Lyrics quiz

[sylvar]

Usual rules apply: don't look up the answers, just post a reply if you know or you want to guess.

1. Hate your next door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace [technomom]
   
   
2. Up up down down left right left right B A start
   Just because we use cheats doesn't mean we're not smart
   
   
3. To fan a hidden fire that can never burn true
   
   
4. I don't want to bore you with my trouble
   
   
5. A fly's footfall would be distinctly heard [hitchkitty]
   
   
6. Marty sees a girl in a Simple Plan shirt
   With a Senses Fail boy. Ha, that'll never work!
   
   
7. Let's face it, who isn't? [shlafe]
   
   
8. I don't hardly know you
   But I'd be willing to show you [technomom]
   
   
9. They've got a new library there, but here's the snapper:
   Every book in it's covered in a plain brown wrapper
   
   
10. We do what we must because we can [cadrys]
    
    
11. Sister lovers, water brothers
    And, in time, maybe others [caligatia]
    
    
12. The church of matches
    Anoints in ignorance with gasoline
    
    
13. He don't give me orders
    He don't condescend [shlafe]
    
    
14. Oh, sinner, do not stray
    From the straight and narrow way
    For the Lord is surely watching what you do [technomom]
    
    
15. And there's no map
    And a compass wouldn't help at all [discogravy]
    

Comments

Lyrics

[xariklea.livejournal.com]

I have no clue....

[cadrys.livejournal.com]

#10 is from a video game ("Still Alive" from Portal. The Cake Is A Lie.) Would it be a safe guess that most of these aren't radio play songs?

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

#1 might be on an oldies station. #11 might also, though the performer/group is better known for other tunes. And #4 might be heard on an "at work light and easy" station.

If #5 ever gets played on radio, it'd be on an NPR station.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

#5 is from The Pirates of Penzance, "With Cat-like Tread". The pirates are singing -- very, very loudly -- about how silent and stealthy they are.

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

Right you are. A great scene. And, of course, they're singing loudly to scare away any pirates who might be in the area so they needn't apprehend them.

[shlafe.livejournal.com]

#7 Popular from Wicked
#13 Suddenly Seymour from Little Shop of Horrors

[shlafe.livejournal.com]

I kept reading that as "a fly's footBALL..."
...and I've performed that! (Footfall, not football)

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

Wait, my brain just misfired...

[switchknitter.livejournal.com]

#11 Triad. Written by Crosby, performed by Jefferson Airplane.

That song was my anthem at one point in life...

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

right!
right!

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

yup, that's right!

[technomom]

Other people already mentioned the ones I was sure of.

#1 is "Eve of Destruction" but I'm not sure of the author/performer, as I've just heard/sung it.

I think #14 is called something like "Hand of the Almighty" but again, I've only heard it done in person, so I don't know who wrote it/recorded it.

Is #8 from Alison Krauss?

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

You're three for three! #8 is called "Let Me Touch You For A While".

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

15 is bjork's "human behaviour"

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

which btw, i think you would very much enjoy the decemberists' cover of this.

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

Damn right on both counts. Mind sending me a copy? Never mind, I can buy it without DRM from iTunes.