Name That Song

[Basil]

(No More) The Sub Mariner - Peter Hammill

Spitting in a wishing well
Blown to hell... crash!
I'm the last splash.
I'll be your whatever you want
The bong in this reggae song

[Idril]

Oh, I love that song, Basil! Cannonball by the Breeders


The blue pill opens your eyes
Is there a better way
A new religion prescribed
To those without the faith
The hero holding a knife
And blood is not enough

[balehead]

Better living through Chemistry - Queens of the stone Age

One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt, pillars of sand

[Scheherazade]

Viva La Vida - Coldplay

And I don't understand why I sleep all day
And I start to complain that there's no rain
And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape

[balehead]

No Rain - Blind Melon

I gotta be either dead or dreamin'
'Cause look at that pape with my face beamin'
Tomorrow they may wrap fishes in it
But I was a star for one whole minute

[Basil]

King of New York - from Newsies

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and I'm out to cut the junkie
With the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables
Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose

[Shalot]

Loser - Beck

"There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday"

[MarkBastable]

King of Pain - The Police


He took Paulie and a couple of boys
and jacked the Coupe de Ville to Illinois.

[Basil]

King Of New York - Fun Lovin' Criminals

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls

[MarkBastable]

The Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel


We're happy as fish and gorgeous as geese
And wonderfully clean in the morning.

[Idril]

Willow Farm by Genesis. My brother was a huge Genesis fan when he was in high school, I, being 4 years younger, was unimpressed at the time but I still remember a lot of those songs.


I keep reaching up
but they drag me back down
Wherever I try to hide
I will always be found

[papayahed]

Dogs of Lust - The The


Just a city boy
Born and raised in south Detroit
He took the midnight train goin' anywhere

[Basil]

Don't Stop Believin' - Journey (finally, one I knew without googling!)

Chew your meat for you
Pass it back and forth
In a passionate kiss
From my mouth to yours
I like you

[Scheherazade]

I *had* to google this one... Another interesting lyric from Basil! :p

Drain You - Nirvana

We all become important when we realize our goal
Should be to figure out our role within the context of the whole
And yeah, rock and roll is fun, but if you ever hear someone
Say you are huge, look at the moon, look at the stars, look at the sun
Look at the ocean and the desert and the mountains and the sky

[papayahed]

I like Giants - Kimya Dawson



You be you and let me be me
No strings attached emotionally
I wanna get a little crazy
That's puttin' it plain
You got the medicine and I got the pain.

[Idril]

Open Invitation ~ Santana


But anyone who ever had a heart
Oh, they wouldn't turn around and break it
And anyone who's ever played a part
Oh, they wouldn't turn around and hate it

[Basil]

Sweet Jane by......Cowboy Junkies (since it's you, Idril-anyone else and I'd put Velvet Underground ;))

She set your goldfish free
And now she's sighing
Blew out your pilot light
And made a wish

[Idril]

Sweet Jane by......Cowboy Junkies (since it's you, Idril-anyone else and I'd put Velvet Underground ;))

I purposely picked lyrics that were in both versions so one could go either way. :p

And your song is Twisted by They Might Be Giants...and guess what?! I love that song!


Saw at least a hundred schoolgirls sobbing
into hankerchiefs as one.
I don't believe they knew
I was a schoolboy.

[BlueSkyGB]

Mother Goose
Jethro Tull



He sees his children jumping off
At the stations -- one by one.
His woman and his best friend --
In bed and having fun.

[Idril]

Locomotive Breath ~ Jethro Tull :D


A thumbnail sketch, a jeweler's stone
A mean idea to call my own

[rozreads]

"King of Birds"- R.E.M.

"I read the news today oh, boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, i just had to laugh"

[papayahed]

A Day in the Life - The Beatles


If you're havin' trouble with your high school head
He's givin' you the blues
You wanna graduate but not in 'is bed
Here's what you gotta do
Pick up the phone, I'm always home
Call me anytime
Just ring: three-six-two-four-three-six,
I lead a life of crime

[Basil]

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC (I love me some Bon Scott)

I need a fix 'cause I'm going down
Down to the bits that I left uptown
I need a fix 'cause I'm going down

[Idril]

Happiness is A Warm Gun ~ the Beatles...The Breeders also do a very listenable cover


Now that my role-model is
Gone gone
He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl

[Basil]

You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon

But, oh, to get involved in the exchange
Of human emotions
Is ever so, ever so satisfying

And there's no map
And a compass wouldn't help at all

[Idril]

Human Behavior by Bjork...I definitely needed to google that!


The world was on fire and no one could save me but you.
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do.
I never dreamed that I'd love somebody like you.
And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you

[papayahed]

Wicked Games - Chris Isaak


I'm in shippin', if you're receivin'
'Cause what I see I ain't believin'
The longest legs in the shortest pants
You got me doin' a matin' dance

[NEDJ293]

Hot Pants Explosion - The B-52's


Baby would you dance with me to the night?
into the serious moonlight
brighter than the stars above you shine
and the loving feels alright

[Scheherazade]

Dance D'amour' - The 69 Eyes (googled to revive the thread)

Next one:

Breaking my back just to know your name
Seventeen tracks and I've had it with this game
I'm breaking my back just to know your name
But heaven ain't close in a place like this
Anything goes but don't blink you might miss
Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this

[OrphanPip]

Somebody Told Me - The Killers


you could have a steam train
if you'd just lay down your tracks
you could have an aeroplane flying
if you bring your blue sky back

Edit: Changed the song since after a search I saw it had been done before :p

[Basil]

Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel


I'm not the only soul who's accused of hit and run
Tire tracks all across your back
I can see you've had your fun

[Idril]

Crosstown Traffic by Jimi Hendrix


Well you know just what you do to me
The way you move soft and slippery
Cut the night just like a razor
Rarely talk and that's the danger

[BlueSkyGB]

The One Thing....INXS



"It's been three years since I'm knockin' on your door,
And I still can knock some more:
Ooh girl, ooh girl, is it feasible?
I wanna know now, for I to knock some more.
Ya see, in life I know there's lots of grief,
But your love is my relief:
Tears in my eyes burn - tears in my eyes burn
While I'm waiting - while I'm waiting for my turn,"

[Basil]

Waiting In Vain - Bob Marley (Good song :nod:)

BlueSky, you should know this one:

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal 'till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man

[BlueSkyGB]

"Paradise" by John Prine...some people refer to it as 'Muhlenberg County"
lyrics are soooo true.....thanks Basil..:nod:


"Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
If it rolls and flows all down her breast.
Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
That's the way I remember her best."

[Idril]

Girl of the North ~ Bob Dylan. I knew it was Dylan but I had to search for the name of the song, I'm terrible about remembering song titles.


In the quiet afternoon you left and went down into town
And I just watched the empty road behind you
Where the fog lies kissing the mountainside
You want to be sleeping, deep inside
Believing that the hungry world won't find you

[papayahed]

How deep it Goes - Heart


Kinda love you got
Knock me off my feet
Let it all hang out
Oh, let it all hang out.
And you know I'm so wired-up
Don't need no coffee in my cup

[Basil]

Jackie Wilson Said by Van Morrison (but the first time I heard this song, it was performed by Dexy's Midnight Runners on The Young Ones :nod:)

Funky young kings, we sing of truth and soul
We're the modern day braves with one strong hold
Through the world of song our boldness is exposed
I'm talkin bout my buddies--funk it up Fishbone!

