New game: Lyrics Chain

[Candleshoe]

Linked words = old man

Old man river, that old man river
He don't say nothin', but he must know somethin'
He just keeps rollin', he keeps on rollin' along

He don't plant tatters, and he don't plant cotton
And them what plants 'em, are soon forgotten
But old man river, just keeps rollin' along

Old Man River - Frank Sinatra and others...

[Foomatic]

linked words = rollin', river

Left a good job in the city,
Workin' for The Man every night and day,
And I never lost one minute of sleepin',
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been.

Big wheel keep on turnin',
Proud Mary keep on burnin',
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.

Proud Mary, Creedence Clearwater Revival

[FineyMcFine]

Linked word = city

And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.

Good night, America, how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Steve Goodman, "City of New Orleans"

[Candleshoe]

Linked words - five hundred miles

When I'm working, yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
And when the money, comes in for the work I do
I'll pass almost every penny on to you
When I come home(When I come home), well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if I grow old, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you

But I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

I'm Gonna Be - The Proclaimers

[watty]

linked word = penny

in penny lane there is a barber showing photographs
of every head he's had the pleasure to have known
and all the people that come and go
stop and say hello

on the corner is a banker with a motorcar
the little children laugh at him behind his back
and the banker never wears a mack
in the pouring rain, very strange


"penny lane" -- beatles
[br]

[Candleshoe]

Linked word = rain

I can't sleep tonight
Everybody saying everything's alright
Still I can't close my eyes
I'm seeing a tunnel at the end of all these lights

Sunny days
Where have you gone?
I get the strangest feeling you belong
Why does it always rain on me?
Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?
Why does it always rain on me?
Even when the sun is shining
I can't avoid the lightning

Why does it always rain on me? - Travis ( Did I beat you to the last one, Watson? Sorry!...)

[FineyMcFine]

Linked word = you

'Cause there's nothing left for me in the old country
just heartbreak and shame and old truth
If there's life to be found in this angel of towns
I'll find, I'll find it for you
I will make us a new life, America

Forget Mexico oh

Eddie From Ohio, "Candido and America"

[Krazy Dreamer]

linked word = life

Because of you
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to trust not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid

I lose my way
And it's not too long before you point it out
I cannot cry
Because I know that's weakness in your eyes
I'm forced to fake
A smile, a laugh everyday of my life
My heart can't possibly break
When it wasn't even whole to start with

Kelly Clarkson - Because of You

[cattwoman]

Linked = Weakness


Make me lie
When I don't want to
And make someone else
Some kind of an unknowing fool
You make me stay
When I should not
Are you so strong
Or is all the weakness in me

Why do you come here
And pretend to be just passing by
When I mean to see you
And I mean to hold you
Tightly



The Weakness In Me
Joan Armatrading *love the melissa e. version*

[Tues]

linked words = love, pretend, you, stay

Love me love me
Pretend that you love me
Leave me leave me
Just say that you need me
Love me love me
Say that you love me
Leave me leave me
Just say that you need me
I can't care 'bout anything but you...

Lately I have desperately pondered,
Spent my nights awake and I wonder
What I could have done in another way
To make you stay
Reason will not lead to solution
I will end up lost in confusion
I don't care if you really care
As long as you don't go

So I cry, I pray, and I beg


"Lovefool" – the Cardigans

[Candleshoe]

Linked words = go, nights

It took all the strength I had not to fall apart
kept trying hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart
and I spent oh so many nights just feeling sorry for myself
I used to cry
Now I hold my head up high
and you see me, somebody new
I'm not that chained up little person, still in love with you
and so you felt like dropping in and just expect me to be free
now I'm saving all my loving for someone who's loving me

[All together now....wave your hands and dance, everyone]

Go on now, go, walk out the door
just turn around now 'cause you're not welcome anymore
weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
you think I'd crumble
you think I'd lay down and die
Oh no, not I
I will survive
as long as I know how to love
I know I will stay alive
I've got all my life to live, I've got all my love to give
and I'll survive
I will survive

I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor - 'cos I am feeling all anthemic today...

[watty]

linked word = goodbye

In my dreams I'm dying all the time
As I wake its kaleidoscopic mind
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to lie
So this is goodbye
This is goodbye


"Porcelain" -- Moby
[br]

[Candleshoe]

Linked words - dreams

These dreams go on when I close my eyes
Every second of the night I live another life
These dreams that sleep when it's cold outside
Every moment I'm awake the further I'm away

These dreams - Heart

[DscoAkane]

linked word - night

I'll pick you up late at night after work
I said lady, Step inside my Hyundai
I'm gonna take up to Glendale
Yeah
I'm gonna take you for a feel good meal
'Cause when our eyes did meet
Girl, you know I was packing' heat
Ain't no use in wasting no time?
Getting to know each other
You know the deal
'Cause only you got a thing
That I just got to get with
Got to get with
I just got to get with you girl
I wanna get with you (Only you Girl)
And your sister
I think her name is Debra

Beck - "Debra"

[hermitfish]

linked word = meet

Don't get me wrong
If I'm acting so distracted
I'm thinking about the fireworks
That go off when you smile

Don't get me wrong
If I split like light refracted
I'm only off to wander
Across a moonlit mile

Once in awhile
Two people meet
Seemingly for no reason
They just pass on the street
Suddenly thunder, showers everywhere
Who can explain the thunder and rain
But there's something in the air

