Wasting time

[jedusor]

I've decided to do that iTunes meme again, only this time instead of the first 25 songs, I'm going to do my favorites. In case you didn't catch the meme the last time, here's the deal: look at the lyrics and comment with the names of any songs you know. I'll cross them out and add the answers to the entry as they're guessed. Googling lyrics falls under the category of Very Not Cool. (One of these I only got a couple of days ago and can't actually play on iTunes, but I loved it instantly and have listened to it many times, so I'm listing it as a favorite anyway.)

1. and i find it kinda funny, i find it kinda sad/the dreams in which i'm dying are the best i've ever had- "Mad World" by Gary Jules (guessed by mori_uruloki)
2. light up, light up/as if you have a choice/even if you cannot hear my voice/i'll be right beside you dear- "Run" by Snow Patrol (guessed by crazybutsound)
3. life is so, so beautiful/life is so, so wonderful/but it's hard to see the sun/after the storm has begun- "Everyone Dies Alone" by Once More Than Never
4. if i could change i would, take back the pain i would/retrace every wrong move that i made i would, if i could/stand up and take the blame i would/if i could take all this shame to the grave i would- "Easier To Run" by Linkin Park (guessed by crazybutsound)
5. i don't want to fake it/i just want to make it/the ornaments look pretty but they're pulling down the branches of the tree/i don't want to think about it i don't want to talk about it/when i kiss your lips i want to sink down to the bottom of the sea- "Love You Madly" by Cake (guessed by crazybutsound)
6. next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties/and one day passed away in his sleep/and his wife she stayed for a couple of days and passed away/i'm sorry i know that's a/strange way to tell you that i know we belong- The Luckiest by Ben Folds (guessed by crazybutsound)
7. heaven's just a rumor she'll dispel/as she walks me through the nicest parts of hell/i still dream of lips i never should have kissed/she knows exactly what i can't resist- "Sanctified" by Nine Inch Nails (guessed by macabresinclair)
8. i'll paint it on the walls/'cause i'm the one at fault/i'll never fight again/and this is how it ends- "Breaking The Habit" by Linkin Park (guessed by mori_uruloki)
9. forget this life, come with me/don't look back you're safe now/unlock your heart drop your guard/no one's left to stop you now- "Anywhere" by Evanescence (guessed by crazybutsound)
10. i'm not a slave to a god that doesn't exist/and i'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a shit- "The Fight Song" by Marilyn Manson (guessed by mori_uruloki)
11. hope fades/into the world of night/through shadows falling/out of memory and time- "Into The West" by Annie Lennox
12. i wanted to believe all the words that i was speaking/as we moved together in the dark- "Tiny Vessels" by Death Cab For Cutie (guessed by the_mechanic)
13. like a sparrow singing sweetly/in the morning evermore/like the river flowing freely/never long on any shore- "Zingaro" by Golden Bough
14. well i'm sorry shakespeare was your scapegoat/and your apple's sticking into my throat/sorry your sunday smiles are rusty nails/and your crucifixion commercials failed/but i'm just a pitiful anonymous- "Target Audience" by Marilyn Manson
15. someone i am is waiting for courage/the one i want, the one i will become will catch me- "Let Me Fall" by Josh Groban (guessed by hannahrorlove)
16. god is dead, and no one cares/if there is a hell, i'll see you there- "Heresy" by Nine Inch Nails (guessed by the_mechanic)
17. you could have it all/my empire of dirt/i will let you down/i will make you hurt (bonus points if you know the original artist on this one)- "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails (guessed by mori_uruloki)
18. i try not to think/about the pain i feel inside/did you know you used to be my hero/all the days you spent with me/now seem so far away/and it feels like you don't care anymore- "Perfect" by Simple Plan (guessed by mori_uruloki)
19. a woman came up to me and said/i'd like to poison your mind/with wrong ideas that appeal to you/though i am not unkind- "Whistling In The Dark" by They Might Be Giants (guessed by vito_excalibur)
20. and i wonder, will you miss your old friends/once you've proven what you're worth/yeah i wonder when, when you're a big star/will you miss the earth- "Untouchable Face" by Ani DiFranco
21. you took the word and made it heard/and eased the people's pain after that/you were idolized, immortalized/you were not the same after that- "Not The Same" by Ben Folds (guessed by mamagotcha
22. when i think i've found a good old-fashioned girl/then she put me in my place/everyone's a little queer/can't she be a little straight- "Pink Triangle" by Weezer (sort-of guessed by crazybutsound)
23. lay my hands on heaven and the sun and the moon and the stars/while the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car/nothing quite like the feel of something new- "The Only Time" by Nine Inch Nails
24. i know i'm homophobic, but not about gay guys/they don't bother me at all/it's the straight ones who don't know they're gay/they fuck my shit right up (<----=best line in the history of the world, btw)- "Gay, Not Gay" by King Missile (sort-of guessed by vito_excalibur)
25. walking slowly across the park, in no hurry to get back to the office, i couldn't think of anything except his hands.- "Lunch" by Viggo Mortensen (guessed by brem_nakada)

That last one isn't actually a song, but I have an iTunes file of it, so it counts. (truntles, I will be very disappointed if you don't get it. It's how I found you, remember?)

