spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) (05/03/84)
Okay, time for me to get into the act. Reaching into my extensive,
if not bizarre, record collection, I have come up with lyrics from
21 different artists and albums. All of these came out within the
last 20 years (big hint, huh?). I have tried to give more than
just one or two lines of lyrics to give you a fighting chance.
Anyone getting more than five of these correct has:
1) a phenomenal memory and an eclectic taste in music;
2) an exhaustive collection of lyrics (or albums);
3) satanic help.
Mail your answers for artist, album, and song title to me at
the address given below. One other hint: #21 has no song title.
C sharp and have fun!
1) I guess we need robots for Ronnie
A stainless steel group of chums
Robots for Ronnie
A boy and a girl
Maybe an aluminum cat.
2) We're lost and alone and we're drifting forever,
don't know where we are and we'll never, no never,
go home to our Earth far away.
3) I never hopped a freight train
I mind my P's and Q's
I never been in prison
Have I the right to sing the blues?
4) I have been bought I have been sold in the city
I've dined with the demons and I've drank of their fear
But you, you have known and waited in silence
Come cradle my heart in a homecoming tear
5) In the gladiator's school
Things were perfect things were cool
Faith was around
6) Back in 1954, on leave in old Singapore
I was soaking in gin, when Miss Foxy walked in.
7) I'll crack me a head, I'll kick someone raw
I just want her attention, that's all.
I'll cut up her tires, then beat up her pa
Then I'll take off my clothes in the mall.
8) So you don't have to tease me
Or fool me around with your angel in disguise
You know what I'm after
So lay on the ground I can see it in your eyes
9) Misery loves company, and I guess that I love you
I played all the parts I couldn't be
And I always played the fool
10) Hold my life
Cross the path
Course and curl my dreams away
Fast the soul
Make the break
As even as the stars that form the way
11) I thought I saw the candle bearers
on their way to the beyond
Beckon to me from the future
to come and join the throng
12) And once in a while when I am flying
it feels like I'm in my easy chair
without a care if she is there
flying with me
Oh what a joy to be free
13) I am your friend
You must remember me
I am the one who saw through the world's disguise
took away its cloak and made it hide
from me
remember me?
14) When she was good, it was oh so good
you were blessed if she smiled on you.
You could be king if she believed your story
but it was over if she laughed at you.
15) Now I was just being friendly
No need to act like that
Don't call that policeman girl
I'll take what I said back.
16) You may not have all you want or you need
All that you have has been due to my hand,
It can change, it can stay the same,
Who can say, who can make their claim?
17) Turn upon
The winding stair
past the door
that isn't there
you have come
you know not where
Passing through time
18) Treat me like dirt baby say I ain't worth
The sweat off the back of a midget ant
Leave me alone on the coldest of nights
Baby, I'm starting to think you don't like it
19) In every precinct a golden mile
in every doorway stands heart's desire
but see him crouching running through the fire
cos he's the man who built America
20) Tongues are rattling and multiprattling,
the thanatoid elite
that call the noisome, remorseless
horseman, we pray they into sleep
For when they're riding there is no hiding
your face
21) I knew we had to say goodbye
when I felt that warmth against my thigh
Hey! Was that you pissing on my leg?
--
Off the Wall of Gene Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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