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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 05:59 PM
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90's lyric Quiz


Just plucked this off the net- came from this site:http://www.artofthemix.org/writings/lyrics.asp
Answers are linked there but no fair cheatin!!




1. "Can you tell me? No, you can't, because you don't know."
2. "A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio."
3. "But I've said nothing so far, and I can keep it up as long as it takes."
4. "Excuse me, but can I be you for awhile?" 5. "She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket, she wears a cross around her neck."
6. "So take your hat off when you're talking to me."
7. "Everybody move to the back of the bus."
8. "I just want someone to say to me, 'I'll always be there when you wake.'"
9. "So listen up, 'cause you can't say nothin'- you'll shut me down with a push of your button."
10. "I'll be your whatever you want, the bong in this reggae song."
11. "Well, I'm not too sure, and I'm not too proud."
12. "You know I'm such a fool for you."
13. "Baby got a problem sayin' bye-bye, just another hazard of a fly guy."
14. "Life is hard, and so am I-better give me something, so I don't die."
15. "There's a blood that's flowing through the feeling, with a knife to open up the sky's vein."
16. "Parody of yourself in color, giving it to everybody but your mother."
17. "It is thrown, just scream it from the wall."
18. "I have come to save the day, and I won't leave until I'm done."
19. "Girls, what's my weakness?" 20. "They say they're better than you, and you agree."
21. "Watching the world wake up from history."
22. "Stand in the way of love, and we will smoke them all."
23. "Why they changed it, I can't say-people just liked it better that way."
24. "I didn't mean to treat you oh so bad, but I did it anyway."
25. "Don't you think I've heard the talk? Nobody's gonna tell me who to love."
26. "The sun has gone down, and the moon has come up."
27. "I want to be the girl with the most cake."
28. "Sit down and watch the tube, but nothing's on."
29. "To me, my life is more than my erection."
30. "You know your culture from your trash, you know your plastic from your cash."
31. "And when the car broke down, they started walking."
32. "Good God, I'm a believer!" 33. "I said, you shouldn't have worn that dress."
34. "Rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells."
35. "I'm standing in cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines."
36. "I'm the bitch you hated."
37. "I like a good beer buzz early in the morning."
38. "I walk in the air between the rain, through myself and back again."
39. "But both girl and boy were glad-one kid had it worse than that."
40. "We'd take a limousine, 'cause it costs more."
41. "She grew up tall and she grew up right."
42. "Mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it."
43. "I don't care what they say-what do they know about this love, anyway?"
44. "Cut me Sammy, and you'll understand-in my veins, hot music man."
45. "Don't cry for me, next door neighbor."
46. "I got my head shaved by a jumbo jet."
47. "We kissy kiss in the rearview-so bored, you're to blame."
48. "Makeup on their faces, actors took their places next to me."
49. "I don't know why you couldn't just stay with me."
50. "I recommend biting off more than you can chew to anyone."
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51. "And I'm glad I haven't yet, because I'm sure it isn't good."
52. "What's with these homies dissin' my girl? Why do they gotta front?"
53. "Take all of your money, give it up to charity."
54. "If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel."
55. "I'll throw away a chance at greatness, just to make this dream come into play."
56. "And would my clique do the score?" 57. "She comes around, and she goes down on me."
58. "Played a track from your record collection, it's your mix, congratulations."
59. "Will you please let me stay the night? No one will ever know!" 60. "But it's you I fell into."
61. "When your mom is not around, there's no telling what we'll do when we're free."
62. "Tell me, am I very far?" 63. "And all the roads we have to walk are winding."
64. "One goes to the morgue, and the other jail. One got wasted, and the other's a waste."
65. "So don't let me have any rights. Oh, I've had it up to here."
66. "One dance left, this world is gonna pull through."
67. "Our little group has always been and always will until the end."
68. "They hung out with folks like Dennis Hoppper, Bob Seger, and Sonny & Cher."
69. "Show me where to look, and tell me what will I find."
70. "Sweet like candy to your soul, sweet you rock, and sweet you roll."
71. "A million lies to sell yourself is all you ever had."
72. "You can see I'm in no shape for driving."
73. "I've been downhearted, baby, ever since the day we met."
74. "I don't care if you don't care, as long as you don't go."
75. "It really don't matter if you're white or black."
76. "Won't you please come around, 'cause I wanna share forever with you, baby."
77. "I am wearing my new dress tonight!"
78. "Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?"
79. "I'm a goddess on my knees."
80. "I'm gonna show you how, all in together now."
81. "So they put me in the back of their car at the station."
82. "Been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town."
83. "Some got hopes and dreams, we got ways and means."
84. "But I know you can tell I'm excited, oh girl."
85. "Am I sexual?" 86. "I've been watching you like a hawk in the sky."
87. "I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom."
88. "I see some ladies tonight that should be havin' my baby, baby."
89. "Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?"
90. "Ain't nothin' better, we beat the odds together."
91. "It was time for me to make my presence felt, so sit back, relax, and strap on your seat belt."
92. "She said she'd never turn on me (you lied to me!)."
93. "Baby, you're a perfect ten/Can I get in?"
94. "Just once if I had the chance, the things I would do to you."
95. "No, no, we don't die, yes, we multiply."
96. "Hey, don't you want to go down like some chunky cosmonaut?"
97. "So I made a big mistake- try to see it once my way."
98. "The night is my companion, and solitude my guide."
99. "Help me think I'm somebody else."
100. "What would you ask if you had just one question?" ____________________________________________________________
101. "Life limped along at subsonic speeds."
102. "You never know just how you look through other people's eyes."
