Lyrics Meme, gakked from nostalgia_lj

[dlgood]

On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down a line of the song.

Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then have your friends comment and see if they know the songs!

Whoever gets them first and its correct I'll place the title & artist along with the persons name who guessed it. And no cheating searching the lyrics online! Screened to avoid hints.


1) Do you fake a smile when you dodge the blows?
2) Do you think I can afford to give you my love?
3) Drain the Lizard or take a chair (Anthrax - I'm the Man ludditerobot)
4) Every where I turn, seems like everything I see (Supremes - Reflections dherblay)
5) I can let you go, cause there's a lotta girls out there who won't say no
6) I make dough, but don't call me doughboy (Ice Cube - Check Yo Self ludditerobot)
7) I try to sleep, they're wide awake, they won't let me alone (Cheap Trick - Dream Police ludditerobot)
8) If this isn't love we're making, then I don't know what it is (Jack Wagner - All I Need anonymous_sibyl)
9) If you don't expect too much from me, You might not be let down (Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy ludditerobot)
10) It's a land unknown to man where fantasy is fact (Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind dherblay)
11) It's not the future that I can see, it's just my fantasy (Men at Work - Who Can it Be Now? ludditerobot)
12) Leave your number on the table by my databank. I love you but you got to go.
13) My heart's like an open book for the whole world to read (Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home ludditerobot)
14) So far I got this hatchback, and everywhere I go, yo I get's laughed at (Skee Lo - I Wish dherblay)
15) So I came to her college on a surprise visit, to see my girl that was so exquisite (Biz Markie - Just a Friend ludditerobot)
16) When I feel down, I want you above me.( Divinyls - I Touch Myself cleapet)
17) When your late night friends leave you in the cold gray dawn (Rolling Stones - Shine a Light dherblay)
18) You ain't got nothin better to do and I'm bored (Guns N Roses - It's So Easy ludditerobot)
19) You gave away the things you loved, and one of them was me (Carly Simon - You're So Vain ludditerobot)
20) You've won all my money and my brand new stetson hat. (LLoyd Price - Stagger Lee ludditerobot)

Still Remaining: 1, 2, 5, 12


And this week's Nip/Tuck had a line of dialogue I've been savoring all day:

Christian: "Sean, you're so moralistic that if Anne Frank were living in your attic, she wouldn't have gotten past 'Dear Diary'".

Comments

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

6, 7, 9, 12, 15, 18, 19 and 20 all correct. Though I was listening to the original (to the extent that it's based off an old blues song) Lloyd Price version from 1958.

#11. No.

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah! Men At Work, "Who Can It Be Now?"

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

yup. This list is not as hard as yours

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that. I'm sorry for bogarting half of it.

Thing is, I wasn't trying to go obscure. I have some straight-up pop on my current playlist.

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

Re Lloyd Price: Of course he rocks. Just, I associate that song with Mississippi John Hurt, and later with Nick Cave's album of murder ballads, not the "doin' the shag" anthem. I heard that 100 times before I knew what it was about.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I totally should not have given you credit since you don't know Lloyd Price. he rocks.

[cleapet.livejournal.com]

Huh. I think I was thinking the same thing as ludditerobot for # 11 and I'm still singing that lyric in my head. Is it possible it's the same lyric in both songs? Weird.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

As luddite eventually noticed, that lyric is the bridge of the Men at Work song "Who Can it Be Now?"

Is it the man come to take me away?
Why must they follow me?
It's not the future that I can see.
It's just my fantasy.
(saxaphone solo)

[cleapet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. I meant I thought it was weird that both songs had the same words, but what I found out was that in my head I was singing "It's not the future that I can see, It's just my fantasy" to the tune of Aldo Nova's stanza "Life is just a fantasy, can you live this fantasy life". The first set of lyrics matches the second song perfectly and they got twisted in my head. And apparently, luddite's too, at first.

Sinus infections hamper my ability to communicate, more so than usual.