Must Be The Time Of Year...

This track came on the tunes box this morning during the drive to work and struck a chord...

Please lay down your pistols and your rifles
Please lay down your colours and your creeds
Please lay down your thoughts of being no-one
Concentrate on what you ought to be

Then lay down your bullshit and your protests
Then lay down your governments of greed
Take a look at what lies all around you
Then pray God we can live in peace

Everyone's a loner 'till he needs a helping hand
Everyone is everybody else
Everyone's a no-one 'till he wants to make a stand
God alone knows how we will survive

Pretty sure that this band are so deeply unfashionable that no-one will know who the song is by.

Looking forward to some entertaining guesses though!

Lyric Snippets 9

Its been a while since we did this one.

Snatches of lyrics from five tracks that came up randomly on the ipod on the trip to work this morning.

Can you identify the artist and the song title?

1. I live uptown, I live downtown  
   
2. Could we have kippers for breakfast, mummy dear, mummy dear
   
3. He wore a scarlet tunic, a blue green hood, it looked quite good
   
4. When I am king you will be first against the wall, with your opinion which is of no consequence at all 
   
5. But my momma said, don't take more than a mouthful
   

Answers in the comments please.

Best of luck, and remember - No Googling

Quick Lyric Snippet

This one came on whilst I was driving home last night...

Can you identify the song? (It's easy, this one)

Whistling tunes
We're kissing baboons
In the jungle

Usual rules - answers in the comments please, and no Googling!

Lyric Snippets 8

Lyric quiz time again folks...

The lyric snippets below are from the last five songs played on my iPod this morning. Can you identify the songs?

1. Now I wish I could write you a melody so plain, That could hold you dear lady from going insane, That could ease you and cool you and cease the pain, Of your useless and pointless knowledge
2. And out on the subway, Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid, Exits into daylight, spraygun hid
3. Painted words are whispered, Its no prayer, Whispering words, Are drifting like the snow
4. It may seem strange but he'd admit, Intentions aren't exactly true, And though God loves his wife a bit, He hates the farmer through and through
5. I dont know but I been told, A big legged woman aint got no soul

Answers in the comments please, and no Googling!

The full list of answers will be posted later.

The answers to Lyric Snippets 7 are now in the comments for that post.

Lyric Snippets 7

Lyric quiz time again folks...

The lyric snippets below are from the last five songs played on my iPod this morning. Can you identify the songs?

1. This is where we walked, This is where we swam, Take a picture here, Take a souvenir
2. I get ideas, I get a notion, I want a nice little boat, Made out of ocean
3. Thinking how it used to be, Does she still remember times like these? To think of us again? And I do
4. Dizzy in the head and I'm feeling blue, The things you've said, well, maybe they're true, I'm getting funny dreams again and again, I know what it means, but...
5. The very first time I saw your face, I thought of a song, And quickly changed the tune, The very first time I touched your skin, I thought of a story, And rushed to reach the end, Too soon

Answers in the comments please, and no Googling!

The full list of answers will be posted later.

The answers to Lyric Snippets 6 are now in the comments for that post.

Lyric Snippets 6

Lyric quiz time again folks...

The lyric snippets below are from the last five songs played on my iPod this morning. Can you identify the songs?

1. Hurry up, hurry up and wait, I stay away all week and still I wait, I got the blues, please come see, What your loving means to me.
2. Blind stars of fortune, each have several rays, On the wings of maybe, down in birds of prey, Kind of makes me feel sometimes, didn't have to grow, But as the eagle leaves the nest, it's got so far to go.
3. Like a dream on the ocean, Always drifting away, And I can't catch up, She just slips away - on the tide.
4. So I'm stepping out of time, Because breaking is a crime, And it may all be too late, But I've no passion for this hate.
5. And you're a prima ballerina on a spring afternoon, Change on into the Wolfman howlin' at the moon.

Answers in the comments please, and no Googling!

The full list of answers will be posted later.

The answers to Lyric Snippets 5 are now in the comments for that post.

Lyric Snippets 5

It's that time of the week again folks...

