time for a meme

[schmerica]

Okay, usually I think this is kind of obnoxious, but fuck it, I'm really really proud of this story, so: Hey! In case you didn't see, I posted a Twitch City story last night! Here it is.

Onto the point of this post, which is: hi, let's play a game! 15 lyrics behind the cut tag; tell me what you know! As an added fun, let's add the title meme thing into it -- what story/stories would you write if the title was from these phrases? I'm fascinated to see.

1. Lord I have loved some ladies
And I have loved Jim Beam
And they both tried to kill me in 1973
("Family Tradition" by Hank Williams Jr)

2. I've seen the world with a five piece band
Looking at the back side of me
("Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" by Waylon Jennings)

3. Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
("Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler)

4. Maybe that’s OK for now
But someday you’ll be out of food and guns
("RE: Your Brains" by Jonathan Coulton)

5. And I say now you're top gun
I have lost and you have won
("When I Was a Boy" by Dar Williams)

6. It was then he lost his head
Not to mention an arm or two
("30,000 Pounds of Banana" by Harry Chapin")

7. So I'm writing you this letter
'cause I think I deserve better

8. Though I respect that a lot
I'd be fired if that were my job
("Birdhouse in Your Soul" by They Might Be Giants)

9. I'm sure that if I took even one sniff
It would bore me terrifically too
("I Get a Kick Out of You" by Cole Porter)

10. Locking eyes, holding hands
Twin high maintenance machines
("This Year" by the Mountain Goats)

11. You’re a map of a place maybe someday I’ll go

12. Your skin is something that I stir into my tea
("Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie" by Joanna Newsom"

13. You're lucky to be drinking here for free,
'cause I'm a sucker for your lucky, pretty eyes
("Polyester Bride" by Liz Phair)

14. So pull out your dead roots
Pull out your best suit
You know the one they're gonna bury you in

15. Be afraid of the old
They'll inherit your souls

Comments

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

No idea on the lyrics, but #1 sounds intriguing.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Older country music is awesome that way!

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

#3 Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler

#8 Birdhouse In My Soul, They Might Be Giants

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes! The two everybody knows, apparently, but you got them first. A+

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

#3 is "Turn Around" by Bonnie Tyler.

#9 is "I Get a Kick Out of You" by Cole Porter, from ... a show I can't remember.

I'm a little puzzled that I don't know any of the rest of them. :-)

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Bugger, "total eclipse of the heart" indeed. D'oh! But, yes, that. :-)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I do not have any idea what show, either, since I have only listened to the song in cover versions.

[nestra.livejournal.com]

5. And I say now you're top gun
I have lost and you have won

Dar Williams, "When I Was a Boy."

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes! <3

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Gee, I only know one:

3. Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" (but I don't remember who it's by)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed! That song came on yesterday when Spes and I were driving around, and we both belted it at the top of our lungs.

[aneli8.livejournal.com]

8. Though I respect that a lot
I'd be fired if that were my job

They Might Be Giants!

"Birdhouse In Your Soul"

And those lyrics? Totally say Ray and Fraser to me.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

And those lyrics? Totally say Ray and Fraser to me.

Hee, I am intrigued!

[seanarenay.livejournal.com]

13. Liz Phair - Polyester Bride. Yay!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yay indeed!

i feel like a winner, i actually knew 33% of these!

[minervacat.livejournal.com]

#1 "Family Tradition" -- Hank Williams Jr.
#10 "This Year" -- the Mountain Goats.

other people have already identified, but ones I also knew:
#3 "Total Eclipse of the Heart" -- Bonnie Tyler
#8 "Birdhouse In Your Soul" -- They Might Be Giants
#13 "Polyester Bride" -- Liz Phair

Re: i feel like a winner, i actually knew 33% of these!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

You SHOULD feel like a winner, min! You are AWESOME.

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

4. Re: Your Brains by Jonothan Coulton!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Right!

[speshope.livejournal.com]

4. is totally RE: Your Brains, by Jonothan Coulton

I feel I should know 14, but it's not coming to me at all. Alas.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

If it helps, I don't know that you've ever actually heard 14.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

That does help!

[darchildre.livejournal.com]

# 4 is Re: Your Brains by Jonathan Coulton and # 6 is absolutely the best line from 30,000 Pounds of Bananas, by Harry Chapin. 8)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

It is such an awesome line, isn't it?

[darchildre.livejournal.com]

and he smeared for four hundred yards, along the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania...

It really is. 8)

Once, on a school trip long ago, I rode in a bus down a hill into Scranton, PA, and had to sing that song at everyone aboard. [/vaguely relevant personal anecdote]

I only ever know the Joanna Newsom ones!

[mutecornett.livejournal.com]

12 is Joanna Newsom, "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie".

Re: I only ever know the Joanna Newsom ones!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Joanna Newsom <3

[spainja.livejournal.com]

#2 is "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" by...um, a lot of people. I have Waylon Jennings' version.

Yay, I actually knew one before everyone else!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

You know, I have not heard anything but Waylon Jenning's version!

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

#15 is regina spektor. from begin to hope. from a song which i am completely unable to name right now. omg, that's going to make me crazy.

um... fic. hm. i think it would be something in hp, actually. something about remus. it would be tragic. :)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Awwwww, Remus.

(Let me know if you want me to give it away!)