Song Lyrics Game

[mere1975]

(bang! bang!) Maxwell's Silver Hammer by the Beatles


"You are the reason I've been waiting so long, somebody holds the key"

- Mere "also on the classic rock tip" 1975

[James]

"You are the reason I've been waiting so long, somebody holds the key"

Can't Find My Way Home - BLIND FAITH (often covered, but rarely well)

"The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!"

Ja"dun-duh-duh-DIH-duh, du dun-duhduh-DIH-duh"mes

[mere1975]

Why, it's the Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin -- tip o' the hat to !


Tenderoni you got to be
spark my nature
sugar, fly with me


- Mere "tenderoni?" 1975

[Phyllis]

tenderoni by chromeo

edit: yeah i totally meant p.y.t. by michael jackson.

that's me in the corner
that's me in the spotlight

(easy one)

[mere1975]

"Losing My Religion" by R.E.M. (from the same album as the song I posted from them, too!)


I wanna see it when you find out what comets, stars and moons are all about


- Mere "untame itself and break its owner" 1975

[Doomius]

"Car" by Built to Spill


"Oh man I need TV when I got T. Rex"


Do"I want to hear ya"oM

[mere1975]

"All the Young Duuuuuudes" by Mott the Hoople/David Bowie - good one!


Frog on my hands!
Holy Shazam!


- Mere "don't swallow my" 1975

[Doomius]

"submarine #3" by Starlight Mints

"I stopped believing in true love when Reagan was king"


Do" The punk rock will get you if the government don't get you first"oM

[James]

Dressing Room Walls - The Old 97s

"And it sticks like a broken record
Everything sticks like a broken record
Everything sticks until it goes away"

Ja"1988"mes

[jen]

ana ng - they might be giants

(though i prefer "i don't want the world, i just want your half")

a room at the top
where we're not allowed
cheer to the echo
can you hear the sound

[mere1975]

(It would be several years after I first heard that song that I would find out that Ng was an actual last name. I thought they had made it up.)

Jen's song is still in play. . . I don't know it. . .

- Mere "also like that line the best, Jen, although I don't usually like it when people talk in the middle of songs" 1975

[James]

MADNESS!!!! - Wings of a Dove (aka A Celebratory Song) (aaka a song not called "Our House In The Middle of Our Street")


"Conquering myself until I see another hurdle approaching.
Say we can, say we will, not just another drop in the ocean."

[jen]

the cutter! love that song! (echo and the bunnymen of course)

"i heard it from a friend
the revolution never happened"

...good thing you can't hear what i'm listening to here.

[mere1975]

This one has timed out, so I looked it up. Jen stumped us with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's "Over and Over Again." Wanna keep playing?


Everybody one
Everybody two
Everybody free


- Mere "like the song, but not that line" 1975

[aquaphase]

Dayum, that's the Bodean's "Closer to Free." Haven't thought about that song in a good long while.

OK


"In the sky I saw Richard Nixon / Smoking a lacey with Mr. Dickson"