[Shalot]

Good Time Boys - Red Hot Chili Peppers




Cinnamon and sugary
And softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look
Through other people's eyes

[papayahed]

Pepper - Butthole Surfers (Love that song!!)



Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fulfil de book.

[BlueSkyGB]

Bob Marley's
Redemption

one of my favs by him....:nod:


"Lord you got me trapped woman, up on the second floor;
If I get by this time I wont be trapped no more.
So raise our window baby, I can ease out soft and slow.
And lord, your neighbors, no they wont be
Talking that stuff that they dont know."

[Basil]

One Way Out - The Allman Brothers. I had the right band but guessed the wrong song (Whipping Post was my guess).

Somebody besides me HAS to remember this song:

Eshe? She went down to Holly Springs.
Rasha Don and Baba? They went down to Peachtree.
Headliner, I challenge you to a game of horseshoes,
A game of HORSESHOES!

[papayahed]

Tennessee by Arrested Development (Love that song!!! Time to dig up that CD)


Don't wanna hear about it
Every single one's got a story to tell
Everyone knows about it
From the Queen of England to the hounds of hell
And if I catch it comin' back my way
I'm gonna serve it to you
And that ain't what you want to hear
But that's what I'll do

[Idril]

Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes...I love the White Stripes! I'm actually listening to The Dead Weather right now which is not The White Stripes but pretty darn close...kind of. :lol: :p



And I've been riding
On this train so long
I can't tell
If it's you or me
Who is driving us
Into the ground

[rozreads]

Volcano-Beck..He's such a wordster

"How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be proud, easy to say no
Easy to be cold, easy to say no"

[Basil]

Easy To Be Hard - Three Dog Night

In the nick of time, a hero arose
A funny-lookin' dog with a big black nose

[Scheherazade]

In the nick of time, a hero arose
A funny-lookin' dog with a big black nose
And Bingo was his name-O? B-I-N-G-O?

:p

I am just loving the lyrics you have been picking, Basil! This one sounds like out of a children's song but I don't want to spoil it by googling. :)

[Basil]

I can't BELIEVE that this remains unanswered after 24 hours! What sort of culturally deprived childhoods did you people suffer through to not know these lyrics?!?

I guess I need to break it down Sesame Street style for ya:

Up in the sky, a man in a plane
Baron von Richthofen was his name
Eighty men tried and eighty men died
Now they're buried together on the countryside

[Basil]

(you can tell I'm upset by the question mark-exclamation point-question mark combination :nod:)

[papayahed]

It's Snoopy vs. The Red Baron by The Royal Guardsmen (I had to look up who sings it):banana:



Because of pronouns, I can say:
"I wish SHE would find a rhinoceros for ME, and WE'd be happy."
You see, a pronoun was made to take the place of a noun,
'Cause saying all those nouns over and over
Can really wear you down!

[Basil]

Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla - Schoolhouse Rock

In the midnight moonlight, I'll
be walking a long and lonely mile.
And every time I do,
I keep seeing this picture of you.

[Granny5]

Here Comes My Baby - Cat Steves

(I don't know how to do the lyrics in the quote thing.)

I've been working on it baby
I've been thinking about it you see,
I've been trying to call you all day long but, you see,
I don't have your phone number, honey

[papayahed]

I can't get next to you - Al Green


Look at all those movie stars
They're all so beautiful and clean
When the housemaids scrub the floors
They get the spaces in between

[Basil]

Beverly Hills - Weezer

Black Nepalese, it got you weak in your knees
Just seeds and dust that you got bust on
You know it's so hard to please

Newcastle Brown can sure smack you down
You take a greasy whore and a rollin' dance floor
You know you're jailhouse-bound

[papayahed]

*grrrrrr I know this one....

[BlueSkyGB]

*grrrrrr I know this one....

My thoughts too....
cannot remember the name but believe its an oldie from Humble Pie, maybe?
got the tune in my head now...but still not title....duh...:smash:

[papayahed]

Thirty Days in the Hole - Humble Pie (I knew it when you said Humble Pie)



Load up on guns and bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's over bored and self assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word

[Granny5]

sometimes it pays to have kids!

Load up on guns and bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's over bored and self assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word

Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
(I still don't know how to do the quote thing!)

The garbage man left all the trash
On the sidewalk
And the hinges fell off of the gate
And this morning at breakfast
I spilled all the coffee
And I opened the door on my knee

[Basil]

Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning - Willie Nelson

(Granny5, what happened to Grannies 1-4? I hope they're okay. ;))


She does nothing to deserve it
He looks at her 'cause he wants to observe it
We sit back like they taught us
We keep quiet like they taught us

He just wants, he wants to prove it
She does nothing to remove it
We don't want anyone to mind us
We play the roles that they assigned us

[Scheherazade]

Saying No - Pearl Jam (googled to revive the thread)

I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and I laughed

[Snowqueen]

I'm yours - Jason Mraz ( I did it ) :banana:


Jeanne-Claude's student at the University
Louise-Marie is just a world away
You recall the night they met was warm with laughter
The words and music as she turned away.

[papayahed]

I'll Meet You At Midnight by Smokie


I took a little nap where the roots all twist
Squished a rotten peach in my fist
And dreamed about you woman
I poked my finger down inside makin a little room for a ant to hide
Natures candy in my hand or can or a pie

[Scheherazade]

Peaches - Busted (googled)

I've got a brand new attitude,
And I'm gonna wear it tonight
I'm gonna get in trouble
I wanna start a fight

[Annamariah]

I've got a brand new attitude,
And I'm gonna wear it tonight
I'm gonna get in trouble
I wanna start a fight

So What by PINK

Yippee, finally a song I know! (I would have known Smells Like Teen Spirit, but nothing else for a long while :p)


Would you mind if I killed you?
Would you mind if I tried to?
'Cause you have turned into my worst enemy
You carry hate that I don't feel
It's over now, what have you done?

[Scheherazade]

What Have You Done - Within Temptation (googled to jumpstart the game).

Next:

I really feel
That I'm losing my best friend
I can't believe
This could be the end
It looks as though you're letting go.

[samercury]

Don't Speak- No Doubt


It's like the calm before the storm
You better swim
Just like it's cold before it's warm
You'll get back here again

[papayahed]

Angels / Losing / Sleep - Our Lady Peace


You say you feel so empty
That our house just ain't a home
And I'm always somewhere else
And you're always there alone

Just a few more hours
And I'll be right home to you
I think I hear them callin'

[Idril]

Oh, that is a classic! Beth by Kiss


Falling in love was the
last thing I had on my mind
Holding you is a warmth
that I thought I could never find

[Shalot]

Isn't It Time - Babys



I can’t help my feelings;
I’ll go out of my mind.
These players come to get me
’Cause they’d like my behind.

