posted 2005/07/10 at 15:23
Yes, it's time for my once-every-four-months-or-so game wherein I post lyrics from ten songs and you, without using search engines or anything similar, guess both the name of the song and who originally performed it. (I emphasize "originally" here because in at least one instance this time you might be tempted to answer with the name of someone who covered the song.) As always, .org readers should post their answers in the NTT thread in the .forum, while people reading this on LJ can just post responses as a reply to this post. I'll give you all a week or so, and this time I'm hoping more than three of these get correctly answered ...
1. You treated my woman to a flake of your life / And when she came back she was nobody's wife.
2. It's sometimes just like sleeping / Curling up inside my private tortures.
3. Elysian fields are dead and brown / And your picture's hanging upside down.
4. I was driving a Chevy '72 / Had four on the floor, girl, a hundred-twenty it could do.
5. And when they're on a roll she pulls a razor from her boots / And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet.
6. It's not for free / But I'll take your love if your love will pay me.
7. There is no hope in regretting now, all the pain that we could not see / We both knew what we wanted, and we took it believing it free / And we took it believing it free.
8. I could sneer, I could glare, say that life is so unfair / And the one who made it, made it 'cause her breasts were really big.
9. The broken glass that fades / The past is a parade of countless days / Painting patterns in the sand.
10. Just before our love got lost you said, / "I am as constant as a northern star."
More on my inspiration to do another round of NTT later.
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