Lyrics Meme Pt. 2
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icepixieUnguessed lyrics from yesterday's meme:
2. The sun is up, I'm so happy I could scream / And there's nowhere else in the world I'd rather be
3. Why are some men born with minds that earn degrees / the loving cups, guilded plaques grace their study walls
5. He was born a sailor's son / Nothing came easy or free / He suffered the squalls, all the rises and falls / And everything else in between ["Lucky Me," Great Big Sea,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alorarose]
6. Watch while the queen, in one false move, turns herself into a pawn / Sleepy and shaken, and watching while the blurry night turns into a very clear dawn ["Knight Moves," Suzanne Vega,deborah_judge]
10. We climbed through the canopy / Only to find a crack in our gauge
11. When I hear the sound of the black bird's cry / I know I left in the nick of time
13. There's fifty dollars on this pony / Chase him down these tracks
15. Here we stand at the end of paths taken / guiding light inspiration, the slow decline
16. Write your name upon my sidewalk / I'll paint it on the door outside
17. But you lost yourself inside those sounds, / in the dimestore riches and the carnival crowds / and your shooting star it was burning out
18. Oh be the music in my head, / the air around my bed, oh be my rest
20. There was a lady fine and gay / She looked so neat and trim / She went unto her garden wall / To see her ships come in
21. A dream coming down / cold on your skin and dark on the ground
24. I won't face another day, I won't wait until tomorrow / I won't spend another night without you
29. I want to crawl back inside my mother's womb / I want to shut out all the lights in this room
30. I've got no arms, I've got no legs / I've got no shoulders, but I've got a head / I've got a head that tells me stupid things to do
Hints!
2. Think 80s. Think synthesizers. Think eyeliner. The group is one of two artists that have two entries on this list.
3. Okay, this is one probably no one will get—the group itself is quite famous, and spawned an extremely famous solo act (though, granted, she was more famous in the 90s than now), but the song itself is from their early, folkier past.
5. I know for a fact that at least three members of my flist own this song. The band is Canadian, and these lines are extremely representative of their oeuvre (and when they aren't singing about sailing, they're singing about drinking).
6. The artist had two biggish hits in the late 80s (one was about an abused kid and the other was about a restaurant, and got covered by approximately a squillion people), neither of which is this song, but which do all come from the same album. She often tells stories through metaphor like this.
10. The artist is very famous among the Melancholy Rocker Girl and a Piano set, and has been vaguely associated with Neil Gaiman. However, this song is not one of her more famous ones.
11. I've recced this person before, though I don't think I've recced this song. The artist used to be a member of the group that did 24, and goes by his first, middle, and last names.
13. I know some of you own this song because I have either given you a copy or badgered you into buying everything the band has ever made. In this case, "pony" is an anthropomorphization (um...equinomorphization?) of an inanimate object, the plural form of which is one word in the title.
15. This group was a big influence on the band who did 13, but I'm not sure anyone actually still knows them.
16. There was a brief vogue for vids done to this duo's songs about seven years ago. This song comes from a double CD where they helpfully separated the happy and sad songs into separate albums and titled the albums accordingly.
17. I recced this German-American artist very highly less than a year ago. The album this comes from has a bit of a circus/carnival theme.
18. This husband-and-wife duo has been around for a couple of decades, and has undergone a bit of a personality shift since the early 90s, from somewhat upbeat folk-rock to slow, quiet, contemplative music. Their band name sounds kind of hipsterish. The title of the song has to do with airplanes.
20. Although almost all of this artist's music sounds like re-arranged traditional tunes, usually it's not. This one is a traditional tune, but has original lyrics. Its title is a man's name.
21. ...Yeah, this one is the least likely to be guessed. I've recced the artist before, but she's almost unknown.
24. The lyrics are quite generic, I know. The group's name is actually three geography-related words all smushed into one, if that helps. The song is the one and only bluegrass tune with a samba beat I have ever run into.
29. The artist is now reasonably famous among the indie-folk-pop crowd (I think she might have been featured on Grey's Anatomy), but this is from an earlier, less poppy album.
