Lyrics r us (a game of witts)

[Basstrap]

ok so i saw this on the elliott smith message board. i thought it was neat. you answer all the questions with a lyric, and all the questions have to be answered with lyrics by the same artist.

1. Are you male or female?
2. Describe yourself:
3. How do your friends feel about you?
4. How do you feel about yourself?
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend?
6. What would you rather be doing?
7. Describe where you live:
8. Describe how you love:
9. Share a few words of wisdom:

 

[Basstrap]

here's mine: (extra points if you guess which artist)

1. Are you male or female?
something more than a machine

2. Describe yourself: unit three thousand twenty one

3. How do your friends feel about you? makes a humming sound when its circuits duplicate emotion

4. How do you feel about yourself? I know I need the help

5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? she's a blackbelt in karate, working for the city - she has to discipline her body...so she's taking lots of vitamins

6. What would you rather be doing? putting al the clothes you washed away

7. Describe where you live: in zero gravity

8. Describe how you love:in the morning I'd awake and I couldn't remember what is love and what is hate...is to love just a waste, why does it matter?

9. Share a few words of wisdom: the sun doesn't go down, it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning

 

[Elvis Presley]

1. Are you male or female? I'm a reasonable man, get off my case
2. Describe yourself: he buzzes like a fridge......
3. How do your friends feel about you? We don't have any real friends
4. How do you feel about yourself? I may be paranoid, but no android
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? I keep falling over I keep passing out when I see a face like you
6. What would you rather be doing? I'll laugh until my head comes off
7. Describe where you live: I'm living in cloud cuckoo land
8. Describe how you love: true love waits, In haunted attics, and true love wins, on lollipops and crisps
9. Share a few words of wisdom: be a world child, form a circle
before we all go under, and fade out again and fade out again

 

[Bonochick]

1. Are you male or female? Candydoll

2. Describe yourself: I've an easy heart

3. How do your friends feel about you? My friends, they worry about me

4. How do you feel about yourself? I?m as calm as a fruit stand in New York and maybe as strange

5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? Sentimental geek

6. What would you rather be doing? Making my way down the Cherokee, To get drunk in a bar

7. Describe where you live: Imagine a county fair, In a town in the middle of nowhere

8. Describe how you love: All my daydreams feel so nice

9. Share a few words of wisdom: Ain't it funny how I'm losing you,
Now that I'm trying to find myself?

*edited to please Bassy*

 

[Flag Pole Pear]

]5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? she's a blackbelt in karate, working for the city - she has to discipline her body...so she's taking lots of vitamins

haha, thats funny. a great song though, by none other than the FLAMING LIPS.

 

[Flag Pole Pear]

1. Are you male or female? I'm a reasonable man, get off my case
2. Describe yourself: he buzzes like a fridge......
3. How do your friends feel about you? We don't have any real friends
4. How do you feel about yourself? I may be paranoid, but no android
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? I keep falling over I keep passing out when I see a face like you
6. What would you rather be doing? I'll laugh until my head comes off
7. Describe where you live: I'm living in cloud cuckoo land
8. Describe how you love: true love waits, In haunted attics, and true love wins, on lollipops and crisps
9. Share a few words of wisdom: be a world child, form a circle
before we all go under, and fade out again and fade out again

is it possible that this is radiohead? maybe?

 

[daisybean]

1. Are you male or female? She's been everybody's else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own
2. Describe yourself: I got a full tank and some chips
3. How do your friends feel about you? One light missing on this taxi ride
4. How do you feel about yourself? We scream at Cathedrals, we can't it be beautiful
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? You say you're leaving cuz me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream
6. What would you rather be doing? I run off to where the drifts get deeper
7. Describe where you live: China all the way to New York, I can feel the distance getting close
8. Describe how you love: A sort of fairytale
9. Share a few words of wisdom:You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird

 

[Bonochick]

May I also add how funny it is that BASSY started "a game of wits"...

 

[jbevans]

1. Are you male or female?
"I'm a man/ I'm not a child"

2. Describe yourself:
"I drink in dirty bars 'cause they serve bigger drinks"

3. How do your friends feel about you?
"Deny, you're such a liar"


4. How do you feel about yourself?
"Where there are eyes I look away/ Don't want to be like me today"

5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend?
"She fucking hates me, la la la la"

6. What would you rather be doing?
"I'd rather be, i'd rather be, i'd rather be with an animal"

7. Describe where you live:
"On the first day of march it is raning/ It is raining worse than anything that I have ever seen"

8. Describe how you love:
"Love, love will tears us apart again"

9. Share a few words of wisdom: "the water out of the tap is very hard to drink"

 

[Basstrap]

May I also add how funny it is that BASSY started "a game of wits"...

funny that you couldn't even do it right

all the lyrics have to be by the SAME artist


grrrr

yarr

 

[tackleberry]

1. Are you male or female? She's been everybody's else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own
2. Describe yourself: I got a full tank and some chips
3. How do your friends feel about you? One light missing on this taxi ride
4. How do you feel about yourself? We scream at Cathedrals, we can't it be beautiful
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? You say you're leaving cuz me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream
6. What would you rather be doing? I run off to where the drifts get deeper
7. Describe where you live: China all the way to New York, I can feel the distance getting close
8. Describe how you love: A sort of fairytale
9. Share a few words of wisdom:You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird

TORI AMOS!!!!!

