The Song-Lyric Juggling Thread

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’ll list the first lines of a song. You continue the song, and suggest a new one. Let’s see how many we can get going.

  1. Luka, by Suzanne Vega: “My name is Luka. I live on the second floor…”

  2. Don’t Stop Believin’, by Journey: “Just a small-town girl, livin’ in a lonely world…”

2

  1. “… I live upstairs from you. Yes I think you’ve seen me before…”

  2. Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel: “Climbing up on Solsbury Hill, I could see the city light…”

3

  1. “Wind was blowing, time stood still - Eagle flew out of the night”

  2. Asia - Heat of the Moment: “I never meant do be so bad to you - one thing I said that I would never do”

4

2)She took the midnight train goin’ anywhere
5)Saturday Nights All Right for Fighting - Elton John
Its 7 o’clock, Im ready to rock and a get a belly full of Beer.

5

  1. He was something to observe - came in close, I heard a voice

  2. Basket Case, by Green Day: Do you have the time to listen to me whine

6

  1. “About nothing and everything all at once”

  2. “I am still living with your ghost” Everclear, ‘Santa Monica’

7

  1. Standing, stretching every nerve. Had to listen, had no choice.

  2. If you hear something late at night - some kind of trouble, some kind of fight

8

Woops. Forgot to start a new one.

  1. “There is freedom within, there is freedom without…”

Don’t Dream it’s Over by Crowded House

9
  1. Lonely and dreaming of the west coast

9)Tori Amos “Silent all these years” Excuse me, but can I be you for a while…

10

  1. Just don’t ask me what it was

  2. I am one of those melodramatic fools

  3. Lonely and dreaming of the west coast

  4. There’s a shadow just behind me, shrouding every breath I take - Tool, ‘Sober’

11

  1. I did not believe the information, just had to trust imagination

  2. Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it

  3. I don’t wanna be your down time

  4. P.J. Harvey, To Bring You My Love - “I was born in the desert, I’ve been down for years . . .”

12

9b) Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me.

  1. Walking After You - Foo Fighters - “Tonight I’m tangled in my blanket of clouds, dreamin’ aloud…”
13

  1. Just a city boy Born and raised in South Detroit

  2. A look from you and I would fall from grace

  3. I’m so alone tonight, my bed feels larger than when I was small… “Out to Get You” - James

14
  1. …Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit…
  2. If It Be Your Will - Leonard Cohen: “If it be your will, that I speak no more…”
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Damn! Beaten by seconds… Ignore the last post. :slight_smile:
2) …He took the midnight train goin’ anywhere…
13) If It Be Your Will - Leonard Cohen: “If it be your will, that I speak no more…”

16

  1. Don’t Dream It’s Over, by Crowded House: “Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup.”

  2. Basket Case, by Green Day: “Sometimes I give myself the creeps…”

  3. Solsbury Hill, by Peter Gabriel: “My heart going Boom Boom Boom,”

17

  1. Basket Case: Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me…

  2. Luca: Just don’t ask me what it was…

  3. Radiohead, Creep: When you were here before…

18

Creep: Could look you in the eye
And my Elton John one is…
Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! saturday! Saturday! Saturday Saturday’s All right for Fighting!!!

New one…

Morrissey, The more you ignore me (the closer I get): Beware I bear more grudges

19

  1. Just don’t ask me what it was.

  2. See her in a smoky room…

  3. A stone’s throw from Jerusalem… Sting, Mad About You

20

  1. You just don’t ask me what it was…

  2. (fyi - The last should be: “A singer in a smoky room”); A smell of wine and cheap perfume

  3. Son, he said, grab your things I’ve come to take you home

  4. And it would wipe the smile right off my face

  5. It all keeps adding up, I think I’m cracking up

  6. I don’t want to be your stupid game

  7. There’s a battle ahead, many battles are lost

9a) My dog won’t bite if you sit real still

9b) Waiting like a stalking butler who upon the finger rests

  1. And my voice be still, as it was before

Twisty’s Morrison song shall hereby be dubbed #16.

and a new one:
17) Why try? Know why - this feeling inside me says it’s time I wa gone… “Fly by Night”. Rush