Shoulda Said

Monday, July 10, 2006

Random Lyrics Quiz

I saw this on Tyler's blog and hey, why not?

Here's how it works: I listened to my iPod at random and typed up the first few lines of the first thirty songs I heard. Some are tough and some are really easy (I'm not going to lie, I don't even know half of these). If you recognize one, leave a comment with the title and artist. And don't cheat and look the lines up on Google!

When correct answers are posted in comments, I'll cross-out the lyrics in the actual post.

And...go!

1. My girl's got a big mouth with which she blabbers a lot.

2. She woke from a dream. Her head was on fire. Why was he so nervous?

3. I wish it was last September when we could lose ourselves in crowds every day.

4. True enough, I hear they'll take you away. But you could be home in a day and let the hammer fall.

5. Loaded trigger finger, I don't want to settle for second best.

6. We made it down to New York with everything intact. But as for getting back it was Boo who made the joke "they don't give you any hope, but they'll give you plenty of rope"

7. Cease to resist, giving my goodbye, drive my car into the ocean.

8. He went away, and you hung around and bothered me every night. And when I wouldn't go out with you, you said things that weren't very nice.

9. Once I was the king of Spain, now I eat humble pie.

10. Rock the cradle of love. Rock the cradle of love. Yes the cradle of love don't rock easily, it's true.

11. And if there's someone you can live without, then do so. And if there's someone you can just shove out, then do so.

12. Baby when I met you there was peace unknown. I set out to get you with a fine-toothed comb.

13. You went to school to learn girl, things you never never knew before.

14. Leaf by leaf and page by page, throw this book away. All the sadness, all the rage, throw this book away.

15. Everyone's got someone I've got none. But everyone's got someone I've got no one.

16. Where'd I leave my beer? Where'd I put my smokes? Where's my fat pederastic sidekick to howl at all my jokes?

17. So I said I'm on the road so I need a car, and I know that I'm getting alive and I say I got faith and a season and I say that's where I'm going to.

18. This place feels so unfamiliar, and yet I know it well. I think I used to belong here, but the only way I can tell is that I miss you still and I cannot find you here.

19. This bitch is my recital, I think it's very vital to rock a rhyme that's right on time.

20. Love is a burning thing, and it makes a fiery ring.

21. Did you give it up, did you give it up, did you give it up?

22. It takes no match to give me a spark. Now I'm trying out another heart. I've been whining about a fresh start.

23. Hold on little girl, show me what he's done to you. Stand up little girl, a broken heart can't be that bad.

24. Now ships may come and ships may go, as long as the sea does roll. The sailor lad, just like his dad, he loves the flowin' bowl.

25. This cocoon caught in Vesuvius shadow, only the ashes remain.

26. I looked out this morning and the sun was gone. Turned on some music to start my day. Got lost myself in a familiar song. I close my eyes and I slipped away.

27. Every finger in the room is pointing at me. I wanna spit in their faces.

28. You make it hard to breathe, it's as if I'm suffocating. And when you're next to me, I can feel your heartbeat through my skin.

29. Come on, come on, come on, come on, didn't I make you feel like you were the only man? Well yeah, didn't I give you nearly everything that a woman possibly can?

30. As I'm sittin' in the taxi for the sky, he's off to slay some demon dragonfly.

Okay, uhh, good luck, I guess.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

In Distress!

Why is it that I can no longer buy a pair on un-distressed jeans or khakis from any of the major cheap clothing stores?! Over the past few days, I've been hunting down new khakis for work, and every pair has the same goddamn hole/roughed-up section above the knee, or right below the pocket, or along the ass. I get that maybe this is a current fad, but what happened to the good ol' days, when clothing was distressed because it was worn for longer than one season? Apparently Old Navy is now skewing towards the "unemployed warm-legged trendsetter" demographic I keep hearing so much about, because I certainly can't wear any of their pants to work anymore. Am I too old for fashion now? Have I reached the age where I need to start subscribing to the Brooks Brothers catalogue, wearing dock shoes, and investing in novelty grill aprons? I sure hope not. I'm not ready for that. I just want a pair of intact, pleat-less pants that don't approach my belly button. Is that really so much to ask?

And along the same lines, jeans have gotten even worse. Jeans, I understand, might look better to some with a small hole. A small hole would be fine. However, jeans are ridiculous, especially Old Navy's "Special Edition" jeans. Apparently "special edition" means "worn by a member of Habitat for Humanity and then returned." I saw a pair today that had the bottom half of one leg barely hanging on, miscellaneous rips and tears across the legs and ass, and paint splattered all over them. Either Old Navy now thinks that we, as a collective population of jeans purchasers, no longer have the ability to properly wear our own jeans, or some handyman snuck into Old Navy's fitting room, switched his pants for a new pair, and walked out. Oh, and re-attached a price tag, I guess. It seems kind of silly to me that the jeans people wear to go out these days are much shabbier to start with than the pairs that our parents would have used way back when to do housework in. I guess the irony here really appeals to the trucker-hat-and-large-belt-buckle segment of society. That, or some people are really, really stupid.

I think it's only fair that Old Navy should offer sewing kits at the counter, so that should they want, people could make their jeans look normal.