Guess Ten, Next-to-Shortest Day Edition

December 21, 2007

Tomorrow is the Winter Solstice. Today, I give you ten lyrics and you try to guess the artist and song. This time they’re kinda hard…

Update: Answers are up. No one got this one:

1. Kate Bush, “Big Stripey Lie” [ Glen ]
   Your name is being called by sacred things that are not addressed nor listened to. Sometimes they blow trumpets.
2. Elton John, “Lady Samantha” [ ]
   Her home is the hillside, her bed is the grave.
3. Simon & Garfunkel, “Sound of Silence” [ Sarah ]
   The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.
4. Townes Van Zandt (or Willie Nelson), “Pancho and Lefty” [ Carl ]
   You wear your skin like iron, your breath’s as hard as kerosene.
5. Dire Straits (or Indigo Girls), “Romeo & Juliet” [ Glen, Phil ]
   All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
6. Grant Lee Buffalo, “Happiness”
   If you find it share it with the rest of us
7. Curtis Mayfield, “Superfily”
   This cat of the slum had a mind, wasn’t dumb
8. Huey Lewis and the News, “Stuck With You” [ Rebel Squirrel ]
   We thought about giving up, but we could never stay away
9. The Hold Steady, “Chillout Tent”
   His friend gave him four, but said only take one, but then he got bored and ended up taking all four.
10. Leonard Nimoy, “Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”
    They don’t like to hurry and they take things slow. They don’t like to travel away from home.

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