My first ever Writing.com journal. |
tina won the lyrics contest, which is sort of unsurprising. the answers, anyway, are as follows. 1. "see me as if you never knew, hold me so you can't let go... just believe in me, i will make you see all the things that your heart needs to know." "to love you more," celine dion 2. "leave all the lights on so we can see the black cat changing colors, and we can walk under ladders and swim as the tide turns you around and around." "warehouse," dave matthews band 3. "come join the warner brothers and the warner sister dot! just for fun we run around the warner movie lot! they lock us in the tower whenever we get caught, but we break loose and then vamoose and now you know the plot!" "'animaniacs' theme," yakko, wakko and dot warner 4. "like where can i be, you're killin' me with your jealousy, when my ambition's to be free, i can't breathe, 'cause soon as i leave it's like a trap-- i hear you callin' me to come back." "do for love," tupac 5. "thirty-eight twenty-four thirty-seven? you and me honey, we're a match made in heaven. i like to kiss you where some brothers don't, i like to tell you things some brothers won't." "bonita applebum," a tribe called qwest 6. "sont des mots qui vont tres bien ensemble, tres bien ensemble. i love you, i love you, i love you, but you should know by now." "michelle," paul mccartney 7. "and there's a weepy old willow, he really knows how to cry. that's how i'd cry in my pillow if you grew tired and just said goodbye." "lullaby of birdland," mel torme 8. "there's an old, such a hungry yearning burning inside of me, and its torment won't be through till you let me spend my life making love to you." "night and day," ella fitzgerald 9. "my mother was a tailor. she sewed my new blue jeans. my father was a gamblin' man down in new orleans." "house of the rising sun," the animals 10. "even though the pain and heartache seem to follow me wherever i go, though i try and try to hide my feelings they always seem to show!" "never can say goodbye," the jackson 5 11. "pretty girl, sure is fine. lookin' good on the soul train." "after the dance," marvin gaye 12. "i'm gonna make a change for once in my life. it's gonna feel real good, gonna make a difference, gonna make it right." "man in the mirror," michael jackson 13. "so why not promise her rubies? even diamonds? she'd trade them all for a plain golden wedding ring..." "promise her anything," tom jones 14. "now when it's rainy i don't miss the sun because it's in my baby's smile, o-ho, and to think that i'm the lucky one that will lead her down the aisle, o-ho-oh-ho." "sweet lorraine," the nat king cole trio 15. "in you i have what other men long for. all men need someone to worship and adore. that's why i treasure you and place you high above, 'cause the only joy in life is to be loved." "bernadette," the o'jays 16. "opportunity knocks once, let's reach out and grab it, together we'll nab it, we'll hitchhike, bus or yellow cab it!" "movin' right along," kermit and fozzie 17. "i guess i must be dumb. she had a pocket full of horses-- trojan and some of them used, but it was saturday night, i guess that makes it all right, and i said what have i got to lose?" "little red corvette," prince 18. "those who have seen your face turn back in fear. i am the mask you wear, it's me they hear." "the phantom of the opera," andrew lloyd webber 19. "harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding. no more forces of derision, golden living dreams of vision, mystic crystal revelations and the mind's true liberation." "aquarius," the fifth dimension 20. "yes, you lied to me all these years! you told me to wash and clean my ears, and talk real fine, just like a lady, and you'd stop calling me sister sadie." "mississippi goddamn," nina simone |