Intellectualize song lyrics game

Ah hell, rjung, I hate to admit I know that one…

Dare to be Stupid – Weird Al

TeaRoses got it quick… that was a lot more fun to compose than it should have been. Let’s try another:

You extend your arm to me. You greet me in a powerful, formal manner. You then proceed to deliver a monologue, describing the best chance you have to enter the business in a successful manner.

You first attempt to seduce me, with the likelyhood that our congress will injure me in a serious manner. Then, when you discover that you have gained all the advantages I can bestow upon you, you leave me callously.

All right, one more.

Oh, lover whose name reminds one of old plays by medieval playwrights; the gambling devices were charged from the point of inauguration
And I lay a wager, and you detonated within the confines of my cardiovascular muscle
And I misremember, I misremember; the chanson belonging to the motion picture
At which point in time will you commence comprehending that the sole incorrect parameter was the mere instance, oh lover whose name reminds one of old plays by medieval playwrights?

Can’t make it any easier than that. :slight_smile:

D’oh! :smack: Thanks, I stand corrected. If either of my answers below are misattributions (or wrong!), someone please let me know!

Dire Straits-Romeo & Juliet

ZZ Top-Pearl Necklace (ok, this one my husband figured out, not me. I am a much bigger classic rock fan than he is, but I had never heard of this song and he was clearly quite familiar with it, and its -ahem- connotations. Should I be worried? :dubious: )

I’ll come up with my own to contribute, really, but right now I’m having so much fun figuring them out!

Spot on, available light! Rush fan, by any chance? :slight_smile:

Matter with neither independant state nor volume, a volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture used as fuel, and something that gives pleasure are all personified by the nickname of Mr. Cousteau, who is fond of engaging in saltation whilst devoid of apparel.

Jumping Jack Flash, it’s a gas, gas, gas!

“Desist from proselytizing, Father
For my circumstances are profoundly vexing,
Father, abstain from proselytizing
For I have been suffering from bouts of insomnia”

Papa Don’t Preach by Madonna
“Yet never have I become acquainted with a young lady of your ilk previously.”

Papa Don’t Preach
“Ejaculate, my love, ejaculate.
My love, my love, ejaculate.
Thou must gift me with intercourse,
And thou must gift me with sex.”

He was within his domicile, creating images by the use of variously colored implements. These images depicted the peaks of geographic features generally formed by the collision and upthrust of tectonic plates. Upon the apex of one of the peaks he placed himself, along with a globe the color of a sour citrus fruit. His upper appendages were extended at approximately 30 degrees to the vertical on either side, and the corpses were strewn about in large volumes of gore beneath his feet.

Wow-you step away from the keyboard to get some shut-eye, and look what happens- Post Explosion!

Yeah, my last one was “Surfin’ Bird”, (Lindarielle13, you had the right song, wrong title) but Terminator, you should be aware that the Ramones covered that one, it was originally done by the Trashmen. And I’ll get your song yet…

Available light-congradulate your hubby! And don’t worry, be happy!

SeGate, is that Shaggy or Shaun Paul?

“Unseal the chamber, progress onto the horizontal open space within- all assembled personages perform gyrations analogously similar to a long extinct reptillian life form perambulating.”

“I was slain by Thanatos incarnate, I was slain by Thanatos incarnate!”

"Metaphorically sugary (innocent) young human offspring dwelling within the chronosphere, you will observe the union of two points along the shortest distance between them, said union sketched along the boundary between forces of light and darkness.

Sturmhauke- that’s Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy”

PS: If this multiple posts, its because I keep getting “operation timed out while trying to contact straightdope.com” error messages.

“Rise up in conflict against the current power structure! (x3)”

“This attractive domicile is not mine! This pulchritrudinous XX gendered human is not my life partner! And I query of myself-how did I come to this location?”

OK, I’m reposting these with some hints, since no one’s even tried them.

  1. Existing and expiring, being jovial and expressing sorrow, a singular viewing will alter you permanently.

(Hint: The Four Horsemen)

  1. I am unable to tolerate this any further, verbalizing the same sentiments I previously expressed, each of these collections of syllables, they lack coherence, I have located contentment in uneducation.

(Hint: The 16th President’s Grassy Area)

brianjedi-#1 Sounds like Metallica, & #2 is a Linkin Park song, but …I’m BLOCKING ON THE NAMES!!!

OK, I’ll give you the titles in intellectualized form.

  1. “Propulsion Machine Human Exhalation of Gases”

2." A Single Unit of Bipedal Motion Nearer"

brianjedi-#1 Sounds like Metallica, & #2 is a Linkin Park song, but …I’m BLOCKING ON THE NAMES!!!

I know both of these:

The first is Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power”
The second is Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime”

I’ll post clues when I think of them…

Not sure if I’m allowed to post another one when I already have one that hasn’t been guessed yet (I think I tweaked that one too much)… but I can’t resist… This is easy, but I said that before:

I am the counteropposition to the second incarnation of a major religious figure
I believe in a system without government or laws
I am not able to define what I truly desire yet I feel assured of achieving

Not sure if I’m allowed to post another one when I already have one that hasn’t been guessed yet (I think I tweaked that one too much)… but I can’t resist… This is easy, but I said that before:

I am the counteropposition to the second incarnation of a major religious figure
I believe in a system without government or laws
I am not able to define what I truly desire yet I feel assured of achieving it.

Ack! Sorry for the double post… and for the first one (A diagnosis from the DSM-IV is not the issue. It is merely a state of minor disequilibrium. I am aware that it is impossible for you to evaluate concurrently.) think of a song that’s on the radio a LOT right now. And it’s not the verse, it’s the chorus.