lyrics and stuff
May. 11th, 2004 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandolinTaking a brief break from cleaning... remember the lyrics meme from last week?
The answers:
1. "They say Confucius does his crossword with a pen / I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin"
Tori Amos, "Happy Phantom"
2. "Long stem roses are the way to your heart but he needs to start with your head"
Madonna, "Express Yourself"
3. "Well I hear you went up to Saratoga and your horse naturally won / Then you flew your lear jet up to Nova Scotia / To see the total eclipse of the sun"
Carly Simon, "You're So Vain"
4. "Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable, mangled up in tangled up knots."
Boris Karloff, "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"
5. "Half way up and over this rainbow / I heard a shot fire up from a ghetto"
Wallflowers, "When You're On Top"
6. "I had Little Richard and that black piano / Oh that sweet Georgia Peach and the boy from Tupelo"
Elton John, "Made In England"
7. "An hour later the cops arrived / By then the entire Glee Club had died (No big loss.)"
Julie Brown, "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun"
8. "The way things go / You get so low / Struggle to find your skin"
Wilco, "Can't Stand It"
9. "You've been a juvenile / With a dolphin smile / With no elbow room / With your body in bloom"
No Doubt, "Sixteen"
10. "Now here's the part of the song where you'd expect to find a little irony / about how I'd really much rather have you back .... SORRY!"
Jim's Big Ego, "Lucky" *
11. "She said: You're one in a million / You've got to burn to shine, / But you were born under a bad sign, / With a blue moon in your eyes."
A3, "Woke Up This Morning" (Sopranos theme)
12. "I need a photo-opportunity, I want a shot at redemption / Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard"
Paul Simon, "You Can Call Me Al"
13. "You took a pretty picture / And you smashed it into bits / Sank me into blackness / And you sealed it with a kiss"
Madonna, "Amazing"
14. "I want this V-chip out of me, / It has stunted my vo-ca-bu-lar-y."
Stan, Kyle and Eric, "What Would Brian Boitano Do?"
15. "I'm just a girl with my head screwed on / I'm just a girl with a smoking gun"
Eurythmics, "Power to the Meek" **
16. "Some of us hover when we weep for the other / who was dying since the day they were born"
Lisa Loeb, "Stay"
17. "Well, don't be blind to the big surprise swimming round and round like the deadly hand of a radium clock, at the bottom of the pool."
B-52's, "Private Idaho"
18. "Father, forgive me, I tried not to do it / Turned over a new leaf, then tore right through it"
Pet Shop Boys, "It's a Sin"
19. "Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be, / There's a shadow hanging over me."
The Beatles, "Yesterday"
20. "Put your faith in a liar's hands / Wanting to believe his words / But never knowing where he stands..."
Blackmore's Night, "Writing on the Wall" ***
* The one I didn't think ANYONE would get.
** The other one I thought wouldn't be recognized, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
athersgeo proved me wrong.
*** I figuredjennies might get this, since she was one of the people who introduced me to Blackmore's Night.
So how'd you do? Anything here you think you SHOULD have gotten? :)
The answers:
1. "They say Confucius does his crossword with a pen / I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin"
Tori Amos, "Happy Phantom"
2. "Long stem roses are the way to your heart but he needs to start with your head"
Madonna, "Express Yourself"
3. "Well I hear you went up to Saratoga and your horse naturally won / Then you flew your lear jet up to Nova Scotia / To see the total eclipse of the sun"
Carly Simon, "You're So Vain"
4. "Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable, mangled up in tangled up knots."
Boris Karloff, "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"
5. "Half way up and over this rainbow / I heard a shot fire up from a ghetto"
Wallflowers, "When You're On Top"
6. "I had Little Richard and that black piano / Oh that sweet Georgia Peach and the boy from Tupelo"
Elton John, "Made In England"
7. "An hour later the cops arrived / By then the entire Glee Club had died (No big loss.)"
Julie Brown, "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun"
8. "The way things go / You get so low / Struggle to find your skin"
Wilco, "Can't Stand It"
9. "You've been a juvenile / With a dolphin smile / With no elbow room / With your body in bloom"
No Doubt, "Sixteen"
10. "Now here's the part of the song where you'd expect to find a little irony / about how I'd really much rather have you back .... SORRY!"
Jim's Big Ego, "Lucky" *
11. "She said: You're one in a million / You've got to burn to shine, / But you were born under a bad sign, / With a blue moon in your eyes."
A3, "Woke Up This Morning" (Sopranos theme)
12. "I need a photo-opportunity, I want a shot at redemption / Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard"
Paul Simon, "You Can Call Me Al"
13. "You took a pretty picture / And you smashed it into bits / Sank me into blackness / And you sealed it with a kiss"
Madonna, "Amazing"
14. "I want this V-chip out of me, / It has stunted my vo-ca-bu-lar-y."
Stan, Kyle and Eric, "What Would Brian Boitano Do?"
15. "I'm just a girl with my head screwed on / I'm just a girl with a smoking gun"
Eurythmics, "Power to the Meek" **
16. "Some of us hover when we weep for the other / who was dying since the day they were born"
Lisa Loeb, "Stay"
17. "Well, don't be blind to the big surprise swimming round and round like the deadly hand of a radium clock, at the bottom of the pool."
B-52's, "Private Idaho"
18. "Father, forgive me, I tried not to do it / Turned over a new leaf, then tore right through it"
Pet Shop Boys, "It's a Sin"
19. "Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be, / There's a shadow hanging over me."
The Beatles, "Yesterday"
20. "Put your faith in a liar's hands / Wanting to believe his words / But never knowing where he stands..."
Blackmore's Night, "Writing on the Wall" ***
* The one I didn't think ANYONE would get.
** The other one I thought wouldn't be recognized, but
athersgeo proved me wrong.*** I figured
jennies might get this, since she was one of the people who introduced me to Blackmore's Night.So how'd you do? Anything here you think you SHOULD have gotten? :)