30. This was a Single of the Week on iTunes about a year and a half ago. The title is a reference to The Wizard of Oz.
2. The sun is up, I'm so happy I could scream / And there's nowhere else in the world I'd rather be
3. Why are some men born with minds that earn degrees / the loving cups, guilded plaques grace their study walls
5. He was born a sailor's son / Nothing came easy or free / He suffered the squalls, all the rises and falls / And everything else in between ["Lucky Me," Great Big Sea,
alorarose]6. Watch while the queen, in one false move, turns herself into a pawn / Sleepy and shaken, and watching while the blurry night turns into a very clear dawn ["Knight Moves," Suzanne Vega,
deborah_judge]10. We climbed through the canopy / Only to find a crack in our gauge
11. When I hear the sound of the black bird's cry / I know I left in the nick of time
13. There's fifty dollars on this pony / Chase him down these tracks
15. Here we stand at the end of paths taken / guiding light inspiration, the slow decline
16. Write your name upon my sidewalk / I'll paint it on the door outside
17. But you lost yourself inside those sounds, / in the dimestore riches and the carnival crowds / and your shooting star it was burning out
18. Oh be the music in my head, / the air around my bed, oh be my rest
20. There was a lady fine and gay / She looked so neat and trim / She went unto her garden wall / To see her ships come in
21. A dream coming down / cold on your skin and dark on the ground
24. I won't face another day, I won't wait until tomorrow / I won't spend another night without you
29. I want to crawl back inside my mother's womb / I want to shut out all the lights in this room
30. I've got no arms, I've got no legs / I've got no shoulders, but I've got a head / I've got a head that tells me stupid things to do
Hints!
2. Think 80s. Think synthesizers. Think eyeliner. The group is one of two artists that have two entries on this list.
3. Okay, this is one probably no one will get—the group itself is quite famous, and spawned an extremely famous solo act (though, granted, she was more famous in the 90s than now), but the song itself is from their early, folkier past.
5. I know for a fact that at least three members of my flist own this song. The band is Canadian, and these lines are extremely representative of their oeuvre (and when they aren't singing about sailing, they're singing about drinking).
6. The artist had two biggish hits in the late 80s (one was about an abused kid and the other was about a restaurant, and got covered by approximately a squillion people), neither of which is this song, but which do all come from the same album. She often tells stories through metaphor like this.
10. The artist is very famous among the Melancholy Rocker Girl and a Piano set, and has been vaguely associated with Neil Gaiman. However, this song is not one of her more famous ones.
11. I've recced this person before, though I don't think I've recced this song. The artist used to be a member of the group that did 24, and goes by his first, middle, and last names.
13. I know some of you own this song because I have either given you a copy or badgered you into buying everything the band has ever made. In this case, "pony" is an anthropomorphization (um...equinomorphization?) of an inanimate object, the plural form of which is one word in the title.
15. This group was a big influence on the band who did 13, but I'm not sure anyone actually still knows them.
16. There was a brief vogue for vids done to this duo's songs about seven years ago. This song comes from a double CD where they helpfully separated the happy and sad songs into separate albums and titled the albums accordingly.
17. I recced this German-American artist very highly less than a year ago. The album this comes from has a bit of a circus/carnival theme.
18. This husband-and-wife duo has been around for a couple of decades, and has undergone a bit of a personality shift since the early 90s, from somewhat upbeat folk-rock to slow, quiet, contemplative music. Their band name sounds kind of hipsterish. The title of the song has to do with airplanes.
20. Although almost all of this artist's music sounds like re-arranged traditional tunes, usually it's not. This one is a traditional tune, but has original lyrics. Its title is a man's name.
21. ...Yeah, this one is the least likely to be guessed. I've recced the artist before, but she's almost unknown.
24. The lyrics are quite generic, I know. The group's name is actually three geography-related words all smushed into one, if that helps. The song is the one and only bluegrass tune with a samba beat I have ever run into.
29. The artist is now reasonably famous among the indie-folk-pop crowd (I think she might have been featured on Grey's Anatomy), but this is from an earlier, less poppy album.
30. This was a Single of the Week on iTunes about a year and a half ago. The title is a reference to The Wizard of Oz.
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Date: 2011-03-01 04:14 am (UTC)And I'm still blanking on the GBS one.
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Date: 2011-03-01 04:45 am (UTC)The GBS song involves teenage pregnancy and "rock and roll hair," if that helps.
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Date: 2011-03-01 09:51 am (UTC)5. Lucky Me - GBS!
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Date: 2011-03-01 09:52 am (UTC)6. Suzanne Vega? Don't know the song tho.