[papayahed]

Hash Pipe - Weezer


Hello my name is Jimmy Pop and I'm a dumb white guy,
I'm not old or new but middle school fifth grade like junior high,
I don't know mofo if y'all peeps be buggin' give props to my ho cause she all fly,
But I can take the heat cause I'm the other white meat known as 'Kid Funky Fried',

[Scheherazade]

Fire Water Burn - Bloodhound Gang (googled to revive the thread)

Pay my respects to grace and virtue
Send my condolences to good
Give my regards to soul and romance,
They always did the best they could
And so long to devotion
You taught me everything I know
Wave goodbye
Wish me well..
You've gotta let me go

[Basil]

Human - The Killers


Well the girls would turn the color of an avocado
When he would drive down their street in his El Dorado
He could walk down your street
And girls could not resist his stare

[Basil]

Okay, this one was kind of tough. It was "Pablo Picasso" by the Modern Lovers (although the version in the movie Repo Man by the Burning Sensations is probably the most well-known version). "Pablo Picasso was never called an a**hole...not like you." Great song.

How 'bout this one:

Feminists don't have a sense of humor (tsk, tsk, tsk)
Feminists just want to be alone (boo-hoo-hoo!)
Feminists spread vicious lies and rumor,
They have a tumor on their funny bone.

They say: child molestation isn't funny (hahaha!)
Rape and degradation's just a crime (lighten up, ladies!)
Rampant prostitution, sex for money (What's wrong with that?!?)
Can't these chicks do anything but whine?

[papayahed]

Mother of Pearl - Nellie McKay


Where it began
I can't begin to knowin'
but then I know it's growin' strong.
Was in the spring
then spring became the summer.
Who'da believed you'd come along ?

[Scheherazade]

Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond (googled to revive)

I know a woman, (who) became a wife
These are the very words she uses to describe her life
She said a good day ain't got no rain
She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed
And I think of things that might have been

[Basil]

Slip Slidin' Away - Paul Simon


And I shout that you're all fakes
And you should have seen the look on your face
And I guess that's what it takes
When comparing your bellyaches

And it's been a long time
Which agrees with this watch of mine
And I guess that I miss you
And I'm sorry if I dissed you

[Scheherazade]

Trailer Trash by Modest Mouse (googled to revive).

I've enjoyed making you
miserable for years
found peace of mind in
playing on your fears
How I loved to catch your gold
and silver tears, but now my dear
What a dark and dreary life
Are you reaching for a knife?
Could you really kill your wife?

[papayahed]

Yeah! Oh, Yeah! by The Magnetic Fields



On the street where you live
Girls talk about their social lives
They're made of lipstick, plastic and paint
A touch of sable in their eyes

All your life all you asked
When is your Daddy gonna talk to you
But we're living in another world
Tryin' to get your message through

[Shalot]

Runaway - Bon Jovi (no need to google)


I'm your only friend

I'm not your only friend

But I'm a little glowing friend

But really I'm not actually your friend

But I am

[Basil]

Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants

It's a shame this game seems to have fallen out of favor here on the forum. It just sinks down to the bottom and off the front page time and time again. So sad.

Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew
Floating down the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground

[papayahed]

Astronomy Domine by Pink Floyd


Soldier boy, made of clay
Now an empty shell
Twenty one, only son
but he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
Do just as we say
Finished here, Greeting Death
He's yours to take away

[Basil]

Disposable Heroes - first song I ever heard by Metallica

See yourself
You are the steps you take
You and you and that's the only way

Shake - shake yourself
You're every move you make
So the story goes

[AllyFizzle]

owner of a lonely heart - YES



I listen to our favorite song
Playing on the radio
Hear the DJ say, loves a game
Of easy come and easy go

[Shalot]

Every Rose Has Its Thorn


Either way you caught me whilst a lying
You caught me whilst a lying
You caught me with my pants down

[cgrillo]

Ragoo (or however you spell it) - Kings of Leon


Where are you going I don't mind
I've killed my world and I've killed my time
So where do I go what do I see
I see many people coming after me
So where are you going to I don't mind
If I live too long I'm afraid I'll die
So I will follow you wherever you go

[Scheherazade]

Strangers - The Kinks (Googled to revive)

And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt
As the flames rose to her Roman nose
And her Walkman started to melt

[cgrillo]

Heh. Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths.


Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the girls around her said she's got it coming
But she gets it while she can

[Scheherazade]

Get Back - The Beatles

When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody's help in any way.
But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured,
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.

[hack]

Help - The Beatles

The curiousness of your potential kiss
has got my mind and body aching
Really hurt me baby, really cut me baby
How can you have a day without a night
You're the book that I have opened
and now I've got to know much more

[hack]

Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack (from the album Blue Lines)


"Time to go home
Madge is on the phone
Got to meet the Gurneys
And a dozen gray attorneys
T V dinner by the pool
I'm so glad I finished school
Life is such a ball
I run the world from City Hall"

[Pendragon]

BROWN SHOES DON'T MAKE IT by THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION

This ain't a song for the broken hearted
A silent prayer for faith departed
I don't wanna be just a face in the crowd
You're gonna hear my voice when I shout it out loud

[Scheherazade]

It's My Life - Bon Jovi

I like boys with strong convictions
And convicts with perfect diction
Underdogs with good intentions
Amputees with stamp collections
Plywood skinboards ride the ocean
Salty noses, suntan lotion
Always seriously joking
And rambunctiously soft-spoken

[Delta40]

So Nice so Smart - Kimya Dawson

I woke up this morning with an ache in my head
I splashed on my clothes as I spilled out of bed
I opened the window to listen to the news
but all I heard was the establishment's blues

[Pendragon]

The Establishment Blues ~ Sixto Rodriguez

Well, even when Ned was a little bitty baby
His nose covered most of his face
And as he grew to manhood
It spread out all over the place
His heroes were Carl Malden
Jimmy Durante and Pinocchio
And all his friends used to wonder
Just how big it was gonna grow.

[papayahed]

Ned Nostril by Ray Stevens


Somewhere in the distance I hear the bells ring
Darkness settles on the town as the children start to sing
And the lady 'cross the street she shuts out the night
There's a cast of thousands waiting as she turns out the light

[David Lurie]

Too Late for Love by Def Leppard

Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train,
'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.
In the winter of '65, We were hungry, just barely alive.
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well,

[papayahed]

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band



She said you gotta do your fair share
Now cough up half the rent
I treat my body like a temple
You treat yours like a tent
But the right word at the right time
May get me a little hug
That's the difference between lightning
And a harmless lightnin' bug

[Whistle]

Fruitcakes - Jimmy Buffett

Tripped over a dog in a choke-chain collar
People were shouting and pushing and saying
they'd traded a smoke for a food stamp dollar

[Sapphire]

Rose Parade - Elliott Smith


What's your vice? you know that mine's the illusion

[papayahed]

Goodbye, Apathy by One Republic



...walk through concert doors
and roam all over coliseum floors
I stepped on stage, at Live Aid
All the people gave an applause that paid
And out of speakers I did speak
I wore my sneakers but I'm not a sneak...

[Scheherazade]

My Adidas - Run DMC (googled to revive)

Next:

Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble,
Très bien ensemble.

[Basil]

Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble,
Très bien ensemble.

What strange moon-man language is this?

Michelle by the Beatles (with Paul apparently speaking in tongues)


See, me got photo photo photograph of you
And Mamma Mamma Mamma-san,
Of you and Mamma Mamma Mamma-san.
Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood, bamboo kid:
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice.

[papayahed]

Straight to Hell - The Clash


They pulled in just behind the fridge
He lays her down, he frowns
"Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young?"
He kissed her then and there
She took his ring, took his babies
It took him minutes, took her nowhere
Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything, but

[ReadingElmo]

Young Americans - David Bowie


Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?