The lyric snippets below are from the last five songs played on my iPod this morning. Can you identify the songs? Quite a tough one this week I think...

1. There's a spider crawling on the bathroom mirror, Right on top of my right eye, And I can't stop staring back, How did I get this way?, Take a big look at a living lie.
2. Now your lover went and put me in the ground, I'll be watching, when he's around. Now your lover went and put me in the ground, I'll be watching...when he's around.
3. Oh, ball of fire, In the summer sky, Your healing light, your parade of days. Are they betrayed, by the men of power, Who hold this world in their changing hands.
4. Well, I'm hanging round the depot, boys, Can't get a job, I'm so sick and tired of being laid off, No silver lining, no rainbow's end, Blues in my mailbox, that's all they ever send.
5. And he's searched underground and overground for a partner, Played his harmonica 'til his lips were raw, He's looked through tins and rubbish bins just for an answer, So far each year he's drawn the shortest straw.

Answers in the comments please, and no Googling!

The full list of answers will be posted later.

The answers to Lyric Snippets 4 are now in the comments for that post.

Lyric Snippets 4

Time again for the lyric snippets quiz.

The lyric snippets below are from the last five songs played on my iPod this morning. Can you identify the songs?

1. Like a dream that has no dreamer, Like a cloud without a sky... Like a truth with no believer, Like a mother without a child...
2. I was driving across the burning desert, When I spotted six jet planes, Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain, It was the hexagram of the heavens, It was the strings of my guitar
3. Oh, I'll break them down, no mercy shown, Heaven knows, it's got to be this time, Watching her, these things she said, The times she cried, Too frail to wake this time.
4. I'm on an island in a busy intersection, I can't go forward now, I can't turn back, Can't see the future, It's getting away from me, I just watch the tail lights glowing
5. You need a push, I'll push you off, Open up the window and jump into the blue

Answers in the comments please, and no Googling!

The full list of answers will be posted later.

The answers to Lyric Snippets 3 are now in the comments for that post.

Lyric Snippets 3

Let's see what the iPod has been pouring into my ears this morning.

The lyric snippets below are from the last five songs played this morning. Can you identify the songs?

1. It's the singer not the song, That makes the music move along, I want you to join together with the band, This is the biggest band you'll find, It's as deep as it is wide, Come on and join together with the band

2. The eagle flies on friday, Saturday I go out to play. Sunday I go to church, Gonna kneel down and pray.

3. "I gotta rush away," she said, "I been to Boston before. and anyway this change I been feeling doesn't make the rain fall"

4. my heart is not clean, your table is green, to collect bright things, the harvest of every men, is in the can.

5. You know after you have done all you could do and you can't take no more, then you go downtown, you get your big baseball bat and you come back onthe scene where they both are still together, and then you just go and kick down the door. Now as you kick down the door you just start beating the hell out of everybody that you can see, everybody that comes through the door, and just as you make up your mind that you're gonna try to forgive her, then out comes another one of your friends, and that really blows your mind. So you go and think about it, you say to yourself, baby, I realize I've done wrong but please forgive me. And with a smirky smile on her face then she look up at you and she say. ..

Answers in the comments please, and no Googling!

The full list of answers will be posted later.

The answers to Lyric Snippets 2 are now in the comments for that post.

Lyric Snippets

As I mentioned in a previous post, I listen to my iPod in the car on the way to work in the morning. The thing is almost always set on shuffle and it usually serves up an interesting smorgasbord of musical goodness.

The following snippets of lyrics are from the last five songs played this morning. Can you identify the songs? Some are ridiculously easy and some will prove more of a test.

Answers in the comments please, and no Googling!

1. She's so fine, She's all mine, she's got legs
2. Listening to you I get the music, gazing at you I get the heat
3. I'll give you fish, I'll give you candy, I'll give you everything I have in my hand
4. You know nothing about it, its not your domain, don't confuse yourself with someone who has something to say
5. There's a warning sign on the road ahead, there's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead

The full list of answers will be posted later.