 

[BVS]

1. Are you male or female? I'm straight, I'm queer, I'm bi

2. Describe yourself: I look good in a glass pack, I look good and mean, I look good in metallic sick wraparound blackout tease

3. How do your friends feel about you? We've been through fake-a-breakdown, Self hurt, Plastics, collections, Self help, self pain, EST, psychics, fuck all

4. How do you feel about yourself? I sat there looking ugly,
Looking ugly and mean

5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? I am ashamed to say.
ugly girls know their fate. anybody can get laid.

6. What would you rather be doing? fuck me kitten

7. Describe where you live: where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know

8. Describe how you love: Simple prop to occupy my time.

9. Share a few words of wisdom:T.V. tells a million lies. The paper's terrified to report anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon, I'm just profoundly frustrated by all this. So, fuck you, man. (fuck 'm)

 

[Elvis Presley]

is it possible that this is radiohead? maybe?

of course, it is a bit obvious, was still fun putting it together, where is your submission bear?

 

[Bonochick]

funny that you couldn't even do it right

all the lyrics have to be by the SAME artist


grrrr

yarr

Sorry, sweets...I never read all of your posts thoroughly...



There...it's all good now.

 

[jbevans]

Same artist? Will fix that.

1. Are you male or female? "I'm a free born man of the USA"

2. Describe yourself: "This shadow hanging over me is no trick of the light"

3. How do your friends feel about you? "I am going, I am going where streams of whiskey are flowing"

4. How do you feel about yourself? ""You're a bum, you're a punk"

5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? "You're an old slut on junk"

6. What would you rather be doing? "I just want to spend eternity right where I am, on the sunny side of the street"

7. Describe where you live: "This land was always ours, it was the proud land of our fathers/ It belongs to us and them , not to any of the others"

8. Describe how you love: "This morning on the harbour
When I said goodbye to you
I remember how I swore
That I'd come back to you one day
And as the sunset came to meet
The evening on the hill
I told you I'd always love you
I always did, I always will"

9. Share a few words of wisdom: "I'ts stupid to laugh and it's useless to bawl about a rusty tin can and an old hurley ball"

 

[IWasBored]

1. Are you male or female? "i'll be that girl"

2. Describe yourself: "a is for asshole whish is what i am how rude of me i owe you an appology i'm sorry"

3. How do your friends feel about you? "They called me chicken legs, they called me four-eyes
they called me fatso, they called me buckwheat,
they called me Eddie"

4. How do you feel about yourself? "feels just like i'm falling for the first time"

5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? "it'll still be two days til we say we're sorry"

6. What would you rather be doing? "i'll be leaving soon"

7. Describe where you live: "from a planet you wonuldn't know, it's very far"

8. Describe how you love: "if i had $1000000 i'd buy your love"

9. Share a few words of wisdom: "mental health is overrated"

 

[Laura M]

Shane Mc Gowan


I love him hes the typical Irish man....all his drinking and no teeth

 

[Laura M]

1. Are you male or female? Sometimes I wake up and I'm falling asleep

2. Describe yourself: I feel fine

3. How do your friends feel about you? I started looking for excuses

4. How do you feel about yourself? I?ve wasted all your time

5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? You could feel it all around
And everybody's out to get you

6. What would you rather be doing? Singing out

7. Describe where you live: Runnin? in circles

8. Describe how you love: something beautiful


9. Share a few words of wisdom: It was all yellow

 

[IWasBored]

Shane Mc Gowan


I love him hes the typical Irish man....all his drinking and no teeth

awesome lyric writer too. that's three pogues fans in this thread...anymore? i know you're out there!

my sister thought he was polish...i don't know where she got that from. my mom, brother and me kept going "shane MACGOWAN! does that sound remotly polish to you?!?!" for like 2 weeks after she made that comment...

 

[cass]

Can we have about 20 goes at this? I like games..first song from the top of my head

would you guys just stop it.....more good influence. Shane McGowan is playing at the Bluesfest near here at Easter time. They keep adding people to the bill...good people, Tuck Andress for instance. Shane is billed as Shane McGowan and the Popes, is that right? and Kirsty "in these shoes? I don't think so!!")