[papayahed]

MAIRZY DOATS by Merry Macs



Head bangers in leather
Sparks fly in the dead of the night
It all comes together
When they shoot out the lights
50,000 wats of power
And it's pushin' overload
The beast is ready to devour

[iamnobody]

Heavy Metal-Sammy Hagar


You know I can't stand it, your runnin around
I can't stand it 'cause you put me down

[papayahed]

I put a spell on you by Bonnie Tyler



Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!

[Shalot]

Redemption Song - Bob Marley



And everything moves
we are the past
everything moves
but outside these photographs
everything dies
the cycles of time
everyone is passing, passing, passing, passing through

[papayahed]

Song Of Remembering by Rentals


I've got sunshine
On a cloudy day.
When it's cold outside,
I've got the month of May.

Well, I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way?

[Triter]

My Girl-The Temptations


You ripple like a river when I touch you
When I pluck your body like a string

[iamnobody]

Miracles-Jefferson Starship

If I go crazy then will you still call me Superman?
If I'm alive and well will you be there holdin' my hand?

[Triter]

Kryptonite-3 Doors Down

I'm so addicted to
All the things you do
When you're...

[iamnobody]

Addicted-Saving Abel

Baby, the way you move me is crazy.
It's like you see right through me.
You make it easier, believe me you don't even
have to try.

[Triter]

You Are The Best Thing-Ray Lamontagne

Take off your clothes and lie in the sun
Everybody's sayin that music's for fun

[iamnobody]

Music is Love-David Crosby

Hold me in your arms,
Tell me that you want me
Whisper all the words
That dreams are made of

[Triter]

Speaking Of Love-Air Supply

Midnight on the water
I saw the ocean’s daughter
Walking on a wave she came
Staring as she called my name

[iamnobody]

Can't Get It Out of My Head-ELO

I was alone
I never knew
What good love could do
Ooh,then we touched
Then we sang

[Triter]

Any Way You Want It-Journey

I can hear her heart beat for a thousand miles
And the heaven’s open every time she smiles
And when I come to her that’s where I belong
Yet I’m running to her like a river’s song

[iamnobody]

Crazy Love-Van Morrison

Soft hands and a velvet tongue
I want to give you what you give to me
And every breath that is in your lungs
Is a tiny little gift to me

[Triter]

Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground-White Stripes

I caught a little raindrop gave it to a flower
And a little bee put it in a tree
And made a little honey for you and me

[iamnobody]

Caught a Little Raindrop-Claude King


You've been the blood in my veins
The only one who knows my middle name
And the smiles, they come easy 'cause of you

[<Trinity>]

Every Word Was a Piece of My Heart - Bon Jovi

I've got a lot to say, if you will let me
It's always hard, when you're around me
But here right now, there's interest in your eyes
So hear me out, and hear this the first time

[Triter]

Angels and Airwaves-Breathe

But there was a brand new start
And suddenly I was taken
New and faraway places
And the music I was shaken

[Shalot]

The Hands of Angels?


Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face I kissed her neck
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow

[MarkBastable]

Goldfinger - Just Like Heaven


As a child, I refought the war
with plastic planes and imagination.
I sank Tirpitz; blew up the Mohne dam; all these and more.
I was the saviour of the nation...

[papayahed]

(No More) The Sub-Mariner by Peter Hammill



Baby I got sick this morning
A sea was storming inside of me
Baby I think I'm capsizing
The waves are rising and rising

[Shalot]

Sexual Healing...Marvin Gaye

"Your head will collapse
But there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself...."

[Idril]

Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann...or Bruce Springsteen

"There must be some mistake
I didnt mean to let them
Take away my soul.
Am I too old, is it too late?"

[Basil]

Why, hello Idril! Long time no see!

Is that "The Show Must Go On" by Pink Floyd?

[Idril]

You are correct young man! :D One of Dave's finest vocal moments...of which there are many. :p

[Basil]

One of Dave's finest vocal moments...of which there are many. :p

No one doubts David Gilmour's rock god status, Idril. :p


How young are you?
How old am I?
Let's count the rings around my eyes...

How smart are you?
How dumb am I?
Don't count any of my advice...

[Idril]

No one doubts David Gilmour's rock god status, Idril. :p

Just making sure no one forgets. :p

Ooh! Ooh! I know that one! I Will Dare by the Replacements...right? ;)

[Basil]

Correct! Your turn!

[Idril]

Alrighty then...

"Come up with me, love
We'll disappear in the evening light
Come up with me, love,
Into a world that's sparkly bright
That's the way it's for me, love
Takes just a little to give me life
That's the way its for me, love
Takes just a touch to drop a stop
On the top of the world "

[Basil]

I'd thought I would let someone else take a crack at this one, but if there aren't any takers...."Plenty is Never Enough" by Tenement Halls. ;)

And then on our next date
Well I could bring my flatmate
I'm not quite sure if Stuart's seen ya
But maybe we could double-team ya

[Idril]

If You're Into It by Flight of the Conchords...brilliant song. ;)


Hey now sister won’t you come and bless my soul
I been along time comin down the mountainside
You see I fell from a spaceship I was taken for a little ride
And I’d very much like to fall in love with you
If you would if you would I’d like to know
will you think of me when I’m gone?

[Basil]

Gone by the Beta Band. You know, I've only recently been introduced to their music, they're so good. :yesnod:


I was born to be a clown
But my girl she says to me to turn it down
Right now....right now.
But I can’t help it, can’t you see?
There’s a bright red light that shines on me
All day....all day.

[Shalot]

My Eyes Won't Shut- (I like this)

Haven't had a dream in a long time
See the Life I've had could make a good man bad

[Idril]

It's been a couple days so in the interest of keeping the game moving...I googled. :p It's The Smiths, Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want. I did check the song out and it's good song.


You whisper secrets in my ear
Slowly dancing cheek to cheek
It's such a sweet thing when you open up, baby
They say I'll only do you wrong
We come together cause I understand
Just who you really are, baby

[free]

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, Little Sister


Turn on the lights, give me a mic
I'm about to sing and do it just as she likes.
Jump off the stage, crowd surfin all the way, Cowabunga!

[Basil]

Best Love Song - T-Pain


Inland from Vancouver shore
The ravens and the seagulls push each other inward and outward,
Inward and outward

[Shalot]

Heart Cooks Brain - Modest Brain

So in a word don't shed a tear
I'll be here when it all gets weird

[papayahed]

If I Ever Leave This World Alive - Flogging Molly



Your beauty is beyond compare
With flaming locks of auburn hair
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green


Your smile is like a breath of spring
Your voice is soft like summer rain

[iamnobody]

Jolene-Dolly Parton


If roses are meant to be red
And violets to be blue
Why isn't my heart
Meant for you

[Shalot]

Anouk - Lost (??? - googled - found that on youtube)




the ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please

[Idril]

Oh Shalot! I get so ridiculously excited to see other people mention the Replacements!! :banana:

Bastards of Young ~ Replacements


When you're falling awake and you take stock of the new day,
and you hear your voice croak as you choke on what you need to say,
well, don't you fret, don't you fear,
I will give you good cheer.

