I’m all cooped up due to the roads, so it’s time for a Lazy Sunday Music Game. Normally I would say that you have to name the song and the artist, but let’s make it more interesting. I’m posting this to my blog and Facebook. You’re on the honor system here. Send your answers to me in an e-mail or message or something…just don’t post them where everyone else can see them. Here’s what I’m looking for:

Song title (1 point)
Original Artist (1 point)
Album the song originally comes from (2 points)
Year the album was realeased (5 points)
Unique trivia as it relates to me (10 points)

What counts as unique trivia? If you know the first time I heard a song, covered it, who bought the album for me, or the fact that I only know the cover version and not the original. There may be other such facts that will merit 5 points. There are potentially 1900 points here for the taking. After a week I’ll post the top ten. No cheating! There may be small prizes involved.

1. Little salamander, where did you go? The edge of the yard
2. She thinks she missed the train to Mars, she’s out back counting stars
3. I will stop, I will stop at nothing. Say the right things…
4. So, I see it your eyes. There is a burden you cannot hide.
5. I think about you every night. I’m sleeping less and less each night.
6. Oh, Johnny. Do you miss your mother? Do you miss your father?
7. Hey Mr. Rain, ain’t you falling down?
8. I was flying into Chicago at night watching the lake the sky into blue-green smoke
9. Karma police, arrest this man. He talks in maths, he buzzes like a fridge.
10. Birds fall from the window ledge above mine, then they flap their wings at the last second
11. What happens at home since I’ve gone away?
12. Nobody likes you. Everyone left you. They’re all out without you having fun.
13. If you think that a kiss is all in lips, c’mon you got it all wrong, man.
14. You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht.
15. Today I’m dirty, want to be pretty. Tomorrow I know I’m just dirt.
16. I’m sitting in a railway station, got a ticket for my destination. Mmm..
17. There we were now, here we are. All this confusion nothings the same to me.
18. There’s rows and rows of houses, with windows painted blue
19. Shiny, shiny. Shiny boots of leather.
20. Eli, the barrow boy, in the old town. Sells coal and marigold and he cries out all down the day.
21. Yeah, having been by the old bank tower I’m inclined to wonder why you feel so strong
22. Mass romantic fool wears Foster Grants, his books on tape ring true
23. Ohhhh comely, I will be with you when you lose your breath
24. Please can you stop the noise, I’m trying to get some rest?
25. Hello darkness, my old friend. I’ve come to talk to you again.
26. You and me. Meant to be. Immutable. Impossible.
27. Take a walk. Out the gate you go and never stop.
28. Whyyyyy haven’t you called me? Did you forget me? I need to know.
29. Smeared black ink. Your palms are sweaty and I’m barely listening.
30. Easily. Let’s get carried away. Easily. Let’s get married today.
31. Life is so strange when you don’t know. How you can you tell when you’re going to?
32. I can dim the lights and sing you songs full of sad things.
33. Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues. C’mon get rhythm, when you get the blues.
34. Suzanne. You’re all that I’ve wanted of a girl.
35. Now that you have my attention, what are you gonna do?
36. Are you gonna save me? Can you save me? Are you gonna save me? Can you save me?
37. All this time is whittled away. So many days in one. Back and forth the leaders sway, backing it up with guns.
38. We dismiss the back roads, to ride these streets unafraid. Resigned to scraping paint from our bones unashamed.
39. So tired. Tired of waiting. Tired of waiting for you.
40. I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man who made the grade.
41. Big wheels keep on turning. Carry me home to see my kin.
42. I would like to leave this city, this old town don’t too pretty.
43. Are you such a dreamer to put the world to rights?
44. I’m sick of always hearing all the sad songs on the radio.
45. In the morning, when I’m standing in the red, red rain.
46. There’s a bullet in my pocket burning a hole. You’re so far from your weapon and the place you were born.
47. A twenty-four hour break up session. Coming on strong like an intervention.
48. She knows just what I like, the angel on my bike.
