I’m turning in my grades today, which means another year has come to an end. Also, I’m on sabbatical next year. Woo-hoo!
To celebrate, here’s a silly random songs post. In honor of the end of the term, iTunes chose to serve up a set of songs with lyrics that are either completely insipid or ridiculously self-important. #10 in particular might as well be an instrumental, for all the sense the lyrics make. And you have no idea how hard it was to find a line in #19 that doesn’t give the whole thing away.
Anyway, these are off the four-and-five-star playlist, and I don’t think they’re all that obscure:
- “New Jersey in the morning’s like a lunar landscape.”
- “I guess it was the beatings made me wise”
- “So goodbye, so long, the road calls me dear/ And your tears cannot bind me anymore,”
- “If there’s a poor boy on the street/ Then let him have my seat”
- “Time is never time at all/ You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth”
- “You got me blowin, blowin my mind,/ Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?”
- “I never seen you look like this without a reason,/ Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you”
- “Sam Cooke is on the radio, and the night is full of space, and your fingertips touch my face.”
- “Friday night I’m going nowhere, all the lights are changing green to red.”
- “I will go in this way,/ And find my own way out,/ I wont tell you to stay,/ But I’m coming to much more”
- “I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste,/ A flannel for my face,/ Pyjamas, a hairbrush,/ New shoes and a case,”
- “What did you say?,/ I know I saw you singing,/ But my ears won’t stop ringing.”
- “Now that Im far away it doesnt seem to me to be such a pain,/ To have you hanging off my ankle like some kind of ball and chain.”
- “There were peasants singing and drummers drumming,/ And the archer split the tree.”
- “I found out that I got eye cancer/ Too many television waves.”
- “The sun in your eyes made some of the lies worth believing.”
- “You never said you needed this,/ And you’re pissed that you missed,/ The very last kiss,/ From my lips.”
- “We started recreational,/ It ended kinda medical,/ It came on hot and soft and then, It tightened up its tentacles.”
- “The poor stay poor, the rich get rich,/ That’s how it goes.”
- “I pull you close but when we kiss I can feel a doubt,/ I remember back when we started,/ My kisses used to turn you inside out.”
For bonus points, #1 and #11 are not the original versions– guess the proper context for them. #19 exists in several cover versions, but this one is the original.