[Shalot]

Oh Shalot! I get so ridiculously excited to see other people mention the Replacements!! :banana:

Bastards of Young ~ Replacements

I am all about this song for the moment. It's so awesome right now. :yesnod: And yours is:

Life Is a Long Song - Jethro Tull


I'll be prancin around in my high heels and your cherry lipstick
Look out your window, I'm on your street

[Idril]

I am all about this song for the moment. It's so awesome right now. :yesnod:

Paul Westerberg is such a genius with lyrics. So simple and yet so profound.

Your song is Happy Alone by Kings of Leon


I woke the same as any other day
Except a voice was in my head
It said seize the day, pull the trigger, drop the blade
And watch the rolling heads

[iamnobody]

The Day I Tried to Live-Soundgarden


Nothing seems to break me
No matter how hard I fall
Nothing can break me at all

[Idril]

Another great Soundgarden song, Blow Up The Outside World


That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and
snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs.

[papayahed]

It's the End of the World - REM



25 years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination
I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the whole world's MADE UP OF this brotherhood of man
FOR whatever that means

[Triter]

What's Up-4 Non Blondes

I'd pay any price just to win you
Surrender my good life for bad
With you I'm gonna drown
An unsung man

[iamnobody]

Bargain-The Who

I am too connected to
slip away, fade away
days away I
still feel you
touching me, changing me

[Triter]

Herion-Tool

As my life spills into yours
Changing with the hours
Filling up the world with time
Turning time to flowers

[papayahed]

Since you've asked - Leonard Cohen


Cold coolin at a bar, and I'm lookin for some action
But like Mike Jagger said, I can't get no satisfaction
The girls are all around, but none of them wanna get with me

[Triter]

Funky Cold Medina-Tone Loc

And while I'm away
Dust out the demons inside
And it won't be long before you and me run
To the place in our hearts that we hide

[Scheherazade]

Funky Cold Medina-Tone Loc

And while I'm away
Dust out the demons inside
And it won't be long before you and me run
To the place in our hearts that we hideGuess That's Why They Call It The Blues - Elton John (googled to jump start the game).

Next:

You come from parents wanton
A childhood rough and rotten
I come from wealth and beauty
Untouched by work or duty

[papayahed]

We both go down together - The Decemberists


Steve walks warily down the street
With his brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet
Machine guns ready to go

Are you ready hey are you ready for this?
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat?
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat yeah

[iamnobody]

Another One Bites the Dust-Queen

That's when I felt the wind pick up.
I grabbed the rail while choking up..
These words to say, and then you kised me.

[Triter]

18th Floor Balcony-Blue October


My hands, they’re strong
But my knees were far too weak
To stand in your arms
Without falling to your feet

[iamnobody]

Set Fire to the Rain-Adele


She eyes me like a Pisces
When I am weak

[BlueSkyGB]

Nirvana...Heart Shaped Box..

"Right outside this lazy summer home
you don't have time to call your soul a critic, no
Right outside the lazy gate of winter's summer home
wondering where the nuthatch winters
Wings a mile long just carried the bird away"

[papayahed]

Eyes of the World - Grateful Dead


I've got so much honey the bees envy me.
I've got a sweeter song than the birds in the trees.
I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?

[emmawillyarms]

My Girl - The Temptations. One of my most favourite songs ever!

You always keep me guessing
I never seem to know what you are thinking
And if a girl looks at you
It's for sure your little eye will be a-winking

[Calidore]

Spooky -- Imogene Heap

I guess I might seem kind of bitter
You've got me feeling down in the dumps
'Cause I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love
And I have to use the self-service pumps

[tonywalt]

Weird Al Yankovic - One more minute

If you know your history
Then you would know where you're coming from
Then you wouldn't have to ask me
Who the 'eck do I think I am

[lilimarlene]

Buffalo Soldier-Bob Marley

Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

[papayahed]

Hurt - Nine Inch Nails



You show us everything you've got
You keep on dancin' and the room gets hot
You drive us wild, we'll drive you crazy
You say you wanna go for a spin
The party's just begun, we'll let you in

[Calidore]

I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night -- KISS

Don't start playing games that you can't finish
Don't open doors when you don't know what's waiting
Don't try to close your hands; they're smaller than the rain
Have you got anything left to say before I shoot myself?

[papayahed]

Superblaster - Curve

The first thing I remember knowing,
Was a lonesome whistle blowing,
And a young un's dream of growing up to ride,
On a freight train leaving town,
Not knowing where I'm bound,

[Sospira]

Merle Haggard - Mama tried


It isn't what she's got to say but how she thinks and where she's been.
To me, the words are nice, the way they sound.
I like to hear them best that way, it doesn't much matter what they mean.
she says them mostly just to calm me down

[papayahed]

Something in the way she moves - James Taylor


I was talkin' to this girl from the U.S. nation
The way that I met her was on tour at a concert
She had long hair and a short miniskirt
I just got onstage drippin', pourin' with sweat
I was walkin' through the crowd and gues who I met

[Pendragon]

Just a Friend - Bize Mark

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking' their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

[papayahed]

For what it's worth - Buffalo Springfield (I never knew that was the name of it)

How well I remember
The look that was in his eyes
Stealin' kisses from me on the sly
Takin' time to make time
Tellin' me that he's all mine

[Pendragon]

Son of a Preacher Man - first by Aretha Franklin, I think...

You know I've always been a dreamer
Spend my life running 'round
And it's so hard to change
Can't seem to settle down
But the dreams I've seen lately

[Pendragon]

Really? No one? Take It to the Limit - The Eagles


Lost
On a painted sky
Where the clouds are hung
For the poet's eye
You may find him
If you may find him

[NikolaiI]

I can't think of it, Uncle Pen.

[Pendragon]

Be (Jonathan Livingston Seagull Theme Song) - Neil Diamond

In the night
Was the dark
In the dark
Was the dream
In the dream
Was the Child
And myself
There unseen

[Pendragon]

Be (Jonathan Livingston Seagull Theme Song) - Neil Diamond

In the night
Was the dark
In the dark
Was the dream
In the dream
Was the Child
And myself
There unseen


The song is Dream Child by the Trans Siberian Orchestra. Somebody else chose a new song

[papayahed]

Dude, you guys give me a minute to answer.

Next tune:

(I know that) there are many ways
(to live there) in the sun or shade.
(Together) we will find a place
(to settle] down and live with space

(without the) busy pace back east,
(the hustling), rustling of the feet,
(I know I'm) ready to leave too,
(so this is) what we're going to do,

[Pendragon]

Go West - Village People (yeah, those YMCA weirdos)

Never cared for what they say
Never cared for games they play
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And I know

[papayahed]

Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

If you hear any noise
It's just me and the boys
Hit me (groovin')
You gotta hit the band

[Pendragon]

Parliament Mothership Connection (Starchild)

Everywhere you look, you can write a book
On the trouble with a woman and a man
But you cannot impose, you can't stick your nose
Into somethin' that you don't understand

[Pendragon]

No One? Really? Who's Cheating Who - Charly McClain

Go easy on you here:

People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared

[papayahed]

Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel

I started my life in an old, cold run down tenement slum
My father left, he never even married mom
I shared the guilt my mama knew
So afraid that others knew I had no name

[bounty]

try playing this game while you are listening to some other song!

love child by Diana ross and the supremes.

Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow
Pockets full of stones

Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow

(here's a hint maybe, the song is inspired by Virginia woolf)

and hi papayahed!

[Pendragon]

"What The Water Gave Me" - FLORENCE + THE MACHINE

Oh, can't you remember the good times we had
With you singin' up at the bar
We would have been terrors out on the road
But we never could locate the car

[bounty]

is it "contemporary knights of the round table" by pendragon and the little arthurs?

you stumped me! even a couple of lyrics search websites came up with nothing...

[mal4mac]

"You stumped me!" - Electric Autobahn

Some people say little girls should be seen and not heard,
But I think,
OH BONDAGE UP YOURS! 1-2-3-4!

[Pendragon]

http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/h/happyhouristhesaddesttimeofday.shtml You didn't search very well!

I got me a mansion
Forget the price
Ain't never been there
They tell me it's nice

[bounty]

I'm on dialup internet and running half speed at that. none of the lines from the lyrics showed up in an internet search, and two different lyrics sites I went to came up naught for multiple lines as well. I spent probably 20-30 minutes on it...

joe walsh's life's been good.

malmac---I cant even find that "electric autobahn" is a group! and those lyrics don't show up in pendragon's lyrics site either...so im double stumped!


...And things that we believe in
How sweet it is to love someone
How right it is to care
How long it's been since yesterday
And what about tomorrow
And what about our dreams
And all the memories we share

[mal4mac]

I just invented a group called electric autobahn, and their first song. Am I not allowed to do that?

Lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogypBUCb7DA

[mal4mac]

I just invented a group called electric autobahn, and their first song. Am I not allowed to do that?

You need to brush up on early Brit punk - OH BONDAGE UP YOURS! by Poly Styrene and the X-Ray Spex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogypBUCb7DA

[bounty]

I can take punk in small doses and maybe mild versions...smiles...

...And things that we believe in
How sweet it is to love someone
How right it is to care
How long it's been since yesterday
And what about tomorrow
And what about our dreams
And all the memories we share

[Pendragon]

Songs, and Poems, and Promises - John Denver I'm a big fan of John Denver but am told by my beloved wife that it is "weenie music".

There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor
Tomorrow for old England she sails
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell

[bounty]

am a big fan also, saw him in concert in the early 80s.

well you stumped me there too. had to look it up. roger whittaker's the last farewell. sad lyrics---will have to hunt up the song to give a listen.

Me, I'm just the lucky kind
Love to hear you say that love is love
And though we may be blind
Love is here to stay and that's enough

To make you mine, girl
Be the only one
Love me all the time, girl
We'll go on and on

[mal4mac]

The Osmonds? How could you :(

As a stranger I arrived
As a stranger I shall leave
I remember a perfect day in May
How bright the flowers
How cool the breeze

The maiden spoke of love
The mother had kind words
But now the world is dreary
With a winter path before me

I can’t choose the season
To depart from this place
I won’t delay or ponder
I must begin my journey now

The bright moon lights my path
It will guide me on my road
I see the snow-covered meadow
I see where deer have trod

A voice within says – go now
Why linger and delay?
Leave the dogs to bay at the moon
Before her father’s gate

For love is a thing of changes
God has made it so
Ever-changing from old to new
God has made it so

So love delights in changes
Good night, my love, good night
Love is a thing of changes
Good night, my love, good night

I’ll not disturb your sleep
But I’ll write above your door
A simple farewell message
Good night, my love, good night

These are the last words spoken
Soon I’ll be out of sight
A simple farewell message
Good night, my love, good night

[Pendragon]

Gute Nacht (from Winterreise) Schubert Liszt Valentina Lisitsa

"She heard about a place people were smilin'
They spoke about the red man's way,
and how they loved the land
And they came from everywhere
to the Great Divide
Seeking a place to stand
or a place to hide"

[bounty]

nah it's not the osmonds mal4mac, try again...smiles....

well its the last resort by the eagles---had to look it up, and the irony there is, I used to have hotel California! ack!

I looked out this morning and the sun was gone
Turned on some music to start my day
I lost myself in a familiar song
I closed my eyes and I slipped away...

[Pendragon]

More Than A Feeling - Boston one of the wife's favorites

If you don't feel good ev'ry way you could
Don't sit there broken hearted
Call all your friends in the neighborhood
And get the party started

[bounty]

man I missed that one too, how could I! a song I grew up with!

shout it out loud by kiss

my dad used to say he wouldn't go see them if they were playing across the street!

Loving you
Isn't the right thing to do
How can I
Ever change things that I feel

If I could
Maybe I'd give you my world
How can I
When you won't take it from me

[Pendragon]

"Go Your Own Way" - Fleetwood Mac

"Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on it's face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space"

[bounty]

stumped me there, but the internet is telling me its the windmills of your mind...by Barbara Streisand, or dusty springfield, or petula clark, or sting even and bunches of others! and its also in the thornbirds (did not see it) by Georgio Parreira...

Hey kids, shake it loose together
The spotlight's hittin' something
That's been known to change the weather
We'll kill the fatted calf tonight
So stick around
You're gonna hear electric music
Solid walls of sound

[NikolaiI]

Bennie and the Jets! - Elton John

Now all the trials and tribulations
Of the world don't mean a thing;
Above the clouds
I'll fly away--
Was it my imagination,
Did the stars come out to play?

[bounty]

bennie and the jets might be the all time best cruisin' tune!

Eric Woolfson's Immortal, had to look at that up...one place suggested it was a song that can describe Shakespeare's life even though apparently the song was written about edgar allen poe...?



I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

[NikolaiI]

Eric Woolfson and the Alan Parson's project were big fans of Poe and they did quite a few of their songs influenced by him, including the album Tales of Mystery and Imagination, there are adaptations of The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gold Bug and others...

I didn't get the reference to Shakespeare - what was it?

I sort of take this one to be a bit of an adaptation of Edgar Poe's famous "A Dream Within a Dream," sort of making it Eric's own..

I actually just discovered this song, so I haven't made up my mind about it. I love the lyrics, but I've only listened to it once. I'm really a fan of quite a few of Woolfson's works such as "Freudiana," "I Am a Mirror," "Little Hans," "It's Funny You Should Say That," and of course, his work with Alan Parson's Project.

[bounty]

I got the Shakespeare reference just from someone on yahoo questions who was talking about the song in general. the poster didn't illustrate specifically how they were connected.

I think that's pretty neat when literary culture influences musical culture...if I knew more of poe, id be all the more interested in listening to those groups' music. or alternatively, if I knew more of their music, I might want to read more poe. and now maybe I will...

I recently learned that one of my favorite songs by Florence the machine (what the water gave me) was inspired by the lead singer's knowledge of Virginia woolf's suicide and a visit to her gardens.


I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

[Pendragon]

"My Immortal" - EVANESCENCE (One of the wife's favorite groups)


There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,

[bounty]

oh boy I got one!

stairway to heaven by led zeppelin.


If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me
For I must be travelin' on now
There's too many places I got to see

[Pendragon]

Freebird! Lynyrd Skynyrd. A favorite of my own, there.

