The Tooper – Iron Maiden
“I wished I was smarter
I wished I was stronger
I wished I loved Jesus
The way my wife does”
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”
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…”
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.”
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.
Wow… Did I kill the thread? I couldn’t have stumped EVERYONE…
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
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.
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”
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.
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
“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.
Yes, you still get bonus points. Just cuz I’m nice, and I make the rules.
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
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.”
Bad Religion – Sanity
I know you
I know you’ve seen her
She’s a sad tomato
She’s three miles of bad road
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.”
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.
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
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.”