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Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 09:17AM From Jaems . Answer the questions with lyric quotes.
Since I'm at work I plugged in my mp3 player and limited myself to songs on my playlist (or in a case or two, an alternate song by an artist on the playlist). There are a couple of questions I haven't answered - for those I think I'd have to branch out a little. And although I tried to not 'artist repeat' Billy and Ani are a couple of the best lyricists I know.
1. Who are you?
Squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and your ambition
I am a poster girl with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
And I'm beyond your peripheral vision
So you might want to turn your head
Cause someday you are gonna get hungry
And eat most of the words you just said
32 Flavors
Ani Difranco
2. Are you male or female?
The world was moving and she was right there with it (and she was)
The world was moving she was floating above it (and she was)
And She Was
Talking Heads
3. Where do you live?
This is the land of a thousand words
But it seems so few are worth the breath to say
Except I'll be looking after my own world
And you just keep on saving the day
I'll try to stay but it's in vain when you're far
I'm on the run to wherever you are
Land of A Thousand Words
Scissor Sisters
4. What do you look like?
And I'll hide my head
Here in this paper bag
Cause if I can't see you then you can't see me
And it'll be okay
Fly little bee away
To where there's no more rain and I can be me
Paper Bag
Anna Nalick
5. What do you want to say to the one you hate?
what bugs me
is that you believe what you're saying
what bothers me
is that you don't know how you feel
what scares me
is that while you're telling me stories
you actually
believe that they are real
As Is
Ani Difranco
6. What do you want to say to your best friend?
And heaven laughs when we say good-bye
It ain't so far to the other side
Someday soon we will meet again
Say it over and over and over 'til then
Heaven Laughs
Hooters
8. What’s your best quality?
I would not leave you in times of trouble,
We never could have come this far.
Mm mm mm mm
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times,
I'll take you just the way you are.
Just the Way You Are
Billy Joel
9. What’s your worst quality?
somebody do something
anything soon
i know i can't be the only
whatever i am in the room
so why am i so lonely?
why am i so tired?
i need backup
i need company
i need to be inspired
Face Up and Sing
Ani Difranco
10. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
11. What’s your attitude towards drugs and alcohol?
Walking round this dirty town
Drinking up till we fall down
Don't want to live forever this way
But it's gonna have to do for today
I'm addicted as I want to be
I’m Addicted
Goo Goo Dolls
12. What’s your secret?
While in these days of quiet desperation
As I wander through the world in which I live
I search everywhere for some new inspiration
But it's more than cold reality can give
If I need a cause for celebration
Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind
I rely on my imagination
And I dream of an imaginary time
Everybody Has a Dream
Billy Joel
13. Do you have any special talents?
14. What does love mean to you?
i want somebody who sees the pointlessness
and still keeps their purpose in mind
i want somebody who has a tortured soul
some of the time
i want somebody who will either put out for me
or put me out of misery
or maybe just put it all to words
and make me say, you know
i never heard it put that way
make me say, what did you just say?
i want somebody who can hold my interest
hold it and never let it fall
someone who can flatten me with a kiss
that hits like a fist
or a sentence, that stops me like a brick wall
because if you hear me talking
listen to what i'm not saying
if you hear me playing guitar
listen to what i'm not playing
and don't ask me to put words
to all the silences i know.
and don't ask me to put words
to all the spaces between notes
in fact if you have to ask, forget it
do and you'll regret it
i'm tired of being the interesting one
i'm tired of having fun for two
just lay yourself on the line
and i might lay myself down by you
but don't sit behind your eyes
and wait for me to surprise you
i want somebody who can make me
scream until it's funny
give me a run for my money
i want someone who can
twist me up in knots
tell me, for the woman who has everything
what have you got?
i want someone who's not afraid of me
or anyone else
in other words i want someone
who's not afraid of themself
Asking Too Much
Ani Difranco
15. What does friendship mean to you?
Lighthouse tall and grand
Standing on a cold headland
Shine your light across the sea
for a wayward sailor girl like me
Lighthouse man
Guide this sailor back to land
Steer my ship on through the storm
Back to water safe and calm
Sometimes I need a lighthouse for my own
It gets so dark I can’t see which way I’m going
Lighthouse man I’m all at sea
Shine a little lighthouse light on me
Lighthouse man I’m all at sea
Shine a little lighthouse light on me
Lighthouse man can’t help us all
Some are saved and some will fall
He’ll show you where the danger lies
But he can’t help if you capsize
Cause He’ll light your way but that is all
Steer your own ship back to shore
Lighthouse
The Waifs
16. Are you a strong person?
Oh no baby, I will not lie down
I'm brave enough to be crazy
I'm strong enough to be weak
I see all these heroes with feet of clay
Whose mighty ships have sprung a leak
And I, want you to tell me darlin'
Just what do you believe in now?
I Will Not Go Quietly
Don Henley
17. What makes you angry?
People walk a tight rope
On a razor's edge
Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons
It could be a bomb or a bullet or a pen
Or a thought or a word or a sentence
There ain't no reason
Things are this way
It's how they've always been and they intend to stay
Ain’t No Reason
Brett Dennen
18. What makes you happy?
While there is time
Let's go out and feel everything
If you hold me
I will let you into my dream
For time is a river rolling into nowhere
We must live while we can
And we'll drink our cup of laughter
The finer things keep shining through
The way my soul gets lost in you
The finer things I feel in me
The golden dance life could be
The Finer Things
Steve Winwood
19. What makes you sad?
keep looking through the window pane
just trying to see through the pouring rain
it’s hearing your name, hearing your name
I never really felt quite the same, since I’ve lost what I had to gain
No one to blame, no one to blame
Seems to me, can’t turn back the hands of time
Oh it seems to me, can’t turn back the hands of time
Hands of Time
Groove Armada
20. Where would you rather be?
There is something exciting
about leaving everything behind
There is something deep and pulling
leaving everything behind
Something about having everything
you think you’ll ever need
sitting in the seat next to you
Another White Dash
Butterfly Boucher
22. How do feel when you think about your happiest memory?
When I touch your hand
It's then I understand the beauty lives within
It's now that we begin
You always light my way whenever comes a day
No matter where I go I always feel you so
'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know that makes me believe I'm not alone
Everywhere
Michelle Branch
23. How do you feel when you think about your biggest mistake?
24. What are you looking forward to in life?
26. What are some words to live by?
Every day I write the list
Of reasons why I still believe they do exist
(a thousand beautiful things)
And even though it's hard to see
The glass is full and not half empty
(a thousand beautiful things)
So... light me up like the sun
To cool down with your rain
I never want to close my eyes again
A Thousand Beautiful Things
Annie Lennox
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Now about those questions you didn't answer... :)