Every night seems, dinner and wine
Saturdays, girls
I was never in love, never had the time
In my hustle and hurried world
Laughing my self to sleep, waking up lonely
I needed someone to hold me, oh

[papayahed]

Every Woman in the World- Air Supply



She struts into the room
Well I don't know her
But with a magnifying glance
I just sort of looked her over, hmm
We have a drink or two
Well, maybe three
And then suddenly she starts telling me
Her life story

[bounty]

well the internet tells me its be my lover by alice cooper and I used to have his greatest hits album when I was a kid and I wonder if that was on it? hmmm

She was sittin' all alone over on the tailgate
Tan legs swingin' by a Georgia plate
I was lookin' for her boyfriend
Thinkin', no way she ain't got one
Soon as I sat down I was fallin' in love
Tryin' to pour a little sugar in her Dixie cup
Talkin' over the speakers in the back of that truck
She jumped up and cut me off

[Pendragon]

Play It Again - Luke Bryan

"I don't like to hear you cry.
You just don't know
How deep that cuts me.
So I will cover up my eyes
And it will go away.
You've only lived a minute of your life
I must be dreaming,
Please stop screaming."

[bounty]

had to look that one up and the internet tells me its steven by alice cooper. one yahoo search result was titled "the most sinister and creepy lyrics to a song..." ---I think I never heard of that one so im obliged to give a challenging one in return!

Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.

[Pendragon]

Looking it up, Bing says it's O Fortuna by Carl Orff. Nor speaking the language, I have never heard it.

"Silent stars blinking in the blackness of an endless sky
Cold silver satellites, ghostly caravans passing by
Galaxies unfolding, new worlds being born
Pilgrims and prodigals creeping toward the dawn"

[bounty]

most people have probably heard o fortuna and just don't know that that's it.

well I had to give up and look,

the long road out of eden by the eagles. makes me wonder if its in reference to the garden of eden from genesis in particular, or a generic eden.

I love this song and there's been some really wonderful duet covers of it on the voice (the one with alessandra castranova and joe kirk is well worth looking up on youtube):

All along it was a fever
A cold sweat, hot headed believer
I threw my hands in the air I said show me something
He said, if you dare come a little closer

Round and around and around and around we go
Oh now tell me, now tell me, now tell me now you know

Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all the way

[Pendragon]

Apparently this is "Stay" by Rihanna. Had to look it up.

"Well, I could see that he wasn't a large man
I could tell that he wasn't too tall
I judged him to be 'bout five foot three
And his voice was a soft Texas drawl"

[NikolaiI]

Marty Robbins - Mr. Shorty

Evidently there is another song with "Soft Texas drawl" in it, that would be Texas women by Hank Williams, Jr. :-)

So these, I adjusted them from a live version that is my favourite.


And he's taken the halter from his hose,
And from his purpose he did not fail
He slipped it over the wanton's nose
He's tied it to the grey mare's tail

He's loosed them out the castle gates
And the mare didn't fail to find her way
She was at Lochmaben town,
Threen long hours before the day.

And the very next morning in broad daylight
When they had ended all their cheer
Behold the wanton brown was gone
Likewise the poor blind harper's mare

It's oh and alas, said the blind harper
It's ever and alas that I came here
In Scotland I've lost me a good grey foal
In England they've stolen me old grey mare.

And it's hold your talking, you blind harper
And again of your music let us hear
Well paid shall your colt foal be
You will have a far better mare

So the harper harped and then he sang
So sweet was the music he let them hear
He was paid for a foal that he never had lost
Three times over for the good grey mare.

[bounty]

the blind harper of lochmaben (yes I had to look that up!) by---I see its by a few people---so im going to go with.....kate rusby.

(this was a recent duet on the voice, and it just absolutely blew my doors in!)

I got ten fingers to the sky,
My back to the wall, my white flag high,
Her lips, just like a gun,
She's got silver bullets on her tongue,
He's deep under her spell,
I'm screaming out, but it just won't help

I think I'm cursed,
I had him first

Adeline have mercy,
You don't want to break my heart,
Take what's mine, don't hurt me,
Steal my money, steal my car,
Don't take my man, don't take my man,
I said, don't take my man 'cause you know you can...

[Pendragon]

a search says it's Put the Gun Down - ZZ Ward

" I think you're gonna like it,
I think you're gonna feel
Like you belong,
A nocturnal vacation,
Unnecessary sedation,
You want to feel at home
Cause you belong,"

[papayahed]

Welcome to my Nightmare - Alice Cooper (I Love me some Alice)


I try to discover
A little something to make me sweeter
Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart
I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
That you gimme no reason
Why you make-a-me work so hard

[bounty]

I don't know it, but im going to guess somebody like Janis Joplin and then go look...

I found out it's a little respect by erasure, and as I was doing some reading they said, "we recognize Janis Joplin as our most significant musical influence" and that the lead singer has a poster of her on his wall. also "mum and dad used to put her records on and dance around the flat until the neighbors called the bobbies."

I remember it all very well lookin' back
It was the summer I turned eighteen
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
On the outskirts of New Orleans
We didn't have money for food or rent
To say the least we were hard pressed
Then Mama spent every last penny we had
To buy me a dancin' dress

[Pendragon]

Here's Your One Chance, Fancy, Don't Let Me Down - Reba MacIntyre Remember that one well

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing, I mean nothing honey if it ain't free, no no

[papayahed]

Speaking of Janis Joplin...Me and Bobby McGee

I'll learn to work the saxophone
I'll play just what I feel
Drink Scotch whisky all night long
And die behind the wheel
They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose

[bounty]

have to look this up...sounds like joe walsh maybe...

ah, its steely dan's deacon blue. I was reading the liner notes on that song and how the band was heavily influence by the eagle's hotel California and that the title "deacon blue" came from a conversation with joe walsh in a Malibu bar where walsh was telling them about his prize blue tick hound named deacon.

laughs...

Dry lightning cracks across the skies
Those storm clouds gather in her eyes
Daddy was mean a old mister
Mama was an angel in the ground
The weather man called for a twister
She prayed blow it down
There's not enough rain in Oklahoma
To wash the sins out of that house
There's not enough wind in Oklahoma
To rip the nails out of the past

[papayahed]

Blown Away - Carrie Underwood

Taste me you will see
More is all you need
You’re dedicated to
How I’m killing you

[bounty]

had to look that up---master of puppets by metallica.

papayahed are you a metalhed? laughs...

"I don't want to lose you, this good thing
That I got 'cause if I do
I will surely,
Surely lose a lot.
'Cause your love is better
Than any love I know.

"It's like thunder and lightning,
The way you love me is frightening..."

(the name of the song's in the next line"

[Pendragon]

Ya gotta knock, knock, knock on wood!

Knock On Wood ~ David Bowie

"That isn't my name.
You were fast asleep.
Forget what he did.
Can I be the kid,
For your soul to keep?

[bounty]

welllllllllllllllllllllllll, starsailor's some of us---so a new group and song to look up for me...

pen--david bowie? that's pretty neat. its an old song by Wilson pickett, Otis redding, and a remake by amii stewart in the late 70s. ive not heard the bowie version, so that's another fun thing to look up.

"You can take all the tea in China
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail right around all the seven oceans
Drop it straight into the deep blue sea
She's as sweet as..."

[papayahed]

....Tupelo Honey

Great Song!







papayahed are you a metalhed? laughs...


ermm..... little bit.


