The Lyrics ... Again

[thessalian]

If you're fed up with this meme, blame heavensgardener this time.

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post a line from the first 35 songs that play.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: For those who are guessing -- looking the lyrics up on a search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own.


1) "I ache for the touch of your lips, dear / But much more for the touch of your whips, dear..." Tom Lehrer, Masochism Tango: guessed by redstapler
2) "Prisoners of course / Taken by force / To smother my dreams..."
3) "Electronic drums and synthesizers / Angular haircuts and black eyeliner..."
4) "I want a little bit / I want a piece of it / I think he's losing it / I want to watch it come down..." Nine Inch Nails, March of the Pigs: guessed by hazelwitch
5) "The red and green / The shopping scene / The really long line at the bank machine..."
6) "I smoke and I drink and every time I blink I have a tiny dream..." Ani DiFranco, Grey: guessed by redstapler
7) "Once divided / Nothing left to subtract / Some words when spoken / Can't be taken back..." Pearl Jam, Nothingman: guessed by redstapler
8) "And in the daylight / A blackbird makes a violent sight..."
9) "There are times / When I'm just a shell..."
10) "I'm drifting away my systems are failing / I will not return back to my home / To ones I love..."
11) "I hate the world today / You're so good to me / I know but I can't change ..." Meredith Brooks, Bitch: guessed by redstapler
12) "Key to your face so foresaken / Crushed by the way that you cry..."
13) "Wastin' time like it was free / Will you ever find where you'll be..." Godsmack, Touche: guessed by tolshak
14) "Hold on! It's never enough / It's never enough until your heart stops beating"
(Extra credit - what movie OST was this song used for?)
15) "This town don't feel mine / I'm fast to get away..."
16) "Grow out of your obsessions / You think you're bad but I'm badder than you..."
17) "I see your money on the floor / I felt the pocket change..."
18) "Well you've got me working so heard lately / Working my hands until they bleed..." Nine Inch Nails, Ringfinger: guessed by nakedblueninja
19) "I'm tired of being what you want me to be / Feeling so faithless / Lost under the surface..." Linkin Park, Numb: guessed by tithenai
20) "You wonder why you got holes in your shoes / You wonder why they got more money than you..."
21) "And though he was ashamed that he had took a life / Johnny came home with another wife..."
22) "You are the king of the world / And everyone knows your name..."
23) "I don't mind if I never ever meet you / I love you just the way you seem..."
24) "This line is burning / Turning to ash..."
25) "Did you learn how to herd cattle in prep school? / Could you just pretend you don't know me?"
26) "Grew up in an industrial town / two blocks away from the industrial sounds..."
27) "If you don't have a song / To sing you're okay / You know how to get along..."
28) "We have both been here before / Knockin' upon love's door / Begging for someone to let us in..."
29) "Watch the band / Through a bunch of dancers / Quickly, follow the unknown..." The song is Courage, as guessed by tolshak ... but it's apparently a cover, the version I have...
30) "It's not that she's gone away / It's the things I hear she has got to say..."
31) "No future, no way / I was born to lose but thats okay..."
32) "Though I live on the edge time is on my side / All the doors to my life are open wide..."
33) "I'm all busted up / Broken bones & nasty cuts..." Green Day, Pulling Teeth: guessed by hazelwitch
34) "Call me morbid, call me pale / I've spent six years on your trail..." The Smiths, Half a Person: guessed by nightskywarlock
35) "Late news just arrived - the grass is greener on the other side..." Pop Will Eat Itself, Fatman: guessed by ninja_arzt

Now I'm going to try a new kind of shuffle - listen to my entire iTunes playlist arranged alphabetically by song title. That'll take ... just under a month. Whee?

Comments

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

1. Masochism Tango - Tom Lehrer
6. Grey - Ani DiFranco
7. Nothingman - Pearl Jam
11. Bitch - Meredith Brooks

I know I know #33, but I can't place it. :(

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

1) About half my friends list will know this one and kick you for getting to it first.
6) Figured you'd get this one.
7) I still prefer their earlier stuff...
11) I don't even know why I have that song...

33) Yeah, you may or may not kick yourself when that one comes out.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

I confess, I googled 33. And yes, I did kick myself.

I was talking with someone just this week how that was an amazing album, and has stood up quite well, these last 14(!?!?) years.

[therealsherbs.livejournal.com]

bah! Number 1 was the only one I recognised

[doccy.livejournal.com]

Heh! Same here! :D

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

19: Linkin Park, "Numb"

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

19) I often have to remind myself that I do actually like that band; just ... you know, not as much as I used to.

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

Heh, I know what you mean. I really enjoy that whole album whenever I listen to it, though it usually takes me a few months to get there.

[nightskywarlock.livejournal.com]

#34 - and if you have five seconds to spare, then i'll tell you the story of my life: sixteen, clumsy & shy...

(the smiths - half a person)

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

34) I have so much not been in a Smiths mood of late, but eh, the random. *g*

[nakedblueninja.livejournal.com]

18. Nine Inch Nails, Ringfinger

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

18) So you got one but not the other? Iiiinteresting.

[nakedblueninja.livejournal.com]

Heh, I neither harbor illusions nor tell lies about my stunning inconsistency in music.

In all honesty I'm amazed I could place even that lyric.

[hazelwitch.livejournal.com]

4) NIN, "March of the Pigs"

33) Green Day, "Pulling Teeth"!

(This was fun stuff...and I know I've missed out on a few but can't place the lyrics for the life of me.) :)

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

4) *happydance* There's the NIN done, at least! My music collection is not completely obscure!
33) Bravo! There's at least one person on my flist kicking herself over that one.

(Yeah, it happens. Always irritating when it does, though. I'm sure if anyone else gets 'em, you'll have ample opportunity to kick yourself. *g*)

[tolshak.livejournal.com]

#13 - "Touch" by Godsmack
#29 - "Courage" by the Tragically Hip

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

13) Close enough.
29) *bzzzzzt* Sorry; nope. Half-point for the song title, though. *g*

[tolshak.livejournal.com]

Oh don't give me that. "Courage" is a Hip song, so if you've got another version, it's a cover. Yay knowledge of Canadian bands from growing up in a border town!

[caira.livejournal.com]

. . . does that "just under a month" figure allow for breaks to sleep and go to work?

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

...As a matter of fact ... no.

[ninja-arzt.livejournal.com]

Would No. 35 be "Fatman" by Pop will Eat Itself, perchance?

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

*APPLAUSE*