New game: Lyrics Chain

[hermitfish]

linked word = world

The world is gonna burn up four billion years from now if it doesn't happen anytime soon
Cruel and unusual all around
Window of opportunity to lift the spin that's down
Cropping up and digging in
The final plateau no longer seems like a burden

Breathe in all the diesel fumes
Admire the concrete landscaping
And doesn't it feel free

Jay Farrar - Feel Free

[Foomatic]

linked word = window

Come to my window
Crawl inside, wait by the light
Of the moon
Come to my window
I'll be home soon

Come To My Window, Melissa Etheridge

[kisstheviolets]

linked word: crawl

From in the shadow she calls
And in the shadow she finds a way finds a way
And in the shadow she crawls
Clutching her faded photograph my image under her thumb
Yes with a message for my heart
Yes with a message for my heart

She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own

"Girl" - Tori Amos

[Auriam]

linked word: she

Beauty queen of only eighteen
She had some trouble with herself
He was always there to help her
She always belonged to someone else

I drove for miles and miles
And wound up at your door
I've had you so many times but somehow
I want more

I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved
She will be loved

"She Will Be Loved" Maroon 5

[hermitfish]

linked word = miles

Let’s get out of this country
I’ll admit I am bored with me
I drowned my sorrows, slept around
When not in body at least in mind
We’ll find a cathedral city
You can convince me I am pretty

We’ll pick berries and recline
Let’s hit the road, friend of mine
Wave goodbye to our thankless jobs
We’ll drive for miles and never turn off
We’ll find a cathedral city you can be handsome, I’ll be pretty

Camera Obscura - "Let's Get Out of This Country"

[Uzu]

Linked words = drowned

Raa-eee-yaa Ra-Ra-ee-yo-ra
Marvellous mushroom shaped cloud in the sky
Raa-eee-yaa Ra-Ra-ee-yo-ra
The afternoon of the birds feeding in an ally

I shall talk to you with my hand on the grass in the sunbeams
See,our dream is blossoming on the lunch bench

Keep the sound of waves in your heart
Keep the melancholy on the bottom
Extend the bridge to tomorrow
Without worrying about a tidal wave

Raa-eee-yaa Ra-Ra-ee-yo-ra
Such a marvellous vapor trail
Raa-eee-yaa Ra-Ra-ee-yo-ra
The afternoon of the people passing on the popular street

I shall walk with you, holding your hand with a smile
See, the voice of "it's all over"is drowned out by the wind

Yume no Shima Shinen Kouen - Susumu Hirasawa

[Smilis]

Linked word - afternoon

Can you hear him whistling, a little tune
It’s about him trying to catch the moon
He’s waiting for his father, he’ll be coming home soon
He’s waiting for his mother, this afternoon

You can’t hear what they say
Don't know what they want
So he runs away
Cause he fears the gun
He waited in vain, it was something they’d done
He don’t know what it is, but he knows he’s alone

Some put their trust in the east,
some put their trust in the west
Some put their trust in a bomb,
some put their trust in there mum
Some put their trust in to God,
some put their money in a bank
Some put their faith in the stars,
some put their trust in their guitar


Catch the moon - Stefan Andersson

[Leafsdude]

Linked word: Guitar

I look at the world,
And I notice it's turning.
Still my guitar gently weeps.
With every mistake,
We must surely be learning.
Still my guitar gently weeps.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles & Eric Clapton

[Knock yourself out]

linked word = gently

This love was big enough for the both of us.
This love of yours was big enough to be frightened of.
It's deep and dark, like the water was,
The day I learned to swim.

He said,
"Just put your feet down, child.
"Just put your feet down child,
The water is only waist high.
I'll let go of you gently,
Then you can swim to me."

Is this love big enough to watch over me?
Big enough to let go of me
Without hurting me,
Like the day I learned to swim?