You told me to leave you alone
My father said, "Come on home"
My doctor said, "Take it easy"
Oh but your lovin' is much too strong

[bounty]

I like most everything by van Morrison.

chain of fools by Aretha franklin...I had to cheat, and sadly, I actually have the song! ack!

okay here's an easy one (I think):

"All day long they work so hard
Till the sun is goin' down
Working on the highways and byways
And wearing, wearing a frown
You hear them moanin' their lives away
Then you hear somebody sa-ay

That's the sound of the men... "

[Pendragon]

Working on the chain--gang! Sam Cooke, Chain Gang These oldies were new when I was young


In the quiet hours before the dawn
Buttons up his uniform
Takes out his badge and pins it on
For thirty years he's enforced the law
And he drives out on the Rio Grande
Across the dry and sunburned land
And on this side he takes his stand again

[papayahed]

Bordertown - Dan Seals


Since the Prehistoric ages and the days of ancient Greece
Right down through the Middle Ages
Planet earth kept going through changes
And then the Renaissance came and times continued to change

[bounty]

rage against the machine--renegades of funk. what the heck papayahed!? laughs...

one of my all time favorites:

"Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
I ain't got time to take no fast train
Oh, the lonely days are gone
I'm coming home
Oh, my baby she wrote me..."

[papayahed]

rage against the machine--renegades of funk. what the heck papayahed!? laughs...


What?

The Letter by the box tops


Well, the first time that I got it I was just ten years old
I got it from some kitty next door
An' I went to see the doctor and he gave me the cure
I think I got it some more

[PabloQ]

Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent

Turn and run!
Nothing can stop them,
Around every river and canal their power is growing.
Stamp them out!
We must destroy them,
They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour.

[bounty]

didn't know that one--genesis' the return of the giant hogweed...

I wonder how we pick the song lyrics we do...

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.

The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.

The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The minnow would be lost, the minnow would be lost.

[papayahed]

The ship set ground on the shore
Of this uncharted desert isle
With Gilligan,
The Skipper too.
The millionaire
And his wife,
The movie star,
The professor and Mary Ann,
Here on Gilligan's Isle.

Theme from Gilligan's Island


I think you're gonna like it
I think you're gonna feel like you belong
A nocturnal vacation
Unnecessary sedation
You want to feel at home 'cause you belong

[PabloQ]

Theme from Gilligan's Island
Next upon the bill in our House of Vaudeville
We've a stripper in a till
What a thrill! What a thrill!
And not content with that, with our hands behind our backs,
We pull Jesus from a hat,
Get into that! Get into that!

[Pendragon]

"Karn Evil 9" ~ Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

Well, he came from college just the other day
So much like a man I just had to say
"Son, I'm proud of you, can you sit for a while"
He shook his head and said with a smile
"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys
See you later, can I have them please"

[bounty]

ah, one I finally know!

cat's in the cradle by harry chapin, often makes me cry. bunches of other people have covered the song really well too. ive got versions by bob jovi, johnny cash, and guns n' roses.

and papayahed's alice cooper's welcome to my nightmare.

here's a fun one (though the topic is not). most everyone knows it, but probably don't know that they know it:

Through early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be
The pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see

" ------------------------"
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

I try to find a way to make
All our little joys relate
Without that ever-present hate
But now I know that it's too late, and

" ------------------------"
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
So this is all I have to say

" ------------------------"
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before I'm beat
And to another give my seat
For that's the only painless feat

" ------------------------"
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger watch it grin, but

" ------------------------"
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

A brave man once requested me
To answer questions that are key
Is it to be or not to be
And I replied 'Oh, why ask me?'

" ------------------------"
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

" ------------------------"
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

And you can do the same thing if you please

[albertae]

Johnny Mandel - Suicide is Painless

here's on that you may not know (all the more fun):

Will you ever preserve will you ever exhume
Will you watch petals shed from flowers in bloom
Nothing can live up to promise
Nothing can stop its narrative
Nothing in place of catalysts
And you’ll never be pure again

[Pendragon]

Funny, I heard that some time back, some kid was booming it out over his player in his car. Some of the biggest speakers I've ever seen in the backseat! It's called I think Transgender" by a group called Crystal something or other... Crystal Castle! had to look that up, sorry.

She lives in a swamp in a hollow log
With a one-eyed snake and a three-legged dog
She's got a bent, bony body and stringy hair
If she ever seen y'all messin' 'round there
She'd go (growl) another man done gone.

[bounty]

Marie Laveau by Bobby Bare---had to look that up, totally obscure to me on both accounts. one of the links I saw was in reference to a "country singer." this is apparently an old song too, early 70s, so if its country, its the "old country" so to speak...will have to hunt it up and give a listen.

ah yes, suicide is painless, but, where do we all know the song from? (that we don't know we know it!)

here's my next one:

Don't know when I've been so blue
Don't know what's come over you
You've found someone new and
_________________________

I'll be fine when you're gone
I'll just cry all night long
Say it isn't true and
_________________________

[Pendragon]

Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue ~ Crystal Gayle an oldie but a goodie.

I was coming to the end of a long, long walk
When a man crawled out of a cardboard box
Under the E. Street Bridge
Followed me on to it...

[Pendragon]

Hummmmmm....

I didn't think that one would be hard. It's "Moments" by Emerson Drive

Try another, this being the Christmas Season...

"In the night was the dark
In the dark was the dream
In the dream was the child
And myself there unseen

[isabellet91]

That was the most abstract, hard-to-find song,, "Dream Child" it's called by Trans-Siberian Orchestra (what does that even mean). Lol to keep things old school but a little more mainstream, I'll shoot a classic.

Thunder only happens when it's rainin'
Player's only love you when they're playin'
Women they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean you'll know

Bare with me if the lyrics are a little off.

[bounty]

saw Fleetwood mac (dreams) when I was in high school...

one of my all time favorites:

I was only a kid
When I said goodbye to you
Ten summers ago
But it feels like yesterday
Lost, scared and alone
Nothing I could give to you
I tried, I really did
But I couldn't find another way

And I want, and I need
Somehow to believe
In the choice I made
Am I better off this way?

I can hear the __________________
Saying you should be with me instead
Every time I'm feeling down, I wonder
What would it be like with you around?

So I, I made my way
Cold and roaming in the wild
I'm forever changed
By someone I never knew
Now I've, I've got a place
I've got a husband and a child
But I'll never forget
What I've given up in you

And I want, I need
Somehow to believe
In the choice I made
Am I better off this way?

I can hear the __________________
Saying you should be with me instead
Every time I'm feeling down, I wonder
What would it be like with you around?

And I want, I need
Somehow to believe
In the choice I made
Am I better off this way?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Voice Inside My Head, Dixie Chicks, and yes I cheated. ;-)

The next one is for you 80s music fans, though this one is a little more obscure, for Americans especially. My hints are it's a guy not a band, and he's British. What follows is the chorus of the song:

Near a tree by a river
There's a hole in the ground
Where an old man of Aran
Goes around and around

And his mind is a beacon in the veil of the night
For a strange kind of fashion
There's a wrong and a right
But he'll never, never fight over you

And no cheating, it's dishonorable. :-0

[Pendragon]

Nik Kershaw - The Riddle (Hey I am 55, you know!) also done by GiGi something or other...

Try this it's the bridge in this classic rock song

You better stand tall when they're throwing you out
Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down