# Lyrics Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 30, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420 "2003-05-30T01:18:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SeGate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SeGate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeGate)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/21 "2003-06-10T19:51:44Z")
The Tooper – Iron Maiden “I wished I was smarter I wished I was stronger I wished I loved Jesus The way my wife does” ---
**Author:** ![SeGate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SeGate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeGate)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/22 "2003-06-10T19:57:37Z")
Sorry **Tezmac** , your response wasn’t posted when I began composing mine! The answer to yours is: California – Stroke 9. “I wished I was smarter I wished I was stronger I wished I loved Jesus The way my wife does” ---
**Author:** ![Tezmac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Tezmac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tezmac)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/23 "2003-06-10T20:06:21Z")
No problem… Patty Griffin OR the Dixie Chicks - Top of the World I love lyric games… “Stranger flowers yet There will never come a day that will ever regret The hours days years and the minutes The joy the pain the sunshine and rain in it…” ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/24 "2003-06-10T23:16:18Z")
311 – 8:16 a.m. “In the morning when you rise, Do you open up your eyes, see what I see? Do you see the same things every day? Do you think of a way to start the day Getting things in proportion? Spread the news and help the world go 'round.” ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/25 "2003-06-10T23:28:38Z")
Yes - Time And A Word Life I embrace you I shall honour and disgrace you Please forgive if I replace you, you see I’m going through some pain But now I see clearly And the dawn is coming nearly And though I’m human and it’s early I swear I’ll never forget again. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/26 "2003-06-11T15:56:16Z")
Wow… Did I kill the thread? I couldn’t have stumped EVERYONE… ---
**Author:** ![Tezmac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Tezmac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tezmac)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/27 "2003-06-11T16:36:40Z")
No, Ive just been busy at work 🙂 Blues Traveler - Optimistic Thought Was it something I said, held against me? Ain’t no life on the run, slowly climbing Caught in ice so she stares, stares at nothing I can help her but won’t, now she hates me ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/28 "2003-06-11T16:54:25Z")
Alice in Chains - Rain When (if?) I Die? I never thought I could feel this way And I’ve got to say that I just don’t get it. I don’t know where we went wrong, But the feeling’s gone And I just can’t get it back. ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/29 "2003-06-12T02:38:01Z")
If You Could Read my Mind – -- Gordon Lightfoot “I woke up this morning and I took a look around at all that I’ve got These days I’ve been lookin’ in the mirror and wondering if that’s me looking back or not I’m still the apple of my momma’s eye I’m my daddy’s worst fears realized” ---
**Author:** ![MarlaDurden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@MarlaDurden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarlaDurden)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/30 "2003-06-12T04:39:24Z")
_The Other Kind_ --Steve Earle “What a mess our lives turned out to be It was at its best when you and I were only 3 We can start with all the things that turn us out And we can go right down the list and throw them out” Bonus points if you can tell me what soundtrack this is from. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/31 "2003-06-12T12:13:53Z")
Van Wilder Soundtrack - Abandoned Pools - Start Over (I actually had to look up the band name… but I got the movie right away, so do the bonus points cancel out the minor cheat?) Woke up, I was on top of the world There was a beautiful girl in the bed beside me Rolled over got a kiss on the ear She said, “Listen up dear, there’s a change inside me” Can’t say how frightened I am How unenlightened I am As I run for cover Can’t say how happy I am to be wrong ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/32 "2003-06-12T12:23:59Z")
“She’s on Time,” by Barenaked Ladies She had a face like a dumped-out ashtray Spittin’ out straight abuse Vocabulary like a broken marquee and a wit she couldn’t use. ---
**Author:** ![MarlaDurden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@MarlaDurden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarlaDurden)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/33 "2003-06-13T03:27:01Z")
Yes, you still get bonus points. Just cuz I’m nice, and I make the rules. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/34 "2003-06-13T04:43:26Z")
Tucumcari by Freedy Johnston. I’ve Eaten The Sun So My Tongue Has Been Burned Of The Taste I Have Been Guilty Of Kicking Myself In The Teeth ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/35 "2003-06-13T05:03:13Z")
_Down in a Hole_, Alice in Chains. From _Dirt_ (and their Unplugged album). One of their most beautiful. “There’s a watch in my pocket And its hands are broken. The face is blank but the gears are turning Confusion is a fundamental state of being.” ---
**Author:** ![wakimika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@wakimika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wakimika)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/36 "2003-06-13T05:35:39Z")
Bad Religion – _Sanity_ I know you I know you’ve seen her She’s a sad tomato She’s three miles of bad road ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/37 "2003-06-13T05:57:25Z")
R.E.M., _Crush With Eyeliner_. What a great line. Courtney Love says it’s about her. “Now years gone by we find man that rules the sea. He sets out on a dark May morning . To bring his catch back to this small community. He doesn’t see the danger dawning.” ---
**Author:** ![Tezmac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Tezmac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tezmac)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/38 "2003-06-13T14:18:39Z")
Primus - Jon the Fisherman I know you well. You are a part of me. I know you better than I know myself. I know you best, better than anyone. I know you better than I know myself. ---
**Author:** ![MarlaDurden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@MarlaDurden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarlaDurden)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/39 "2003-06-13T17:27:06Z")
_Part of Me_ – by Tool “and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back” Bonus points if you can tell me who originally sang it, and then who did a cover of it. 😃 Good Luck ---
**Author:** ![Tezmac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Tezmac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tezmac)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420/40 "2003-06-13T17:46:30Z")
Ani DiFranco did the original, Alana Davis did the cover - 32 Flavors “So needless to say I’m odds and ends again But it’s me stumbling away Slowly learning that life is O.K.” Can I offer bonus points here? Name the band that covered the song with their label “Rock City Recording Company.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-game/178420.md?page=3)