• Mood: cold
• Music: Ol' Yeller - "Some Of Shelly's Blues"

Unfinished business

A couple of weeks ago I posted twenty song lyrics and challenged people to identify them. No one seemed particularly interested in meeting the challenge, but I've decided I should post the answers anyway. hcwoodward correctly identified no. 12, and tomthedog correctly identified no. 15.

1. A strawberry-flavored composition is all that it takes:
   Komeda, "It's Alright, Baby"


2. Mother, I'm begging you please, to rid me of madness and cure this disease:
   The Zutons, "Pressure Point"


3. Loving spirits will live forever:
   Pat Humphries, "Swimming to the Other Side"


4. You'll soon forget that there's any other place:
   Yo La Tengo, "My Little Corner of the World"


5. Feels like I'm losing time at a breakneck pace:
   Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble, "Tightrope"


6. What's so wrong thinking life is a song and reaching for a star?
   Bobby Darrin and Johnny Mercer, "Two of a Kind"


7. A witness and a bible:
   Patty Griffin, "Love Throws a Line"


8. What you see you might not get:
   Beastie Boys, "Sabotage"


9. Stop! Your daddy’s been reprieved!:
   Chad Mitchell Trio, "Hang on the Bell, Nellie"


10. With a map of the end times, I can follow a straight line:
    New Pornographers, "The Mary Martin Show"


11. I was thinking of a padded cell:
    Crowded House, "Mean To Me"


12. I’ll meet you on God’s golden shore:
    Soggy Bottom Boys, "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow"


13. Things have been dark for too long:
    INXS, "Don't Change"


14. Lift your other leg up, fall on your ass:
    Traveling Wilburys, "The Wilbury Twist"


15. She’s seen all the classics:
    Bowling for Soup, "1985"


16. If I could slip the sickly ties that earthly man has made:
    Jamiroquai, "Virtual Insanity"


17. I'll have a burger and a root beer:
    Diesel, "Sausalito Summernights"


18. Crawl into the wave:
    New Pornographers, "Mystery Hours"


19. What about that brand new ring?:
    Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds, "Don't Pull Your Love"


20. Uru Achim B'lev Somayach:
    Ben Folds Five, "Hava Nagila"