# Song Lyric Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 8, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030 "2004-04-08T21:06:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/21 "2004-04-09T00:57:45Z")

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Sorry…the word is:

**MUTILATION**

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**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/22 "2004-04-09T01:26:55Z")

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You’ll think I’m dead  
But I sail away on a  
wave of mutilation

Wave of Mutilation - Pixies

next up - fork

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**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/23 "2004-04-09T01:45:58Z")

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“Take your fucking fork and shove it down your own throat.”  
Babes in Toyland- Fork Down Throat

Next word:  
Planetarium

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/24 "2004-04-09T01:54:53Z")

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> [@angelicate](#):
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> Next word:  
> Planetarium

\*Grind planetarium  
Pride, lacerated from my mind  
Grind planetarium  
New, destroying all that is blind deceit

Mortification  
Bringing forth flesh denial  
Stardom farces  
Capture those of false arise

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**Grind Planetarium** , Mortification  
Let’s get literary…

**Gormenghast**

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**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/25 "2004-04-09T13:41:48Z")

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> [@jayjay](#):
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> Let’s get literary…
> 
> **Gormenghast**

I, for one, am just not this literate, apparently. And even a cheating Google search didn’t help me fake it. Looks like we’re stumped. 😕

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**Author:** ![Blackdragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Blackdragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackdragon)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/26 "2004-04-09T16:12:36Z")

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There is a Gormenghast CD by Irmin Schmidt with 11 tracks. However, I cannot find if there is lyrics or Gormenghast is in the lyrics.

Let’s move on shall we?

\*\*continue[\b]

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/27 "2004-04-09T16:19:29Z")

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> [@Blackdragon](#):
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> **continue**

So we’ll **continue** to continue to pretend  
Our lives will never end  
And flowers never bend with the rainfall  
–“Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall,” Simon & Garfunkel

**coffee**

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**Author:** ![Blackdragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Blackdragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackdragon)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/28 "2004-04-09T16:37:13Z")

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> [@](#):
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> **coffee** originally posted by Biffy the Elephant Shrew

She lived on Lucky Charms and **coffee**  
and Cracker Jack suprise  
She had me all reborn and then she killed me with her eyes

Face by Aerosmith

**lightning**

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/29 "2004-04-09T16:43:48Z")

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> [@Blackdragon](#):
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> **lightning**

Thunderbolts and lightning  
Very very frightening me

Queen, “Bohemian Rhapsody”

How about **monolith**?

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**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/30 "2004-04-09T17:12:03Z")

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“And though I once preferred a human being’s company  
They pale before the monolith that towers over me”

The Statue Got Me High - They Might Be Giants  
Antithetic

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/31 "2004-04-09T18:10:41Z")

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> [@BurnMeUp](#):
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> Antithetic

Enslaved creation molding man as mine or be destroyed  
Sheathing drops which fall to earth  
and freeze within the night  
Sculpt the northern towers high  
antithetic windswept plains

Black & Crimson Glory, “(From Northern Aeries To) The Infinite Cycle Of The Unborn Lord”

(Were you thinking of Bad Religion’s “Inner Logic”?)

Let’s see…how about **meteor**?

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/32 "2004-04-09T18:16:05Z")

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And as your blood begins to roar  
You’ll feel your senses spin and soar  
You will become my **meteor**  
Divine and universal whore  
–“Lend Your Love to Me Tonight,” Emerson, Lake & Palmer

**narcotic**

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/33 "2004-04-09T18:17:12Z")

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Grrrr…I had a Bad religion song lined up…

“John brown set the tone he was a meteor in a guilty land  
Abolitionist understand freedom to the despondent man”  
**Rancid** - _Meteor of war_

**Fire Engine** … or is that two words?

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**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/34 "2004-04-09T18:30:46Z")

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> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#):
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> And as your blood begins to roar  
> You’ll feel your senses spin and soar  
> You will become my **meteor**  
> Divine and universal whore  
> –“Lend Your Love to Me Tonight,” Emerson, Lake & Palmer
> 
> **narcotic**

Though you try to stop it,  
she’s like a narcotic.  
You wanna torture her.  
You wanna talk to her.  
All the things you bought for her,  
putting up your temp’rature.

Elvis Costello - Pump it Up  
percolating

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**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/35 "2004-04-09T20:58:44Z")

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“Now that all the poison’s taken off our red hands  
It’s **percolating** in the deep blue dump  
We’ll be counting pay cheques, with all the zeros  
Mother of nature has gone to the doc for a test, she’s found a lump.”  
– The Odds, _Family Tree_

Next word: Neptune

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**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/36 "2004-04-09T21:15:38Z")

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> [@Beadalin](#):
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> Next word: Neptune

Uranus is built on a funny tilt  
and Neptune is its twin  
-Interplanet Janet from Schoolhouse Rocks

(ooh, nostalgia wave!)

next up: **clientele**

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**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/37 "2004-04-09T21:21:08Z")

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“He gives the kids free samples  
Because he knows full well  
That today’s young innocent faces  
Will be tomorrow’s **clientele** ”

Tom Lehrer, “The Old Dope Peddler”

**Avalon**

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**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/38 "2004-04-09T21:51:32Z")

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“I’m waiting for the angels of Avalon  
Waiting for the eastern glow”

– -- \*Battle of Evermore \* - Led Zeppelin

**polarity** next?

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/39 "2004-04-09T22:22:44Z")

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> [@verbenabeast](#):
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> **polarity** next?

What would you like for Christmas?  
A new **polarity**?  
–“March the Mad Scientist,” Jethro Tull

Let’s try **curry**

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**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-game/239030/40 "2004-04-10T16:43:55Z")

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> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#):
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> Let’s try **curry**

The boys in the clothes shop  
sold me curry for a pound  
–David Bowie, “London Bye Ta-Ta”

Time to go topical: **Easter**

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