Lyrics Quiz 1

Every now and then, I like to quiz people on lyrics that I find nifty. And seeing as my writing, both for music and in general has "stalled" a bit lately, I thought this would be a fun way to utilize a blog that's otherwise been growing dust. The rules are simple; I'll post a number of song lyrics, and you can take a guess at the song and performer. Each song will be assigned a point score based on my infallible assessment of its difficulty. There will be some points rewarded for the song title (the first number listed) and some bonus points if you can give me the original recording artist. For example:

(2/5) 
"Take me now baby as I am
Hold me close, try and understand
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe
Love is the banquet on which we feed"

Obviously the song is "Because the Night", which most folks are pretty familiar with. Guessing that would earn you 2 points. However, if you can tell me that Bruce Springsteen wrote and recorded that song before Patti Smith got her hands on it, you'd get an additional 5 points for a total of seven.

It goes without saying that all of these lyrics can be Googled easily. So don't do that. The purpose of the game is broken if everyone solves the whole thing in less than 5 minutes with Google searches.

1. (4/4)
"I hate Chao En Lai and I hope he dies
 but I think you gotta see
That someone's gotta go over there, And that someone isn't me
So I wish you well, Sarge, give em' hell
Kill me a Thousand or So
And if you ever get a war without blood and gore, well I'll be the first to go"

2. (5/5)
"You better stay aloof when the troops move
Or suicide booths sooth
The who's who of looters shoot
The bullets go zoom zoom"

3. (4/1)
"The keeper of the city keys
Put shutters on the dreams
I wait outside the pilgrim's door
With insufficient schemes
The Black Queen chants the funeral march
The cracked brass bells will ring
To summon back the fire witch"

4. (1/5)

"Just take it from me
I'm just as free as an daughter
I do what I like, just as I like
And how I love it!"

5. (5/5)

"I danced with a girl to the tune of a waltz
That was written to be danced an the battlefield
I danced to the tune of of the voice of a girl
A voice that called, 'Stand till we fall.'
'Stand till' all the boys fall'"

6. (2/2)

"Hits like a Phillip's head into my brain
It's gonna be too dark to sleep again"

7. (4/4)

"I remember only for an hour'
Move right through me, can you feel the power
I don't know what's going on
Scares me, but it won't be long"

8. (4/1)

"Brain dead, total amnesia
Get some mental anesthesia
Don't move, I'll shut the door and kill the lights
And if I can't be wrong, I could be right" 

9. (4/4)

"I know it's strange, another way to get to know you
You'll never know unless we go, so let me show you
I know it's strange, another way to get to know you
We've got till noon, here comes the moon
So let it show you"

10. (2/2)

"I know karate
Voodoo, too
I wanna make myself available to you
I don't need no makeup
I got real scars
I got hair on my chest,
I look a good without a shirt"

11. (3/3)

"And now it's 55 years later
We've had the romance of the century
After all these years wrestling gators
I still feel like cryin' when I think of what you said to me"

12. (4/4)

"My big brother told me when I was 14
'It's time I showed you what love really means,'
'Girls like kissin' and romance too'
'And a boy's got to know what a man's got to do'
He gave me a book, the cover was plain
Written by a doctor with a German name
It had glossy features, serious stuff
I read it seven times, then I knew it will enough"

13. (5/5)

"I kissed America
When she was fleecing me
She knows I understand
That she needs to be free
And I miss America
And sometimes she does too
And sometimes I think of her
When she is fucking you"

14. (4/2)

"Who count the money in the neighborhood?
But we spendin' money to no end, lookin' for a friend
In a war to the core, rippin up the poor in the stores
Til they got a brotha kickin' down doors"

15. (5/5)

"You wouldn't need the book
You'd own both slave and master
If you just had looked
But now the bank's all closed"

16. (3/3)

"The darkness is falling
The sky has turned grey
The hound in the distance is starting to bay
I wonder, I wonder what she's thinking of
Forsaken, forgotten without any love"

17. (2/2)

"Hot sticky scenes
You know what I mean
Like a desert sun that burns my skin
I've been waiting for her
For so long
Open up the sky
And let her come down"

18. (3/3)

"Hey street boy, what's your style?
Your dead end dreams can't make you smile?
I'll give you somethin' to live for
Have ya, grab ya, til you score"

19. (4/4)

"She gets confused
Fliyin' over the date line
Her hands turn red
Cause the days change at night
Change in an instant"

20. (2/2)

"Well your fingers weave quick minarets
Speaking secret alphabets
I light another cigarette
Learn to forget"

21. (3/3)

"You're makin' out with schoolkids
Winos and heads of state
You even made with the lady
Who puts the little plastic bobins on her Christmas cakes"

22. (4/4)

"I can hardly bare the sight of lipstick
On the cigarettes there in the ashtray
Lying cold the way you left them
But at least your lips caressed them while you packed
And a lip print on a half filled cup of coffee
That you poured but didn't drink
But at least you thought you wanted it
That's so much more than I can say for me"


23. (1/5)

"Along its southbound Odyssey
The train rolls out of Kankakee
And moves along past houses, farms and fields
Passing trains that have no name
And switchyards full of old black men
And graveyards full of rusted automobiles"

24. (3/3)

"Men just aren't the same today
I've heard every mother say
'They just don't appreciate that you get tired'
'They're so hard to satisfy'
You can tranquilize your mind"

25. (2/2)

"And I've been a fool and I've been blind
And I could never leave the past behind
I can see no way, I can see no way
I'm always dragging that horse around
All of his questions, such a mornful sound
Tonight I'm gonna bury that horse in the ground"