The Fog - Kate Bush

[noho]

Linked word = love

Hey friend why are we always hiding
It's no wonder that we're sinking down
Why should we stand in lonely shadows
With so much light around

Hey friend why are we always crying
So many tears are gonna dry us out
Whatever they're selling we've gotta stop buying
'Cause our pockets are empty now

I thought about it and I prayed about it
Out loud out loud
And we can talk about it we can pray about it
Out loud out loud

Hey friend why are we always fighting
Who's left to hit when everybody's down
I know we're afraid but love is trying
To save us anyhow


"Out Loud" - Mindy Smith

[hermitfish]

linked word = everybody's

So many people walking down the street
So many footsteps on the hard concrete
Everybody's talking on their own cell phone
Why does everybody look so all alone

So much junk mail with my name spelled wrong
So many clubs to which I don't belong
So many things that I can call my own
Why do I sometimes feel so all alone

Closer, come closer
Because I need to feel you right here by my side
You're the only comfort that I've ever known
When I am with you I don't feel alone

Jenny Bruce - "Comfort"

[Belli Bear]

linked word = alone

I am alone
Surrounded by the colour blue
Inside a poem
The only words I ever knew
Washing my hands
Of the many years untold..
for now I am banned
My future is to unfold

Would you take my Candlelight
Would you take my Candlelight
Would you take my candlelight
Away from me

I am blind
My eyes are covered
From the outside
For I have lied
Now all there is left for me
To do is hide
Take in a deep breath
I lift my head
For I am a new man
And I arise from my bed

This is all there is, I can see that now
I have to be careful with it, now its been found
So fragile, but powerful, this is the light
Of my destiny stay with me, through every night

Imogen Heap - "Candlelight"

[mudrat]

linked word = listen

I was hanging upside down from the overpass
Waiting to discover something about the world
I couldn't get with the program and I couldn't listen to them
It was like trying to think in reverse
And I don't want to slide into apathy
And I don't want to die in captivity
But these monsters follow me around
Hunting me down, trying to wipe me out

I was hiding away under water
Waiting for distance and buying some time
Trying to be two hundred thousand years younger
So I could excuse myself from humankind
'Cause I don't want to be a container
Or a bastard with a ten page disclaimer
But these monsters spin me around
Get me down, just try and shut me out

Hold it in your head
Believe and make believe and make believe...

"Monsters" - Something For Kate

[noho]

Linked word = water

Oh that breeze was blowing steady
The day he went in from the side
And I guess his heart was wet and heavy
From the drinking and the pride
Did he leap into the the water
Or did the wind just blow him down
Well I guess it doesn't matter
'Cause he was already drowned

Man Over and lost forever
Man Over and I think he's died
No need to throw the life preserver
He's already drowned himself inside


"Man Over" - Robinella and the CC Stringband

[hermitfish]

linked word = breeze

Who's seen Jezebel
She was born to be the woman I would know
And hold like a breeze half as tight as both eyes closed

Who's seen Jezebel
She went walking where the cedars line the road
Her blouse on the ground where the dogs were hungry, roaming

Sayin' wait
We swear we'll love you more
And wholly, Jezebel
It's we, we that you are for only

Iron & Wine - "Jezebel"

[Smilis]

Linked word =swear

I swear by the the moon
and the stars in the sky
and I swear like the
shadow that's by your side

I see the questions in your eyes
I know what's waiting on your mind
you can be sure I know my part
'cause I stand beside you through the years
you'll only cry those happy tears
and though I make mistakes
I'll never break your heart

I swear - All 4 one

[Knock yourself out]

linked word = moon

I'll be way down a silver road, I'll go
Where the moon has it lit up
Turn off your headlights and go slowly
I don't want it to let up.

Have you been thinking that you were all alone
But I still thought of you
Word every once in a while forgetting that
Some of it could be true
Held in the beam of a light I thought we shared
Shone between two shores
And wants to be travelled like the gravel that
Runs from my door to yours

I'll be way down the silver road, I'll go
Where the moon has it lit up
Turn off your headlights and go slowly
I don't want it to let up.