Anyway ...the game

1. she
2. a lover like no other ( modest too..that's not a lyric)
3. there's none to see
4. I feel myself
5. around
6. teach me how to sing
7. his Kingdom
8. for the first time
9. hope, believe, just call

 

[IWasBored]

shane macgowan and the popes are playing near you??

*insanly jealous*

 

[browneyedgirl]

shane macgowan and the popes are playing near you??

*insanly jealous*

I've loved Shane forever , but i read about a recent show where he actually threw up on stage....i'm sorry but that's a little to Shane for me.....lol

 

[*BOOMCHAA!*]

1. Are you male or female? She moves in mysterious ways.

2. Describe yourself: I get confused, but I know it.

3. How do your friends feel about you? someone you could lend a hand.

4. How do you feel about yourself? "Fucking Brilliant!!" - I know I know, that doesn't count, but I liked it

5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? gone

6. What would you rather be doing? chewing bubble gum

7. Describe where you live: In God's Country

8. Describe how you love: like a burning star

9. Share a few words of wisdom: Booomcha!!

 

[IWasBored]

were we supposed to say what band we did? *scrolls up to remmind myself of what i said*

barenaked ladies! one of my faouvire bands. absolutly hilarious live. anyone else seen them?

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

I the Pogues,


Ok, here's I go...

1. Are you male or female?
stupid girl, can't believe you fake it, all you had you wasted

2. Describe yourself:
I'm overworked but I'm undersexed

3. How do your friends feel about you?
You're such a delicate boy (girl)
In the hysterical realm

4. How do you feel about yourself?
Maybe I could write a letter
to help me with my self-esteem
You should get to know me better
No one's ever what they seem

5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? (This should be: or someone you like, lol)
You walked into the room
The sun hit my eyes
The force you struck me down caught me by surprise

6. What would you rather be doing?
Now all I want to do is sleep

7. Describe where you live:
I never said I was perfect
But can you take me home

8. Describe how you love:
I am milk
I am red hot kitchen
And I am cool
Cool as the deep blue ocean

9. Share a few words of wisdom:
Play it smart girl
Win the game love
Give?em what they want
What they want to see and you could be a big star
You could go far
Make a landmark

 

[Mirrorball Girl]

ok, technically one song is by another band ... but the same singer!!

Oooh fun! There were so many tempting options. I have to go with:

1. Are you male or female? "she's the one I think I love"
2. Describe yourself: "when I forget how to talk I sing"
3. How do your friends feel about you? "my lord you're mean!"
4. How do you feel about yourself? "i just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read"
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? "all of my daydreams are disasters"
6. What would you rather be doing? "there's a party there that we oughta go to"
7. Describe where you live: "high above the sea of cars and barking dogs in fenced in yards"
8. Describe how you love: "she fell in love with the drummer, she fell in love with another, she fell in love"
9. Share a few words of wisdom: "you have to learn how die if you wanna wanna be alive"

 

[Diemen]

So I didn't notice until I'd already finished most of this that the person before me did Wilco.

1. Are you male or female? I'm the man who loves you
2. Describe yourself: I am an American aquarium drinker
3. How do your friends feel about you? You are the lonely one
4. How do you feel about yourself? How can I convice you it's me I don't like
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? I want to glide through those brown eyes dreaming
6. What would you rather be doing? Playing Kiss covers, beautiful and stoned
7. Describe where you live: Rows and rows of houses with windows painted blue
8. Describe how you love: I've always been distant and always told lies for love
9. Share a few words of wisdom: Our love is all of God's money

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

1. Are you male or female? I am the girl who wanted to be God
2. Describe yourself: I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer/I spat out Plath and Pinter
3. How do your friends feel about you? all we want from you are the kicks you've given us
4. How do you feel about yourself? The doctors tell me that I'm cynical/I tell them it must be chemical
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend? You are pure/you are snow
6. What would you rather be doing? I want to fly and run till it hurts/sleep for a while and speak no words/in Australia
7. Describe where you live: Monuments put from pen to paper
8. Describe how you love: we don't talk about love/we just want to get drunk
9. Share a few words of wisdom: we love the winter/it brings us closer together

 

[Mirrorball Girl]

Re: Re: Lyrics r us (a game of witts)

So I didn't notice until I'd already finished most of this that the person before me did Wilco.
9. Share a few words of wisdom: Our love is all of God's money

Awww I love that lyric!

I really wanted to describe myself as "shiny shiny pants and bleached blonde hair" ... I was stopped only by the fact that it's so utterly false.

 

[Elvis Presley]

were we supposed to say what band we did? *scrolls up to remmind myself of what i said*

barenaked ladies! one of my faouvire bands. absolutly hilarious live. anyone else seen them?

Ive seen BNL live, it was a really fun show.....