Lyrics Meme
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justice_turtle and dbskyler:
1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty songs that come up that do not give away the name of the song. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless LJ denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist.
4. Least hapless LJ denizen wins admiration. That's right, just like a lobbyist in budget season, the points don't matter.
1. Where is the moment we needed the most?
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost 'Bad Day' by Daniel Powter, guessed by kitnkabootle and dweomeroflight.
2. I've been lookin' at things in a negative light
Clippin' my wings in the middle of flight
My motor is running on the heartaches of life
But it's gettin' me nowhere fast. Unguessed - 'Remember Not' by Susan Ashton.
3. All I want to know
Is when you go
Do you think of me
Cause I could let you go
But there'd be a hole
Where my heart used to be Unguessed - It's So Easy by Sheryl Crow.
4. [Not the first lines]
You lay down with angels
To feel yourself again
You've got everything you need
Under your thick skin - Unguessed - C'mon, c'mon by Sheryl Crow. (*sings along*)
5.When the sea falls from the shore
As the light sinks low, will I see you any more?
As the rain falls from the sky
Can I bring you back, from a distant lullaby? Unguessed - Across the Universe of Time by Hayley Westenra
6.You must be mistaken,
It couldn't have been
You couldn't have seen him yesterday. 'Take That Look Off Your Face, from Song & Dance, sung by Marti Webb, guessed by persiflage_1 and arnie1967.
7. you were a small time session man scuffling around L.A..
nights at the troubadour waiting for a chance to play
and I remember you were hanging around cause you had no place to stay
man that seems like a long long ways away. Unguessed - 'Teen King' by Randy Stonehill.
8. I'm working on a morning flight to anywhere but here
I'm watching this evening fire burn away my tears
All my life I've left my troubles by the door
Leaving is all I've ever known before. Unguessed - Late Night, Grande Hotel by Nanci Griffith.
9. I wish I knew you
Way back when
Before you were part of my plans
I think that we would have been friends. Unguessed - 'You'll Always Be My Best Friend' by Relient K
10.I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete 'Somewhere only We Know' by Keane, guessed by boro_girl.
11.It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair 'Life on Mars' by David Bowie, guessed by scifi_mel and dweomeroflight.
12. [Not the first lines]
She's gone to the other side
Givin us a yo heave ho
Things are getting kind of gross
And I go at sleepy time
This is not really happening
[Hah. I am amused that the lyrics for this song actually ARE just as weird as they sound.] Unguessed - Cornflake Girl by Tori Amos
13. I wonder what she says to you, when you’re alone together
My imagination is so cruel, picturing you holding hands,
And doing the things that we planned. Unguessed - 'Love Scenes' by Beverly Craven.
14. My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away
But every now and then you come to mind
'Cause you were always waiting to be picked to play the game
But when your name was called, you found a place to hide. Unguessed - 'I Was Always On Your Side' by Sheryl Crow.
15. I have a secret I can't tell
And I've learned to conceal it well. Unguessed - 'Under the Rug' by Randy Stonehill
16.When I was a young boy,
My father took me into the city
To see a marching band. 'Welcome to the Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance, guessed by pedanther.
17. You're gonna say you'll miss me
You're gonna say you'll kiss me
Yes, you're gonna say you'll love me. Unguessed - 'You're Gonna Love Me Too' by Buddy Holly.
18.[Not the first lines]
She says, "Baby, I've been thinking 'bout a trailer by the sea.
We could go to Mexico... you, the cat and me.
We'll drink tequila and look for sea shells.
Now, doesn't that sound sweet?" 'Jessie' by Joshua Kadison, guessed by boro_girl
19. We'll do it all
Everything
On our own. Unguessed - 'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol.
20. [Rachel Delevoryas]
With her thick eye glasses and her plain Jane face
Sat beside me in her fifth grade class
Looking so terribly out of place. Unguessed - Rachel Delevoryas by Randy Stonehill
21.All my life I’ve been waiting
For you to bring a fairy tale my way
Been living in a fantasy without meaning
It’s not okay I don’t feel safe 'Left Outside Alone' by Anastacia, guessed by boro_girl.
22.I found a switch
Turned it on
I hit the ditch
You carried on 'I Love It When You Call' by The Feeling, guessed by dbskyler.
23. We are the lucky ones
We shine like a thousand suns
When all of the colour runs together. Unguessed - 'Dark Waltz' by Hayley Westenra. (So nobody's been obsessively watching my S&S vid, other than me, then. :lol:)
24.Here's the thing we started out friends
It was cool but it was all pretend 'Since U Been Gone' by Kelly Clarkson, guessed by kitnkabootle
25. I wandered away like a blind, foolish child
Chased every bright falling star
Deaf to your words, I was wilful and wild
Every rocky road just left me scarred
Now I know the treasure that You are. Unguessed - Take Me Back by randy Stonehill.