Silver Road by Sarah Harmer

[meretricious]

Ok, i know Cam's original post for this game admonishes against posting the entire song lyric, but i couldn't decide what to cut on ths one.

linked word = headlights

The Hall of Justice vestibule, in front of your pedestal
Mr. Ashcroft did commence with his weekly press conference
The attorney general boiled,
cause his photo ops were spoiled
By sight of statues’ lewd alabaster pulchritude

oh, oh, Minnie Lou
There was nothing we could do
the cops won’t let you drive about
With one of your headlights out

Now Grecian statues tend to be known
for taking liberties When it comes to togs and frocks
and yet the general was shocked
“Fix that statue” Ashcroft cried,
” It makes me look undignified
Some decorum is a must… By george, it’s dignity or bust”

oh, oh, Minnie Lou
There was nothing we could do
the cops won’t let you drive about
With one of your headlights out

He said “Our eyes should not absorb this statue’s pert alfresco orb
A little modesty is best, please someone cover up the breast!"
And so they got somebody sharp,
eight thousand dollars and a tarp
That someone found in the garage
to obfuscate the décolletage


oh, oh, Minnie Lou
There was nothing we could do
the cops won’t let you drive about
With one of your headlights out

Now photos show no marble globe perched behind ol’ John’s ear lobe
The message couldn’t be more clear… No milk of human kindness here
But art is ours for treasuring
so if it makes blood pressure sing
Cut back on the sodium and move the freakin’ podium

oh, oh, Minnie Lou
There was nothing we could do
the cops won’t let you drive about
With one of your headlights out

Minnie Lou by John Flynn[/b]

[kisstheviolets]

Linked word: blood

Not a day goes by I don't think about you
You left your mark on me it's permanent a tattoo
Pierce the skin and the blood runs through
Oh my baby
The way you move it's right in time
The way you move it's right in time
It's right in time with me

I stand over the stove in the kitchen
Watch the water boil and I listen
Turn off the television
Oh my baby
The way you move it's right in time
The way you move it's right in time
It's right in time with me

"Right in Time" - Lucinda Williams

[db]

LInked Word: Skin

I heard you were here then you dissapeared.
Last night. When they killed the lights.

Words we didn't say, your eyes that took us down two more,
and we were ready for.

You came up behind me, grabbed my wrists in the dark and said
"don't look at what you can't see."

And all night, all night.
I've been looking for you all night.
All night. All night.
I've been looking for you all night. {chorus}

Doesn't matter what I tell myself.
The flame is small, but it burns it all.

Sleepless questions and some sly suggestions.
I could fly if I could only fall.

I've been wanting to touch you since we met.
You don't give a girl a chance to forget.

{chorus}

No straight lines when love rewinds out in the night.
Well you took the light.

You're all around but I haven't found you.
You're coming in right through my skin.

Oh comrade, what do you need?
Where will all this trouble lead?

{chorus}

"All Night" - Sam Phillips

[songbird]

Linking word: Sleepless

She says, I've got something to say
She knows what she says well change everything
She led through to many sleepless nights
She's crying, she's crying, she's crying

Mother that man took my soul away
Father how could you ever treat me this way
Brother don't let him do this again
This time it's over I'm gonna make it end
Now it's over and the old man is in
Lying on the ground bullet in his head

She stood at the foot of the guilty bed last night
She held what she said for the rest of her life
She did all what see said she is gonna do
She's through, she's through, she's through, yeah

Mother that man took my soul away
Father how could you ever treat me this way
Brother don't let him do this again
This time it's over I'm gonna make it end
Now it's over and the old man is in
Lying on the ground bullet in his head

There's a bullet in your head
I kept falling down, I kept falling down
I kept crying out, I kept crying out
I keep falling down, I keep falling down
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready

Now it's over, this is what she said
He's lying on the ground bullet in his head

3 Doors Down - Sarah Yellin'

[tarawhipped]

Linked Word = head

Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said I'd like to
Smash every tooth in your head.

Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said by rights you
Should be bludgeoned in your bed.

And now I know how Joan of Arc felt,
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt,
As the flames rose to her Roman nose
And her Walkman started to melt.

