The Lyric Game (featuring Version 2)

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:18 am

Every other guy's a has-been also-ran

EDIT: Oooh, now that I think of it, I think the line actually goes

Every other guy's a sad-sack also-ran

-Gonna Be Your Man by Jim of Seattle

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:35 am

from an antique windup edison came bach and brahms, caruso and ravel

"Crinkle Binkle" by FBF

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:36 am

Glenn slips off to a tournament that's close
In search of dots, power pellets and ghosts

"Step Up"- FAL Squad

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:49 am

Hope I take as fiction
I have been so long without
I don't think I'll go down that road again

-The Puppet's Dream by King Arthur

Mogosagatai · Post by **Mogosagatai** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:53 am

I don't know how to ask you out,
so I wrote this stupid song.
Now sing it out.
I sing it just for you.

--The 'Over, "A Very Unlikely Occurrence"

Justincombustion · Post by **Justincombustion** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:05 am

Just pretend
you're not in orbit anymore...

Ken's "Space Cadet" (What's up, Ken? Long time no talk!)

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:30 pm

KT Event
meteor comes down
a wall of fire ripples outward
consuming the earth

- heuristics inc, "dark all day"
(maybe we should outlaw quoting your own song)

-bill

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:21 pm

Larry Tate is in my head,
"Have a drink" Larry Tate said.
Standing at the office bar,
gives me the keys to the company car.
It's really great,
when in your head is Larry Tate.

-- "across the dusty plains" by the mighty octothorpe

Mogosagatai · Post by **Mogosagatai** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:22 pm

Mom, you amaze me.
Now you are my baby
when you call me crying on the telephone.

--Metalmags, "Dad I'm Changing"

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 1:26 am

HeuristicsInc wrote:KT Event
meteor comes down
a wall of fire ripples outward
consuming the earth

- heuristics inc, "dark all day"
(maybe we should outlaw quoting your own song)
-bill

Man, I wanted K. I was going to use...

KOMPRESSOR DOES NOT DANCE.

Anyway, an N?

Nice young girl whose heart is breaking
Sees the shy boy and her hands are shaking
Hopes one day that their lips will meet
She doesn't want to be just another backseat girl.

prayformojo - "Bad Attraction"

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:03 am

Octothorpe does not dance.

Octothorpe does not dance.

Octothorpe does not dance.

Ocothorpe does not dance.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:36 am

this game really slacked off pretty quickly.

anyway...
not sure if songfight covers count? if not:

"on top of the screen,
i'm at point-blank range
but i can't kill the dog
though i try to for days"

--piece of my heat (the def author)

and here's my submission:

"pick some flowers for your dear departed
from the bounty of your secret garden
squeeze it tightly till it's nice and hardened
heat compressed until it forms a diamond"

--piece of my heat (the bloody hams)

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:53 pm

Seeing as Version 1 of this game has died down, here's version 2. I call this the Bad Poetry Game. Below is a bad piece of poetry. It's made up of 9 Songfight songs. Try and figure out what songs the lines came from. I've added some color to help.

it's so hard
to wake up
got no daybreak to remind me
i no longer have the urge
to freebase rock cocaine
also known as crack,
shoot smack or smoke kind buds
Enchantment, amnesia, dissassociation
Trauma, hypnosis, depersonalization
Wonder, certainty, preoccupation
Morale, hallucinosis, elation
i've felt this feeling before.
are they still staring?
their horns are blaring!
I don't like feeling sad and desperate
It's time.. I STOP
I think I've waited long enough
My current path it is leading nowhere
Seems I'm on a boat, on the land but still rowing
All the wrong choices that I have made
Tonight is the night they will be weighed
This time, I've got to get it right.
Pick my head up, take the left road not the right.
Cos I been wasting all the time that life gave me.
I gathered my strength and willed myself
I took a leap of faith
I took a leap of faith and killed myself

Can you place all 9 songs?