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Also,



HOLLA.

The lyrics no one guessed on the meme belong to two absolutely beautiful songs that everyone should listen to if they only can. #14 was Take It With Me by Tom Waits; here are ( the full, stunning lyrics, ) and you can download Megan Mullally's (better, in my opinion) version of it here. Megan's a stupendous storyteller and this song works perfectly with her rhythm. It's from her amazing album with Supreme Music Program, Big As A Berry.
Another really gorgeous Tom Waits cover of Megan's is Ruby's Arms, which you can download here--it's sadly not on CD that's attainable right now *shakes fist* If someone could find any way to get a copy of The Sweetheart Break-In, by the way, it'd be the best Hanukkah gift ever.

#18 was Joni Mitchell's Come In From the Cold. It's one of those songs that just floor me every time I hear it, not unlike Take It With Me, with the rampant loving-yet-sobered emotion being common to both pieces (and the fact they both make me bawl like a wee baby). It has some of ( the best lyrics I've ever heard. )
In best Joni tradition. You can get it here.

You really should check all of those out if you can--they're some of my very favourite songs ever, and so unique and laden with meaning and beauty and srsly, great stuff. That meme really inspired me, too. I'm even writing a smutty-esque Huddy fic with Massive Attack's Intertia Creeps in mind (hihoplastic!). That's the sexiest song there ever was. Mmm.

My birthday's in three days! \o/

stolen from mousie962 and shandreoline:

Pick out your 20-25 favorite songs. Pick out a line from each (try not to use the chorus or title of the song). List them and see if people on your friends list can guess them. Once one is guessed correctly, strike it out.

1. I remember that time you told me, you said: 'love is touching souls'; surely you touched mine, 'cause part of you pours out of me in these lines, from time to time...
Joni Mitchell - A Case Of You
(lprdgrrl)

2. Recollect me, darling, raise me to your lips, two undernourished egos and four rotating hips.
Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps
(hihoplastic)

3. Steady as it comes right down to you, I said it all: so maybe we're a bliss of another kind.
Tori Amos - Bliss
(peacebiotch)

4. If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all okay.
Jewel - Hands
(kelbelle)

5. Tell Ma I loved the man, even though I turned and ran. Lovely and fine I could have been, laying down in the palm of his hand.
Sheryl Crow - Riverwide
(aivilo_18)

6. I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow, I met one man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded with hatred.
Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
(sravenk)

7. Little darlin', it's been a long, cold, lonely winter.
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
(kelbelle)

8. I feel a sudden urge to sing the kind of ditty that invokes the spring. So control your desire to curse while I crucify the verse.
Cole Porter - It's De-Lovely
(givesmevoice)

9. Swing me way down south, sing me something brave from your mouth, and I'll bring you pearls of water on my hips, and the love in my lips, all the love from my lips.
The Dixie Chicks - Truth #2
(itcouldbelove)

10. Words can hurt you, if you let them, people say them and forget them. Words can promise, words can lie, but your words make me feel like I can fly...
Carole King - Anyone At All
(sravenk)

11. I don't need to fight, to prove I'm right, I don't need to be forgiven.
The Who - Baba O'Reilly
(givesmevoice)

12. Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see: I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy...
Queen - Bohemian Raphsody
(baby_sis)

13. The clouds never expect it when it rains, but the sea changes colour, but the sea does not change.
Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen
(softeranswer)

14. Children are playing at the end of the day, strangers are singing on our lawn. It's got to be more than flesh and bone; all that you've loved is all you own.
Tom Waits - Take It With Me

15. Too bad, but it's the life you lead: you're so ahead of yourself, that you forgot what you need. Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right--you're right...
Billy Joel - Vienna
(kelbelle)

16. I know you blanket your mind so much that I am blind, but I see you've painted your soul into your guard.
Missy Higgins - All For Believing
(peacebiotch)

17. Drench yourself in words unspoken, live your life with arms wide open, today is where your book begins; the rest is still unwritten.
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
(mousie962)

18. I feel your legs under the table, leaning into mine; I feel renewed, I feel disabled, by these bonfires in my spine.
Joni Mitchell - Come In From the Cold

19. Where you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold. You can fall for pretty strangers, and the promises they hold.
Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet
(cassandra2pg)

20. Too late tonight to drag the past out into the light. We're one, but we're not the same--we get to carry each other.
U2 - One
(baby_sis)

21. But I know, Dad, the ice is getting thin.
Tori Amos - Winter
(peacebiotch)

Why does Yellow by Coldplay make me cry? I really don't understand. Especially now that I know it was written about the spawn of Satan. But every time Chris Martin sings, "Your skin, oh yeah your skin and bones, turn into something beautiful, and you know--for you I'd bleed myself dry..." I just... start to sob. Gone are the days of flaming the Gwynthrow while listening to Coldplay. Now I just cry. All I need is a pint of ice cream frozen yogurt!!! and a sad movie. Sad movie, sad movie... The End of the Affair? OMG.

In related news, Adi totally went to a Phil Collins concert and said it was the bestest concert that ever was. Which is not surprising. But okay. I missed it because I'm stupid. But that's okay too. I'm not bitter. *hackcough* Well, I'm bitter, but definitely not as bitter as missing Tori Amos by two days in London. That was nice.

In other, unrelated news, I still haven't found a necklace and it's beginning to bother me a lot. I get that it sounds silly, that it's just a jewel, a symbol, that it doesn't mean anything, but I feel weird not having it on me or around.

Also, I miss him a lot, and just for the record, this sucks. A lot. However, and this is a big deal, his parents invited me for Shabbat dinner. Ahhh what. Question to my flist: do I bring them a present? Like a bottle of wine or flowers or something? His sisters and their respective husbands will be there as well.

---and I have nothing to wear fear woe---