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Help a girl out. Could you please post a random song lyric (include the singer/band), it's for a car driving game?

Asked by Mama_Cakes2 (1446points) September 17th, 2010

My girlfriend and I are driving to Toronto tomorrow and it’s a three hour drive. We’re both music freaks and know our stuff. We like to try to stump one another by saying a song lyric and getting the other to guess which song it is and who sang it.

We tend to not make it too easy. Like, “brings all the boys to the yard…”. Or practically unknown bands, say, like Tony Danza’s Tap Dance Extravaganza.

Some from mainstream, alternative, punk, rock, soul, blues.. whatever.

You can list more than one, but, please include the name of the song and the artist.

Please ‘n thanks.

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shpadoinkle_sue's avatar

In honor of @loser, “You’re running up and down that hill, turn it on and off at will.”” – Wicked Little Town, Hedwig.

There was a lonely girl from nowhere, With a smile all sweet with pain
Private Conversation, Lyle Lovett

The voice might be one and the same.
I’ve heard it too many times to ignore it.
Rainbow Connection

Mama_Cakes2's avatar

@shpadoinkle_sue With all due respect =), I only know Lyle Lovett here. I have no clue who the other two are. Not going to work for the guessing game.

Thanks for playing, though. Grab your parting gift on your way out the door.

TexasDude's avatar

You’re a door-without-a-key, a field-without-a-fence
You made a holy fool of me, and I’ve thanked you ever since
If she comes circling back, we’ll end where we’d begun
Like two pennies on the train track the train crushed into one

Or if I’m a crown without a king, if I’m a broken, open seed
If I come without a thing, I come with all I need
No boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead

—from the song In a Sweater Poorly Knit, by mewithoutYou.

Cruiser's avatar

Many know Norwegian Wood by the Beatles…. play this version by Frank Marino and you will have blast trying to guess this one!!

muppetish's avatar

“I can’t believe life’s so complex when I just want to sit here and watch you undress.”
– “This is Love” by P.J. Harvey

“The lightning bolt made enough heat to melt the street beneath your feet.”
– “In the Backseat” by The Arcade Fire

“For your sweet top lip I’m in the queue
Baby, I’m in love with you
I’m so glad you came here
It won’t be the same now when I’m with you.”
– Old Brown Shoe by The Beatles

“The empty-handed painter from your streets is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets” – “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” by Bob Dylan

“She’s so swishy in her satin and tat
In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
Oh God, I could do better than that.”
– Queen Bitch by David Bowie

“Got my best suit and my tie
Shiny silver dollar on either eye
I hear the chauffeur comin’ to the door
Says there’s room for maybe just one more”
– “Dead Man’s Party” by Oingo Boingo

@shpadoinkle_sue Instant lurve for quoting a Muppet song :)

shpadoinkle_sue's avatar

@Mama_Cakes Wha? You really don’t know Rainbow Connection with Kermit the Frog? Aww, man. At least you know Lyle Lovett. :)
I’d like to redeem myself then with one more, if I could.

If you know Lyle Lovett, you gotta know Bonnie Raitt. I hope you do.

A friend of mine she cries at night, and she
Calls me on the phone
Sees babies everywhere she goes and she
Wants one of her own.
– Nick of Time, Bonnie Raitt

ANef_is_Enuf's avatar

“I’ll wait in this place where the sun never shines, wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves” – Cream, White Room (is that too easy?)

“For I never knew the art of making love, though my heart aches with love for you” -Ray Charles, You Don’t Know Me (only because it is stuck in my head today. John Legend would count as the artist here, also.)

“You float like a feather in a beautiful world.” – Radiohead, Creep

“Love is a verb, love is a doing word.” – Massive Attack, Teardrop (not sure if this one would be too difficult.)

“I got a bad bad feelin’ that my baby don’t live here no more.” – Jimi Hendrix, Red House

I could probably do this for a while, but I feel like I have no direction.. I know you specified in the original question, but I don’t know what is going to be too random/hard to guess.

Mama_Cakes2's avatar

@shpadoinkle_sue YES!. I DO know Rainbow Connection the song! I read that as Rainbow Connection the band…

I do love Bonnie and that song. Do you want to see what’s behind door number one? Or, chose whatever is in the safe here?

shpadoinkle_sue's avatar

@Mama_Cakes Yay! Door number one, everytime.
I guess I forgot about putting kermit as the artist. My bad! Good luck and drive safe tomorrow!

Brian1946's avatar

“Eyes that are the windows,
Eyes that are the dew,
Eyes that tell a story,
Sad and deep as you.”

Traffic- Sad and Deep as You.

poisonedantidote's avatar

There was a friend of mine on murder
And the judge’s gavel fell
Jury found him guilty
Gave him sixteen years in hell
He said “I ain’t spending my life here
I ain’t living alone
Ain’t breaking no rocks on the chain gang
I’m breakin’ out and headin’ home

AC/DC – Jailbreak

SundayKittens's avatar

Why don’t we do it in the road?
Why don’t we do it in the road?
Why don’t we do it in the road?
-Why Dont We Do It In The Road, The Beatles

janedelila's avatar

Did one say so cruel just better to love and lose. Ignorance is bliss, wish not knew your kiss. So many times been burned this lesson goes unlearned. Remember desire only fuels the fire. Liar.

Type O Negative. Anesthesia

dinneland's avatar

“What about Jesus/Didn’t he do it to/Hang out with the prostitutes/And, have a drink or two?”

-Hallelujah, Martin Sexton

ucme's avatar

Here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors. Cars : Gary Numan

Michael_Huntington's avatar

I still got all my fingers but somewhere I lost my mind -Acid Bath, Mortician’s Flame

tragiclikebowie's avatar

Well the shot, it hit hard
And your frame went limp in my arms
And an oath of love was your dying cry

- O Valencia!, The Decemberists

TexasDude's avatar

@tragiclikebowie, fuccccccccccckkkkkkk yeahhhhh Decemberists!

Aesthetic_Mess's avatar

Just a small town girl
Livin’ in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin’ anywhere
Just a city boy
Born and raised in South Detroit
He took the midnight train goin’ anywhere

Aesthetic_Mess's avatar

I’m forever yours
Faithfully

lonelydragon's avatar

“Do you not hear me anymore?
I know it’s not your thing to care.
I know it’s cool to be so bored.”

Ben Folds Five, “Battle of Who Could Care Less”

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