26. The world is turnin'
Telling me to hurry on
You gotta run to get ahead
Try to take the things you want
But when the sun begins to set
So many things I haven't done yet. Unguessed - Taking My Time by Susan Ashton
27. We should get jerseys cause we make a good team
But yours would look better than mine, cause you're outta my league. Unguessed - Must Have Done Something Right by Relient K
28.[Not the first lines]
Funny how quick the milk turns sour
Isn't it, isn't it
Your face has been looking like that for hours
Hasn't it, hasn't it 'A Little Time' by the Beautiful South, guessed by arnie1967
29. I, I always thought that I knew
I'd always have the right to
Be living in the kingdom of the good and true
And so on, but now I think I was wrong. Unguessed - 'Is It Any Wonder?' by Keane
30. Nothing was saving our day
There was nothing to say,
But you said something anyway. Unguessed - Stupid Thing by Aimee Mann. (Or, as I think of it, the Five/Tegan song.)
(I am so amused, knowing what's actually on my MP3 player, that the shuffle seemed to be on a mission to make me look relatively normal...! Also, given that I have nearly 200 songs on it, and have made 9 fanvids, not all of which use songs on it, it picked 2 that I've used. Hmm.)
justice_turtle and dbskyler:1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty songs that come up that do not give away the name of the song. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless LJ denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist.
4. Least hapless LJ denizen wins admiration. That's right, just like a lobbyist in budget season, the points don't matter.
1.
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost
kitnkabootle and dweomeroflight.2. I've been lookin' at things in a negative light
Clippin' my wings in the middle of flight
My motor is running on the heartaches of life
But it's gettin' me nowhere fast. Unguessed - 'Remember Not' by Susan Ashton.
3. All I want to know
Is when you go
Do you think of me
Cause I could let you go
But there'd be a hole
Where my heart used to be Unguessed - It's So Easy by Sheryl Crow.
4. [Not the first lines]
You lay down with angels
To feel yourself again
You've got everything you need
Under your thick skin - Unguessed - C'mon, c'mon by Sheryl Crow. (*sings along*)
5.When the sea falls from the shore
As the light sinks low, will I see you any more?
As the rain falls from the sky
Can I bring you back, from a distant lullaby? Unguessed - Across the Universe of Time by Hayley Westenra
6.
It couldn't have been
You couldn't have seen him yesterday.
persiflage_1 and arnie1967.7. you were a small time session man scuffling around L.A..
nights at the troubadour waiting for a chance to play
and I remember you were hanging around cause you had no place to stay
man that seems like a long long ways away. Unguessed - 'Teen King' by Randy Stonehill.
8. I'm working on a morning flight to anywhere but here
I'm watching this evening fire burn away my tears
All my life I've left my troubles by the door
Leaving is all I've ever known before. Unguessed - Late Night, Grande Hotel by Nanci Griffith.
9. I wish I knew you
Way back when
Before you were part of my plans
I think that we would have been friends. Unguessed - 'You'll Always Be My Best Friend' by Relient K
10.
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete
boro_girl.11.
To the girl with the mousy hair
scifi_mel and dweomeroflight.12. [Not the first lines]
She's gone to the other side
Givin us a yo heave ho
Things are getting kind of gross
And I go at sleepy time
This is not really happening
[Hah. I am amused that the lyrics for this song actually ARE just as weird as they sound.] Unguessed - Cornflake Girl by Tori Amos
13. I wonder what she says to you, when you’re alone together
My imagination is so cruel, picturing you holding hands,
And doing the things that we planned. Unguessed - 'Love Scenes' by Beverly Craven.
14. My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away
But every now and then you come to mind
'Cause you were always waiting to be picked to play the game
But when your name was called, you found a place to hide. Unguessed - 'I Was Always On Your Side' by Sheryl Crow.
15. I have a secret I can't tell
And I've learned to conceal it well. Unguessed - 'Under the Rug' by Randy Stonehill
16.
My father took me into the city
To see a marching band.
pedanther.17. You're gonna say you'll miss me
You're gonna say you'll kiss me
Yes, you're gonna say you'll love me. Unguessed - 'You're Gonna Love Me Too' by Buddy Holly.
18.
She says, "Baby, I've been thinking 'bout a trailer by the sea.
We could go to Mexico... you, the cat and me.
We'll drink tequila and look for sea shells.
Now, doesn't that sound sweet?"
boro_girl19. We'll do it all
Everything
On our own. Unguessed - 'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol.
20. [Rachel Delevoryas]
With her thick eye glasses and her plain Jane face
Sat beside me in her fifth grade class
Looking so terribly out of place. Unguessed - Rachel Delevoryas by Randy Stonehill
21.
For you to bring a fairy tale my way
Been living in a fantasy without meaning
It’s not okay I don’t feel safe
boro_girl.22.
Turned it on
I hit the ditch
You carried on
dbskyler.23. We are the lucky ones
We shine like a thousand suns
When all of the colour runs together. Unguessed - 'Dark Waltz' by Hayley Westenra. (So nobody's been obsessively watching my S&S vid, other than me, then. :lol:)
24.
It was cool but it was all pretend
kitnkabootle25. I wandered away like a blind, foolish child
Chased every bright falling star
Deaf to your words, I was wilful and wild
Every rocky road just left me scarred
Now I know the treasure that You are. Unguessed - Take Me Back by randy Stonehill.
