A Minor Variation

raiu resurrected the lyrics meme, and far be it from me to let it pass without perpetuating it at least one more time. You guys know the drill - put your playlist on shuffle, copy down some lyrics from the first however many songs, and throw them up in your LJ for your friends to guess.


1) Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go? - infinitepryde

2) No visible means of support and you have not seen nothing yet
Everything's stuck together
I don't know what you expect staring into your TV set
Fighting fire with fire - raiu

3) Don't wanna call my friends
They might wake me from this dream
And I can't leave this place
Risk forgetting all that's been
Oh, I am what I am
I do what I want
But I can't hide - wishdragon

4) Well, she lit up the sky that fourth of July
By the time that the firemen come
They just put out the flames and took down some names
And sent me to the county home
Now I ain't sayin' it's right or it's wrong
But maybe it's the only way
Talk about your revolution - rlebeau

5) So you've got everything, ah, but nothing's cool
They just found your father in the swimming pool
And you guess you won't be going back to school
Any more - raiu

6) When the cloud is rolling over, thunder striking me
It's as bright as lightning and I wonder why I couldn't see
That it's always good and when the flood is gone we still remain
Guess I've known all along I just belong here with you, falling

7) He deals the cards to find the answer
The sacred geometry of chance
The hidden law of a probable outcome
The numbers lead the dance - infinitepryde

8) You're a love song
Only half-way sung
You're the knot that comes undone
You're the daylight
Dressed as darkest night
The flight of a stringless kite - wishdragon

9) I've been sailing
A long time on this ocean
A man gets lonesome
All those years at sea
I've got a woman
My life should be easy
Most men hunger
For the life I lead - infinitepryde

10) As he ordered one last round, he said
'I guess we can't complain
God made life a gamble
And we're still in the game' - infinitepryde

11) No one in your life is with you constantly
No one is completely on your side
And though I moved my world to be with him
Still the gap between us is too wide
Looking back I could have played it differently
(Looking back I could have played things some other way)
Learned about the man before I fell
(I was just a little careless, maybe)
But I was ever so much younger then
(Now at least I know him well)
Now at least I know I know him well
Wasn't it good? (Oh so good)
Wasn't he fine? (Oh so fine)
Didn't I know
How it would go?
If I knew from the start
Why am I falling apart? - infinitepryde

12) Guess I wasn't the best one to ask
Me myself with my face pressed
Up against love's glass
To see the shiny toyI've been hoping for
The one I never can afford
The wide world spins and spits turmoil
And the nations toil for peace
Paws of fear upon your chest
Only love can soothe that beast
And my words are paper tigers
No match for the predator of pain inside her - infinitepryde

13) There's no mercy in a live wire
No rest at all in freedom
The choices we are given
Ain't no choice at all
the proof is in the fire
You touch before it moves away
But you must always know how long to stay
And when to go

14) Wish I could prove I love you
But does that mean I have to walk on water?
When we are older you'll understand
It's enough when I say so
And maybe some things are that simple - raiu

15) Oh, it's carnival night
And they're stringing the lights around you
Hanging paper angels
Painting little devils on the roof
Oh, the furnace wind
Is a flickering of wings about your face
In a cloud of incense
Yeah, it smells like heaven in this place - infinitepryde