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[perrault]

Another decent one, again from Nine Inch Nails, Memorabilia:

Wherever I go
I take a little piece of you
I collect
I reject
Photographs I took of you

All the towns that i pass through
So many faces
So many places
I have got to have a memory
I have never been there
I have never had you

I can't remember
Give me your reminder
I collect
I reject

Memorabilia
(now girl..only it's flavor..bow down here)

Keychains and snowstorms
The taste of your sweat
The look in your eye
I have been inside you
I know what it feels like
(Wet as it is..the whiter the honey)
I collect
I reject

Memorabilia
(Goodies come in here all day)

Give me your reminder
I can't remember
I collect
I reject

Memorabilia

[perrault]

And another.

[perrault]

And one more.

[Phaedra]

Sigh. I feel unloved.

[ouroboros]

singing with a headcold

[vector]

[johnny5]

And I bet they planned to keep the SP hidden away a bit longer also.

Ah, the power of (people on) the Internet.

[ouroboros]

[krystyn]

That's how we knew what to answer, yes. I think people were speculating that perhaps it could've been something else gleaned from her memories, but they chose to do a song-based one, based on my nervous warbling from last Tuesday.

If that was indeed the case, I do apologize.

[thebruce]

actually if I recall, Melissa told the firsrt live caller whom she trusted the answer.... he didn't know. can't remember who it was, or in which thread... too lazy to search... too late to worry...

[Nova]

This one just has too many appropriate lyrics to ignore.

Keane, Everybody's changing

You say you wander your own land
But when I think about it
I don't see how you can
You're aching, you're breaking
And I can see the pain in your eyes
Says everybody's changing
And I don't know why

So little time
Try to understand that I'm
Trying to make a move just to stay in the game
I try to stay awake and remember my name
But everybody's changing
And I don't feel the same

You're gone from here
And soon you will disappear
And fading into beautiful light
Cause everybody's changing
And I don't feel right

So little time
Try to understand that I'm
Trying to make a move just to stay in the game
I try to stay awake and remember my name
But everybody's changing
And I don't feel the same

So little time
Try to understand that I'm
Trying to make a move just to stay in the game
I try to stay awake and remember my name
But everybody's changing
And I don't feel the same

Oh everybody's changing and I don't feel the same

[ouroboros]

[kalamazoo]

I think we should also try more songs about shipwrecks...

THE BALLAD OF THE REUBEN JAMES

(The USS Reuben James was the first American ship to be sunk in the Second World War. She was sunk off Iceland October 31, 1941 by a German U-Boat while guarding a Lend-Lease convoy bound for England. While unacknowledged as an enemy attack at the time due to America's technical neutrality, the Reuben James was heartily remembered after Hitler's declaration of war on the United States.)

Have you heard of a ship called the good Reuben James
Manned by hard fighting men both of honor and fame?
She flew the Stars and Stripes of the land of the free
But tonight she's in her grave at the bottom of the sea.

CHORUS:
Tell me what were their names, tell me what were their names,
Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?

One hundred men were drowned in that dark watery grave
When that good ship went down only forty-four were saved.
'Twas the last day of October we saved the forty-four
From the cold icy waters off that cold Iceland shore.

It was there in the dark of that uncertain night
That we watched for the U-boats and waited for a fight.
Then a whine and a rock and a great explosion roared
And they laid the Reuben James on that cold ocean floor.

Now tonight there are lights in our country so bright
In the farms and in the cities they are telling of the fight.
And now our mighty battleships will steam the bounding main
And remember the name of that good Reuben James.

Many years have passed since those brave men are gone;
Those cold Iceland waters are still and they're calm.
Many years have passed, but still I wonder why --
The worst of men must fight, and the best of men must die.

--Woody Guthrie

[Wynn]

I picked out an appropriate song that doesn't take a page and a half to post on a message board. I was all set to sing this, but alas, I did not have the opportunity. Here's the chorus.

Savage Garden - Crash & Burn
Let me be the one you call
If you jump, I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash, then crash and burn
You're not alone

See, it talks about the crash, feeling lonely, making calls, and falling apart. All in a few seconds of singing

[CoffeeJedi]

Cake - Frank Sinatra

We know of an ancient radiation
That haunts dismembered constellations,
A faintly glimmering radio station.
While frank sinatra sings Stormy Weather,
The flies and spiders get along together,
Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record.

Beyond the suns that guard this roof,
Beyond your flowers of flaming truths,
Beyond your latest ad campaigns,
An old man sits collecting stamps
In a room all filled with chinese lamps.
He saves what others throw away.
He says that he'll be rich some day.

*repeat chorus*

it references her favorite song, it mentions flies (~fleas) and spiders... and its a sad song... about hanging on to the past, (i was hoping to make her cry if i had the chance)
i also like the reference to old radio waves drifting through space