103. "Twenty-five years old- my mother, God rest her soul."
104. "Deep inside I know you feel it too."
105. "But there's got to be an open lane, somewhere here in front of me."
106. "Hey, I know it's just a song, but it's spice for the recipe."
107. "Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm."
108. "Be colorblind-don't be so shallow."
109. "A woman is a woman, and a man ain't nothin' but a male."
110. "All of the things you try to hide will be revealed on the other side."
111. "I don't mind stealing bread from the mouths of decadence."
112. "Now I'm naked, nothing but an animal."
113. "Times are gone for honest men."
114. "How on Earth did I get so jaded? Life's mysteries seem so faded."
115. "This loud Cuban band is crucifying John Lennon."
116. "I'd like to propose a two-week limit on going steady."
117. "I never worry, now that is a lie."
118. "Don't believe everything that you breathe."
119. "I'll smile, and you'll wave. We'll pretend it's okay."
120. "I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul."
121. "Not vicious or malicious, just de-lovely and delicious."
122. "Do you mean what you say when there's no one around?"
123. "Even white boys got to shout."
124. "Lord, I really love this place."
125. "I may not know what you're going through, but time is the space between me and you."
126. "I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant."
127. "She'll make you breakfast, she'll make you toast."
128. "Strange you never knew."
129. "So I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up, and this woman was singing my song."
130. "It's not your fault that you're always wrong. The weak ones are there to justify the strong."
131. "She calls my name, pulls my train, no one else could heal my pain."
132. "I turned on the lights, the TV, and the radio- still I can't escape the ghost of you."
133. "The air outside so soft is saying everything."
134. "When I feel down, I want you above me."
135. "I'll just put her right back with the rest- that's the way it goes, I guess."
135. "Too many Porter singers, not enough Porter songs- until you came along."
136. "Oh, how can heaven hold a place for me, when a girl like you has cast a spell on me?"
137. "All they can say is, he's not your kind."
138. "(song title) was the color of her hair."
139. "It's like you're always stuck in second gear."
140. "No way I'm disco dancing."
141. "You can't tell me it's not worth dying for."
142. "The wrong guy, the wrong situation."
143. "Stumble you might fall, stumble you might fall."
144. "Did you do too many drugs?"
145. "If I had my time again, I would do it all the same."
146. "I think sex is overrated too."
147. "Do you wanna bang heads with me?"
148. "Life is demanding without understanding."
149. "Follow me, follow me, follow me, but don't lose your grip."
150. "They all want me, they can't have me."
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151. "My mind's tellin' me no, but my body's tellin' me yes."
152. "Though I mess around, it's only cause I need some affection."
153. "I don't even own a TV."
154. "'It is always nice to see you,' says the man behind the counter."
155. "Her flowing skirt is blowing in a transcendental wind, and she wonders without knowing, where did we begin?"
156. "I see you drunk, I start to laugh."
157. "Throw your hands in the air, don't ever disrespect."
158. "All the stones that are thrown are building up a wall."
159. "The devil's not in the details, no, the devil's in my pants."
160. "And you're all dressed up like the Cure."
161. "You let life get in the way."
162. "The world was made up of this brotherhood of man, for whatever that means."
163. "I know all I need to know by the way that I got kissed."
164. "I know it's hard to keep an open heart."
165. "You're always askin' what it's all about, so listen to my reply."
166. "She said days go by, I'm hypnotized."
167. "If I was broke, would you want me?"
168. "Come on, come on, love me for the money."
169. "I know the song you're singin', the lyrics haven't changed."
170. "If you put two and two together, you will see what our friendship is for."
171. "I don't wanna leave you lonely- you gotta make me change my mind."
172. "Shucks, for me there is no other. You're the only shoe that fits."
173. "I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is."
174. "It's strange what desire will make foolish people do."
175. "And nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground."
176. "Well, it's just a simple fact. When I want something, I don't wanna pay for it."
177. "Yeah, I'm tangled up in blue."
178. "So close, no matter how far."
179. "If rhyme was a drug, I'd sell it by the gram."
180. "Take it hip to hip, rocketing through the wilderness."
181. "Rap is seamless."
182. "And it's a sad, sad world, when a girl will break a boy just because she can."
183. "We are about ready to rock steady."
184. "Please, please understand-I'm in love with another man."
185. "We don't need to talk about it anymore. Yesterday's just a memory, when you close the door."
186. "I'll make it through the day with some help from Johnnie Walker Red."
187. "We'll take the trail marked on your father's map."
188. "Cause you were a dream that just should not have been, a fantasy real."
189. "You're a slave to money, then you die."
190. "When I wake up, well I know I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you."
191. "Saying 'I love you' is not the words I want to hear from you."
192. "They think that your early ending was all wrong."
193. "I would like a place I can call my own."
194. "I'm not black like Barry White, no, I am white like Frank Black is."
195. "Sunday always comes too late."
196. "Nobody loves me, it's true, not like you do."
197. "I wanna drive it all night long."
198. "You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere."
199. "Don't call it a comeback."
200. "One last call for alcohol."
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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 06:11 PM
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1. The First 50...
2. Name ~ Goo Goo Dolls
5. She Talks to Angels ~ Black Crows
19. Shoop ~ Salt N Pepa
20. Who Will Save Your Soul ~ Jewel
21. Right Here, Right Now ~ errr...Van Halen?
26. The Distance ~ Cake
31. The Way ~ ??
37. All I Wanna Do ~ Sheryl Crow
38. Round Here ~ The Counting Crows
40. If I Had $1 Million ~ Barenaked Ladies
41. Last Dance With Mary Jane ~ Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers??)
43. Come to My Window ~ Melissa Etheridge
50. You Learn ~ Alanis Morisette

