New game: Lyrics Chain

[Kajun]

Linked word = comfort

With rusty cars and weeping willows
Keepin' watch out in the yard
Just a snapshot of down home Dixie
Could be anywhere you are (in)

Carolina down to Georgia
Smell the jasmine and magnolia
Sleepy sweet home Alabama
Roll tide roll
Muddy water Mississippi
Blessed Graceland whispers to me
Carry on, carry on
Sweet southern comfort, carry on

"Sweet Southern Comfort" by: Buddy Jewell

[Laragh]

Linked word: Georgia

L.A. proved too much for the man,
So he's leavin' the life he's come to know,
He said he's goin' back to find
Ooh, what's left of his world,
The world he left behind
Not so long ago.

He's leaving,
On that midnight train to Georgia,
And he's goin' back
To a simpler place and time.

And I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia,
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine.

Gladys Knight & the Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia

[LikeAnAmazon]

Linked word: world


promiscuity is nothing more than traveling
there’s more than one way to see the world
and some of us like to stick close to home
and some of us are Columbus
what can I say?

nature always gets her way
nature always gets her way

and seeing the world through another’s eyes
is like busting a window in a house of lies
and in the end you make up your own mind


Ani DiFranco ~ Promiscuity

[EasierSaid]

linked word - lies

You thought it was easy
To find what you need
If you'd only believe me
You'd find you'd be free
You're always trying to hide
Your secrets and your lies
You gotta let me know
Is it goodbye or hello?


"Cry" - Texas

[Mgraham93]

Linked word- Hello

I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end

Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello

With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us

A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido
Yeah, hey, yay

"Smells like Teen Spirit"- Nirvana

[LikeAnAmazon]

Linked word: lights


Just a small town girl
Livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train
Goin' anywhere
Just a city boy
Born and raised in South Detroit
He took the midnight train
Goin' anywhere

A singer in a smokey room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on

Strangers waiting
Up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searching
In the night
Street lights, people
Livin' just to find emotion
Hidin', somewhere in the night


Journey ~ Don't Stop Believin'

[EasierSaid]

linked word - share

Now I'm sitting here
Thinking bout you and the days we used to share
It's driving me crazy
I don't know what to do
I'm just wondering if you still care
I don't want to let you know
That it's killing me
I know you got another life you gotta concentrate, baby

"Miss You" - Aaliyah

[Kajun]

Linked word: Crazy

Grandpa, tell me 'bout the good ole days
Sometimes it feels like this world's gone crazy
Grandpa, take me back to yesterday
When the line between right and wrong
Didn't seem so hazy

Did lovers really fall in love to stay
Stand beside each other, come what may
Was a promise really something people kept
Not just something they would say
Did families really bow their heads to pray
Did daddies really never go away
Whoa oh, grandpa, tell me 'bout the good old days

"Grandpa" The Judds

[noho]

Linked word = hazy

Look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky
Is a hazy shade of winter
Hear the salvation army band
Down by the riverside
It's bound to be a better ride
Than what you've got planned
Carry a cup in your hand


"Hazy Shade Of Winter" - The Bangles

[Ariel]

linked word: leaves and (moving to the advanced level) linked phrase: leaves are brown (Okay, there IS no advanced level!, just amazed by and enjoying the same phrase on both songs!)

California Dreamin' by John and Michelle Philips of the Mamas and the Papas

all the leaves are brown
and the skies are gray
I've been for a walk
On a winter's day

I'd be safe and warm
if I was in L.A
California Dreamin'
on such a winter's day

stopped into a church
I passed along the way
well, I got down on my knees
and I pretend to pray

you know the preacher likes the cold
he knows I'm gonna stay
California Dreamin'
on such a winter's day (abridged)

Ariel
How I Met Your Mother

[EasierSaid]

linked word - warm

Her friends are so jealous
You know how bad girls get
Sometimes it's not so easy
To be the teacher's pet
Temptation, frustration
So bad it makes him cry
Wet bus stop, she's waiting
His car is warm and dry


"Don't Stand So Close To Me" - The Police

[Ariel]

Linked word=bad

I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation
You're living in the past it's a new generation
A girl can do what she wants to do and that's
What I'm gonna do
An' I don't give a damn ' bout my bad reputation

Oh no not me
No no no no no
Not me me me me me

An' I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation
Never said I wanted to improve my station
An' I'm only doin' good
When I'm havin' fun
An' I don't have to please no one
An' I don't give a damn

Ariel
How I Met Your Mother

[noho]

Linked word = reputation

I ain't no icon carved out of soap
Sent here to clean up your reputation
Baby, you know you ain't no prince charming
We can live in fear or act out of hope
Some kind of peaceful situation
Baby, how come the cry of love is so alarming


"Thing Called Love" - Bonnie Raitt

[EasierSaid]

linked word - live

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
But I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know


"Somebody That I Used to Know" - Gotye feat. Kimbra

[Ariel]

linked word = wanna (several instances, only one highlighted)

Oh yeah, I'll tell you something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand

Oh, please, say to me
You'll let me be your man
and please, say to me

You'll let me hold your hand
Now let me hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand

And when I touch you i feel happy, inside
It's such a feeling
That my love
I can't hide
I can't hide
I can't hide

(Abridged) "I wanna hold your hand" - The Beatles

Ariel
How I Met Your Mother

[LikeAnAmazon]

Linked phrase: say to me

I feel like a fool
So I'm going to stop troubling you
Buried in my yard
A letter to send to you
And if I forget
Or god forbid die too soon
Hope that you'll hear me
Know that I wrote to you
All you need to say to me
All you need to say to me
Is call (call)
And I'll be curled on the floor
Hiding out from it all
And I won't take any other call

Tegan and Sara ~ Soil, Soil

[Ariel]

Linked word=fool

"Fool In The Rain" by Led Zeppelin (abridged)

Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining
Like a star that can't wait for the night
I hate to think I've been blinded baby
Why can't I see you tonight?

