The answers to the lyrical guessing game
1. The saints are drunk and howling at the moon (Straight to You – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)
2. When you cancel dinner plans, when you cross the street, and you don’t take my hand You’re My Only Home – Magnetic Fields
3. You just go to take photographs,to believe that I’d be daft Very Funny – Magnetic Fields
4. So we’re drinkin’ drinkin’ drinkin’ drinkin’ coca coca cola Tiny Cities Made of Ash – Modest Mouse
5. The living room was full of the flies, the kitchen sink was blocked Mile End – Pulp
6. Grace is always forgotten, but never forgiven (To the Sea – Mark Eitzel)
7. I can still see the hem of your dress and the comb as it’s parting your hair (Lazy Eye – Hem)
8. Rise and fall like the sea, you look so good under me (Walk All Over You – Mark Kozelek)
9. We were good as married in my mind but married in my mind’s no good Pink Triangle – Weezer
10. I wonder should I get up and fix myself a drink? I’m So Tired – The Beatles
11. I need forgiveness, someone to bear witness To Have and to Hold – Depeche Mode
12. I wish we were stuck up a tree (I Can Learn – White Stripes)
13. I just want a little passion to hold me in the dark (Take to the Sky – Tori Amos)
14. Bruised internally, eternally Mistress – Red House Painters
15. In her eyes you see nothing, no sign of love behind the tears For No One – The Beatles
16. Behind its door, there’s nothing to keep my fingers warm Glove Compartment – Death Cab for Cutie
17. Why is the bedroom so cold, turned away on your side? Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
18. Drank yourself into slo-mo, make an angel in the snow Clementine – Elliott Smith
19. I need you to pretend that we are in love again Clark Gable – The Postal Service
20. Easily losing their evening clothes, they danced by the light of the moon (Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War – Paul Simon)
21. I learned your name without words Accident Prone – Jawbreaker
22. I’m crying for yesterday, and the tap drips 10:15 Saturday Night – the Cure
23. I gave my love a locket, and then I broke her heart (Innocent When You Dream – Tom Waits)
24. If you run I’ll pull a gun, give me head or you’ll be dead Won’t You Please Be Nice – Nellie McKay
25. And if I’m wrong, the mighty and strong will be rejected Over the Ocean – Low
26. My heaven will be a big heaven, and I will walk through the front door Big Time – Peter Gabriel
27. She tied you to her kitchen chair, she broke your throne and she cut your hair Hallelujah (Cohen, Buckley or Wainwright)
28. I know I could have loved you but you would not let me Silver Springs – Fleetwood Mac
29. Children look up, all they hear is sky-blue, bells ringing (Driver 8 – R.E.M.)
30. Let me see what Spring is like on Jupiter or Mars Fly Me to the Moon – Frank Sinatra
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December 16, 200417 – Joy Division : Love will tear us apart
21 – jawbreaker – accident prone
22 – the cure – 10:15 saturday night
Cheery stuff, ms jinz.
Jen
December 16, 2004I try.
dethtonge
December 16, 200426: Peter Gabriel — Big Time
…is the only one I recognize.
Jen
December 16, 2004I love that song. I love Peter Gabriel and I’m not afraid to admit it.
dethtonge
December 16, 2004Me either. Discs 5 and 6 in my changer in my car right now are Secret World Live.
dethtonge
December 16, 2004Also one of my biggest regrets music-wise is not going to see the Secret World tour. I caught him on his tour last year in San Jose. It was good, but not the same.
nolovelost
December 16, 20042. the magnetic fields – you’re my only home.
3. the magnetic fields – very funny
4. modest mouse – tiny cities made of ashes
19. the postal service – such great heights
27. rufus wainwright (which is a cover anyhow?) – hallalujahahshahsdhdspelling?
some sad stuff :/
Jen
December 16, 2004I know, it’s weird. This was a true shuffle (the only ones I left out were instrumental songs); however, I think maybe I picked the most miserable lyrics? Who knows.
And you are only half right on #19 so it doesn’t count, missy!
nolovelost
December 16, 2004oh yeah. my bad, it’s clark cable!!
Jen
December 16, 2004Ding ding ding! We have a winner.
nolovelost
December 17, 2004also i just heard the jeff buckley version… eh. i like rufus’ better. it’s really nice.
brokenchinadol
December 16, 20045. Pulp – Mile End!!!
9. Weezer – Pink Triangle (on her sleeve, let me know the truth, let me know the truuuuuuuuuuth)
11. Depeche Mode – To Have and To Hold (sex-y)
14. Red House Painters – Mistress?
15. The Beatles – For No One
16. Death Cab for Cutie – Title and Registration
24. Nellie McKay – Won’t you please be nice
25. Low – Over the Ocean
28. Fleetwood Mac – Silver Springs (jesus Jen, i’m about to slit my wrists with these songs!)
30. Franky/Any number of people – Fly Me to the Moon
12 sounds fucking FAMILIAR.
Love you,
J.
Jen
December 17, 2004You can get number 12 if you concentrate, I know it!
Hint: first line of the song.
Jen
December 17, 2004Also, you TOTALLY know 14, 18 and 29.
brokenchinadol
December 17, 2004I guess 14 already! Mistress, yes?
And DUH shittles, 29 is the big E.S. – Clementine
12 still sounding familiar but not doing it for me. Neither is 18.
kangaroo
December 18, 2004(hi!)
10. I’m So Tired – The Beatles
is the only one left that I know. What a great start.