Lyrical Pursuit
 

I'm going to steal a different type of trivia game from a local radio station. The object is to write two lines of lyrics from a well known song, nothing too obscure please. If someone gets it right, they do the next song. This is edited because of Saut's post below: Thou shalt not Google! Why take the fun out of the game. The same rules should apply as in the Music trivia thread. 24 hours should be the limit, then whoever stumped the panel should post another set of lyrics, hopefully a little easier!
Here are my two lines:

the museum director's with their high shaking heads

they kick white shadows until they play dead

The Cars - Dangerous Type

Next:

The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!"

Bob Dylan - Hurricane


You're asking me will my love grow?
I don't know, I don't know

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles



City girls just seem to find out early,
how to open doors with just a smile.

Lyin' Eyes - The Eagles

"one punch, that's all it took (oooh) he hit me in my ribs and my insides shook!
now how can I say this and be a little discreet, let's just say, that my bowels released"

Google has really taken the fun out of these kind of games.

No googling should be allowed. Only dishonest people google in these type's of games

I have a form of Google running inside my head. I have a jukebox that just plays songs all day. Some I like, some I don't.

I hear part of a song and then it is stuck in my head the rest of the day.

I had the Eagles through my head the day I put in the lyrics above.

Google, I don't need no stinkin Google. I can name just about any classic rock song from the lyrics.

Now the funny part, I have no friggin idea what song Mephex posted. :lol:

Well, that's the idea. Idn'it ?

If you don't know, use Google. Just have fun with it. If you're going to use Google every time, I don't see how that would be any fun for you, or anyone else ;)

Well Mephex.. looks like you have a stumper, now how about some new lyrics. By the way, love your avatar, who is she?

<- Erica Campbell

"one punch, that's all it took (oooh) he hit me in my ribs and my insides shook!
now how can I say this and be a little discreet, let's just say, that my bowels released"

DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - And in this corner.

Okay okay, I'll try to use stuff from before 1980.
Lemme know if it's too tough, but I can't make'em easy either :cool:

"So where were the Spiders
While the flies tried to break our balls"

Ziggy Stardust- David Bowie
Ok- here goes:


No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle
No flowers no wedding dress

Hint:
Title song of album by this New Jersey native

Well looks like a stumper, so I'll do an easier one!

Now you're climbin' to the top of the company ladder
Hope it doesn't take too long

Boston: Piece of Mind


next:

The measure of the depth can be deceiving.

The bottom has a rocky reputation

Man... I know this! I just can't put the tune to it!

You'll kill yourself when you hear it, perripken.

It's Joe Walsh's "The Confessor"

Took me awhile too, I could hear it in my head, but couldn't place it.


Here's one you should get.

"Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny

Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen

That was an easy one.

How bout this one

You're no Jesus
Yeah, you're no fucking Elvis

Doooooh, where's the gun? I love that tune, too!

I'm no Beatles pro, but I know these words to be from "Something" off their 1969 release Abbey Road.
Who's right?

you are right neato

Man.... I can't believe the God of Thunder made such a mistake!....
Hangs his head in shame for the GOT.

I hang my head in shame for myself.

I can't believe I made that blunder either.

The only thing I have to say for myself is that they are both Harrison tunes. And that is the weakest excuse there is, but it is the only one I have.

I sentence myself to 2 hours of polka.


aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, at least I got the Joe Walsh one right

Polka! No..... don't do it GOT! DON'T DO IT!

The last one was Incubus - Megalomaniac

next:

she said i'll throw myself away
they're just photos after all

Queens of the Stone Age - Go With the Flow

Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death Greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye

Fade to Black - Metallica



All this machinery
Making modern music
Can still be open-hearted....

Spirit of Radio, Rush



Well I stand up next to a mountain
Chop it down with the edge of my hand

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile


See a lot up there but don't be scared
Who needs action when you got words?

You have a stumper KWSN, need some new lyrics and the answer to this one.

I guess I'll try to kick start this thing again. People, please check back from time to time if you have a question on the board!


