Title in the Lyric

[H2Andy]

Nine Inch Nails, Hurt


Well things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl
The boys just dive right off the cars and splash into the street
And when they’re on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot
And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet

 

[boulderjohn]

Nine Inch Nails, Hurt


Well things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl
The boys just dive right off the cars and splash into the street
And when they’re on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot
And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet

Tori Amos, "Time"

I thought that in light of the current world news I would throw in an easy one with one complication: you must use the singer/writer's current name, not the name under which it was originally written/recorded.

Now I've been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss?

Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again

 

[TheRedHead]

Cat Stevens "Peace Train" currently living as a fool named Yusef Islam

 

[TheRedHead]

Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

 

[boulderjohn]

Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

OK, now you are really into my generation--bringing back some vivid memories.

That would be "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag," by Country Joe and the Fish.

While we are on the subject:

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

 

[boulderjohn]

OK, now you are really into my generation--bringing back some vivid memories.

That would be "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag," by Country Joe and the Fish.

While we are on the subject:

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

By the way, one of the local high schools in my area had a talent show last year, and one of the competing bands planned to perform this song. The Secret Service heard about it and came to town to stop them.

Remember when we used to have free speech in the country?

 

[jiveturkey]

OK, now you are really into my generation--bringing back some vivid memories.

That would be "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag," by Country Joe and the Fish.

While we are on the subject:

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

Great tune. Masters of War.

Try this one. It got me into country music.

The news I could bring I met up with the king
On his head an amphetamine crown
He talked about unbuckling that old Bible belt
And headed out for some desert town
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
And a good saloon in every single town
And I remember something that you once told me
And I’ll be damned if it did not come true
Twenty thousand roads I went down down down
And they all lead me straight back home to you
Twenty thousand roads I went down down down
And they all lead me straight back home to you

 

[H2Andy]

Tori Amos, "Time"

well, actually... that's just a cover

Tom Waits wrote and performed the original

(just for the record)

 

[Robert Phillips]

Great tune. Masters of War.

Try this one. It got me into country music.

The news I could bring I met up with the king
On his head an amphetamine crown
He talked about unbuckling that old Bible belt
And headed out for some desert town
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
And a good saloon in every single town
And I remember something that you once told me
And I’ll be damned if it did not come true
Twenty thousand roads I went down down down
And they all lead me straight back home to you
Twenty thousand roads I went down down down
And they all lead me straight back home to you

The man, Gram Parsons!
Return of the Greivous Angel.


Here's some more country, but a bit more obscure. Hint: It is a song by the Greatest Rock-n-Roll Band in the World, from Seattle by way of Tuscon.

...One drink so quickly turns into another
It's gonna to take me all day tomorrow to recover
Over has been hung, the last fag has been bummed
and we're...