilt edged
Glamorous and sleek by design
You know it's jealous by nature
False and unkind
It's hard and restrained
And it's totally cool
It touches and it teases
As you stumble in the debris
9) I saw her wince, I saw her cry,
I saw the glory in her eye.
Myself I long for love and light,
But must it come so cruel, must it be so bright?
10) For I will be your pillow where e'er your head will lie.
And I'll be the star you can only catch in the corner of your eye.
I'll be the sound of laughter in the first low flower of dawn.
I'll be the touch to brush your cheek and wake you in the morning.
11) Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up.
They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.
12) And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching from a lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain only drowning men could see him
He said, "All men shall be sailors, then, until the sea shall free them."
But he, himself, was broken long before
13) I hate graveyards and old pawnshops
For they always claim the dear
Can't forgive they way they robbed me
Of my childhood souvenirs
14) There was darkness under Heaven
For an hour’s space—
Darkness that we knew was given
Us for special grace.
Sun and moon and stars were hid,
God had left His Throne,
When Helen came to me, she did,
Helen all alone!
15) It was committed discreetly
It was handled so neatly
And it shouldn't surprise you at all
16) How much will you pay to live in the attic?
The shavings off your mind are the only rent
I left some 'would' there if you thought you couldn't
Or if the 'shouldn't' that you've bought has been spent
17) He was dancing to some music no one else had ever heard
He'd speak in unknown languages
She'd translate every word
18) Contentment leads to boredom, to frustration, to the grave,
A wasted life of emptiness and pain...
Unless, of course, you walk the roads
A lesser man would surely call insane.
19) With your body dancing like an arrow,
Spreading joy beneath your feet,
And your hands that wave like tall grass
In the wind as you speak.
20) No indeed! We are not strong,
But we know Peoples that are.
Yes, and we'll guide them along
To smash and destroy you in War!
We shall be slaves just the same?
Yes, we have always been slaves,
But you -- you will die of the shame,
And then we shall dance on your graves!
Rules:
Open your Winamp, iTunes, etc.
Step 1: Put it on random.
Step 2: Pick your favorite lines from the first 20 songs that play.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from.
Step 4: Mark out the songs when someone guesses correctly. (I’ll be bolding the ones guessed correctly.)
Or do things my way if you don't use anything that allows for randomization.
Some of these may be a little obscure. Others are, I think, very obvious.
1) On a Midsummer night, when the moon shines above,
He'll appear with such beauty and grace
That a maiden will sigh, and forsake human love
For a horse with a horn on his face.
He'll lie down and settle his head in her lap,
With his hard gleaming horn on her thigh --
If I were to try that, I'd prob'ly get slapped,
And the chance of arrest would be high.
2) If I had three wishes,
They'd all be for you.
If I had my way,
You'd be mine.
Oh, the reach wouldn't matter
If I had a ladder.
If I weren't so short,
We'd be fine.
3) I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
4) I laid my head on the railroad track
Waiting on the Double E
But the train don't run by here no more
Poor, poor, pitiful me.
5) Just remember, in the winter, far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed that with the sun's love, in the spring, becomes the rose.
6) And I wonder if you know
That I never understood
That although you said you'd go
Until you did I never thought you would
7) Backs broke, bending, digging holes to plant the seeds
The owners ate the cane and the workers ate the weeds.
Putting wood in the stove and water in the cup,
You worked so hard that you died standing up.
8) It's gilt edged
Glamorous and sleek by design
You know it's jealous by nature
False and unkind
It's hard and restrained
And it's totally cool
It touches and it teases
As you stumble in the debris
9) I saw her wince, I saw her cry,
I saw the glory in her eye.
Myself I long for love and light,
But must it come so cruel, must it be so bright?
10) For I will be your pillow where e'er your head will lie.
And I'll be the star you can only catch in the corner of your eye.
I'll be the sound of laughter in the first low flower of dawn.
I'll be the touch to brush your cheek and wake you in the morning.
11) Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up.
They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.
