Name That Song

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?'

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

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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

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

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.

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
_________________________

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...

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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'

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.....

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

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....

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

Like a Rock by Rockin' Robert Seger

Quote:

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Originally Posted by bounty

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

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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

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

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

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
___________________________....

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

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

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

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 ________, _________

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