# The Song-Lyric Juggling Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2001, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048 "2001-05-21T05:26:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/1 "2001-05-21T05:26:46Z")
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…” ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/2 "2001-05-21T07:36:15Z")
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…” ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/3 "2001-05-21T08:11:43Z")
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” ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/4 "2001-05-21T11:06:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Spoonbender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spoonbender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoonbender)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/5 "2001-05-21T13:39:18Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/6 "2001-05-21T15:02:13Z")
1. “About nothing and everything all at once” 2. “I am still living with your ghost” Everclear, ‘Santa Monica’ ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/7 "2001-05-21T17:26:30Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/8 "2001-05-21T17:38:29Z")
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** ---
**Author:** ![Tabeitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@Tabeitha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabeitha)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/9 "2001-05-21T18:02:11Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/10 "2001-05-21T18:11:18Z")
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’ ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/11 "2001-05-22T01:53:22Z")
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 . . .” ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/12 "2001-05-22T02:49:28Z")
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…” ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/13 "2001-05-22T04:12:04Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/14 "2001-05-22T04:12:10Z")
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…” ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/15 "2001-05-22T04:15:51Z")
Damn! Beaten by seconds… Ignore the last post. 🙂 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…” ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/16 "2001-05-22T04:45:46Z")
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,” ---
**Author:** ![idiotb0x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@idiotb0x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idiotb0x)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/17 "2001-05-22T10:12:25Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/18 "2001-05-22T12:07:31Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/19 "2001-05-22T13:27:50Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048/20 "2001-05-22T22:38:20Z")
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 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-lyric-juggling-thread/66048.md?page=2)