12) And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching from a lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain only drowning men could see him
He said, "All men shall be sailors, then, until the sea shall free them."
But he, himself, was broken long before
13) I hate graveyards and old pawnshops
For they always claim the dear
Can't forgive they way they robbed me
Of my childhood souvenirs
14) There was darkness under Heaven
For an hour’s space—
Darkness that we knew was given
Us for special grace.
Sun and moon and stars were hid,
God had left His Throne,
When Helen came to me, she did,
Helen all alone!
15) It was committed discreetly
It was handled so neatly
And it shouldn't surprise you at all
16) How much will you pay to live in the attic?
The shavings off your mind are the only rent
I left some 'would' there if you thought you couldn't
Or if the 'shouldn't' that you've bought has been spent
17) He was dancing to some music no one else had ever heard
He'd speak in unknown languages
She'd translate every word
18) Contentment leads to boredom, to frustration, to the grave,
A wasted life of emptiness and pain...
Unless, of course, you walk the roads
A lesser man would surely call insane.
19) With your body dancing like an arrow,
Spreading joy beneath your feet,
And your hands that wave like tall grass
In the wind as you speak.
20) No indeed! We are not strong,
But we know Peoples that are.
Yes, and we'll guide them along
To smash and destroy you in War!
We shall be slaves just the same?
Yes, we have always been slaves,
But you -- you will die of the shame,
And then we shall dance on your graves!
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Date: 2004-12-10 01:14 pm (UTC)#3. Simon & Garfunkle I Am A rock
#11. Billy Joel Innocent Man
I Don't know the name of #6 but I know I've heard it. I'm going to guess it's by Jim Croche and I *think* it might be Vincent?
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Date: 2004-12-10 01:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 02:10 pm (UTC)5 The Rose (bette midler?)
6 is Don MacLean's Vincent
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Date: 2004-12-10 02:13 pm (UTC)You got the right artist for 6 but the wrong song.
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Date: 2004-12-10 02:16 pm (UTC)I used to play the damn thing on the guitar and everything :)
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Date: 2004-12-10 02:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 02:41 pm (UTC)#8 is one that I know (although I always thought the last word was "daybreak" although "debris" kind of makes sense in a way that daybreak doesn't)
I can hear Annie Lennox's voice, and I know it's one of the Eurythmics' songs, I'm just having trouble pulling it up
"Love is a Stranger"
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Date: 2004-12-10 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 02:48 pm (UTC)I've never heard any version of "Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me" besides Linda Rondstadt's. Is it any good?
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Date: 2004-12-13 01:14 pm (UTC)I could pass along the CD where it lives, if you're interested. Along with the plethora of Tom Smith that I really ought to be returning.
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Date: 2004-12-14 05:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-14 11:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 06:42 pm (UTC)A couple of the others as yet unguessed sound familiar, but not enough so for me to declaim their provenance.
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Date: 2004-12-10 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-14 07:34 am (UTC)Other than that, I'd only have gotten The Rose and Innocent Man, if others hadn't beaten me to them. And here I thought when you posted they were older I'd have a chance. Acketh! I'm bad at lyrics if they're not the signature ones, though. The Rose was a well-known set of lines and Innocent Man and Suzanne are both ones I've listened to a fair bit, so....
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Date: 2004-12-14 07:46 am (UTC)I'm pretty bad a lyrics myself, outside of a certain small realm.
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Date: 2004-12-14 08:16 am (UTC)18) is Hellraiser by
17) is frustratingly familiar!
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Date: 2004-12-14 08:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-14 08:06 pm (UTC)#3 I am A Rock, Simon&Garfunkel
#5 The Rose, Bette Midler
#8 Love is a Stranger, Eurythmics
#14, Helen All Alone, Rudyard Kipling (Leslie Fish version?)
#20 Pict Song, Rudyard Kipling (ditto?)
The others all look interesting, though - you should definitely post the full list later.
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Date: 2004-12-15 09:07 am (UTC)I really like the Leslie Fish performances of Kipling's poems.