Song lyric meme

[mirrorshard]

taeraresh gave me this meme. All of these are song lyrics, more or less from the first 25 randomly selected mp3s from my playlist. Post a comment saying what they're from, song and artist (though a lot of them are cover versions - I'll take either the original/most famous, or the one I have), and I'll cross off the ones people get right.

Please do steal it and carry on yourself.



1. Rollercoaster toast ya on your big four poster bed.

2. Imagine all the people, living for today.

3. I've seen 'em come and go and I've seen 'em die / And long ago I stopped asking why

4. Walking with a dead man over my shoulder / All dressed up with nowhere to go.

5. She sang Love Me Tender, that's the song she liked best / she had Elvis I Love You tattooed on her breast

6. He's gotta be sure, and it's gotta be soon, and he's gotta be larger than life.

7. How sweet the sound that saves a wretch like me.

8. I remember you well from that town you did dwell with the face of an angel dumped down in hell.

9. You've a first in low esteem.

10. When I'm a walking, I strut my stuff, and I'm so strung out. I'm high as a kite, and I just might, stop and check you out.

11. Roof caved in on all the simple dreams / And to get ahead your heart starts pumping schemes.

12. What makes me think I could start clean-slated / the hardest to learn is the least complicated.

13. I bet you think this song is about you.

14. It's in the evening after dark that the blackleg miner creeps to work / with his moleskin pants and his dirty shirt, there goes the blackleg miner.

15. A million years ago there wasn't anything but sea and sky and jellyfish.

16. We used to say that come the day we'd all be making songs.

17. I've found a new place to dwell / down at the end of Lonely Street.

18. Red hair and black leather, my favourite colour scheme.

19. Wait till you see that sunshine day / You ain't seen nothin' yet.

20. What makes me think I could start clean-slated / the hardest to learn is the least complicated.

21. Whenever I'm alone with you / You make me feel like I am free again.

22. And he knew he might not make it, for it's never hard to die / But he lifted off at last with a fire in the sky.

23. I know this summer's gonna be the best / If I don't die for lack of rest.

24. Stand your ground behind the times and refuse to follow fashion / write your poetry with anger and sing it with a passion.

25. I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do / They're really saying I love you.

Comments

lyric 15

[(Anonymous)]

Woah! Two years later. Well, I found you last week as the single hit when I googled "there wasn't anything but sea and sky and jellyfish." I got tired of looking at "Track N" when I played music, so I set about attaching more meaningful names to the tracks. This one was the hardest of Coulton's, since here, in the future, it's no longer on his web site. Anyway, #15 is from Social History Theme, by Jonathan Coulton, a fantastic songwriter, most recently famous for Code Monkey, another great song, and longer than 28 seconds.