Lyrics meme
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dslartooStolen from quite a number of people on my friends list.
Here's the deal. Shuffle your mp3s and write a lyric from each of the first 25 songs that come up. Post it in your journal and see who can name that tune (without cheating and googling the lyrics!).
I'll post the answers (and the people who guessed 'em) in a day or two.
Disclaimer: Winamp picked some tough ones. I have tried to compensate for some of those by providing several lines' worth of lyrics.
1. For a memory he was bound
For his ship has run aground
Light a torch for one who tried and failed to cross the Great Divide
2. I still recall the taste of your tears
Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears
My favorite dreams of you still wash ashore
Scraping through my head till I don't want to sleep anymore
3. We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well, they're no friends of mine
4. Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night
He was something to observe
Came in close, I heard a voice
Standing, stretching every nerve
Had to listen, had no choice
5. I be cruisin' down the highway, just sportin' in the fly way
Turn it up a notch and de sound hits dem
Creepin through traffic with the sunroof open
to ventilate the scent from the spliff we smokin'
6. False sense of pride, satisfies
There's no reason for suicide
Choose your mind and hope to find
Find the meaning of existence
7. I can't tell you baby what went wrong
Can't make you feel what you felt so long ago
I'll let it show
I can't give you back what's been hurt
Heartaches come and go and all that's left are the words
I can't let go
8. When the sun says good night to the mountain
I am dreaming of the sun
Say good night
9. Barking of machinegun fire does nothing to me now
Sounding of the clock that ticks, get used to it somehow
More a man, more stripes you wear, glory seeker trends
Bodies fill the fields I see, the slaughter never ends
10. If all you told was turned to gold,
If all you dreamed were new,
Imagine sky high above
In Caribbean blue
11. Under a big old sky
Out in a field of green
There's gotta be something
Left for us to believe
12. I throw my tape on and I watch ya
Three seconds later, I got ya
Shakin' your head, dancin' instead of sittin'
The rhymes kick, the beat's hittin' you
Just like a home run, slammin' like a slam dunk
13. When in the springtime of the year
When the trees are crowned with leaves
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
Are dressed in ribbons fair
14. Into the morning sun
Down his chosen road he rides to save the world
Cross of crimson, robe of white
Sworn to the quest for the rest of his life
15. Last temptation
Touch me before you close your eyes
Die a martyr to your principles
'Cause you're the only god who's visible tonight
16. Stare from the darkness
Hear the silence call?
Devise divisions, delay decisions,
Watch the hours crawl and...
Let nothing bleed into nothing
and do nothing?
17. Yo sexy ladies want par with us
In a the car with us them nah war with us
In a the club them want flex with us
To get next to us them cah vex with us
From the day me born jah ignite me flame
Gal a call me name and it is me fame
18. I'm higher when I'm dancing in the moonlight
I am bound to walk the night
Dive into a wishing well
Where hopes and dreams can break the spell
A place where I can fly towards the sun
Free, free me
19. So this is dreamtime, and all is quiet
So this is dreamtime, and all is night
I've never been held by the hand of God
Who's rocking my cradle if he is not?
20. Hold your fire -- keep it burning bright
Hold the flame till the dream ignites
A spirit with a vision
Is a dream with a mission
21. Don't be afraid to be weak
Don't be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence
22. Welcome to our fortress tall, take some time to show you around
Impossible to break these walls for you see the steel is much too strong
Computer banks to rule the world, instruments to sight the stars
23. Standing in line, marking time, waiting for the welfare dime
'Cause they can't buy a job
The man in the silk suit hurries by, as he catches the poor old ladies' eyes
Just for fun he says, "Get a job"
24. Then, I'm going to have to write a chorus
We're going to need to have a chorus
And this would seem to be as good as any other place to sing it till I'm blue in the face
25. Futures made of virtual insanity
Now always seem to be governed by this love we have
For useless, twisting, our new technology
Oh, now there is no sound, for we all live underground
Some of these were pretty freakin' tough if you're not into prog metal or prog rock, but I imagine the Ytsejammers reading can come up with at least a few of 'em. :)
-- END OF LINE --
Currently playing: Tool -- Lateralus. Heavy, heavy intricate stuff from Maynard and Co.
Here's the deal. Shuffle your mp3s and write a lyric from each of the first 25 songs that come up. Post it in your journal and see who can name that tune (without cheating and googling the lyrics!).