Comments

[mori-uruloki.livejournal.com]

1) Mad World (dunno which version)
10) Fight Song (Marilyn Manson)
17)Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
18) Perfect (Simple Plan)

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Ayep. Gary Jules, I haven't actually heard the Tears For Fears version. I should get one of their albums.

[mori-uruloki.livejournal.com]

And 8 is Breaking The Habit by Linkin Park. I didn't see that one in there before.

[crazybutsound]

1) Mad World (whoever it is who sings it, I have both the Donnie Darko version and the Tears for Fears one, lol)
2) Run - Snwo Patrol
4) Easier to run - Linkin Park
5) Love you madly - Cake
6) The luckiest - Ben Folds
8) breaking the habit - Linkin Park
9) anywhere - Evanescence
17) hurt - johnny cash
22) this makes me think of a Weezer song but am not sure...

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

1, 8 and 17 were already guessed. You got the rest right (I decided to credit you for guessing "Pink Triangle" even though you didn't get the song). Do you have the Johnny Cash cover of "Hurt"? I haven't heard it, and I'd like to. Could you put it on YouSendIt for me?

[crazybutsound]

Pink Triangle! Of course! I knew i knew that one, lol. As for the Johnny Cash song, I'd put it on yousendit if I had it on CD or MP3 but I only have it on a tape mix, lol. I'm old, I still make tape mix to listen to in the car. :-) Sorry! If I can find an mp3, though, I'll get it to you somehow.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Ah well, I'm sure I'll hear it somewhere.

BTW, you get uberprops for knowing "Mad World," "Run," Ben Folds, Cake and Weezer.

[crazybutsound]

I do? *beams* Well, Mad World is one of my fave songs ever, I have listened to that Snow Patrol album so much in the past few months I would have been ashamed to miss it, Ben Folds I have a long lasting love for, and Cake and Weezer rool! :-D

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

That's the only Snow Patrol song I've heard, but I need to get the album. I saw Ben Folds in concert last July, but my mom was eight and a half months pregnant, so we had to leave early. I didn't know he played the drums, though, that was kickass.

[macabresinclair.livejournal.com]

5. Love You Madly - Cake
7. Sanctified - Nine Inch Nails (well of course, you sent it to me)
19. I don't know but I think you've quoted it to me before

I'm ruddy awful at music. Do the book/play meme! Do the book/play meme!

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

5 was already guessed. I'm disappointed that you didn't get any of the Manson ones, but Megan and Ben will be along soon enough.

Book/play meme? *hasn't read flist in over a day*

[macabresinclair.livejournal.com]

I've only seen it once on my flist a few weeks ago. It's where you quote lines from a bunch of books - 10 or 15, I think - and have people guess them. I'd do it, only the vast majority of my books are in Arizona.

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

19 - TMBG, of course, "Whistling in the Dark"
24 - King Missile. Don't know the song name though.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

I decided to credit you for it anyway, because I doubt anyone will get that one.

Yay TMBG! I have a towel with TMBG-sweat on it from the concert I went to at the Fillmore.

[truntles.livejournal.com]

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Hey, you didn't say it. I can't credit you if you don't say it, so brem_nakada beat you.

*feels like God*

[cometcrazie113.livejournal.com]

2- snow patrol run
7- NIN sanctified?
8- linkin park - breaking the habit i think
4 - linkin park but idr which
9- evanescence everywhere (love that song!!)

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

"Anywhere," actually, but those were all already guessed.

[brem-nakada.livejournal.com]

Well...I got the last one. It's 'Lunch' by Viggo.


It completely convinced me that Viggo was secretly bi. Because come on. No 100% straight man would write that.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Plus, did you know he divorced his wife but still has a close relationship with her and goes on family vacations with her and their son? Come ON. "He could have just been writing it from the point of view of a woman..." "artistic license..." People are dense.

[ladyofthevalar.livejournal.com]

Well, the ones I know have already been guess but I just had to comment saying....

SQUEE!!! SNOW PATROL!!!!! That's MY FAVORITE SONG EVER BY THEM LIEK OMG!!!

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard anything by them except "Run," but I absolutely love that song. Do you have any other mp3s you could send me? (My e-mail is jedusor (at) sbcglobal (dot) net, if you do. I would love you forever...)

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

OMG #23 is Nine Inch Nails I KNOW it is but I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the song. I've got it going in my head now... maybe I'm all messed up, maybe I'm all messed up in you...

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Not telling. *grin* I absolutely love that song. Once I was on a road trip and had the music turned up in my headphones so I could hear it over the highway noise, and we stopped at a gas station, and my then-ten-year-old brother got an earful of the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car.

[the-mechanic.livejournal.com]

12. Tiny Vessels by death cab.
14. target audience by manson
16. heresy by nin
23. its nin. im not sure of the title. is it "all messed up"?

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's not, but it is indeed NiN.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

15. "Let Me Fall," Josh Groban.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

*is in deep love with that song*

can i play, too?

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

13 is a Golden Bough song...
and 21 is another Ben Folds... dunno the name but it's when the dude climbs a tree at Robert Slater's party, high on LSD, and comes down the next morning as a born-again Xian (a true story) (p.s. i don't think it's "and mortalized," i think it's probably "immortalized," but i'd have to check the liner notes...)