Audience participation.

[hannah]

I've seen this around several times, and I've wanted to try it out for a while: Guess The Lyrics! All songs taken from my 'random MP3' playlist, and is not indicative of my overall music collection - none of my Joni Mitchell is on there - but there's a wide range of things. Bonus points for guessing the proper artist of cover versions. Please accept this until I get my head together for some proper content.


1. [Name of song, name of song]/Won't you spare me over til another year
2. I roll the window down/And then begin to breathe in
3. Beware the bottle thoughts of angry young men/Secret compartments hide all of the skeletons - Nightmares By the Sea, Jeff Buckley, kernezelda
4. When I want you in my arms/When I want you and all your charms - All I Have To Do Is Dream, Roy Orbison, nachtschade
5. I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra/I was born blue and weathered but I burst just like a supernova - It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City, David Bowie, karaokegal
6. If we can call them friends we can call them on red telephones/And they won't pretend that they're too busy or they're not alone
7. I've got a smile on my face, I've got four walls around me/The sun in the sky, the water surrounds me - Ordinary Day, Great Big Sea, roga
8. I've watched the stars fall silent from your eyes/All the sights that I have seen - The Great Beyond, R.E.M., euclase
9. Counting all different ideas drifting away/Past and present, they don't matter, now the future's sorted out
10. I was a stranger in the city/Out of town were the people I knew
11. You hit me once, I hit you back/You gave a kick, I gave a slap - Kiss With A Fist, Florence & The Machine, swatkat24
12. A long, long time ago/I can still remember how that music used to make me smile - American Pie, Don McLean, swatkat24
13. You take your white finger/Slide the nail under the top and bottom buttons of my blazer - The Dark Of The Matinee, Franz Ferdinand, perspi
14. I will arise and go now, and go to [Name of song]/And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made
15. Say say my playmate/Won't you lay hands on me - Wolf Like Me, TV On The Radio, euclase
16. Could you whisper in my ear/The things you wanna feel - Slide, The Goo Goo Dolls, recrudescence
17. I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song/I'm twenty-two now but I won't be for long - Leaves That Are Green, Simon and Garfunkel, recrudescence
18. If the rain comes they run and hide their heads/they might as well be dead - Rain, The Beatles, swatkat24
19. This is the definition of my life/Lying in bed in the sunlight - Dry The Rain, The Beta Band euclase
20. Falling from the western selves/To find yourself alone again

Comments

[joe-pike-junior.livejournal.com]

14. I will arise and go now, and go to [Name of song]/And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made
That's the Lake Isle of Innisfree, by Keats. I Googled that one, although it was on the tip of my tongue, because it threw me that it's a poem set to music (presumably). Who sings it?

The Dark Of The Matinee I can remember listening to that album on repeat when it came out. The title track is still one of my "feel good" songs.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Cherish The Ladies, off the album Threads of Time.

[joe-pike-junior.livejournal.com]

Are there any lyrics other than Keats?

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

The song itself is a direct adaptation of the poem, so probably not. As for the rest of what the band's done, I've only got two of their songs so I can't really say, but with ten albums they must have a lot to work with.