The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery

I don't know if it's lack of interest because of the NFL Draft, or what. I'm going to give the answer because I won't be around tomorrow. Someone else will have to pick this thing up. It was The End, the Doors.

now dang it perripken, I knew that one...


anyway, here's a new couplet:


I got a right to go to work, but they shut it down.
I got a right to go to work, but there's no work here to be found.

don't know sion's, but mine was Meat Puppets (or Nirvana covering Meat Puppets) - Plateau

Sorry man... I had it on the board for over 7 hours. I knew I wouldn't be able to check back in until monday, so I answered it!
Now, we need the answer to yours and a new one. It's been over 24 hours.

I guess I'll try to kickstart this thing again.... I guess I'm not getting as much interest as the music trivia thread.
Sion.... you had a stumper, but you didn't check back. I ended up googling for the answer. You didn't quite have the lyrics correct anyway.
They're supposed to be:
I used to have a job, but they shut it down.
I got a right to go to work, but there's no work here to be found.
Dire Straights- "Telegraph Road"

Anyways, here are my new lyrics:

Greedy little people in a sea of distress
Keep your more to receive your less

give it away, chili peppers

dear diary, tonight will be our last
my hands are itching for razors

ok, so it was the black dahlia murder, closed casket requiem, someone else go

Ok, I'll give it a go.

We tried to wash our hands of all of this

We never talk of our lack in relationships

Damn.... I know these lyrics..... just can't put the tune to it.....
argggghhhhhh.....!!!!!!!!

And how we're guilt-sticken, sobbing...

The Verve Pipe - The Freshmen :)

Next:

Time to take her home
Her dizzy head is conscience laden
Time to take a ride
It leaves today, no conversation

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
The gun barrel is in my mouth!

These lyrics are 15 minutes away from being a stumper!

stone temple pilots, im not going to cheat and look up the song title, i dont know it

Ah! You've got the band right. :)

interstate lovesong, or is that naother one?

technically foolthemall, I would say this is a stumper since noahfor didn't give the name of the song, but it's up to you whether or not you want to give new lyrics or have noahfor give them.

It's "Big Empty" by Stone Temple Pilots.

She feels like kicking out all the windows
and setting fire to this life
She would change everything about her
using colors bold and bright

Nobody got it Derwood, New lyrics please.

It was "Grey Street" by Dave Matthews Band.

New lyrics:

You know that I've seen
Too many romantic dreams
Up in lights falling off the silver screen

"Home Sweet Home" by Motley Crue


here goes nothin'...

What I really wanna say is there's just one way back
And I'll make it but my soul will have to wait

I give up on this thread.... seems to be a total lack of interest!

I don't think it's a lack of interest. I just think it's too tough.

Yeah, we have to keep these songs fairly mainstream. If people keep putting up lyrics by Mars Volta and Opeth, we won't get anywhere.

The problem is it's hard to recognize lyrics if you don't really really know them. Like this last one was santaria by sublime, and I have read the lyrics on occasion, but I couldn't recognize them when they were on here. Next person go. It was a stumper.

Mama, just killed a man.
Put my gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger,
Now he's dead.

bohemian rhapsody- queen?

I'll get in on this one.


I need an easy friend
I do... with an ear to lend
I do... think you fit this shoe
I do... but you have a clue

Nirvana - About a girl

Here's one:

Generals gathered in their masses
just like witches at black masses

--jaded

Dude! Sabbath! War Pigs! Sweet!

You enter the room with great caution
though no one in the hall is even watching
They are transfixed, they're forgetting just to breathe....

OOH OOH OOH!!!


It's "Symphony in C" by Cake...=)

They likened him to all the stories he told
Of past battles won and lost and legends of old
A seasoned veteran in his own time

Since no one has posted an answer, I'll put up some new lyrics.

Mary got pregnant from a kid named Tommy saying he was in love
He said don't worry 'bout a thing baby girl I'm the man you've been dreaming of

Everlast "What It's Like"

Head down, arms out
Nailed to the cross of doubt
Blood runs like rain
Drowning for this world in vain
Crown of black thorns
Human skin ripped and torn
Where is your savior now?

Fear Factory - Pisschrist

new lyric:

A liquid embrace to chase the day away
Sedate numb, deaf and dumb
Stumbling into solitude
A clouded judgement day is fueled
Take me under your black wings
Mark my words and remember me

that kinda sounds like something from Dream Theater, but thats just a guess and is probably wrong.

