Name That Song

[Tyrion Cheddar]

It's My Life --Bon Jovi Great song, and funny to watch the video now 'cause it features outdated technology like a pager which was clearly cutting edge at the time. ;-) Also the only rock anthem I can think of to refer obliquely to Frank Sinatra.

OK, now if you don't know this next one without looking it up, you fail the hipness test for the foreseeable future. ;-)

The old man said to me
Said, "Don't always take life so seriously
Play the flute and dance and sing your song"

Try and enjoy the here and now
The future will take care of itself somehow
The grass is never greener over there

[Pendragon]

Harold Jones - Life in One Day (and I did have to look it up... sigh...)

You can leave it all behind and sail to Lahaina
Just like the missionaries did so many years ago
They even brought a neon sign 'Jesus is coming'
Brought the white man's burden down, brought the white man's reign

[papayahed]

Last Resort - The Eagles

Come on and dance, come on and dance
Let's make some romance
You know the night is fallin'
And the music's callin'

[bounty]

swingtown by the steve miller band! yayyy I knew one!

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down

Helpless people on a subway train
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them

He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town

Oh no, they say he's got to go go go.....

[papayahed]

Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult (I knew that one too!!)

Lookin' out on the morning rain
I used to feel uninspired
And when I knew I had to face another day
Lord, it made me feel so tired

[bounty]

im sorry papayahed, i do like you, its just, well, you don't make me feel.....like....a....nat-ur-al....woman!

laughs...

Well I remember every little thing
As if it happened only yesterday
Parking by the lake
And there was not another car in sight
And I never had a girl
Looking any better than you did
And all the kids at school
They were wishing they were me that night
And now our bodies are oh so close and tight
It never felt so good, it never felt so right
And we're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife
Glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife
C'mon! Hold on tight!
C'mon! Hold on tight!
Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night
I can see....

[Pendragon]

Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf

And I stood arrow straight
Unencumbered by the weight
Of all these hustlers and their schemes
I stood proud, I stood tall
High above it all
I still believed in my dreams

[papayahed]

Like a Rock by Rockin' Robert Seger



im sorry papayahed, i do like you, its just, well, you don't make me feel.....like....a....nat-ur-al....woman!



hahahha, how about this one bounty:

It's so sad, livin' at home
Far from the city and the midnight fun
It's so bad, goin' to school
So far from me and the dirty things that we do

[bounty]

oh heck papayahed, the irony! I had to look that up only to find the song, king of the night time world, by kiss, is on one of the very first albums I had in high school, destroyer! who didn't shed a tear at beth? and sing along with shout it out loud, or I wanna rock and roll all night?


and some inspiration for this one:

Whatever happened to all this season's losers of the year?
Every time I got to thinking, where'd they disappear?
When I woke up, Mom and Dad were rolling on the couch
Rolling numbers, rock and rolling, got my Kiss records out

Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird
______, _______ but don't give yourself away, ay, ay, ay
Away, away

[papayahed]

Surrender, Surrender - Cheap trick

Change of pace:

I stop to see a weepin' willow
Cryin' on his pillow
Maybe he's cryin' for me
And as the skies turn gloomy
Night winds whisper to me
I'm lonesome as I can be

[bounty]

well im going to have to look that up, but before I do, it sounds like it should be a line from some cowboy in a Louis l'amour book!

laughs...I was close, patsy cline, country music! walking after midnight. will have to hunt that up...the more ive gotten into the contemporary pop/country, the more I am looking the old original stuff. speaking of which, I suspect more people are familiar with the remake, than the original below:

An old cowboy went riding out one dark and windy day
Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way
When all at once a mighty herd of red eyed cows he saw
A-plowing through the ragged sky and up the cloudy draw

Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel
Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath he could feel
A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky
For he saw the Riders coming hard and he heard their mournful cry

Yippie yi ooh
Yippie yi yay
___________________________....

[papayahed]

Ghost Riders in the Sky - Johnny Cash

I do like me some old country, twang and all.

This is not:

She wasn't just another woman
And I couldn't keep from comin' on
It's been so long
Oh, and it's a hollow feelin' when
It comes down to dealin' friends
It never ends

Take another shot of courage
Wonder why the right words never come
You just get numb

[bounty]

how could I not get, and have to cheat on tequila sunrise! maybe more words would have done it? or the karaoke soundtrack?? laughs...

should be an easy one:

Hello, baby
Yeah, this is the Big Bopper speakin'
Oh, you sweet thing
Do I what? Will I what?
Oh baby, you know what I like
____________ ________ and a pretty face and a pony tail hangin' down
A wiggle and a walk and a giggle and a talk made the world go round
Ain't nothing in the world
Like a big eyed girl to make me act so funny make me spend my money
I feel real loose like a long necked goose
Like a whoa baby, that's what I like

[papayahed]

Chantilly Lace - Big Bopper (I had to sing it a few times before I could remember the name)

I thought for sure "another shot of courage" would give it away.

This is one of my favorite and I've included more lyrics:


Somewhere out there on that horizon
Out beyond the neon lights
I know there must be somethin' better
but there's nowhere else in sight
It's survival in the city
When you live from day to day
City streets don't have much pity
When you're down, that's where you'll stay

[bounty]

its funny papayahed, after you know the song in question, the lyrics slide right into it, but sometimes, divorced at they are, its a challenge to place them. but youre right, "another shot of courage" should have been a good clue.

you probably haven't seen a movie called the warriors have you?

ah, joe walsh's "in the city"...yayyy! would have gotten that one from just the first line! laughs...

I think ive posted this one somewhere on the forums before (no peeking back!), apart from I like the song period, I love the ethical dilemma in it:

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

Shatter every window till it's all ________
Every brick, every board, every slamming door _______
Till there's nothing left standing,
Nothing left of yesterday
Every tear-soaked whiskey memory ________, _________

[papayahed]

Blown Away - Carrie Underwood. I totally had to google.


This one always makes my eyes sweat:


If you get there before I do
Don't give up on me
I'll meet you when my chores are through
I don't know how long I'll be

But I'm not gonna let you down
Darling wait and see
And between now and then
Till I see you again