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delgaThis afternoon was randomly productive. I met up with my children's lit. group, walked back with one of them, re-did my year 3 options and read half of The Subtle Knife. I also wrote some drabbles for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small}
numb3rs100. They're not my best, and I need to work on that but I have an idea for the numb3rs_het fic that I need to have written before the end of the month, so that's useful.
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Lyrics meme: the results. (Maximum points available: 120.)
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1. but your eyes tell a whole other story and I feel the weight of the world - Clear the Area; Imogen Heap.
2. I was caught in between all you wished for, and all you need - In the Sun; REM&Chris Martin/Joseph Arthur.
3. my city is still breathing, but barely, it's true, through buildings gone missing like teeth - Left & Leaving; The Weakerthans.
4. no longer easy on the eyes, these wrinkles masterfully disguise the youthful boy below - Brothers On A Hotel Bed; Death Cab for Cutie.
5. I don't need to fall at your feet just cos you cut me to the bone - The King of Wishful Thinking; Go West.
6. I hear the drums echoing tonight, but she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation - Africa; Toto.
7. I lit my love and watched it burn, asking nothing in return except the lessons I have learned - Crazy Faith; Alison Krauss. *
8. he walked along the river's edge, among the weeds and the red clay bed - Blind River Boy; Amy Correia. *
9. plastic cap on my hair, I used to mind now I don't care; I used to mind, now I don't care cos I’m grey - Making Pies; Patty Griffin. *
10. so come to me, my dear, I’ll tap into your stream and drain it dry - My Medea; Vienna Teng. *
11. make up your mind to have no regrets, recline yourself, resign yourself: you're through - Sarah Vaugh; Whatever Lola Wants. *
12. but I'm only in the outskirts, and in the fringes, on the edge and off the avenue - Suzanne Veg/Trespassers William; Left of Center.
13. I’ll steal you something pretty, you'll say, man, well, aren't I lucky, gone and found myself a crooked lady - Martina Sorbara; Bonnie & Clyde II.
14. sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull, and cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull - Bruce Springteen; I'm On Fire.
15. Oh, how long do you believe that we might last? A thousand years, or more, if not for this, our flesh and blood? - Two Step; Dave Matthews Band. *
16. you've a lazy laugh and a red white shirt, I fell to the floor fainting at the sight of blood - The Fallen; Franz Ferdinand. *
17. young girls in their bare feet cigarettes smoking, looking every which way, wishing and a-hoping - Florida; Patty Griffin. *
18. thunder rumbles in the distance, a quiet intensity, I am woeful, you're insistence is tugging at the best of me - Painting By Chagall; The Weepies.
19. darling you've won, it's no fun, martinis, girls and guns, it's murder on our love affair - Tomorrow Never Dies; Sheryl Crow.
20. all I know is everything is not as it's sold, but the more I grow, the less I know - Try; Nelly Furtado.
21. I’m not the sort of person who falls in and quickly out of love, but to you I gave my affection right from the start - The Weakness in Me; Joan Armatrading.
22. Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio; don't you remember? - Starship Jefferson; We Built This City On Rock & Roll.
23. with a name I’d never chosen I can make my first steps as a child of twenty-five - Chocolate; Snow Patrol.
24. you've got your ball, you've got your chain tied to me tight, tie me up again - Crash Into Me; Dave Matthews Band.
25. she says, I’m okay, I’m all right, though you have gone from my life, you said that it would, so everything should be all right - If I Ever Leave This World Alive; Flogging Molly. *
26. first there's lights out, then there's lock up, masterpieces serving maximum sentences - All The Rowboats; Regina Spektor. *
27. all you kids get out the back door, I’ve never seen her this mad before - Mother of God; Patty Griffin. *
28. hard times in the city in a hard town by the sea, ain't nowhere to run to, there ain't nothing here for free - Baltimore; Nina Simone.
29. what’s up with my heart when it skips a beat? can't feel no pavement right under my feet - Dreaming of You; The Coral.
30. man, I’ve had a few, but they couldn't quite blow me like you, you gave me your name and signed with a halo around my eye - And Then You Kissed Me; The Cardigans. *
31. leave me out with the waste, this is not what I do, it's the wrong kind of place to be thinking of you - 9 Crimes; Damien Rice.
32. oh, like ink, love runs out, so I kept it up on a shelf, and I will polish it, finger it, but never let it breathe by itself - Cabinets; Trespassers William.
33. could it be I’m suffering because I’ll never give in, won't say that I’m falling in love? - Trouble Sleeping; Corinne Bailey Rae.
34. he was perfect except for the fact that he was an engineer, mothers prefer doctors and lawyers - Love Affair; Regina Spektor. *
35. you'll always be this handsome and your weight will never gain, and when I give birth to our children, I will feel no pain - What If I'm Right; Sandi Thom.
