Papers and songs
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icepixieWheee, I got a 70 on my Shakespeare essay! Before all the Americans go "and you're happy?", know that a 70 is the British equivalent to an A+ or a 100, and apparently very, very few people in the School of English get them. So...woohoo! I'm a little disappointed in myself that it wasn't a better paper...it was well-written, and my research-maven-ness paid off this time, but I feel like I did one, possibly two, better papers a year ago in Irish Lit. Of course, if I keep comparing everything to Irish Lit, then probably nothing will ever seem as good by comparison...
But I'm not complaining about the fact that this will make my GPA look very pretty. Nope, not me! :)
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Also, because I am a lemming and I don't really have anything else to do:
This is the "first two lines of whatever comes up on your playlist" version. I took out all the instrumentals (there were a lot) and anything where the title is sung in the first two lines, 'cause that seemed like cheating. Oh, and nothing in a non-English language, 'cause I'm too lazy to look up spellings. That took out most of the choir stuff...
Right. Anyway:
1. I don't know what you're looking for
You haven't found it, baby, that's for sure
2. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloudy seas
3. One morning in the month of May
Down by some rolling river
4. I just want to feel safe in my own skin
I just want to be happy again
5. Well, here I am at my front door and oh, what an odor is rising
It seems I've stood on this porch at lesser times
6. I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
7. Run and tell all of the angels
This could take all night
8. Each night before you go to bed, my baby,
Whisper a little prayer for me, my baby
9. Midnights in winter, the glowing fire
Lights up your face in orange and gold
10. Stand back
'said stand back
What are those dogs doing sniffing around my feet
11. The Internet is really, really great
[for porn]
I've got a fast connection so I don't have to wait
[for porn]
12. So we meet again and I offer my hand all dry and English slow
And you look at me and I understand, yeah, it's a look I used to know
13. Long white arms losing their strength and form
Sixty-year man on twenty-year-old skin
14. I wanna be by myself, sometimes I do
I don't wanna be left behind, but sometimes I'm left by you
15. The winter here's cold and bitter
It's chilled us to the bone
16. Only ever needed one story
A boy and a girl and a dream of the world
17. Radio, play my favorite song,
Radio, radio, radio, I'm alone
18. I wish you out of the woods
and into a picture with me
19. Young and strong Hollywood son, in the early morning light
the stars fell down on Sunset Boulevard
20. Old Kenyon, we are like Kokosing
Obedient to some strange spell
21. In Napoli, where love is king,
When boy meets girl, here's what they sing
22. You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis
23. One more girl on the top of a billboard
One more girl jumping in with the big boys
24. You've got your ball, you've got your chain
Tied to me tight, tie me up again
25. Not so long ago we both felt love became a word
No more than that with sex it felt like wings without a bird
But I'm not complaining about the fact that this will make my GPA look very pretty. Nope, not me! :)
*
Also, because I am a lemming and I don't really have anything else to do:
This is the "first two lines of whatever comes up on your playlist" version. I took out all the instrumentals (there were a lot) and anything where the title is sung in the first two lines, 'cause that seemed like cheating. Oh, and nothing in a non-English language, 'cause I'm too lazy to look up spellings. That took out most of the choir stuff...
Right. Anyway:
1. I don't know what you're looking for
You haven't found it, baby, that's for sure
2. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloudy seas
3. One morning in the month of May
Down by some rolling river
4. I just want to feel safe in my own skin
I just want to be happy again
5. Well, here I am at my front door and oh, what an odor is rising
It seems I've stood on this porch at lesser times
6. I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
7. Run and tell all of the angels
This could take all night
8. Each night before you go to bed, my baby,
Whisper a little prayer for me, my baby
9. Midnights in winter, the glowing fire
Lights up your face in orange and gold
10. Stand back
'said stand back
What are those dogs doing sniffing around my feet
11. The Internet is really, really great
[for porn]
I've got a fast connection so I don't have to wait
[for porn]
12. So we meet again and I offer my hand all dry and English slow
And you look at me and I understand, yeah, it's a look I used to know
13. Long white arms losing their strength and form
Sixty-year man on twenty-year-old skin
14. I wanna be by myself, sometimes I do
I don't wanna be left behind, but sometimes I'm left by you
15. The winter here's cold and bitter
It's chilled us to the bone
16. Only ever needed one story
A boy and a girl and a dream of the world
17. Radio, play my favorite song,
Radio, radio, radio, I'm alone
18. I wish you out of the woods
and into a picture with me
19. Young and strong Hollywood son, in the early morning light
the stars fell down on Sunset Boulevard
20. Old Kenyon, we are like Kokosing
Obedient to some strange spell
21. In Napoli, where love is king,
When boy meets girl, here's what they sing
22. You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis
23. One more girl on the top of a billboard
One more girl jumping in with the big boys
24. You've got your ball, you've got your chain
Tied to me tight, tie me up again
25. Not so long ago we both felt love became a word
No more than that with sex it felt like wings without a bird
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Date: 2004-12-09 04:50 pm (UTC)2: Loreena McKennit - The Highwayman. Great lyrics.
And I know number 7, but I can't for the life of me recall artist or title, though I can almost hear it.
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Date: 2004-12-09 06:04 pm (UTC)8. Dedicated to the One I Love, Mamas & the Papas
(okay, I had to look up the title on the last one)
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Date: 2004-12-09 06:16 pm (UTC)7. Foo Fighters- Learn to Fly (???)
15. Sarah McLachlan- Full of Grace (earts song)
17. Smashing Pumpkins- I of the Morning
24. Dave Matthews Band- Crash Into me
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Date: 2004-12-09 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 02:11 am (UTC)They have an X-Files connection, if that helps at all. :)
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Date: 2004-12-10 02:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 02:13 am (UTC)Yep!
And wow, I wasn't thinking anyone would get that Pumpkins song.
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Date: 2004-12-10 02:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 02:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 10:38 am (UTC)