Welcome Pixies!

I’m so happy that there are more folks filtered in from Phantom Scribbler to tackle the lyrics quiz! (Seriously, PS, you should see my statcounter spike :) ) Anyhoo – Welcome to one and all! To celebrate the linkage, there are 10! Count ‘em 10! questions tonight. Hopefully there’ll be a couple toughies for you.

First, there is only one clarification to make because you guys kicked far too much ass and got all the questions right yesterday. The clarification is about ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’. Now, the John Denver version is the one I was thinking of when I wrote the question. It’s absolutely one of the most wonderfully sad renditions that ever there was, and personally has a very bittersweet romantic memory for me. That being said, I listened to the PPM version today, and I can’t say that those PPM fans were misguided in saying that that was their favorite version. So, alas, it’s just such a sad song, I imagine if Pee-Wee Herman sang it, I’d still be touched.

ong story short: full points and back-patting all around!

Now, for the new, improved and devious-er version of the lyrics quiz!

#1 – A fairly easy one to warm up

Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searching in the night
Streetlight people, living just to find emotion
Hiding, somewhere in the night

#2 – An easier one to cool down

Slipped me notes under the desk
While I was thinkin' about her dress
I was shy I turned away
Before she caught my eye

#3 – Hmmm today’s songs seem easier than I was hoping – but do you know the artist?

Look at what’s happened to me.
I can’t believe it myself.
Suddenly I’m up on top of the world.
It should’ve been somebody else.

#4 – Had to make this one a little shorter

The insecurity is the thing that won’t get lost
And you want her and she wants you

#5 – And suddenly with no warning, a really hard one!

The wind blows hard against this mountainside
Across the sea into my soul.
It reaches into where I cannot hide
Setting my feet upon the road.
My heart is old it holds my memories

#6 –

I used to have a lover with a Midas touch
I turned to gold but he turned to dust
Left me for another, I turned to stone

#7 – I used to intentionally mishear the title of this one – Oh, good times…

Crying on the corner, waiting in the rain
I swear I'll never, ever wait again
You gave me your word – but words for you are lies

#8 –

And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They’re quite aware of what they’re going through

#9 – Ouch. I never would get this one, even though I thought I knew the song alright…

She turns herself round
And she smiles and she says
'This is it - That's the end of the joke'
And loses herself
In her dreaming and sleep
And her lovers walk
Through in their coats

#10 – Last one!

Meet me in the crowd
People people
Throw your love around
Love me love me

10/19 edited to fix a goof.