{"id":1503,"date":"2007-06-15T08:52:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T08:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/06\/15\/end-of-term-shuffle\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T08:52:52","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T08:52:52","slug":"end-of-term-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/06\/15\/end-of-term-shuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Term Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Anyway, these are off the four-and-five-star playlist, and I don’t think they’re all that obscure:<\/p>\n

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  1. “New Jersey in the morning’s like a lunar landscape.”<\/li>\n
  2. “I guess it was the beatings made me wise”<\/li>\n
  3. “So goodbye, so long, the road calls me dear\/ And your tears cannot bind me anymore,”<\/li>\n
  4. “If there’s a poor boy on the street\/ Then let him have my seat”<\/li>\n
  5. “Time is never time at all\/ You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth”<\/li>\n
  6. “You got me blowin, blowin my mind,\/ Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?”<\/li>\n
  7. “I never seen you look like this without a reason,\/ Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you”<\/li>\n
  8. “Sam Cooke is on the radio, and the night is full of space, and your fingertips touch my face.”<\/li>\n
  9. “Friday night I’m going nowhere, all the lights are changing green to red.”<\/li>\n
  10. “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”<\/li>\n
  11. “I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste,\/ A flannel for my face,\/ Pyjamas, a hairbrush,\/ New shoes and a case,”<\/li>\n
  12. “What did you say?,\/ I know I saw you singing,\/ But my ears won’t stop ringing.”<\/li>\n
  13. “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.”<\/li>\n
  14. “There were peasants singing and drummers drumming,\/ And the archer split the tree.”<\/li>\n
  15. “I found out that I got eye cancer\/ Too many television waves.”<\/li>\n
  16. “The sun in your eyes made some of the lies worth believing.”<\/li>\n
  17. “You never said you needed this,\/ And you’re pissed that you missed,\/ The very last kiss,\/ From my lips.”<\/li>\n
  18. “We started recreational,\/ It ended kinda medical,\/ It came on hot and soft and then, It tightened up its tentacles.”<\/li>\n
  19. “The poor stay poor, the rich get rich,\/ That’s how it goes.”<\/li>\n
  20. “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.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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… Continue reading End of Term Shuffle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}