20 Questions with Euterpe

[abbandono]

Well, it's about time I revived the old Livejournal, not that it was ever particularly lively to begin with. 

So, there's much news forthcoming on my recent trip to the Coachella music festival, but meanwhile here's a little meme to set the mood, by way of hangingfire :

On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down your favourite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then, have your friends comment and see if they know the songs.

So here's my 20, courtesy of a Party Shuffle on my work PC's copy of iTunes.  I'll give an actual prize to anyone who can be the first to name more than two of them.

1. that's not to say i don't have good times
but as for my days
i spend them waiting

2. There are doors that let you in and out
But never open
But they are trapdoors
That you can't come back from

3. As bad as bad becomes
It's not a part of you
And love is only sleeping
Wrapped in neglect

4. Should have said so much
Makes it harder
The more you love

5. I want the night to stretch us
There's plenty left to know

6. Arriving late, you clean the debris
And walked into the angry scene
It felt just like falling in love again

7. But when I remember those people and places
They were really too good in their way.

8. I'm a tiny little flash in a damaged universe
You know what makes it better only makes it worse

9. Will I still be soiled
When the dirt is off

10. New York's a go-go and everything tastes nice

11. Grape’s bitter, I’m no quitter
Revolutions come one by one

12. I'd paint a picture of my life upon your wall.
And use the colors that have made life seem small.

13. never wanted to feel this pain
never wanted to feel so sad
never wanted to feel this pain
today
today

14. To make your troubles go
Just keep on singing
All day long

(major bonus points for guessing the particular artist I'm listening to on #14)

15. I will not wait around to face my fortune
I will not wait around for something else
You are around me now
You can have anything that you want

16. Ticking years fly past, trailing half-remembered hymns,
He nailed his colours to the mast and now the ship is steering him

17. That smile on her face is starting to crack
While welding back the pieces of her shattered heart
That's scattered out here,
With the ghosts of her peers

18. We dance on motive's invisible causes
But won’t stop wondering
Won't ever stop wondering

19. And I promise not to cry anymore
All the reasons beat the crap out of me
Everyday when I wake up they are waiting
But I promised not to cry anymore
'Cause it's the same old plot these days

20. Even Marilyn Monroe was a man, but this tends to get overlooked by our
mother-fixated, overweight, sexist media.

Comments

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Grah. #7 and #12 seem familiar, but I'm stumped.

Are there any in this list that I ought to know?

[abbandono.livejournal.com]

It's a tough list. I actually chose larger snippets because of the obscurity of some of these.

I thought you might know 10 and 12. 10 especially, actually.

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one is on the tip of my brain, but no dice.

I'll ponder it some more.