Lyrics

[vovat]

Here are some lyrics from 20 different songs. You have to guess what songs they're from.

1. Why don't you leave a message with my girl? I'll have lunch with your machine.
2. Keep your fingers busy, mentally or physically.
3. A lobster is he, as anyone with half an eye can see.
4. I wanted to be close to God, but not at the expense of sin.
5. He looks around, thinking, incorrectly, that he will someday discover my secret identity.
6. God bless California, make way for the Wal-Mart.
7. When my friend got amnesia, she can't remember the shows she saw.
8. Won't stop the armadillos from plundering my grave.
9. We both found heaven right then; you just chose not to come back.
10. But how do you feel when you're behind the wheel, and a swerve can control your fate?
11. Blow on your horn until Jericho yields.
12. I was out in the field collecting strength for my shield.
13. Troubles, they seem to follow me, as far as I can see, it must be my destiny.
14. Zwanzig Kilometer bis Rasthof.
15. I want McNormal and chips, or I'll blow you to bits.
16. Home was anywhere with diesel gas; love was a trucker's hand.
17. When you eat steak, it's a wake for a cow. Sizzlin' bacon's one for a sow.
18. Mountains have been moved and theories have been proved all within the duration.
19. See the leches crawl with the call girls under the table.
20. "The Lord's our shepherd," says the Psalm, but just in case, we'd better get a bomb.

Most of these should be pretty easy, since they're from stuff I listen to pretty often. #3 is probably the most difficult (or the most obscure, anyway).

Comments

[bethje.livejournal.com]

Welly welly welly...

6. God bless California, make way for the Wal-Mart.
Neko Case - Thrice All-American is that right? I forget. {g}
9. We both found heaven right then; you just chose not to come back.
Erin McKeown - Le Petit Mort
12. I was out in the field collecting strength for my shield.
Moxy Fruvous - Misplaced
15. I want McNormal and chips, or I'll blow you to bits.
Blur - Dan Abnormal
16. Home was anywhere with diesel gas; love was a trucker's hand.
The song is Papa Was a Rodeo by Magnetic Fields, right? I forgot to tell you that's on my new Kelly Hogan CD. It's the best song on there.
17. When you eat steak, it's a wake for a cow. Sizzlin' bacon's one for a sow.
That's that Hypnotic Clambake song about htat philsopher's ass or something.
19. See the leches crawl with the call girls under the table.
Elton John - Tower of Babel {heart}


I bet I'll be embarrassed about some of the ones I missed.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Those are all correct, although the actual title of #17 is simply "The Philosopher." I know you have some of the others on albums or mix tapes, and one of them YOU actually put on a mix tape for ME. {g} Kelly Hogan covered "Papa Was A Rodeo"? That's pretty cool. Have you heard the original? I think it's the best song on Disc 2 of 69 Love Songs. I'd like to hear Ms. Hogan's version.

[jazzsammich.livejournal.com]

#5 -- Mono Puff, "Dedicated"
#12 -- Beph beat me to it, but i knew it anyway.
#20 -- Tom Lehrer, "We'll All Go Together (When We Go)"

da taaaaaaaaa.

--jim

this is a fun game.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

#5 is correct. Not only, but especially for the ladies! For #20, you have the right artist, but the wrong song.

[revme.livejournal.com]

It's "Who's Next", innit?

[revme.livejournal.com]

Also, #1 is "Check's in the Mail" by Weird Al.

I didn't know #3, but I looked it up. Because I was curious. And was all embarrassed.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yes, those two answers are both correct.

[3x1minus1.livejournal.com]

10, thrush hermit fromthebackofthefilm ; 15 blur dan abnormal? yay. {g} i don't do too well on these. {g}

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, those are both right. #10 is the one that I mentioned that Beth put on a mix tape for me, by the way.