And the warmth of your smile starts a-burnin'
And the thrill of your touch gives me fright
And I'm shaking so much, really yearning
Why don't you show up, make it all right?
Yeah, it's all right.

I'll run in the rain till I'm breathless
When I'm breathless I'll run till I drop, hey
The thoughts of a fool's kind of careless
I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block, oh yeah
Light of the love that I found...

Ariel
How I Met Your Mother

[noho]

Linked word = rain

I'd do anything for you
I'd stand out in the rain
Anything you want me to do
Don't let it slip away
There's a quiet storm
And it never felt like this before
There's a quiet storm
I think it's you
There's a quiet storm
And I never felt this hot before
Giving me something that's taboo


"The Sweetest Taboo" - Sade

[Kajun]

Linked word = hot

I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram,
on a silver black phantom bike.
When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry,
and we're all about to see the light.
Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole.
Everything is stunted and lost.
And nothing really rocks
And nothing really rolls
And nothing's ever worth the cost.
And I know that I'm damned if I never get out,
And maybe I'm damned if I do,
But with every other beat I've got left in my heart,
You know I'd rather be damned with you.


"Bat Out Of Hell" Meat Loaf

[meretricious]

Linked word = metal

once we road together on a metal firecracker
you told me I was your queen,
you told me I was your biker
you told me I was your everything

once I was in your blood and you were obsessed with me
you wanted to paint my picture
you wanted to undress me
you wanted to see me in your future

Metal Firecracker, Lucinda Williams

[Ariel]

Linked word = future

Dawn is a feeling
A beautiful ceiling
The smell of grass
Just makes you pass
Into a dream

You're here today
No future fears
This day will last
A thousand years
If you want it to

You look around you
Things they astound you
So breathe in deep
You're not asleep
Open your mind

Moody Blues: Days of Future Past/Dawn is a Feeling by Mike Pinder (song abridged)

Ariel
How I Met Your Mother

[EasierSaid]

linked word - dream

Had a dream you reached for me in the night
Touched me soft and slow
Everything was wrong but everything was right
Oh, the seeds we sow


"Seeds We Sow" - Lindsey Buckingham

[Kajun]

Linked Word = soft

you spin circle in verse and I will take it
if you can take it

and this is how we go
soft and slowly, don't you know me
know I count two, I count for you
given the thought I would have you again
I count two two three, breathe two three

you walk alone, you talk in code
it's a light I can't decipher
but eyes shut is somehow enough
under trick lighting, under trick eyelids
given the thought I would have you again
I count two two three
breathe two three

you spoon water like love and I will take it
if you can take it

"How We Know" The Thermals

[noho]

Linked word = slowly

But oh how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you, and you can hear me
When I say softly, slowly
Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today


"Tiny Dancer" - Elton John

[meretricious]

linked words = only you

looking from the window above, it's like a story of love
can you hear me?
came back only yesterday, it's moving farther away
want you near me

all i need was the love you gave
all i needed for another day
and all i ever knew
only you

Only you (Alison Moyet, or Yaz, or Yazoo if you prefer)

[EasierSaid]

linked word - like

My tired eyes are like
Lonely stars
Trying to find a little order in the chaos
So I take a bus ride in the afternoon
You all look so happy, and me
I'm barely hanging on
This is what you do to me


"This Is What You Do" - Gemma Hayes

[Ariel]

Linked word = bus

On the bus, that's where we're ridin'
On the bus, O.K., don't say hi, then
Your tongue, your transfer,
your hand, your answer

On the bus, everyone's lookin' forward
On the bus, I am lookin' forward
And everything ain't O.K.
I might die before Monday
They're all watchin' us

"Kiss me on the Bus" - The Replacements, Album: Tim (abridged)

Ariel
How I Met Your Mother

[hermitfish]

linked word = answer

I'm giving up the ugly
I thought you'd make pretty
I'll be god damned

This is beautiful, hold my hand

Swimming is a 'lude
Wine opens your mind
Your guitar's a race car
Sex is your best friend
What's your dirty answer?

Kristin Hersh - "Your Dirty Answer"

[EasierSaid]

linked word - beautiful

The ocean appears
The wind slaps my face
Oh, Shangri La
What a beautiful place
I'm nervous, but steady
I'm scared, but I'm ready
No turning back
3,000 miles in a Chevy


"Careful What You Wish For" - Raine Maida

[Kajun]

linked word = wind

I feel her breath on my face
Her body close to me
Can't look in her eyes
She's out of my league
Just a fool to believe
I have anything she needs
She's like the wind

"She's Like The Wind" Patrick Swayze