# the Lyrics game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 9, 2000, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858 "2000-02-09T09:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/41 "2000-02-10T22:44:00Z")
Dirty Devil, YAY DAVE !!! Dave Matthews Band “Lover Lay Down” cool, I’m in . . . “Why don’t you comb your hair in different light, and change the chair and scene to pink thats alright, I understand, You need a change, But when you make that change don’t look to see I’m alright” * * * “A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject.” - Seneca ---
**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2000, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/42 "2000-02-11T03:14:00Z")
Too easy humpf, rolls up sleeves, Maybe I should put a bucket over my head, and a marshmallow in each ear, and stumble around through another dumbnumb week, for another humdrum hit song to appear ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/43 "2000-02-15T11:04:00Z")
Bump… because I’m bored and noones answered this yet * * * J “_Attempted_murder? pah, you dont get the Nobel Prize for _Attempted_ Chemisty” Homer Simpson ---
**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/44 "2000-02-15T12:44:00Z")
that’d be Fuel, by Ani DeFranco. Let’s try this; We’re just knocked out, we heard about the sellout, you’ve gotta get an album, you owe it to the people, we’re so happy we can hardly count ---
**Author:** ![Oblio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c4cdca/32.png) [@Oblio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblio)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/45 "2000-02-15T12:58:00Z")
Have a a Cigar - Floyd Thinking of new lyrics so as not to simulpost ---
**Author:** ![Oblio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c4cdca/32.png) [@Oblio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblio)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/46 "2000-02-15T13:05:00Z")
Bye bye,my friend, goodbye With a lie you forget and break it. You make it you make it you make it you make it Cry in my empty room, and we try to forget and break it. Fly high and then you make it ---
**Author:** ![Oblio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c4cdca/32.png) [@Oblio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblio)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/47 "2000-02-15T13:08:00Z")
And for extra points, vocals on Have a Cigar courtesy Roy Harper 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/48 "2000-02-15T13:49:00Z")
I’m stumped, but I can’t resist throwing in some of my all-time favorite lyrics: _(hint: all 3 songs by John Prine)_ And the sky is black and still now On the hill where the angels sing Ain’t it funny how an old broken bottle Looks just like a diamond ring I gotta shake myself and wonder Why she even bothers me For if heartaches were commercials We’d all be on T.V. Her heart is as big As this whole goddamn jail And she’s sweeter than saccharine At a drugstore sale ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/49 "2000-02-15T14:28:00Z")
one more… Well I sat there at the table And I acted real naive For I knew that topless lady Had something up her sleeve ---
**Author:** ![Oblio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c4cdca/32.png) [@Oblio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblio)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/50 "2000-02-15T14:45:00Z")
Tangled up in blue ?? Give up yet ?? ---
**Author:** ![Oblio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c4cdca/32.png) [@Oblio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblio)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/51 "2000-02-15T17:49:00Z")
Here is a tangential hint: Chariots of Fire ---
**Author:** ![Oblio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c4cdca/32.png) [@Oblio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblio)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/52 "2000-02-16T02:55:00Z")
10 extra points for the stump. Break (from 666), Aphrodites Child c. 1970 The band was formed by Vangelis Papathanasiou prior to his work with Jon Anderson et. al. Reviving TennHippie’s post \*\* Well I sat there at the table And I acted real naive For I knew that topless lady Had something up her sleeve \*\* ---
**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/53 "2000-02-16T06:47:00Z")
That’s be Spanish Pipedream, also by J.Prine I can hear the tune of tennhippies’ #1, but can’t pull in the title, #2&3 leave me stumped, oh well, Larry ---
**Author:** ![SINsApple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SINsApple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SINsApple)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/54 "2000-02-16T06:55:00Z")
No one knows who my lyrics are by??? I’ll give you a hint. She actually is a redhead. Very famous female artist. (atleast underground popular even if you don’t want to consider her general audience popular). * * * “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” --Whitman ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/55 "2000-02-16T17:25:00Z")
Bonnie Raitt? P.S. _Spanish Pipedream_ is correct. The others: 1._Far From Me_ 2._Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard_(also a top contender for best song title!) 3._Christmas In Prison_ ---
**Author:** ![SINsApple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SINsApple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SINsApple)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858/56 "2000-02-17T07:20:00Z")
No sorry. I guess if no one can guess it, then I will give it to you. The song was Take to the Sky by Tori Amos. . . ughola, I am so disappointed that no one knew that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lyrics-game/13858.md?page=2)