Music Lyrics Meme

[thisbluespirit]

Picked up from sallymn and astrogirl2:

Choose fifteen characters. Then put your playlist on shuffle. Your first song with lyrics is your first character, and so on. For each song, choose lyrics that resonate with the corresponding character.

The list:

1. Ruth Evershed (Spooks)
2. Silver (S&S)
3. Sixth Doctor
4. Ace McShane (DW)
5. Lynda Day (Press Gang)
6. Vila Restal (B7)
7. Sapphire (S&S)
8. Barbara Wright (DW)
9. Leela (DW)
10. Dayna Mellanby (B7)
11. Regina Mills (OUaT)
12. Miss Marple
13. Clara Oswald
14. Kenny Phillips
15. Kathryn Janeway



1. Ruth Evershed: If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot

When you reach the part where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take


2. Silver: Not Like The Other Girls - The Rasmus
Not the easiest one, heh, but, actually:

When you have loved and you've lost someone
You know what it feels like to lose

3. Sixth Doctor: All Fall Down - Ultravox
I couldn't decide between these two (and I thought this one'd be impossible). The second reminded me of some of his speeches:

When I was a boy there's a dream that I had
That a war if it's fought was for good against bad
And I woke up to find that the world had gone mad

OR

No sun for a world that once stood so tall
No wind's going to blow and no rain's going to fall
No flowers for graves, in fact no graves at all


4. Ace McShane: Only Time - Enya
Time will tell, I suppose, it always does...

And who can say where the road goes
Where the day flows, only time
Who knows? Only time


5. Lynda Day: Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
This is actually one I had on the list because it was on a Press Gang fanvid, so, er... It involves phones, of course. :-)

It's a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now.
Said I wouldn't call but I've lost all control and I need you now.


6. Vila Restal: Hardest of Hearts - Florence & the Machine
This was really difficult. I'm sorry.

Hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on
Hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on


7. Sapphire: Every Day Is A Winding Road - Sheryl Crow

I've been wondering if all the things I've seen
Were ever real, were ever really happening


8. Barbara Wright: Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now - Starship
Okay, I think Barbara would go through this song and correct it with a red pen, but still...

Let them say we're crazy.
I don't care about that.
Put your hand in my hand, baby, don't ever look back.


9. Leela: Please Sir - Martyn Joseph
This one really didn't fit, so:

She was always a very pretty lady
He had always caught her eye (Make that "for all of the five minutes they'd known each other".)


10. Dayna Mellanby: Zombie - The Cranberries

When the violence causes silence,
We must be mistaken.


11. Regina Mills: Swords of a Thousand Men - Tenpole Tudor
This was hard:

We're gonna fight until we have won this town


12. Miss Marple: The First Cut Is The Deepest

There is just nothing I can do with that, really. Possibly I shouldn't have put Miss Marple in here in the first place.


13. Clara Oswald: Freeze - All About Eve

I love you
For the books you read.
I watch you laze in the sun,
I watch your head come undone, you smile ;


14. Kenny Phillips: Cryin' in the Rain - Everly Brothers
Again, difficult, but given where Kenny goes halfway through, maybe:

I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun


15. Kathryn Janeway: One of These Days - Michelle Branch

Did I make you nervous?
Did I ask for too much?


... that was quite fun actually. :-)

Comments

[quarter_to_five]

This is very dadaesque. Neat! But how does one pick fifteen characters? That seems to be the tricky bit, to me.

[thisbluespirit]

It did turn out to be a more interesting meme than I expected - although I suppose it depends on what shuffle turns up!

And, I don't know - I just listed some of my favourite characters from different things. It got a bit random towards the end, though.

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know. I think "The First Cut Is The Deepest" works rather well for Miss Marple, given her amazing ability to encounter gruesome murder wherever she goes. ;)

What an interesting exercise, though! Ace and Sapphire worked out particularly well, I thought. Nice line for Dayna, too.

[thisbluespirit]

Very true! You are right, of course. :-)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I think you can sort of use Miss Marple's ability to observe and correlate--she seems to understand the motives that drive people better than they know themselves--as the basis for that song fitting her (even if it isn't about her)

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, it's not the worst match-up, but the lyrics weren't that great for her. The title does fit, as swordznsorcery points out above, though. :-)

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Nice! I think everybody else is coming out better than mine, actually. :)

[thisbluespirit]

I don't know, you had some good ones, too! And mine started so suprisingly well, I started to get smug, and then they got awkward to impossible after that. I did actually use my general playlist on Spotify rather than my mp3 player, which, I did realise afterwards, does have rather a lot of songs I got off fanvids.

And no song that has so many lines about knights and castles should be that hard to get lyrics for Regina out of, it really shouldn't. But it was.

I am still amused at Silver being Not Like The Other Girls, though... :lol:

I'm tempted to do it again. It was more fun than I expected. Not as much fun as the proper 15 characters meme, though, of course. That is always the best meme. ;-D

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

It's way more fun to do than it looks like it should be, isn't it? I'm half tempted to try it again, myself.

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

Ooh, this is an entertaining meme. I think I'll try it. I don't know all of these characters, but some of them work pretty well.

[thisbluespirit]

It was surprisingly fun to do! And, yes, my fannish tastes are a bit odd and obscure, I know. If it's been on TV less than 20 or 30 years ago, I'm just not as interested. (Well, not really, but it seems that way sometimes!)

:-)

:lol: at your appropriate icon!

[clocketpatch]

I laughed out loud at Barbara correcting the lyrics with red pen. I liked and giggled at the lyrics you chose for Vila, but yeah... that song would be far better suited to a different B7 character. This is a very amusing meme. I had the same issue where some of the song fit *so* well, and then I'd come across another and go... O_o "Well, what am I supposed to do with that?!"

Also... I used my general playlist and discovered that one of the songs I'd got from a friend and never really listened to is about necrophilia. So that was upsetting.

[thisbluespirit]

Barbara would, although that snippet is so much her and Ian at the end of The Chase that it was perfect anyway. I should have put explanations in like you did. And, yes, Hardest of Hearts! But not for Vila.

I'm tempted to do it again because it was surprisingly fun and intriguing.

I'm with you on the lyrics thing, though, thankfully, I didn't have any discoveries quite like that!! 0_o Freeze, though, when you get the lyrics up does seem to be about taking drugs.

[corngold.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness. Why, as so many others (including your good self!) have said, is this meme so much fun??? Because it most certainly is. Now you've got me doing it too... It is certainly worlds more entertaining than the sewing I really should have been doing this evening. I count this (meme-ing, rather than sewing) as a win all around :D

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: Glad to be of service!! And, yes, I don't know, but it is fun.