Answers to lyrics meme

[enitharmon]

1. I'm feeling rather sorry for a man I know
   The world he holds in trembling hands is asking where to go
   As he stares out at me from the mirrored wall
   I see that he is trying to cry, but the tears they will not fall
   His life is passing by behind his tired eyes
   Like the colours in the January skies
   Lindisfarne: January Song
   
   
2. Well she's my woman of gold and she's not very old
   T-Rex: Hot Love correctly identified by molekilby
   Nice song, but one of the most vacuous lyrics in a field of vacuosity!
   
   
3. Virgil Kane is my name and I drove on the Danville train
   'Til so much cavalry came and they tore up the tracks again
   Joan Baez: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, correctly identified by tvor
   Joan changed the lyric around, not just in the first line. Robbie Robertson, whose song it is, wrote 'Stoneman's cavalry'. Just thought you'd like to know. This song was constantly being played on the juke box in the Union bar at Liverpool - it wasn't you putting it on, was it, cereswunderkind?
   
   
4. You could say I lost my faith in science and progress
   You could say I lost my belief in the holy church
   You could say I lost my sense of direction
   You could say all of this and worse, but
   If I ever lose my faith in you
   There'd be nothing left for me to do
   Sting: If I Ever Lose My Faith In You Nice one, abrokenstarr
   
   
5. I'm not one to look behind, I know that times must change
   But over there in Barrytown they do things very strange
   Though you're not my enemy
   I like things like they used to be
   And though you'd like some company
   I'm standing by myself
   Go play with someone else
   I can see by what you carry that you come from Barrytown
   Steely Dan: Barrytown
   
   
6. You're the kind of person you meet at certain dismal dull affairs
   Centre of a crowd, talking much too loud, running up and down the stairs
   Well, it seems to me that you have seen too much in too few years
   And though you've tried you just cant hide your eyes are edged with tears.
   You better stop
   Look around
   Here it comes
   The Rolling Stones: 19th Nervous Breakdown
   It's a classic, innit? I'm really surprised nobody got this! Although Mr Jagger's diction was never his strongest suit
   
   
7. Feel free to comprehend what I see will never end
   What I see will never end
   It can't be now that life is gone
   Its too real to overcome
   Anathema: Harmonium
   Not sure how this got into my collection - off the iPod of a young friend I expect.
   
   
8. I hear the seven deadly sins and the terrible twins came to call on you
   The bigger they are, babe, the harder they fall on you
   And you you're always the same, you persevere
   On the same old pleasure ground
   And it never rains around here
   It just comes pouring down
   Dire Straits: It Never Rains
   
   
9. Asked my girl what she wanted to be
   She said baby, can't you see
   I want to be be famous, a star on the screen
   But you can do something in between
   The Beatles: Drive My Car Well done, wyldetwo
   
   
10. Well I wish I was a catfish swimming in a deep blue sea
    I would have all you good looking women fishing, fishing after me
    Muddy Waters: Catfish Blues Tricky one, I expect, though it's been covered by just about every bluesman ever since
    
    
11. What did I do wrong? Oh you nearly drove me cuckoo
    Am I really all that bad? You're worse than Hannibal Lecter, Charlie Manson, Freddie Krueger
    Why are we still together? Oh I can't leave until you're dead
    You mean 'til death do us part? I mean like cyanide, strangulation or an axe to your head
    It was lucky for us I turned the radio on
    They say that music soothes the savage beast
    There was something in that voice that stopped us seeing red
    The two of us would surely have ended up dead
    Catatonia: The Ballad of Tom Jones This version is Catatonia, I checked. Wonderful lyric! I'll still let you have it, novemberbug, for teaching me something I didn't know!
    
    
12. The language of love slips from my lover's tongue
    Cooler than ice cream and warmer than the sun
    Dumb hearts get broken just like china cups
    The language of love has left me broken on the rocks
    But there's just one thing. just one thing,
    But there's just one thing snd I really want to know
    Who's that girl running around with you?
    Eurythmics: Who's That Girl? Well done tvor
    
    
13. All God's children need travelling shoes
    Drive your problems from here
    All good people read good books
    Now your conscience is clear
    I hear you talk girl, now your conscience is clear
    Tanita Tikaram: Twist In My Sobriety
    Late-night instrospection, a 1980s fad that seemed to fade fast.
    
    
14. When your mother sends back all your invitations
    And your father to your sister he explains
    That you're tired of yourself and all of your creations
    Won't you come see me, Queen Jane?
    Bob Dylan: Queen Jane Approximately
    
    
15. I'm so glad, I'm so glad, I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad
    Cream: I'm So Glad. So bleedin' obvious I was tempted to skip it,. but a point for wyldetwo all the same. A much better song than you might think!
    
    
16. Mary's on the black top
    There's a husband in the dog house
    In the middle of a shakedown
    She got quiet as a church mouse
    She found Raleighs on the dashboard
    Sugar daddy caught a polocar
    Ain't no solitary tap dance way down here
    I swear I's riding on a field mouse
    Tom Waits: Blow Wind Blow I'd have been tempted to guess at something by Bruce Springsteen! I love Tom Waits and I'm eternally grateful to naturalbornkaos for introducing me ten years ago or so.
    
    
17. My lovely woman child, I found you out running wild with someone new
    I found you out running wild with someone new
    You've been untrue, and everybody knows we're through
    But I can't say goodbye to you, no matter what you do
    My heart wont let you go, although I know you go with someone new
    I think of you
    Roy Orbison: Goodnight
    
    
18. Dying flame, you're free again
    Who could love and do that to you
    All dressed in black, he won't be coming back
    Save your tears, you've got years and years
    Elkie Brooks: Fool If You Think It's Over Well done trixiedelarue
    
    
19. I found my own true love once on a blue Sunday.
    She looked at me and told me I was the only one in the world.
    Now I have found my girl.
    My girl awaits for me in tender times
    The Doors: Blue Sunday It wouldn't be my liost without a Doors track
    
    
20. Declare this an emergency
    Come on and spread a sense of urgency
    And pull us through, and pull us through
    And this is the end, this is the end of the world
    Muse: Apocalypse Please Much kudos to may young friends and my daughter for converting me to this excellent and genuinely original contemporary band.
    

Comments

[lyzzybee.livejournal.com]

I only got the eurythmics one and was too embarassed to just submit one! Good meme though!

[tvor.livejournal.com]

Agggh ... i could *hear* the Beatles line in my head and do you *think* i could identify it? I knew it was a Beatles tune but couldn't remember the name of it!

You're right aobut Mick's diction. I couldn't tell you most of the words to 19th..