ANSWERS: 1st things 1st - A Lyrics Game
Submitted by pivvclam on Tue, 07/15/2003 - 05:16
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- I feel like I'm pounding on a big door/ No one can hear me knocking/I feel like I'm falling flat to the floor/No one can catch me from falling(Hourglass-Squeeze, not answered)
- I will a find a way/ To get to you some day /Oh, but I, babe, I'm so afraid I'll fall, yeah/Now can't you hear me call?(Shake Some Action-Flaming Groovies, not answered)
- I've tried so hard my dear to show that you're my every dream/Yet, you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme/A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart(Cold,Cold Heart-Hank Williams, not answered)
- Daylight turns to moonlight and I'm at my best/Praising the way it all works - gazing upon the rest/The cool before the warm/The calm after the storm(My Ever-Changing Moods-The Style Council, not answered)
- Bomb's are flying/People are dying/Children are crying/Politicians are lying too/Cancer is killing/Texaco's spilling/The whole world's gone to hell/But how are you?(I'm Super-Big Gay Al-Southpark, not answered)
- I hang my head down on Hollywood/ I see the way up and down it's just stars/And I'm making my way down to Cherokee/To get drunk in a bar/And all my friends, they worry 'bout me/I can see it written on their face/But despite anything I might have said before(The Bar is a Beautiful Place-Ryan Adams, not answered)
- The ashtray says you were up all night/When you went to bed/With your darkest mind/Your pillow wept/And covered your eyes/And you finally slept/While the sun caught fire(Shot in the Arm-Wilco, not answered)
- When I was younger, younger than before/I never saw the truth hanging from the door/And now I'm older, see it face to face/Now I'm older, gotta get up, clean the place.(Place to Be-Nick Drake, not answered)
- Your brains went black when she took back her love and put it out into the sun/The birds all did fly when the heavens all went dry and the cigarettes were smoking by themselves(Asshole-Beck, not answered)
- Well, I had to go down and see a guy named Mr Goldsmith/Nasty, dirty, double-crossing, backstabbing phony I didn't have to wanna have to deal with/But I did it for you and all you gave me was a smile(Cry Awhile-Bob Dylan, not answered)
- If you had not have fallen/Then I would not have found you(Angel Flying to Close to the Ground-Willie Nelson, not answered)
- Somebody took the papers/And somebody's got the key/And somebody nailed the door shut/That says hey what you think that you see/But me l'm down around the corner/You know I'm lookin' for Miss Linda Lee/Because she's got the power to love me by the hour(Cool It Down-Velvet Underground, not answered)
- Don't like to see your face/don't like to hear you talk at all/I could be with Ann/but I'd just get bored(Life is White-Big Star, not answered)
- I took a picture that I'll have to send/People here are friendly and content/People here are colorful and bright/The flowers often bloom at night (Flowers of Guatemala-REM, thanks to tdunnie)
- Oh, Grandpa wore his suit to dinner nearly every day/No particular reason, he just dressed that way (Grandpa was a Carpenter-John Prine thanks to jgandcag)
- Hey there's a horseshoe on my door/Big deal/And say there's a black cat on the floor/Big deal(Star Sign-Teenage Fanclub, not answered)
- Danger in the shape of something wild/Stranger dressed in in black she's a hungry child (Hot Child in the City-Nick Gilder,thanks jgandcag)
- She said she didn't understand and so she guessed he was deep/She swore he'd never been to college and was too tall to be/So as she led him to the slaughter thinking she'd be laughing last/Now the lady in the question is his better half(She's a Girl, I'm a Man-Lloyd Cole, not answered)
- I wrote a poem on a dog bisquit/and your dog refused to look at it/So I got drunk and looked at the Empire State Building/It was no bigger than a nickel(4th of July-Galaxie 500, not answered)
- The surf was easy on the day I came to stay on this quiet island on the bay/I remember a line of women all in white/The laughter and the steel bands at night(The Goodbye Look-Donald Fagan, not answered)
- Some fellas look at the eys/Some fellas look athe nose/Some fellas look at the sides and some fellas look at the toes (First I Look at the Purse-The Contours, nice call jgandcag)
- When they kick out your front door/How you gonna come?/With your hands on your head, or the trigger of your gun.(Guns in Brixton-The Clash, not answered)
- Now I rock a house party at the drop of a hat/And I'll beat a body down with aluminum bat(Beastie Boys-Shake Your Rump,thanks to gadkins)
- Everybody's got a thing/But some don't know how to handle it/Always reachin' out in vain/Accepting the things not worth having but(Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing-Stevie Wonder, not answered)
- Love, let me sleep tonight on you couch and remember the smell of the fabric of your simple city dress(So Real-Jeff Buckley, not answered)
- I met God on the edge of town/Where the wind meets the stillness/where the darkness meets the light/where the ocean meets the sky/where the desert meets the rain/where the earth meets the heavens/on the edge of town/i met God(God Said No-Dan Bern, not answered)
- Look out across the fields, see me returning/Smoke is in your eye, you draw a smile/From the fireplace where my letters to you are burning/You've had time to think about it for a while.(When Night Comes Falling From the Sky-Bob Dylan, not answered)
- Well, I sold the farm to take my woman where she longed to be/We left our kin and all our friends back there in Tennessee (Streets of Baltimore-Gram Parsons, thanks to jgandcag)
Author Comments:
My first shot at this, so these are probably easy, but each clue is the FIRST line or phrase of a song-Have fun. UPDATE: I must admit, I'm a little disappointed in the results of this quiz. I thought there were a few obscure selections, sure; but ,I thought, for the most part; these were relatively easy. Maybe there's just no love for the Pivvclam. Sigh. Oh, well, I need some closure on this, so here are the answers.
Cloned From:
I also have number 14 on my quiz, so I'll pass that one by... :)
Great song.
I'll give a day or two, then I'll dive in, though I am not recalling quite as many as I feel I should.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Actually, I put that one in there especially for you.:)
Number 23 is Beastie Boys, Shake Your Rump, Paul's Boutique
Thank you stranger, that is correct
28. is A great Gram Parsons tune called Streets of Baltimore from his GP album
15. Grandpa was a Carpenter by John Prine
17. Hot Child in the City by Nick Gilder
21. First I look at the Purse which J Geils did a great version of but I believe was a Contours song originally.
14. is a Rapid Eye Movement song but I will be damned if I can remember which one.
I know some more but I will leave for others to ponder...
I love the Geils version of First I Look at the Purse, too. Somebody brought up Geils on the Listology the other day, so I slipped that one in there. You are correct on 14, maybe it will come to you later
14. Flower of Guatamala - REM
tdunnie
Correct, off the great underappreciated Life's Rich Pageant album
Ah, don't be too disappointed clam. I think it's a combination of there being too many of these type lists on the site and us knowing that someone else might "search engine" the lyric while we're sittin' there for a half-hour trying to convince ourselves that Alzheimers hasn't set in yet. : )
I think stumpy's nailed it, Mr. Clam. It's certainly nothing personal. Well, I suppose I can't speak for the entire Listology community, but it wasn't personal for me! Also, I suck at these lyric quizzes. I'm no great shakes at the movie quote quizzes either.