36. jealousy, turning saints in to the sea, swimming through sick lullabies, choking on your alibis - Mr Brightside; The Killers.
37. sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole just like a faucet that leaks, and there is comfort in the sound - Marching Bands of Manhttan; Death Cab for Cutie.
38. I’m having trouble breathing, you're sitting on my chest, I sure could use the rest, leave me - Trouble Sleeping; The Perishers.
39. they woke up together not quite realising how, awkwardly stretching and yawning, it's always hard in the morning - Leave Before the Lights Come On; Arctic Monkeys. *
40. prayers, like ammonites, curl beneath the lights, how I long to bite any hand that feeds you more - Alibi; David Gray. *
41. come and conquer and drop your bombs, cross my borders and kill the calm, bear your fangs and burn my wings, I hear bullets singing - You're The Storm; The Cardigans.
42. big boots, and a home out on the range, twelve kids, don't you think it's kind of strange to want all of these things? - Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy; Haley Bonar.
43. save some face, you know you've only got one, change your ways while you're young - Smile Like You Mean It; The Killers/David Gray.
44. oh, they tell me there's still time to save my soul, they tell me, renounce all those material things you gained by exploiting other human beings - Mountains o' Things; Tracy Chapman.
45. breaking my back just to know your name, seventeen tracks and I’ve had it with this game - Somebody Told Me; The Killers.
46. oh, was this solo, was this yesterday, was this true for you? cos of all the choices you have made this didn't do a lot for you - Good Tradition; Tanita Tikaram.
47. never lose the memory of april twenty-sixth, your hands designed my body, you autographed my hip - Oh, John; Paula Cole.
48. this is the story of how we begin to remember, this is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein - Under African Skies; Paul Simon.
49. they say the devil's water, it ain’t so sweet, you don’t have to drink right now, but you can dip your feet in it - When You Were Young; The Killers.
50. show me how you do that trick, the one that makes me scream, he said, the one that makes me laugh - Just Like Heaven; The Cure/Katie Melua.
51. breathe it in and breathe it out and pass it on, it's almost out, we're so creative, so much more, we're high above but on the floor - Not An Addict; K's Choice. *
52. like a poor wayfaring stranger that they speak about in song I’m just a weary pilgrim trying to find what feels like home - Travellin' Thru; Dolly Parton. *
53. help me get down, I can make it, help me get down, if I only knew the answer I wouldn't be bothering you, father - Why Do I Keep Counting; The Killers. *
54. a man walks down the street, he says, why am I soft in the middle now the rest of my life is so hard? - You Can Call Me Al; Paul Simon.
55. I get up in the evening and I ain't got nothing to say, I come home in the morning, I go to bed feeling the same way - Bruce Springsteen; Dancing in the Dark.
56. what if you find a fault between my purpose and my deeds, and deem me beyond salvation, judge me to be unworthy? - Devotion; Tracy Chapman. *
57. people are fragile things, you should know by now, you'll speak when you're spoken to - Munich; The Editors/Corinne Bailey Rae.
58. daddy's been working too much for days and days and doesn't eat, he never says much but I think this time it's got him beat - Poor Man's House; Patty Griffin. *
59. I wonder what you could possibly know about breaking down that I don't, it's been a while since I begged for anything but no more - Lay Me Down; The Wreckers. *
60. so, morning comes and I’m nervously clad in these sheets not my own, and these hands where they don't belong - More Than Melody; Anna Nalick.
*) Answers that no-body guessed.
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Tiiiiired. Need to answer some comments and emails.
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Date: 2007-04-17 09:08 pm (UTC)I love lyric-guessing memes. They usually make me want to go download new songs though.
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Date: 2007-04-17 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-18 08:33 am (UTC)*excited*
(I haven't seen PB for two weeks...need to catch up. Poke me if I don't post to that effect, lol!)
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Date: 2007-04-17 10:41 pm (UTC)It is nice to know though, that I shouldn't have known any more of these (except to be able to name the actual songs...) since I haven't heard the others. My knowledge of music is woeful! It had been a really long time since I listened to Springsteen, so thanks for prodding me into doing that again. (It is funny: I could hear those lines playing in my head, but I just couldn't name the songs. When I started playing my Springsteen collection, I just needed to hear the first ten seconds of any track to tell if that was them or not, though.)
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Date: 2007-04-18 08:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-18 07:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-18 08:01 am (UTC)(Let me know when you've got all the Harmer? I'm not in a rush, so whenever, but would like to know. Don't want to delete them and find you haven't got them!)
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Date: 2007-04-18 08:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-18 08:23 am (UTC)And thanks, heh.)