49. I’ve been waiting on the fault line, let the needle take me on.
50. The sun ablaze as Maria’s foot touches the surface of sand.
51. I will never bother you. I will never promise to. I will never follow you. I will never bother you.
52. Life was fun, life was great, until I made my big mistake. Oh, no. It never happened to me.
53. Driving faster in my car. Falling farther from just what we are.
54. There must be something in the way I feel that she don’t want me to feel.
55. I haven’t seen Sandy and Joni or Marry. I heard they got married, might’ve had a couple babies.
56. Fell in love with a girl. I fell in love once and almost completely.
57. On and on and on we’ll stay together, yeah. On and on and on we’ll be together yet.
58. If it keeps on raining, levees going to break. If it keeps on raining, levees going to break.
59. Summer’s almost gone. Almost gone. Yeah, it’s almost gone.
60. Like the last of the good old puffer trains. I’m the last of the blood and sweat brigade.
61. These have been quiet days. When was the last time I wanted to sing?
62. Gee, but it’s great to be back home. Home is where I want to be.
63. Well oh they might wear classic Reeboks, or knackered Converse, or tracky bottoms tucked in socks.
64. Well I hold the rope, and I hold the sail. And I kept my papers, to keep from land in jail.
65. We don’t like you, we just want to try you.
66. Everything that keeps us together is falling apart. I got this thing that I consider my only art of ****ing people over.
67. Sunshine came softly through my window today.
68. You’re gone. The trees are so quiet. When your hand was in my pocket. How they swayed from side to side.
69. What I got you give it to your mama. What I got you got give it to your papa.
70. Hey Jude, don’t make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better.
71. You’re always dancing down the street, with your suede blue eyes.
72. Wouldn’t you believe it, it’s just my luck. Wouldn’t you believe it, it’s just my luck.
73. I think I’m sophisticated cause I’m living my life like a good homosapien.
74. What goes on in your mind I think that I am falling down.
75. You’ve got her in your pocket and there’s no way out now
76. So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise.
77. I have forgiven you for trickin’ me again. But I have been tricked again.
78. Coolin’ on the scene like a horse in stable, a brother got ill trying to snatch a fat cable
79. Suckin’ like a crack hack, feeling like an 8-track out of whack.
80. When I talk about it, carries on reasons only knew. When I talk about it, Aries or treasons all renew.
81. I’m in here. Please take me home. Starla dear. I’m all alone.
82. Has he lost his mind? Can he see or is he blind?
83. An address to the golden door, I was strumming on a stone again.
84. Know you got to run. Know you got to hide. Still there is a great life engrained deep within your eyes.
85. You painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair.
86. Johnny took a walk with your sister in the moon. Let her pale light in to fill up your room.
87. There’s something in the different in the way you look at me. There’s something hidden in your eyes.
88. Find yourself a girl and settle down. Live a simple life in a quiet town.
89. Fake tales of San Francisco echo throw the room.
90. I just don’t know what to do with myself. I don’t know what to do with myself.
91. Woke up late this morning. Found out my people gone away from me, yeah.
92. I had a match, but she had a lighter. I had a flame, but she had a fire.
92. Speak to me in a language I can hear. Humor me before I have to go.
93. If I may be so bold could I just say something? Come and make me my day.
94. All that you touch, all that you see, all that you taste, all you feel.
95. She came out west to find the sun. She lost her name, but found a new one.
96. I wrote her off for the tenth time today. Practiced all of the things I would say.
97. Rain. Like tin angels falling down. Like a mission and we’re halfway there from some old dried up fried forgotten town.
98. Daddy please hear this song that I sing. In your heart there’s a spark that just screams
99. See that girl who’s smiling so brightly. Well I reckon she’s cool and I reckon rightly.
100. Cheated by the opposite of love, held on high from up up up above. Kept my high from the second one.

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