A Minor Variation

I'm sure you all know the drill by now: put your biggest playlist on shuffle. Take down some lyrics - preferably excluding titles - from the first twenty-five vocal tracks. Put 'em up in your LJ for your friends to try to identify.


1) You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do
And it's breaking my heart in two
'Cause I never wanna see you sad, girl
Don't be a bad girl
If you wanna leave, take good care
Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
Just remember there's a lot of bad and beware - infinitepryde, honorable mention to zippyfish for knowing the song, if not the title.

2) Darling, so share with me
Your love if you have enough
Your tears if you're holding back
Or pain if that's what it is
How can I let you know
I'm more than the dress and the voice
Just reach me out and
You will know that you are not dreaming

3) Only tell me that you still want me here
When you wander off out there
To those hills of dust and hard winds that blow
In that dry white ocean alone
Lost out in the desert you are
Lost out in the desert
But to stand with you in a ring of fire
I'll forget the days gone by
I'll protect your body and guard your soul
From mirages in your sight
Lost out in the desert... - infinitepryde

4) You know it's really getting to you
When you take to telling lies
And you can try to fool your friends
But you can't look 'em in the eye
There ain't no standing tall in the shadow of the shame

5) I send the locusts on the wind
Such as the world has never seen
On every leaf, on every stalk
Until there's nothing left of green
I send the scourge, I send my sword
Thus saith the Lord

6) The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast
I've the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest - infinitepryde

7) I told that girl I could start right away
She said 'Listen, babe, I got something to say
I got no car and it's breaking my heart
But I've found a driver and that's a start.' - rlebeau

8) Things are okay with me these days
I got a good job, I got a good office
I got a new wife, I got a new life and the family is fine
We lost touch long ago
You lost weight - I did not know
You could ever look so nice after so much time
Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green?
Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans
Oh, you drop a dime in the box and play a song about New Orleans
Cold beer, hot lights
My sweet romantic teenage nights - rlebeau

9) She has future plans and dreams at night
You tell her life is hard, she says 'That's all right' - persephoneflame

10) Another winter comes
His icy fingers creep
Into these bones of mine
These memories never sleep
And all our differences
A cloak I borrow
We kept our distances
Why should it follow
I must have loved you

11) I stand alone
And watch you fade away
Like clouds
High up and in the sky
I'm strong
And so cold
As I stand alone
Goodbye, so long, adieu - wishdragon

12) There's overtime and bonus opportunities galore
The young man like their money and they all come back for more
But soon you're knockin' on and you look older than you should
For every bob made on the job you pay with flesh and blood
And it's go, boys go
They'll time your every breath
And every day you're in this place you're two days nearer death
But you go - zippyfish

13) And I guess I said
I couldn't see
How things could turn out like they've come to be
And if I lied
And if I knew
Well, I was only trying to think of you
Now you're ready to walk out
You're ready to run
Talk to me, can't you see
I would never want to do what it seems I've done

14) Home is behind
The world ahead
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadow to the edge of night
Until the stars are all alight
Mist and shadow, cloud and shade
All shall fade
All shall fade - zippyfish identified it, rlebeau gave the proper title and artist

15) I've been searching for the answers
I've been diving in the sea
I've been haunted by the shadows
Of what we could have been
And it's not that I'm broken
And it isn't that I bleed
But when you pulled the stars from heaven
It got so hard to see
Where will I put my hands now?

16) I guess I never knew
What she was talking about
I guess I never knew
What she was living without
People speak of love, don't know what they're thinking of
Wait around for the one who fits just like a glove
Speak in terms of a life and the living
Try to fine the word for forgiving
Oh, you keep it up
You try so hard
To keep a life from coming apart
And never know
The shallows and the unseen reefs
That are there from the start

17) Hey little girl would you like some candy
Your mama said it's okay
The door is open, come on outside
No, I can't come out today
It's not the wind that cracked your shoulder
And threw you to the ground
What's there that makes you so afraid
You're shaken to the bone
And I don't understand
You deserve so much more than this - zippyfish, honorable mention to rlebeau

18) Slow down, you're doing fine
You can't be everything you wanna be before your time
Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight
Tonight
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
You got your passion, you got your pride
But don't you know that only fools are satisfied
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true - annwyd, honorable mention to infinitepryde and rlebeau

19) Take another shot of courage
Wonder why the right words never come
You just get numb - rlebeau

20) I see you hanging 'round
This darkness where I'm bound
And this black hole I've dug for me
Silently within
Hands touching skin
The shock breaks my disease
And I can breathe

21) She put him out
Like the burning end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart
He spent his whole life trying to forget
We watched him drink his pain away
A little at a time
But he never could get drunk enough
To get her off his mind - rlebeau

22) There's no one in town I know
You gave us someplace to go
I never said thank you for that
I thought I might get one more chance
What would you think of me now?
So lucky, so strong, so proud
I never said thank you for that
Now I'll never have a chance - infinitepryde

23) They went to sea in a sieve, they did
In a sieve they went to sea
In spite of all their friends could say
On a winter's morn on a stormy day
In a sieve they went to sea
In a sieve they went to sea
And as the sieve spun 'round and 'round
Everyone cried 'They'll all be drowned'
They called aloud 'Our sieve ain't big
But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig
In a sieve we'll go to sea'

24) It's amazing
The look in your eyes
Like you could save me
But you won't even try
And you tell me again
How everything will be all right
And if I told you
That I'm sorry
Would you tell me
That you were wrong
Or would you hold me down forever
If I came to you for answers?

25) Kitto, itsuka, bara no hana
Mune wo fusaida iwa wo
Kudaitara akai akai tsubomi ga
Sora ni saku no deshou
Hitotsu dake

(Surely, someday, a rose...
If the stone that blocks up my heart
Breaks, a red red bud
Ought to bloom towards the sky
Just one) - rlebeau

(Yes, it's in Japanese. It's not like I don't pimp all of this stuff to everyone on my friendslist anyhow; there should be at least one of you that gets this one. You're all lucky I skipped all the other songs that were in Japanese, or Latin, or French, or Italian. or Gaelic, or Chinese, or made up languages.)