Thread continued from here . Carry on.
You don’t know how long this took. And I don’t know if it’s 100% right. Anyways. . . .
The Unanswered Ones
17) Everbody’s doin’ it
Please don’t let them ruin it om
68) “She said, ‘I know you and you cannot sing’/I said, ‘That’s nothing. You should hear me play the piano.’”
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I’m so tall, I’m so tall
You raised me and then you let me fall -
“I love you kids with your crazy rock and roll. Like that Eddie Van Heflin.” “Van Halen” “Whatever”
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Face facts/James Brown was old/Til Eric and Rak did ‘I Know You Got Soul’
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She moves among men
They would seek to have her as a prize
But she is in the shadows
The ocean and the sand
She is everywhere and no place
92a) You’ll take my life but I’ll take yours too
You’ll fire musket but I’ll run you through
So when you’re waiting for the next attack
You better _____* there’s no turning back
100) Well, you should try to smile, dear
Get yourself a pet deer,
Dog,
Cat,
Bird,
Pig,
Lamb,
Horse,
Cow
Fish,
a Goldfish
a Mouse!
106) “I love my house and car/I love my house and car/I love my house and car”
107) I just wish my life could be
as strange as a conspiracy
I hold out hope but there’s no way
of being what I want to be
108) Livin’ simple, and trying to get by, but honey, prices have shot to the sky! So I fixed up the basement with what I was a-workin’ with. Stocked it full of jelly jars and heavy equipment!
114) “Bullshit is bullshit/It just goes by different names”
129)When I looked out of the window
on the hardship that had struck
I saw seven phials open
the plague claimed father and son
Four men at a grave in silence
with hats bowed down in grace
A simple wooden cross, it had no epitaph engraved
130)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
147:
I tell you I love you
But you won’t believe it’s true
More precious than silver
More precious than diamond rings or anything that I could give you
159:
Cigarette smoke was annoying and my mood was fit for a bath
167). Life is wasted on illusions
Tom and Jerry is no solution
Evil gains for [something unintelligible]
Pinnochio is a real boy, look around!
168). Joan of Arc was burning at the stake
somebody had made a big mistake
she had lit a cigarette
in an airport where you get
all your fingers taken off for smoking
meanwhile up the road a factory’s choking
the ones who killed her work there, I’m not joking
182)Treating today as though it was
The last, the final show
Get to sixty and feel no regret
It may take a little time
A lonely path, an uphill climb
Success or failure will not alter it
- Break my body with the back of your hand
Doesn’t make sense from where I stand
Baby, baby why you wanna mess it up
Sooner or later I’ll find my place
Find my body better fix my face
Please don’t ask me
how I’ve been getting off
No, please don’t ask me
how I’ve been getting off
“Legal Tender” by the B-52’s.
86 = “Marvelous” by Fernando…errrr, Billy Crystal. 1985. 
182 = “Things Can Only Get Better” by Howard Jones who, as I mentioned, is a synth GOD. 
- “The Stand” by The Alarm
Nobody got 68? “The Queen is Dead” by the Smiths.
Cheers to Biggirl!
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The Waterboys - Church not made with hands(it took forever for me to figure that one out, I knew that I knew it, but DAMN has it been a long time since I’ve heard it!)
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Dead Man’s Party - Oingo Boingo (I cannot believe that nobody else got this one!)
#17 is driving me nuts, it’s just itching at my brain like I know I should know it, but, it’s just a bit too vague. sigh
I’m too tired to add new lyrics tonight, will add some tomorrow.
~V
What were we up to for new submissions? 190?
190:
At the time you couldn’t tell me one day I’d be glad
Something that I thought was love was misinterpreted
191:
How could I possibly know what I want when I was only 21?
192:
You can’t begin to know it - how much we really care
I hear your voice inside me, I see your face everywhere
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Sinead O’Connor, Emperor’s New Clothes
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Pat Benatar, We Belong!
Wow, I can’t believe I didn’t get The Stand. I love that song!!
191 The Emporer’s New Clothes Sinead O’Connor*
192 We Belong, Pat Benetar
*1990
Hmm, maybe I should refresh when I walk away from the computer that long. Silly me.
76 - Living on the Ceiling, Blancmange
187 - Fine Line Between Pleasure and Pain, The Divinyls
You’ve stirred up some dust there!
My #158 went unanswered. I’ll reinsert it here as …
#193:
You can’t stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have a dark side, to say the least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast
Man, the people in here are good.
194:
On a wire between will and what will be
195:
What are we running for when there’s nowhere we can run to anymore?
196:
Sends them off with a small kiss…she’s the one they’re going to miss in lots of ways.
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She’s a Maniac, Maniac on the floor… Sorry, don’t remember who sang it.
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Our House, Madness
MorgainElf - Maniac was sung by Michael Sembello
195 - Invincible, Pat Benatar.
Chaim Mattis Keller
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“Our House” Madness
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“Hold Me” Bow Wow Wow
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“She thought my name was Larry/I told her it was Gary/She said she didn’t like it/So she chose to call me Barry.”
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“We got a thousand points of light for the homeless man/We got a kindler, gentler machine gun hand.”
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“People asking questions/Lost in confusion/Well, I tell then there’s no problem, only solutions/Well, they shake their heads and look at me as if I’ve lost my mind/I tell them there’s no hurry, I’m just sitting here doing time.”
190:
At the time you couldn’t tell me one day I’d be glad
Something that I thought was love was misinterpreted
If she would have been Faithful by Chicago.
OK, I’ll grab the magic number 200!
- Now my heart’s an open door
Won’t you come inside for more
You give love so sweetly now
Take my love take me completely now
Chaim Mattis Keller
198 = Neil Young - Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World