Wow, a LOT of them are right on the tip of my tongue. This is hard!
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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 06:21 PM
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2. 51-100
52. Buddy Holly ~ Weezer
53. What I Got ~ Sublime
54. Mysterious Ways ~ U2
63. Wonderwall ~ Oasis
65. Just a Girl ~ No Doubt
68. Rockabye?????
70. Crash Into Me ~ Dave Matthews Band
72. Hey Jealousy ~ Gin Blossoms
78. Tears in Heaven ~ Eric Clapton
79. Bitch ~ Meredith Brooks
82. Little Miss Can't Be Wrong ~ Spin Doctors
89. Sex & Candy ~ Marcy Playground
98. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy ~ Sarah McLachlan
100. What if God was One of Us ~ Joan Osborne
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LibraLiz1973 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-16-08 06:26 PM
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3. My answers to the 1st 50

2. "A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio."
Name- Goo Goo Dolls

4. "Excuse me, but can I be you for awhile?"
Silent All These Years- Tori Amos

5. "She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket, she wears a cross around her neck."
She Talks To Angels- The Black Crowes

6. "So take your hat off when you're talking to me."
Feed The Tree- Belly

8. "I just want someone to say to me, 'I'll always be there when you wake.'"
No Rain- Blind Melon

9. "So listen up, 'cause you can't say nothin'- you'll shut me down with a push of your button."
Sabotage- Beastie Boys

11. "Well, I'm not too sure, and I'm not too proud."
Good- better Than Ezra

12. "You know I'm such a fool for you."
Linger- Cranberries

15. "There's a blood that's flowing through the feeling, with a knife to open up the sky's vein."
Back Water- Meat Puppets?? (I could be wrong on this one)


18. "I have come to save the day, and I won't leave until I'm done."
Are You Gonna Go My Way- Lenny Kravitz

21. "Watching the world wake up from history."
Right Here, Right Now- Jesus Jones

24. "I didn't mean to treat you oh so bad, but I did it anyway."
Far Behind- Candlebox

26. "The sun has gone down, and the moon has come up."
The Distance- Cake

27. "I want to be the girl with the most cake."
Doll Parts- Hole


31. "And when the car broke down, they started walking."
The Way- ?

34. "Rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells."
Bulls on Parade- Rage Against The Machine

37. "I like a good beer buzz early in the morning."
All I Wanna Do- Sheryl Crow

42. "Mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it."
Daughter- Pearl Jame

43. "I don't care what they say-what do they know about this love, anyway?"
Come To My Window- Melissa Etheridge

47. "We kissy kiss in the rearview-so bored, you're to blame."
Everything Zen- Bush


50. "I recommend biting off more than you can chew to anyone."
You Learn- Alanis Morrisette
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