mrsronweasley | (no subject)

That Lyrics Meme:

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post lyrics for the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

(supposedly, that's my MP3 player on random. Huh.)

1) I'll be a pharaoh soon, rule from some cotton tomb
Things will be different then, the sun will rise from here
Then I'll be ten feet tall, and you'll be nothing at all - "Sonic Reducer" by the Dead Boys/covered in HCL, guessed by

malnpudl

2) But I have to get to Texas
Said I have to get to Texas
And I'll give away my blue dress - "Black-Dove (January)" by Tori Amos, guessed by

taroly1888

3) Bloody fingers on a purple knife
Flamingo drinking from a cocktail glass
I'm on the lawn with someone else's wife
Admire the view from up on top of the mast - "Jockey Full of Bourbon", Tom Waits, guessed by

qe2 (♥!)

4) I can read the papers in peace
And laugh at the homeless
I know my friends criticize

5) Goodbye girl, you are the only one
Goodbye girl, I know you want me
Goodbye girl, you are the only love - "Cheating On You", Franz Ferdinand, guessed by

prettyannamoon

6) Memory cannot choose where it wants to be
Love this sex through pity as mangled sheets
The tenderness that climbs in the mind

7) That cloud, that cloud--
Looks like Ireland.
C'mon and blow it a kiss now

8) The purposeful delusions
Of this weakness will dissolve
The broken promise, revidescent
As the anger start to crawl

9) You ought to know by now
To get out from under that cloud
That took all my power
And it’s the only thing that counts - "My Mistakes" by HDRC, guessed by

brooklinegirl,

malnpuld, and...

strangecobwebs and

sageness?

10) Madonna drinks Coke and so you do too
Tastes real good not like a sweet poison should
Too much comfort to get decadent
Politics here's death and God is safer sex

11) I've felt each slow perversion
Fosters' dying killed the truth in me
Gone quietly, gone completely cold
Reminder what you tried to be - "Better Than You", Moist, guessed by

taroly1888, and I am SERIOUSLY IMPRESSED.

12) I'm coming out of my cage
And I've been doing just fine
Gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all - "Mr Brightside", the Killers, guessed by

brooklinegirl,

taroly1888, and

strangecobwebs

13) Well, you'd think the local farmers would know that I'm at large
But just the other day I found an unprotected barge
I snuck up right behind them and they were none the wiser
I rammed the ship and sank it and I stole the fertilizer - "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate", The Arrogant Worms/Captrain Tractor, guessed by

brooklinegirl and

malnpudl

14) 'Cause I can tell
You know what it's
The long farewell
Of the hunger strike - "Save Me", Aimee Mann, guessed by

brooklinegirl

15) Distanced by the days and the weeks and the months
My mind it will never shake
I really can't pinpoint just where you left off
What's real what's masquerade - "Won't Wait Again" by the Headstones, guessed by

brooklinegirl,

malnpudl,

strangecobwebs and

sageness

16) Watch the swallows cloud the sky
Watch the swallows slowly die
I used to throw stones
But now I have none

17) Your purpose and your moves and your grooves
And the little things you do
And the silly things you love about - "Striptease", Hawksley Workman, guessed by

cabari

18) Killers view themselves like they view the world, they pick at the holes
Not punish less, rise the pain
Sterilise rapists, all I preach is extinction

19) No sun for you young boy
It will hurt your lily white skin
I don't think it will hurt your mind
We'll be the ones who will give you soul

20) And when you're done
You cock your gun
The blood will run
Like ribbons in your hair

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) I'll be a pharaoh soon, rule from some cotton tomb

...I never had ANY IDEA that was what he was saying. o.O

That line... uh, morphs a lot. I researched it for the HCL transcript project (which is progressing at a glacial pace, but still progressing). The original Dead Boys line was "rule from some golden tomb", but everybody who covers it does it differently. I still can't figure out what Hugh is saying when he does it. I keep hearing "something something some cartoon". Who knows.

To me, it always sounded like "some cartoon", but that's what the site came up with, so I went with it...