It's Lamb of God - 11th Hour

New one:

I backed my car into a cop car the other day
Well he just drove off, sometimes life's OK

I'm looking California, but feeling Minnesota

...you need to answer the last one first.

I'm sorry. Somehow I overlooked yours.

noahfor's is Outshined by Soundgarden....KWSN, I'll guess Black Flag....

Float On by Modest Mouse, actually. You may go, Guttersnipe.

Its been awhile so i will get it going again.

My Life Suffocates
Planting Seeds of Hate
I've Loved, Turned to Hate
Trapped Far Beyond My Fate
I Give
You Take
This Life That I Forsake
Been Cheated of My Youth
You Turned this Lie to Truth

Harvester of Sorrow - Metallica

"It's okay to eat fish
cuz they don't have any feelings"

"Something in the way" Nirvana

Thanks to you it will be done, for you to me are the only one.

thats an easy one perri...

Thank You, Led Zeppelin


next up:

Every day when I get home from work,
I feel so frustrated, the boss is a jerk.
And I get my sticks and go out to the shed
And I pound on the drum like it was the bosses head.

Easy also.... "Bang the drum all day" Todd Rundgren

I used to like to walk the straight and narrow line,
I used to think that everything was fine

The answer is Crystal Ball by Styx.
Here's one that I know a certain someone should get right away:
*winks at God of Thunder*


Haha, the cheapest stuff is all I need
To get me back on my feet again

Kiss.Cold Gin.

You wired me awake and hit me with a hand of broken nails
You tied my lead and pulled my chain and watched my blood begin to boil.

Damn, someone beat me to it :mad:

No Idea what yours is SixEdxMia

rusty cage - soundgarden ( the johnny cash vesion rocks)

"the confusion sets in before the doctor can even close the door"

Live lightning crashes. and no.... just Johnny cash. : )

You've been so long
Your blind eyes are gone
Your old bones are on their own
So take off your coat
Put a song in your throat
Let the dead-beats pound all around

Bump

No one knows the last set of lyrics?

Looks like they're a stumper.

We need an answer and a new set SixEdxMia

I guess I'll attempt to bump this thing up again...
I'm going to put more than a few lines in to make this one easier I hope!


"Today I made and appearance downtown
I am an expert witness, because I say I am
And I said, 'Gentleman....and I use that word loosely...I will testify for you
I'm a gun for hire, I'm a saint, I'm a liar
Because there are no facts, no truth, just data to be manipulated
I can get you any result you like....what's it worth to ya?
Because there is no wrong, there is no right
And I sleep very well at night
No shame, no solution
No remorse, no retribution
Just people selling t-shirts
just opportunity t participate in this pathetic little circus
And winning, winning, winning' "

Ok, either nobody cares or I thought more people listened to this artist than really do. Big hint:
Don Henley

Garden of allah.


This should be easy:

She’s the kind of girl you dream of
Dream of keeping hold of
You’d better forget it
You’ll never get it
She will play around and leave you
Leave you and deceive you
Better forget it
Oh you’ll regret it

Easy Lover.


Say to me
where have you been
Finally through the roof
And how does lemur skin
reflect the sea

How about a hint?

actually, this is a stumper by now. Monkeydriven should give the answer and new lyrics.

Ok, let me try to jump start this thing again!


This ringing in my head
Is this a cure or is this a disease?

Show me how to live... Audioslave (excellent song)

I like the all white high top strap with the gum bottom (Big boy) theres somthin bout dem that's dirty why I got em
(Big boy) I leave um strapped and laced and come up out um
(Big Boy) the last person who touched 'em I benn shot 'em, (big boy)

I'm guessing something by Big Boi from Oukast, but I don't know a title.

You are on the right track. Hint...Rap song

I can't believe know one, knows the last set of lyrics. Here are some hints. He is from St. Lous and he sings with his posse on this song, they are known as the lunatics.

Ok, so it's some crappy Nelly song. Can we move on?

I guess.... as soon as you post new lyrics.

Where are the Pixies fans????

Pixies - Veloria

Okay, here's one if people are still interested:

There is a girl in New York City
Who calls herself the human trampoline

Paul Simon- Graceland


I hit the city and I lost my band
I watched the needle take another man