Pretenders - "Don't Get Me Wrong"

[meretricious]

linked word= "wander"

i won't face another day
i won't wait untill tommorow
i won't spend another night without you
let me carry you away
let me wake you every monring
let me wander every day beside you

cause you dance, in my heart, in my head
in my everything
you belong

eastmountainsouth "you dance"

[Kaia]

linked word = belong

Maybe it’s a sign of weakness
When I don’t know what to say
Maybe I just wouldn’t know
What to do with my strength anyway
Have we become a habit
Do we distort the facts
Now there’s no looking forward
Now there’s no turning back
When you say

We belong to the light
We belong to the thunder
We belong to the sound of the words
We’ve both fallen under
Whatever we deny or embrace
For worse or for better
We belong, we belong
We belong together

Pat Benatar - We belong

[Boadecia]

Linked word- habit

It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive
If you don't have it you're on the other side

It's not a habit- K's choice

[Boadecia]

Linked word- habit

It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive
If you don't have it you're on the other side

It's not a habit- K's choice

[Kaia]

Wow, you didn't give much to work with, Boadecia! hehe...

linked word = If

Imagine me and you,
I do
I think about you day and night
It's only right
To think about the girl you love
And hold her tight
So happy together
If I should call you up
Invest a dime
And you say you belong to me
And ease my mind
Imagine how the world could be
So very fine
So happy together

I can't see me loving nobody but you
For all my life
When you're with me
Baby the skies will be blue
For all my life

Imagine me & you - Turtles (There's a version by Simple Plan, but I'll stick to the original 'cause it's an amazing song)

[Candleshoe]

Linked word = ease

Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there’s no one else above you
Fill my heart with gladness
Take away all my sadness
Ease my troubles that’s what you do

For the morning sun in all it’s glory
Greets the day with hope and comfort too
You fill my life with laughter
And somehow you make it better
Ease my troubles that’s what you do

Have I told you lately - Rod Stewart - Now try getting it out of your head!

[watty]

linked word = lately

There's talk on the street; it sounds so familiar
Great expectations, everybody's watching you
People you meet, they all seem to know you
Even your old friends treat you like you're something new

Johnny come lately, the new kid in town
Everybody loves you, so don't let them down


"New kid in town" -- Eagles
[br]

[Candleshoe]

Linked word = Everybody

When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go,
'cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes

Everybody Hurts - REM

[kisstheviolets]

Linked word: night

Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
So I took what's mine by eternal right.
Took your soul out into the night.
It may be over but it won't stop there,
I am here for you if you'd only care.
You touched my heart you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.
And love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.
I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

"Goodbye My Lover" - James Blunt

[DscoAkane]

linked word - smell

Running down a central reservation in last night's red dress,
And I can still smell you on my fingers and taste you on my breath;

Stepping through brilliant shades,
All the color you bring,
This time, this time, this time,
Is whatever I want it to mean.

Beth Orton - "Central Reservation"

[watty]

linked word = brilliant

everybody cares, everybody understands
yes everybody cares about you
yeah and whether or not you want them to
it's a chemical embrace that kicks you in the head
to a pure synthetic sympathy that infuriates you totally
and a quiet lie that makes you wanna scream and shout
so here i lay dreaming looking at the brilliant sun
raining its guiding light upon everyone


"everybody cares, everybody understands" -- Elliott Smith
[br]

[meretricious]

linked word = dreaming

will you be the one i wanted,
will you read my mind ?
will you ask me where i hurt,
and then heal me with your eyes?
will you look at me with wonder,
never doubt our love ?
are you the one that i've been dreaming of?

run around in my head, and i am
rehearsing our introduction
i run around in my car, and find
the very best way to your house
and even though i have never seen you
from what my friends tell me, you are
nothing but walking grace

Melissa Ferrick, "will you be the one?"

[Tues]

linked words – you, mind, wanted, love, dream, friends, read


I guess I should take Prozac, right,
And just smile all night at somebody new,
Somebody not too bright, but sweet and kind who would try to get you off my mind
I could leave this agony behind which is just what I'd do, if I wanted to,
But I don't want to get over you

Cause I don't want to get over love
I could listen to my therapist, pretend you don't exist
And not have to dream of what I dream of
I could listen to all my friends and go out again and pretend it's enough
Or I could make a career of being blue
I could dress in black and read Camus,
Smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth like I was 17 that would be a scream
But I don't want to get over you.


“I Don’t Want to Get Over You” – the Magnetic Fields

[Candleshoe]

Linked word = cigarettes

Two cigarettes in an ashtray,
My love and I in a small cafe.
Then a stranger came along,
And everything went wrong.
Now there's three cigarettes in the ashtray.

I watched her take him from me,
And his love is no longer my own.
Now they are gone, and I sit alone,
And watch one cigarette burn away.

"Three cigarettes in the ashtray" - Patsy Cline (and kd lang did a pretty good version too)

[hermitfish]

linked word = away

Well I'm the kind that never lets their guard down
But now I find whenever you're around

I wanna get lost in you
I wanna get out of my own damn way
I wanna let you in
I wanna ride the wind
I wanna get carried away

I wanna get lost in you
I wanna finally give in
And when the storm clouds rise
I wanna close my eyes
And throw myself on the wind

CC Railroad - "Lost in You"