Meaningfull lyrics.... (another boring music question)

[datalas]

Since I happen to know what some people round here used to do for a living (hi muddy) and what certain people played at their weddings (Nelly)..

I figured it would be interesting, or at least tedium breaking for us to play the "lyric guessing game"...   Go ahead, post meaningfull, insightfull... or just docile lyrics and see if other people can guess the songs.....


A couple to start with (reply if you want more)

"Familiarity breeds contempt"

"some people get by, with a little understanding"  (if Nelly misses this one I think we should kill him)

"I do not know, but I'll let you have a go on..."

"life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it"

"dead I am the rat, feast upon the cat"

"I never knew love, but I know it now... I wanna give her my heart..."

[Thrasher]

Well...just so I don;t get killed.....

the one I should know is the Sisters of Mercy ... More

Which was played at my wedding.

[Moose]

Got any think by ABBA  or the Tweenies  :lol:

[datalas]

Sadly yes...

[strapping young lad]

heres a nasty one


"i am rape, i am hate"

now go find it

[Thrasher]

try

"Drink the blood from my chalice, come to Hell and my Palace"

[datalas]

are you really?

I'd seek help if I were you :)

on a more serious note...  I am not going to type that into google....

I'm already on an NSA list apparently....

[Maddy]

Wrong Thrasher, you are going to get killed!!! That was not played at our wedding that was our engagement party!!!  :shock: Still I guess time fades the memory - well I did get our anniversary wrong.  :oops:  Some people get by with a little understanding.....

[datalas]

hpwever don't foget that some people get by with a whole lot more....

[Andy.]

I'm a bit lost on all these lyrics may be I should sign the wife on its more her music taste  than mine :lol:

[Moose]

We are into Bay City Rollers and David Essex if I do that. - no chance

[Andy.]

Right here we go then:

Twenty five whores in the room next door,
Twenty five scores and I need more.

From Jayne :lol:

[Thrasher]

Jayne,

Vision Thing :)

Now get yourself an independant sign on name :)

[Maddy]

ok here's a selection that is or has recently been in my cd changer:

'Sitting by the railroad station thinking nothing could go wrong....'

'Now I know what I've got, it's just this song...'

'Observe the blood, the rose tattoo and the fingerprints on me from you...'

'I come home in the morning light my father yells "when you gonna live your life right?"...'

'Oberon told me the devil lives there, maybe he stole it and it could be anywhere, one star in silent millions, trying to get back home'


'When I was a young man, I carried my pack, and I lived the free life of a rover..'


a bit of variety there for you..

[Bush Tucker Man]

In line with Datalas' starter here are some lyrics from my LP collection, that dates them all to before a certain time.

All are car/truck/train/plane related by content or title, only selected verses typed.
Name the song, singer/s & album

"Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge,
bought it in an auction at the Mason Lodge.
Johnson County Sherrif painted on the side,
just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside.
Well him & my uncle tore that engine down,
I still remember that rumblin' sound"

"My P-47 is a pretty good ship*,
she took a round comin' across the channel last trip,
just thinkin' 'bout my baby and lettin' her rip.
Always got me through so far.
Well they can ship me all over this great big world,
but I'll never find nothin' like my North End girl.
I'm taking her home with me one day sir,
just as soon as we win this war"

"Hey pretty baby are you ready for me
It's your good rockin' daddydown from Tennessee
I'm just out of Austin bound for San Antone
with the radio blastin' and the BirdDog on.
There's a speedtrap up ahead in Selmatown,
but no 'local yokels' gonna shut me down
Me & the boys have got this rig unwound and we've come a thousand miles from a -------------"

Easy one this!
"The screendoor slams
Mary's dress waves
like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbisons singing for the lonely
hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside
darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared andyou're thinking that baby we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith there's magic in the night
you ain't a beauty but babe you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me"

"James Dean in that Mercury '49
Junior Johnson runnin' through the woods of Caroline
Even Burt Reynolds in that balck trans-Am
All gonna meet down at the ----------"

"I got a '69 Chevy with a 396
Fuelie heads and a Hurt on the floor
She's waitin' tonight down in the parking lot
outside the 7-11 store
Me & my partner Sonny we built her straight out of scratch
And he rides with me from town to town
We only run for the money, got no strings attached
We shut 'em up an we shut 'em down"

"Motor cooled down,
the heat went down,
that's when I heard that highway sound.
Cadillac looked like it was sittin' still,
as I caught .......at the top of the hill"  

*A P-47 is a plane, the Lockheed Thunderbolt. Not a boat.

The last one is probably the easiest one of all, absolutely no prizes for correct answers.

Got loads more..

[datalas]

'I come home in the morning light my father yells "when you gonna live your life right?"...'

