{"id":1686,"date":"2008-12-06T18:25:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T18:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/12\/06\/shuffle_time\/"},"modified":"2008-12-06T18:25:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T18:25:41","slug":"shuffle_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/12\/06\/shuffle_time\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuffle time"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wonder if my tunes are easier to identify than my books?<\/a>
\nHere are the first few lines of 20 songs that came up on Shuffle on my iPod. I cheated a wee bit by skipping any album tracks, duplicated artists, or any artist I thought would be too Canadian<\/del> obscure to be easily identified. If the title of the song, or a variant on the title, is included in the lyrics, I’ve removed the actual words but indicated why.
\nHere we go!<\/p>\n


\n1) You sit there in your heartache, Waiting on some beautiful boy to, To save you from your own ways. You play forgiveness. Watch it now, here he comes! He doesn’t look a thing like Jesus, But he talks like a gentleman, Like you imagined [title].
\nDorothy got this one<\/p>\n

2) There’s no clothes, I can buy, Make me feel like myself, [title]. So I put on clothes, To make me feel like someone else, [title].
\n3) With so much drama in the l-b-c, It’s kinda hard bein’ Snoop D-O-Double-G, But I, somehow, some way, Keep comin’ up with funky ass shit like every single day
\n4) Wake up in the morning with a head like \u201cwhat ya done?\u201d, This used to be the life but I don’t need another one, Good luck cuttin’ nothin’, carryin’ on, you wear them gowns, So how come I feel so lonely when you’re up gettin’ down?
\n5) Now somewhere in the black mountain hills of Dakota, There lived a young boy named [title]
\nHenry got this one – the video is obviously not the original!<\/p>\n

6) Hear that lonesome whippoorwill, He sounds too blue to fly, The midnight train is whinin’ low, [title].
\nPartial credit for Steffi<\/p>\n

7) [title x 3] from your lies, You’re so self-satisfied, I don’t need you, [title] God knows, God knows [title].
\nBob got this one<\/p>\n

8) I’m gonna fight \u2018em off, A [title] couldn’t hold me back, They’re gonna rip it off, Takin’ their time right behind my back.
\nAnother one for Dorothy – get your air guitars ready for this one!<\/p>\n

9) (You know this boogie is for real) I used to buy my faith in worship, But then my chance to Heaven slipped. I used to worry about the future, But then I threw my caution to the wind.
\nSteffi got the whole<\/em> answer to this one \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

10) Young teacher, The subject, Of schoolgirl fantasy, She wants him so badly, Knows what she wants to be.
\nBrian Derby got this one<\/p>\n

11) (She’s beautiful, she’s smart, she’s a fighting hellcat, she’s dynamite, she’s [artist name]) People are fine like grains of sand on a beach, The same, But something different about each, So when we [name of band] we talk the truth unglamourised. People are people, wherever you go, Always the same messed up traits that they show. When you meet a good \u2018un, Then you feel they glow.
\n12) I have fallen for another, She can make her own way home, And even if she asked me now, I’d let her go alone. But I used to see her up the chapel when she went to Sunday mass, And when she’d go up to receive I’d kneel down there and watch her pass, The glory of her ass.
\nDorothy again!<\/em><\/p>\n

13) [title] has come to take me away, [title] is mine when she stitches me, [title variant] has found an aching in me, [title variant] has turned her tongue into me, Everyone has been burned before, Everybody knows the pain.
\n14) [title] in bars of twelve or less, I’m a stranger to the land, To this wilderness, All things are possible, But happen less and less, This is my country, These are my reasons, ‘Cause I look In the mirror, And it throws back the question, And I whisper in words, That beg An answer, Tell me, Can this white man [title variant]?
\n15) (We’re going to dance, We’re going to dance, We’re going to dance, And have some fun). The chills that you spill, Up my back keep me filled, With satisfaction when we’re done, Satisfaction of what’s to come, I couldn’t ask for another (I-I-I-I) No, I couldn’t ask for another
\nChristie got this one:<\/p>\n

16) (Make it) [title variant], Weather is sweet yeah, boy, Makes you want to move those dancing feet, To the rescue, ah, Here I am, I want you to know yeah, Here I stand. As the morning gathers a rainbow, I want you to know yeah, That I’m a rainbow with you.
\n17) We didn’t have nowhere to live, We didn’t have nowhere to go, \u2018til someone said \u201cI know this place off Burditt Road\u201d. It was on the 15th floor, It had a bolt across the door, It took an hour to prise it off and get inside, It smelled as if someone had died, The living room was full of flies.
\n18) Remember boy that your forefathers died, Lost in millions for a country’s pride, But they never mention the trenches of Belgium, When they stopped fighting and they were one, A spirit stronger than war was at work that night, December 1914 cold, clear and bright, Countries’ borders were right out of sight, When they joined together and decided not to fight
\nYet another one for Dorothy – with help from Brian<\/p>\n

19) When I counted up my demons, Saw there was one for every day, With the good ones on my shoulder, I drove the other ones away. So if you ever feel neglected, If you think that [title variant], I’ll be counting up my demons, yeah, Hoping [title variant]
\nLinda got this one, although Brian D did spot that there was a Coldplay song somewhere<\/em> on the list.<\/p>\n

20) It was a cold and wet December day, When we touched the ground at JFK, Snow was melting on the ground, On BLS I heard the sound, Of [title variant]. New York, like a Christmas tree, Tonight this city belongs to me, [title variant].
\nYeah, I kinda did just want an excuse to say “funky ass shit” on Nature Network.
\nGood luck – and no googling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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