20 random lyrics meme

[zdashamber]

As follybard points out:

On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down your favourite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then, have your friends comment and see if they know the songs.

Except I didn't remember the "favorite" bit when taking notes, so what you get is lyrics that should be midway in hardness to deciper and vaguely interesting en masse, since those were my selection criteria...

1. Bad language or abuse I never, never use
   
2. Hey, hobo man, hey, dapper dan; you've both got your style
   
3. We lay down and wept, and wept, for thee
   
4. You hurt me to my soul
   
5. Man comes on and tells me how white my shirts could be
   
6. If you remain careless and obdurate I-- (What's obdurate?) (I don't know)
   
7. Namely, can the frog tapdance?
   (Edit: that wasn't fair, since it's not a part of the lyrics of the song, only the patter as done by the singer. A line of the lyrics of the song would be "Earful of music sweet.")
   
8. No-one heard the music—we didn't look the same
   
9. What have I done to deserve such a fate?
   
10. Been searchin' for something taken outta my soul
    
11. They dedicate their lives to running all of his
    
12. She only reveals what she wants you to see
    
13. I think I might be sinking
    
14. Will my heart be broken when the night meets the morning sun?
    
15. He's lookin' for that home and I hope he finds it
    
16. Incriminating Claus-marks on her back
    
17. His lip should curl
    
18. No one you can save that can't be saved
    
19. You just can't hide your eyes are edged with tears
    
20. Gave me just a copy of your love

Were I the sort to be embarassed by my taste, I might be a bit sad that Winamp decided to concentrate itself in the embarassing sections of my playlist... If I hadn't thrown out all the purely insturmental stuff and the indeciperable foreign-language stuff, it would look a lot less geeky, I assure you. Well, actually, it probably wouldn't.

Edit2: Thanks to rikibeth and shadowflyer and follybard, nearly all of these (the struckthrough ones) have been nailed... For anyone who wants to mop up, the clues I've given below are that there remain a Stones song, a Billy Joel song, and a Zeppelin song. Riki has rightly pegged 7 for the other Muppet-performed song, but it's not yet been named; and as for the last, it also appeared in the first song meme ("First 30 Songs") I did...

Comments

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as for 8, I don't know if you'd know it or not. It's a song that most people (including myself) only really know for the chorus, which is well-known.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I am going to go out on a limb and say #8 is "Garden Party" by Ricky Nelson. And I can't believe I'm admitting to knowing it.

I have not yet spotted the other Billy Joel or other Rolling Stones and I am annoyed at not having done so.

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

8 -- Bingo. What's the trouble with knowing that? Fine song! Though I dunno if I'm qualified to say, since I didn't hear the chorus well the first few times, and still often sing it as "I've learned my lesson well; you know you can't please everyone, so I'll see you next in hell."