26. The world is turnin'
Telling me to hurry on
You gotta run to get ahead
Try to take the things you want
But when the sun begins to set
So many things I haven't done yet. Unguessed - Taking My Time by Susan Ashton
27. We should get jerseys cause we make a good team
But yours would look better than mine, cause you're outta my league. Unguessed - Must Have Done Something Right by Relient K
28.
Funny how quick the milk turns sour
Isn't it, isn't it
Your face has been looking like that for hours
Hasn't it, hasn't it
arnie196729. I, I always thought that I knew
I'd always have the right to
Be living in the kingdom of the good and true
And so on, but now I think I was wrong. Unguessed - 'Is It Any Wonder?' by Keane
30. Nothing was saving our day
There was nothing to say,
But you said something anyway. Unguessed - Stupid Thing by Aimee Mann. (Or, as I think of it, the Five/Tegan song.)
(I am so amused, knowing what's actually on my MP3 player, that the shuffle seemed to be on a mission to make me look relatively normal...! Also, given that I have nearly 200 songs on it, and have made 9 fanvids, not all of which use songs on it, it picked 2 that I've used. Hmm.)
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Date: 12 Nov 2011 05:03 pm (UTC)As for the rest, I got nuthin'!
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Date: 12 Nov 2011 08:00 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 12 Nov 2011 08:06 pm (UTC):lol:
(Sorry).
I thought my list would be too obscure, but the shuffle was kind to me - but, yes, soundtracks wouldn't really work in the same way!
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Date: 12 Nov 2011 08:07 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 12 Nov 2011 06:28 pm (UTC)I don't recognize any of the others, but I'll be interested to learn what they are. I never recognize the songs you pick for your fanvids, but I always really like the music.
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Date: 12 Nov 2011 07:58 pm (UTC)Aw, thanks. I didn't realise you'd been looking at any of them; they've mostly been rather obscure things so far, I know! :-)
Fanvids are a great way to find new music.
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Date: 12 Nov 2011 10:43 pm (UTC)The SJS fanvid (actually, it's Doctor/Sarah) is here. It makes really good use of the song.
I've found tons of great music through fanvids! I've also grown more fond of songs because of fanvids, and purchased songs because they were in favorite fanvids. (Listen up, music publishers!)
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Date: 13 Nov 2011 09:12 am (UTC)Aw. :-) And I'm not sure I'm prolific so much as bored, or something. (Although every time I think about those 'I could never make fanvids' conversations we had last year/early this, it makes me grin).
Oh, me too! And I've bought two songs specifically to make a fanvid as well, and probably will get a third. We'll write them a nice letter and then they'll stop all this nonsense, calling us pirates, yes? Heh.
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Date: 12 Nov 2011 08:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 Nov 2011 07:31 pm (UTC)But that's all I know. *blushes*
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Date: 12 Nov 2011 07:55 pm (UTC):-)
And, yes, you are right, of course!
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Date: 12 Nov 2011 08:27 pm (UTC)24. Since You Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson?
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Date: 13 Nov 2011 09:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 Nov 2011 09:35 pm (UTC)6: Take That Look Off Your Face
13: Winner Takes It All?
28: I Need a Little Time (by Beautiful South)
Now I'm going to read the other answers to see if I recognise anything!
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Date: 13 Nov 2011 09:07 am (UTC)13. No, sorry.
28 Yes!!! :-)
(I like the Beautiful South.)
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Date: 23 Nov 2011 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 Nov 2011 09:43 pm (UTC)1. You had a bad Day- Daniel Powter
11. Life on Mars- David Bowie
24 sounds like a pop song but I can't quite remember who.
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Date: 13 Nov 2011 09:05 am (UTC)You are right, and also, yes, 24 IS a pop song. :-)
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Date: 13 Nov 2011 04:19 am (UTC)That probably explains why I don't recognise any of them!
Unless I'm right about #16 being "Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance, and if I am that's only because I heard it in a radio documentary about the history of emo.
#11 and #28 sound familiar, but not familiar enough I can place them.
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Date: 13 Nov 2011 09:13 am (UTC)You are quite right about#16, anyway! (And are you meaning you've not seen Calapine's amazing DW fanvid to it? Which is why it's on my MP3 player anyway.)
11 & 28 have been guessed, so they are, respectively, Life on Mars by David Bowie, and A Little Time by the Beautiful South.
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Date: 13 Nov 2011 01:22 pm (UTC)"Life On Mars", yes, that's familiar but not that familiar. I think I was wrong about 28 though, because I'm pretty sure I've never heard "A Little Time" before.
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Date: 13 Nov 2011 03:10 pm (UTC)18 - Jesse - Joshua Kadison (I had to look up the guy's name but I can pretty much sing the whole song!)
21 - Left Outside Alone - Anastacia
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Date: 14 Nov 2011 04:40 pm (UTC)And, yay for someone else knowing Jessie! I love it. Maybe just for being a song with a cat called Moses in, I don't know. :-)