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