Wednesday, February 11, 2009

everyone loves lyrics

Leslie causes me to do a lyrics quiz. These are all first lines. And there are 27 of them.

  1. How many tequilas in the place?
  2. sweetness, sweetness i was only joking when i said i'd like to smash every tooth in your head
  3. On nights like this/when the world's a bit amiss
  4. i know you're born in 84/half polish half danish
  5. two dozen other dirty lovers/must be a sucker for it
  6. bah bababababa (bah bah bah) bababa bah bah baba bah bah bah bah/bah babababababa baba bah bah/ba baba bah bah bah ba ba ba ba ba
  7. when i get to the bottom i go back to the top of the slide
  8. O Mount Kailas/uncover me
  9. Can't you hear me calling your name girl?
  10. Pressure pushing down on me
  11. turn your watch, turn your watch back/about a hundred thousand years
  12. my my my, we're treating each other just like strangers
  13. sleeping is giving in/no matter what the time is
  14. i heard there is no christmas in the silly middle east
  15. This town is coming like a __. All the clubs have been closed down.
  16. well my temperature's rising and my feet on the floor
  17. i believe, i believe/i could see, i could see/forever in my hand
  18. ever since i was a young boy/i've played the silver ball
  19. She don't believe in shootin' stars
  20. something ain't right/i'm gonna get myself/i'm gonna get myself/i'm gonna get myself...
  21. desert loving in your eyes all the way
  22. ultraviolet/radio light
  23. never knew i could feel like this/like i've never seen the sky before
  24. was a long and dark december/from the rooftops i remember
  25. see the people walking down the street/fall in line just watchin' all their feet
  26. Alarm goes off at seven and you start uptown
  27. Look at me/here I am/right where I belong.

2 comments:

  1. #2 - bigmouth strikes again
    19-......flashing lights
    #22....i dont really know, but for some reason i am thinking REM
    10......under pressure

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  2. ok here are my guesses.

    2) Bigmouth strikes again, the smiths
    3) wig in a box, hedwig (ok, everybody!)
    6) rent-a-wreck, suburban kids w/ biblical names
    7) helter skelter, beatles
    10) under pressure, david bowie & queen
    11) i don't know it, but i really wanted it to be Stonehenge from Spinal Tap.
    14) HEY THERE MISTER MUSLIM
    15) ghost town, the specials
    18) pinball wizard, the who
    21) karma chameleon, culture club
    23) i think i know it but can't place it.
    24) violet hill, coldplay
    25) we got the beat, the go-gos.

    you had the same suburban kids and coldplay songs that julia had in her list on facebook. COSMIC.

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