Lyrics Meme: "Getting Things Done" Mix.

[browngirl]

At work, since I haven't yet found a radio station I like which is reliably worksafe (and my current computer won't play Internet Radio anymore) I listen to mixes. I felt like doing a lyrics meme, so here are lyrics from the mix I'm currently listening to, which I titled "Getting Things Done".

1) I don't know whether I'd rather be having a bottle of vinegar (experimental dog)
I don't know whether I'd rather be having an egg.
2) What can't we do if we get in it
We'll work it through within a minute
3) I was born of wood and sails when only birds could ride the sky
4) Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
5) And the wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Khatmandhu
And the crimes of Clapham chaste in Martaban.
6) We are reaching for perfection, and it's not beyond our scope
7) Your turn to hear the stone and then your turn to burn
8) Someday when the world is much brighter
Someday we'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
9) I'd be fired if that were my job
After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts
10) I'm gaining strength, trying to learn to pull my own weight
But I'm gaining pounds at the precipice of too late
11) I lay my head on the railroad track
Stare at the sky all painted up
12) He'll always be a faithful man until the day that he gets caught
13) I'm so clean, too bad I can't get all the dirt off of me
14) Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold
Played to wake the Sleepers, oldest of the old
15) These endless days are finally ending in a blaze
16) Up goes the moon, down goes the sun
Cook my dinner while I shine my gun
17) Forever, forever I stand on the rock of your love
18) There fire will flee the raven boy and silver see the wind
19) Try and keep your head up to the sky
20) I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
I'm crawling on your shores
21) He leapt into their bonfire/ And his body filled with light/ And he lit up in his glory /And he blessed us in the night.

Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

3. Damn. I always forget the proper name of this; I call it "Enterprise" in my head and I think it's by Linda Melnick, but won't put money on it.
4. Istanbul (Not Constantinople) -- dunno who actually wrote it, but most folks here probably know the version by TMBG (and the accompanying music video by Tiny Toons)
6. "Acts of Creation", Cat Faber
9. "Birdhouse In Your Soul", TMBG
14. "The Dark Is Rising", Julia Ecklar (many lyrics by Susan Cooper)
18. You're trying to trick us, ain'tcha? That's the same song as 14! :-) (Was this a different version?)

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

4. Istanbul (Not Constantinople) -- dunno who actually wrote it

Originally recorded by the Four Lads.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

You were right about all of these, even the one you got the title and author wrong on. :) And, yes, I have two different version of "The Dark is Rising" on my mix, because I can. :D

[gingicat]

4) Istanbul/Constantinople - They Might Be Giants
5) probably one of Leslie Fish's settings of Rudyard Kipling
14/18) The Dark Is Rising - lyrics Susan Cooper, music ?, probably off of Steve MacDonald's winter holiday present CD from a few years ago
20) Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls

[gingicat]

oh, and (13) is a Barenaked Ladies song, can't think of the title.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*laugh* You know me too well. #18 was indeed off Steve's Holiday CD.

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

#2: If We're Together from Buffy: Once More With Feeling (well that part of the 'I've Got a Theory/Bunnies/If We're Together' medley thing.)

I /think/ 21 is Jack Daw.

Most of the others which I know other people have guessed, though 15 is really bugging me.

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

Duh. 15 is Walk Through the Fire from the Once More With Feeling.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I think you were the only person who got "Jack Daw". And I am delighting in how many people got the "Once More with Feeling"songs.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

2) Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Walk Into the Fire". Or is it "I've Got a Theory?" Ack. Must listen again... I'm pretty sure it's "Fire"
3) "Enterprise". I don't know who by, it's the three separate melodies that end up working as harmonies to one another, UT has done it, so has Technical Difficulties
4) "Istanbul", I know TMBG do it but I'm not sure if they wrote it.
5) "Nine and twenty ways" or whatever it's really called, Kippled Fish
6) "Acts of Creation", Echo's Children
14) "The Dark is Rising", Cooper/Ecklar
18) ibid

...wow. One of these memes where I actually know more than 0-1 of the answers. Wow...

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

(without looking at prior comments, of course)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

"Kippled Fish", bwee.

"Walk Through the Fire" was actually a *different* one on that CD. :)

[lediva.livejournal.com]

(Done without looking at other people's guesses)

2) From the Buffy musical, "What Can't We Face"
9) TMBG, "Birdhouse in Your Soul"

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I would not have expected the Buffy ones to be the ones the most people got. I probably should've, huh?

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Given your friends? Yeah. :)

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

I know #4 but don't recognize a single other thing. But that's usual for me with this sort of meme.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they were too obscure.

In other news, the pincushion plant you gave me has gotten bunches of compliments already.

[drglam]

13 is Falling for the First Time by the Barenaked Ladies
20 is Closer to Fine by the Indigo Girls

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed. :)

*pets icon*

[intenselaura.livejournal.com]

Now I must watch "Once More, With Feeling" again!

Also, 13: BNL, "Falling for the First Time".

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

You know, rewatching that episode is a *great* idea. :)

[vass]

2. Once More With Feeling: I've Got A Feeling
4. TMBG: Istanbul, Not Constantinople
9. TMBG: Birdhouse In Your Soul
15. Once More With Feeling: Walk Through The Fire

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Again with the Buffy! *grin*

And ah, TMBG.

[ookpik.livejournal.com]

Well, if I only know one of these, at least it's one that other people don't. #12 is from Tanglefoot, "There's a Bit of That Goes On"

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

It's the one I know because of you. :)