guess the lyrics

[low_delta]

There was a meme going around a while back, where you pick out your favorite lyrics from twenty songs from your computer's playlist. I did all the songs I could from my first playlist. Here's the first half. Try to guess the song.

1. X
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, the man come and take you away

2.
Some folks look for answers
Others look for fights
Some folks love the treetops
Just look to see the sights

3.X
I look to the time with you
To keep me awake and alive
All my instincts, they return
And the grand facade, soon will burn

4.X I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde

5. X
Kiss a girl and everything's all right
Can I get away again tonight?

6.X
Don't tell me that you love me
Just say that you want me

7.X
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees

8.
Now they are gone and I sit alone
And watch one cigarette burn away

9.
Speeding to a shadow of a million years
Darkness is the only sound to reach his ears
Blinding with a vision of eternity
Scream into a future that could never be

10.X
I can't do what them people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same

11.
If you survive til two-thousand and five
I hope you're exceedingly thin
For if you are stout, you will have to breathe out
So the man next to you can breathe in

12.X I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes

13.
Put your arms around me
Every bit of your love
You know what to do
And it’s up to you

14.X You believe in things that you don't understand and you suffer

15. So if you can, please understand you might not come back

16.
Hey buddy, would you like to buy a watch?
Here on the street?

17.X
I can fly like a bird in the sky
I can buy anything that money can buy
I can turn a river into a raging fire
I can live forever if I so desire

18.
There ain't nothing you could ask I could answer you but I won't
I was gonna change, but I'm not, to keep doing things I don't

19.X
I close my eyes; she's somehow closer now
Softly smile I know she must be kind
When - I look in her eyes
She goes with me to a blossom world

20.X Oh yeah, all day, and nighttime yours leave me never.

21. X
I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair

22.
I've been told by some you'll forget me
The thought doesn't upset me
I am blind to whatever they're saying
And all I can see is the fire in your eyes

Comments

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Were any of those (that you got) tough? I know I'd never have gotten Good Vibrations. Except maybe for the phrase, "she's somehow closer now."

I had a couple of Kinks songs on my playlist, but just about every line had the title of the song in it. This was the best I could do.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Good Vibrations was one of the easiest, but I really don't know why! Maybe because the title appears so soon after that lyric?

The Bonnie & Clyde lyric drove me crazy for a couple of minutes, so I'd say "The Israelites" was kind of tough.

I think Blonnie got the hardest one right: I didn't even know that "For What It Was Worth" was the title of that wonderful song until recently! (I thought it was something like "Everybody Look What's Goin On")

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

The fourth line was the giveaway, I think.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Hm, interesting. To me, it was very easy to know that song, but the title itself is tricky.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I never could pick out the words to that first line, "paranoia strikes deep."

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I'm kinda courious how many people knew "Israelites," since it's not really a classic rock song.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Anyone as old as I am should probably know it, as it was on the radio all the time way back in the day!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

It must have dropped out of rotation because I never learned it until recently.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Hm, maybe you heard Oysterhead's cover of it? I just looked it up and found out it was a top hit during 1969. I thought it was earlier than that. And I was never sure about the very first line, which I thought included the word "breakfast":

The Israelites
Desmond Dekker and The Aces

(Desmond Dacres & Leslie Kong)

Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
so that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Hey, I think it was Oysterhead that brought it into my awareness. I forgot about that. And yeah, I thought it was something about breakfast, too.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

I was 13 in '69, singing "get up in the morning, slaving for breakfast, so that every mouth can be fed..."