don't look at me; I was just minding my own business

[sab]

...or, the nice thing about memes is the inherent ability to blame time-wasting on someone else.

That said, the lyric game is going around...



1. "and they know about buying shit and they know about sex and they know about investment banking and also about brokerage firms"

2. "we got wars going down in the middle west; we got wars going down in the middle western states" - "Knuckles," The Hold Steady, guessed by paulisper
3. "the nose of a reindeer, the skin of a plum" - "The Not So Pretty Princess," Jude, guessed by walkingshadow
4. "I'd shout out an order, I think we're out of this, man, get me some" - "Real World," Matchbox 20, guessed by bexxa

5. "in a county where the dairy men all had milking machines, Eddie was the only one to separate the cream"

6. "ten o'clock, nighttime in New York"- "Sax and Violins," Talking Heads, guessed by ignazwisdom
7. "boy pick up that fiddle and play that steel guitar and find yourself a lady who can dance right where you are"- "Private Conversation," Lyle Lovett, guessed by bexxa on a second attempt
8. "you're where you should be all the time and when you're not you're with some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend" - "You're So Vain," Carly Simon, guessed by sloganeer

9. "love is a feeling like a warm dark stone"

10. "they will vanish away like your dad's best jeans, denim blue fading up to the sky"- "Oh Very Young," Cat Stevens, guessed by ignazwisdom
11. "the car is slipping on the road in the rain and this slips through my brain" - "Montpelier," Girlyman, guessed by sophinisba
12. "I'm only hanging on to watch you go down, my love" - "So Cruel," U2, guessed by trinityofone

13. "what, you Mariah? Fly through twice."

14. "but I guess I'm lucky I don't have all the power in the world so I can't fuck anything else up"- "Stitching Leggings," Kate Nash, guessed by gamesiplay
15. "we live so high above the ground satellites surround us" - "Painting by Chagall," The Weepies, guessed by lone_hobbit

16. "idiots go to college to get dumbed down"

17. "I'm not ready for some burned-down bridge just yet, and I'm not saying that I want anything from you"

18. "did a couple favors for these guys who looked like Tusken raiders"

19. "and under her breath she says, would you pick me up? I'm light as a feather" - "Migrations," Christine Fellows, guessed by sloganeer
20. "just got lost and slept right through the dawn" - "World Spins Madly On," The Weepies, guessed by walkingshadow
21. "aren't you going to come along, aren't you going to fight, aren't you going to hold your hands up to the light?"- "Monument," Mirah, guessed by missparker
22. "Holly's not invincible; in fact she's in the hospital" - "First Night," The Hold Steady, guessed by scrunchy
23. "I will return to you what I have taken long before"- "Lay Me Down," The Frames, guessed by furies

24. "me and my friends are like, doublewhiskeycokenoice"

25. "[you have seen me through some trials and tribulations and some fears, but] everybody thinks I'm weird."

Comments

[sloganeer.livejournal.com]

8. Carly Simon "You're So Vain"

[sloganeer.livejournal.com]

19. Christine Fellows "Migrations," which I'm sure I gave to you, which might be cheating.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Whew. And, yes.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Ain't it the truth! On the other hand, if you don't get #19, I'm afraid no one will......

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

12. So Cruel by U2 ;-)

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

It really is. Achtung Baby: great rock album or GREATEST ROCK ALBUM EVER???

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I'll take door number two, Monty!

Here, have this really cool rough version of So Cruel.

[cincodemaygirl.livejournal.com]

7. dangling conversation - lyle lovett

[cincodemaygirl.livejournal.com]

Argh! Not quite right. Dang!

[bexxa.livejournal.com]

4. Real World, Matchbox Twenty

7. Lyle Lovett, and I can hear the song in my head, but I'm blanking on the title. D'oh!

[bexxa.livejournal.com]

7. Private Conversation? Lyle Lovett

[scrunchy.livejournal.com]

22 = The Hold Steady's "First Night," aka the first song of theirs I ever heard ♥

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

3. jude - the not so pretty princess
4. matchbox20 - real world
20. the weepies - world spins madly on
22. the hold steady - first night

[waverly.livejournal.com]

10. is by Cat Stevens, but I don't remember the name of the song.

[ignazwisdom.livejournal.com]

6. Talking Heads, Sax and Violins

10. Cat Stevens, Oh Very Young

[corianderstem.livejournal.com]

4. matchbox 20 "Real World" (the only song of theirs I like!)

#7 is totally on the tip of my tongue, I swear ...

[corianderstem.livejournal.com]

I cheated and Googled #7 and am really disappointed I couldn't guess that one correctly, because I LOVE that song (and the whole album).

D'oh.

[lone-hobbit.livejournal.com]

15 is The Weepies' "Painting by Chagall" - lovely song. I've been addicted to their new album.

[sophinisba]

11. Montpelier by Girlyman!

[paulisper.livejournal.com]

#2 - The Hold Steady, Knuckles. You know the last guy didn't even have to die, but the first four looked so nice...

[furies.livejournal.com]

14 is kate nash, but i'm totally blanking on the title, which is weird, because i was just listening to this . . . UGH.

and i believe 23 is "lay me down" by the frames.

[missparker.livejournal.com]

7. Lyle Lovett - Private Conversation
15. The Weepies - Painting By Chagall
21. Mirah - Monument

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

14. "Stitching Leggings," Kate Nash. I LOVE this damn song.

And yay for all your Weepies!

[fourteenlines.livejournal.com]

I love the lyric meme! I totally missed that you did the lyric meme!

For once in my life, I know one of the leftovers:

9. "Ship Out on the Sea," The Be Good Tanyas