Ooooh ooooh, I know that one...  "Girls just wanna have crumpets and got buttered toast"  by Cindy Lauper ...

or something like that anyhow

[Bush Tucker Man]

Maddy.

"I come home in the mornin' light"  
Cyndi Lauper 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun'

"Observe the blood...."
is it Suzanne Vega 'Marlena (on the wall)'?


"When I was a young man"
'And the Band played Waltzing Matilda'
Eric Bogle wrote it, can I take it your version The Pogues'?

On the anti-war vein, I think I prefer 'The Green Fields of France' by The Men They Couldn't Hang.

[Andy.]

Maddy wrote:

'Observe the blood, the rose tattoo and the fingerprints on me from you...'

Jam Bum Jovi  :?:

[strapping young lad]

bunch of weirdos

nothing wrong with

it must be just like living in paradise...

[Maddy]

Hey David Lee Roth, my hero, with um Just like living in Paradise, I think.

Mr Sheen - you are way off,  BTM was correct with Suzanne Vega. It was indeed Cyndi Lauper, and my version was the Pogues (didn't know who wrote it... I do now!)

One one of BTM's I can do I'm afraid is Maybelline by Simon & Garfunkel. Cool song.


Here's one or two for Moose & Lynn:

'Can't resist a strange reaction from a giant dynamo...'

'The nights are cold and dark, maybe we should close the door...'

And for Jayne....  'When you go, you go alone....'
''Don't give me why's and wherefores...'

Hey I'm enjoying this!! I could go on all week! :lol:

[Moose]

Lynn said can we have a clue  :?:

After 2 gins, (each) our minds are not thinking straight. :lol:

[Bush Tucker Man]

Thanks Maddy for those kind words.
I've got the Pogues version as well, think mines on the B-side of 'Dark Streets of London'


'Maybelline' - Simon & Garfunkel?????? No.
Guess again, 'B. Goode'  answer though


'The nights are cold & dark, maybe we should close the door'
Is it David Essex 'Winters Tale'??

[Maddy]

Sorry Chris & Lynn - BTM got the David Essex one. Didn't you say you wanted some Abba lyrics Chris??? Clue enough for you? Now which one was it??? And now you have to give me the next line too!

Can't think of any BCR of the top of my head - perhaps you should try me with some??


BTM  - Gonna have to check my S&G songs now, I could have sworn that he caught Maybelline at the top of the Hill, and it goes nicely into Maybelline, why can't you be true....' etc. Will have to think again.

[Moose]

No, either we have had to much gin, or not enought .

oh and Lynn want a little picture like yours and you never know she my go on line.

[Maddy]

It's the second best Abba song -

Tunnel dancing is involved? In the moonlight?

[Maddy]

OK proof - from a Simon & Garfunkel lyrics website. Original by Chuck Berry.
 
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You've started back doing the things you used to do.

The motor cooled down, the heat went down
and that's when I heard that highway sound.
The Cadillac a-sittin' like a ton of lead
a hundred and ten a half a mile ahead.
The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
and I caught Maybellene at the top of the hill.

Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You've started back doing the things you used to do.

So am I a smart **** or what?

[Moose]

Now I feel, Thick :oops:

We have even dusted down the ABBA gold, which I will go and play.

[Maddy]

Ah - think I may have found the problem then - it isn't on Abba Gold, it on More Abba Gold

Ok here's one you might know:

'i've played all my cards, and that's what you've done too, nothing more to say, no more ace to play...'

[Maddy]

Ok here's some slightly more mainstream ones for everyone to do whilst bored at work tomorrow: You should all get these...

1. 'All your life you've never seen a woman taken taken by the wind. Would you stay if she promised you heaven, would you ever win?...'

2. 'She keeps all your dead hair for making up underwear...'

3. 'Out on the wily windy moors we roll and fall in dreams, you had a temper like my jealousy, too wild too greedy.'

4. 'I heard you on the wireless back in 62'

5. 'Steve walks warily down the street, his brim pulled way down low. Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet, machine guns ready to go....'

6. 'She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh. I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath.'

7. 'Standing in the door of the Pink Flamingo crying in the rain'

8. 'I saw her walking on the water as the sharks for coming for me, I felt ... pull me up, give me the kiss of life, just like the girl in Dr No, no, no.'

9. 'Helter Skelter in the summer swealter, the birds flew off with a fall out shelter, ten miles high and falling fast...'

10. an easy one to end with..... 'Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me..'

Answers on a postcard please. :lol:

[Bush Tucker Man]

Defeat graciously admitted...

I own up I never knew S&G covered 'Maybelline'
I'll have to track that one down, as I really like S&G's harmonies.
Fave is possibly 'Sound of Silence' or 'Homeward Bound'

Oh, and yes. You are a 'smart-ass'