{"id":413,"date":"2006-07-21T10:37:19","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T10:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/21\/top-25-lyrics\/"},"modified":"2006-07-21T10:37:19","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T10:37:19","slug":"top-25-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/21\/top-25-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"

We haven’t done the guess-the-lyrics thing since I moved over to ScienceBlogs, and that seems like a good thing for a lazy Friday (I played soccer after work on Tuesday and Thursday, and basketball at lunch on Wednesday, so I’m pretty wiped. What a drag it is getting old.).<\/p>\n

A little variant on the “Random Ten” thing: the list below the fold is the Top 25 Most Played playlist from iTunes on my home computer. It’s a little quirky, thanks to my habit of putting recent acquisitions on shuffle play for a few weeks to get a feel for new songs, but it’s not a bad representation of my general tastes.<\/p>\n

The lyrics quoted are mostly from memory, though some have been double-checked using Internet sources. Googling to find them is cheating.<\/p>\n

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  1. “The Devil needs money like anybody else, so I give him whatever I can.”<\/li>\n
  2. “The radio was playin’ Desmon Dekker was singin’,\/ on the 49 bus as we climb up the hill”<\/li>\n
  3. “Inside her feeble mind, she is spinning out her time, like a hunter who’s gone blind”<\/li>\n
  4. “Up jumped the US representative, he’s the one with tired eyes.”<\/li>\n
  5. “With fingernails that shine like justice, and a voice that is dark like tinted glass.”<\/li>\n
  6. “Take the Promise Keepers, yeah those righteous creeps, the legend seekers of the Ivy League, let’s put ’em on a ship.”<\/li>\n
  7. “I’m dialing time and temperature just for some company.”<\/li>\n
  8. “Well dance all night, get real loose, you don’t need no bad excuse.”<\/li>\n
  9. “Her blue-green eyes compliment the burnt sienna in her locks.”<\/li>\n
  10. “Bad luck comes in from Tampa, on the back of a truck doing ninety up the interstate.”<\/li>\n
  11. “Long-distance callers make long distance calls, and the silence makes me lonely.”<\/li>\n
  12. “Our conversations are like minefields, no-one’s found a safe way through one yet.”<\/li>\n
  13. “I shook the hand of the President, and the Pope in Rome.”<\/li>\n
  14. “Flags, rags, ferryboats, scimitars and scarves.”<\/li>\n
  15. “Bust the lock off the front door, once you’re outside you won’t want to hide anymore.”<\/li>\n
  16. “You claim to know the secret of a kiss and a hug, the secret of the grass and of the trees.”<\/li>\n
  17. “And if I ever got another chance, I’d still ask her to dance, because she kept me waiting.”<\/li>\n
  18. “I went to the market to realize my soul, ’cause what I need I just don’t have.”<\/li>\n
  19. “Double edged and super blue, vertically letting the light from you.”<\/li>\n
  20. “Thrilled to be in the same post code as you.”<\/li>\n
  21. “If there’s a poor boy on the street, then let him have my seat.”<\/li>\n
  22. “She calls my name, pulls my train, no one else could heal my pain.”<\/li>\n
  23. “You pick me up when I’m down, and when we go out pretty baby you shake up the whole darn town.”<\/li>\n
  24. “I would not give you false hope, on this strange and mournful day.”<\/li>\n
  25. “Instead of being my deliverance, she bore a strange resemblence to a cat named Frankenstein.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We haven’t done the guess-the-lyrics thing since I moved over to ScienceBlogs, and that seems like a good thing for a lazy Friday (I played soccer after work on Tuesday and Thursday, and basketball at lunch on Wednesday, so I’m pretty wiped. What a drag it is getting old.). A little variant on the “Random… Continue reading Top 25 Lyrics<\/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-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","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=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}