Danger: Meme!

[herrsatan]

So, here's 20 lines from 20 songs. In theory these would be the top rated in my ITunes or whatever, but I never use the rating thing so it's the first 20 songs in my MP3 player except I skipped songs by any artist already quoted once. Comment back with your guesses and I guess eventually I'll post answers or something.

1. And the dull pain that you live with isn't getting any duller.
2. Houses are sliding into the mud, rivers are raging in your blood.
3. I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.
4. For twenty-five dollars and pieces of silver, I held up and robbed a hard liquor store.
5. I'll see you next fall, at another gun show.
6. Will it ever stop? I don't know.
7. I wonder what my body would sound like, slamming against those rocks.
8. If you like to gamble, I tell you I'm your man.
9. Your faith was strong, but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof.
10. That's what storms were made for, and you shouldn't be afraid for....
11. Rasta don't work for no CIA.
12. You say, "go slow. I fall behind."
13. I thought she'd be there holding daisies, she always waits for me.
14. Women and children are cowards. Attack!
15. Mister, here's a bag will all my money. It won't last for long, the way it goes.
16. Even the singer from Bow Wow Wow can't make up her mind.
17. Just when every day seemed to greet me with a smile...
18. ...or a reading from Dr. Seuss.
19. At home, drawing pictures of mountain tops with him on top.
20. I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain.

Comments

[idonotlikepeas]

4. Simon and Garfunkel, the one where they've committed a crime and broken the law. It has some goddamned weird name.
6. "Turn out the lights and I glow / To the extreme / Rock the mic like a vandal / Light up the stage / wax a chump like a candle". Uh, I mean, I don't know that one. >.> <.<
8. Motorhead, Ace of Spades. ("Win some, lose some, it's all the same to me!")
12. Cyndi Lauper, Time After Time. I mean, I don't know that one either. Yeah.
16. They Might Be Giants, XTC vs. Adam Ant.
17. Suuuuunspots have faded... and now I'm doing time. Now I'm doing tiiiime... Soundgarden, Fell on Black
Days. The last time I did this, I used "The Day I Tried to Live".
18. Uh, some R.E.M. thing I think.
19. Pearl Jam, Jeremy's Spoken.

I feel like I know more of these. May come back.

[placeboweek.livejournal.com]

#7 -- Bjork, Hyperballad (I was just listening to this song!)
#9 -- Hallelujah, by Leonard Cohen or that other guy, or covered by Duncan Sheik
#12 -- Time after Time, Cyndi Lauper
#19 -- Jeremy, Pearl Jam

I really want to say #6 is Ice, Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice, but that lyric is short enough that it could be something else.

[doctorellisdee.livejournal.com]

14, is "run to the hills"?

if so, you got the lyric wrong.

"women and children, the cowards attack!"

i like your version better of course.,

[idonotlikepeas]

Fuck! I knew I knew that one. Goddamned kittens!

[herrsatan.livejournal.com]

Goddamned kittens?

[idonotlikepeas]

On the VH1 "Most metal moments" special, the commercial breaks were kittens singing that song.

[idonotlikepeas]

That is, the lead-in and return from the commercial breaks. And the closing credits.

[herrsatan.livejournal.com]

Huh. I don't remember that for some reason. Maybe hysterical kitten amnesia.

[herrsatan.livejournal.com]

balls. Well, yeah, I like mine too. After all these years...

[doctorellisdee.livejournal.com]

a misheard lyric is called a "mondegreen". (http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~wilkins/writing/Resources/essays/mondegreens.html)

The term "mondegreen" was coined by Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Atlantic article. As a child, young Sylvia had listened to a folk song that included the lines "They had slain the Earl of Moray/And Lady Mondegreen." As is customary with misheard lyrics, she didn't realize her mistake for years. The song was not about the tragic fate of Lady Mondegreen, but rather, the continuing plight of the good earl: "They had slain the Earl of Moray/And laid him on the green."