Music meme.

[saxikath]

A music meme, from greenlily.

No rules... just list 25 sets of lyrics that move you. If you can guess the songs *without* help from Teh Interwebs™, have at it; but if you think you've got it, guess by posting another quote from the same song so others can guess!



1. Let the new day dawn, oh Lord, I pray.
2. And you'll never know till you reach the top if it was worth the uphill climb.
3. It's a big enough umbrella but it's always me that ends up getting wet.
4. But you needn't doubt we can work it out.
5. You said I wouldn't get too far on a tank of gas and an empty heart.
6. And then I think about my fear of motion which I never could explain.
7. Back when every choice felt right.
8. A child I will always be.
9. Bitter, unavailing tears.
10. Trapped in mama's old black shoes.
11. I'll wake with the rain till I can wake with you.
12. Child, there's angels on their way.
13. Don't run off in the pouring rain, don't call me as they call your plane.
14. I fill the bath and climb inside, singing.
15. I don't see myself as taking part at all.
16. Will you touch the trees, will you touch me?
17. I loved that one differently some days.
18. I care not if I sink or swim.
19. And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free.
20. This is our moment here at the crossroads of time.
21. Ha glevas-te, ha glevas-te?
22. Eliza with her red hair and Ramona with her blues.
23. No pot-bellied baggy-eyed bully will boss him around.
24. Don't remember that rush of joy.
25. She was in a flowery garden when first she caught my eye.

Comments

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

4. I've always been the fool who rushes in.
6. His crime was looking up the truth.
9. My doom thy lips have spoken; I plead in vain.
23. You can have fun with a son, but you gotta be a father to a girl.

(yes, I know more of these, but I'll let others have a go first.)
(and, re: #21, of course I know what it is, but I don't know any of the other lyrics!)

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't know 23 from Kath's posting, but this did actually give it to me. I think.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

2....between love and a waste of time.

[stevie-stever.livejournal.com]

1. It's a day of peace, a day of pride.

[ex-colorwhe.livejournal.com]

7. would you order on demand
17. you never acted like your brothers
19. look to the western skies
23. pink and white as peaches and cream

[leighjen.livejournal.com]

Oh fun game:

7. It was improvised for the camera...

15. The promises she made have grown impossible to keep

17. And I knew that you would fly some day for sure

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

9. Memorials of thy long-dead bride lie dearly treasured yet
12. And it doesn't even matter if the danger and the doom
19. As someone told me lately everyone deserves the chance to fly

[sylvanstargazer.livejournal.com]

2. "...between reality and pretend."
8. "...flowing and growing..."
22. "...the father of his father's passed him down the gift of faith."

I will remember to send you that icon. Someday when I'm actually home...

[cnoocy]

3. I resolve to call her up
6. I think I'll write a book
7. and I'm the antihero
14. I'd have just about learned the entire score
18. Neither have I wings to fly
23. And look in his eyes with a lorgnette (needed others' quotes)
10 and 25 are familiar but I can't place them.

[sag85kwt.livejournal.com]

19. To those who ground me, take a message back from me!
24. He could be that boy, I'm not that girl.

Of course, the only ones I get are Wicked :P

[lorelei-sakai.livejournal.com]

Not that I recognize many of these, but I've always loved

6. At least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation in my lifetime.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

That's my favorite line from that song, actually.

[cycon.livejournal.com]

2. I don't think you even know what you're looking for
13. Don't get drunk and slam the door — that's no way to end this
15. Sadly, she realized she'd left him behind, and sadder than that, she knew he wouldn't even mind

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Oh! I didn't recognize Kath's lyric for 13, but I recognize that one as being from the same song as "Take me too a zoo that's got chimpanzees".

[cycon.livejournal.com]

It could be that the version you know does not have the lyrics saxikath put down; those were added on as a new climax to the song at a later date, after the song had already been recorded, been published, and become famous.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

3. Bus stop, one day she's there, I say: "Please share my umbrella." Bus st--no, wait, that's not right at all! (Do I have to tell the story of a thousand rainy days since we first met?)

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

It is, I believe, "wet day". Wrong song or no.

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

3. Onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn....
14. I draw a Jackal-headed woman

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

As the one who introduced Kath to them, I'm probably the only one reading this who's likely to get these two:
11. The wind carries your name to my door
16. I could be a spider's web; I could be dust