I'll post the answers (and the people who guessed 'em) in a day or two.
Disclaimer: Winamp picked some tough ones. I have tried to compensate for some of those by providing several lines' worth of lyrics.
1. For a memory he was bound
For his ship has run aground
Light a torch for one who tried and failed to cross the Great Divide
2. I still recall the taste of your tears
Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears
My favorite dreams of you still wash ashore
Scraping through my head till I don't want to sleep anymore
3. We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well, they're no friends of mine
4. Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night
He was something to observe
Came in close, I heard a voice
Standing, stretching every nerve
Had to listen, had no choice
5. I be cruisin' down the highway, just sportin' in the fly way
Turn it up a notch and de sound hits dem
Creepin through traffic with the sunroof open
to ventilate the scent from the spliff we smokin'
6. False sense of pride, satisfies
There's no reason for suicide
Choose your mind and hope to find
Find the meaning of existence
7. I can't tell you baby what went wrong
Can't make you feel what you felt so long ago
I'll let it show
I can't give you back what's been hurt
Heartaches come and go and all that's left are the words
I can't let go
8. When the sun says good night to the mountain
I am dreaming of the sun
Say good night
9. Barking of machinegun fire does nothing to me now
Sounding of the clock that ticks, get used to it somehow
More a man, more stripes you wear, glory seeker trends
Bodies fill the fields I see, the slaughter never ends
10. If all you told was turned to gold,
If all you dreamed were new,
Imagine sky high above
In Caribbean blue
11. Under a big old sky
Out in a field of green
There's gotta be something
Left for us to believe
12. I throw my tape on and I watch ya
Three seconds later, I got ya
Shakin' your head, dancin' instead of sittin'
The rhymes kick, the beat's hittin' you
Just like a home run, slammin' like a slam dunk
13. When in the springtime of the year
When the trees are crowned with leaves
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
Are dressed in ribbons fair
14. Into the morning sun
Down his chosen road he rides to save the world
Cross of crimson, robe of white
Sworn to the quest for the rest of his life
15. Last temptation
Touch me before you close your eyes
Die a martyr to your principles
'Cause you're the only god who's visible tonight
16. Stare from the darkness
Hear the silence call?
Devise divisions, delay decisions,
Watch the hours crawl and...
Let nothing bleed into nothing
and do nothing?
17. Yo sexy ladies want par with us
In a the car with us them nah war with us
In a the club them want flex with us
To get next to us them cah vex with us
From the day me born jah ignite me flame
Gal a call me name and it is me fame
18. I'm higher when I'm dancing in the moonlight
I am bound to walk the night
Dive into a wishing well
Where hopes and dreams can break the spell
A place where I can fly towards the sun
Free, free me
19. So this is dreamtime, and all is quiet
So this is dreamtime, and all is night
I've never been held by the hand of God
Who's rocking my cradle if he is not?
20. Hold your fire -- keep it burning bright
Hold the flame till the dream ignites
A spirit with a vision
Is a dream with a mission
21. Don't be afraid to be weak
Don't be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence
22. Welcome to our fortress tall, take some time to show you around
Impossible to break these walls for you see the steel is much too strong
Computer banks to rule the world, instruments to sight the stars
23. Standing in line, marking time, waiting for the welfare dime
'Cause they can't buy a job
The man in the silk suit hurries by, as he catches the poor old ladies' eyes
Just for fun he says, "Get a job"
24. Then, I'm going to have to write a chorus
We're going to need to have a chorus
And this would seem to be as good as any other place to sing it till I'm blue in the face
25. Futures made of virtual insanity
Now always seem to be governed by this love we have
For useless, twisting, our new technology
Oh, now there is no sound, for we all live underground
Some of these were pretty freakin' tough if you're not into prog metal or prog rock, but I imagine the Ytsejammers reading can come up with at least a few of 'em. :)
-- END OF LINE --
Currently playing: Tool -- Lateralus. Heavy, heavy intricate stuff from Maynard and Co.
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Date: 2004-12-23 07:34 am (UTC)I suck at these because I don't know the names of songs. It's just not somehting I pay attention to. I know a good number of the artists though.
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Date: 2004-12-23 05:11 pm (UTC)cheers,
Phil
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Date: 2004-12-23 05:53 pm (UTC)Of course, the first name I came up with was Peter Cetera...