"Bigmouth Strikes Again," The Smiths

[songbird]

Linked word: flames

The air is visible around you
Rising up and off your lips
In slow currents
And I watch
As your face is framed in it's
Slow currents
Drifting curls, a trailing path
A long draft becomes
A tress of blue ash

If it is born in flames
Then we should let it burn
Burn as brightly as we can

If it's got to end
Then let it end in flames
Let it burn all the way down

The air is visceral around us
Turning in its simple steps
On slow currents
And I watch

As it pirouettes and spins
In slow motion
A long drag comes
A slow dance
In a halo of ember

Dashboard Confessional - Currents

[Pinocchio1940]

linked word = dance

Blue Magic
(Jerry Fuller/John Hobbs/Collin Raye)

I hear your favorite music on the jukebox
And right away I know that you are here
You always pick a time
Just when I think my mind is clear you reappear
And once again you've got me in your power
This time I hope it's not a brief romance
'Cause it's too late to run
You've got me thinking one slow dance is worth a chance

Then that old blue magic still works like a charm
As if you never even left these aching arms
You put a spell on me I guess I'll always be hypnotized
By that blue magic in your eyes

Though I should run and hide from this illusion
Your smile is so much quicker than my pride
There's something up your sleeve
That makes my heart believe inside
This carpet ride might lift us up and fly us to forever
But up 'til now its all been slight of hand
I've got to face the fact one look and I'm right back at your command

'Cause that old blue magic still works like a charm
As if you never even left these aching arms
You put a spell on me I guess I'll always be hypnotized
By that blue magic in your eyes

Yes, you put a spell on me I guess I'll always be hypnotized
By that blue magic.. that old blue magic... that blue magic in your eyes

[songbird]

Linked word: music

I missed the opportunity
to get you babe to stay with me.
Never thought, I'd regret the excuses that I've made
like a song, it will fade

If there's music in the night,
And it's really, really right,
It's the only thing I need.
it intoxicates your mind
All your troubles left behind
So come on and take my lead.
it's not just me who feels it
music plays a mind trick
watch me forget about missing you

so I put my feelings out to dry
love, one day again,
I'll have to try.
falling out, making up
it seems such a silly game
why do I never gain?

Jamie Cullum - Mind Trick

[hermitfish]

linked words = mind, love

I want a lover I don't have to love
I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk
Where's the kid with the chemicals?
I got a hunger and I can't seem to get full
I need some meaning I can memorise
The kind I have always seems to slip my mind

But you, but you...

You write such pretty words
But life's no storybook
Love's an excuse to get hurt
And to hurt
Do you like to hurt?
I do, I do

Then hurt me

Bettie Serveert - "Lover I Don't Have to Love" [Bright Eyes cover]

[songbird]

Linked word: pretty

You light me up and then I fall for you
You lay me down and then I call for you
Stumbling on reasons that are far and few
I'd let it all come down and then some for you

Pretty baby don't you leave me
I have been saving smiles for you
Pretty baby why can't you see
You're the one that I belong to
I'll be the embrace that keeps you warm
For you're the sun that breaks the storm
I'll be alright and I'll sleep sound
As long as you keep comin' around, oh pretty baby

And I know things can't last forever
But there are lessons that you'll never learn
Oh just the scent of you it makes me hurt
So how's it you that makes me better

Vanessa Carlton - Pretty Baby

[hermitfish]

linked word = sun

Take this kiss I'm blowing through this dream
Silently
All alone you find out what it means
Oh love

I wanna weep
I wanna run
I wanna stop the sun from setting
Oh, don't let it go

I wanna spin
I wanna whirl
I wanna stop the world from getting cold
Don't let it go

Elysian Fields - "Stop the Sun"

[songbird]

Linked word: weep

Willow weep for me, willow weep for me,
Bend your branches green along the stream that runs to sea,
Listen to my plea, listen willow weep for me,
Gone my lover's dream, lovely summer dream,
Gone and left me here to weep my tears into the stream,
Sad as I can be - Hear me willow and weep for me.

Whisper to the wind to say that love has sinned
To leave my heart aching and making this moan,
Murmur to the night to hide her starry light,
So none will find me sighing and crying all alone,
Weeping willow tree, weep in sympathy,
Bend your branches down along the ground and cover me,
When the shadows fall, bend oh willow and weep for me.

Nina Simone - Willow Weep For Me

[Smilis]

Linked word =whisper

"The whispers in the morning
Of lovers sleeping tight
Are rolling like thunder now
As I look in your eyes

I hold on to your body
And feel each move you make
Your voice is warm and tender
A love that I could not forsake

'Cause I am your lady
And you are my man
Whenever you reach for me
I'll do all that I can"


The Power of Love - Céline Dion