Lyrics Quiz Answers

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And the winner is... olethros, with a whopping 7 points. Looks like I owe you whatever your poison of choice is at the moment :)

(It's very hard to pitch these things right. I had no idea whether I'd made it ridiculously hard or ridiculously easy. Looks like it was the former.)

Most of these songs have a story for me. I'd love to tell them all now, but work has suddenly cracked down drastically on web access. Soon, I hope.


1: ‘Do you think you’re better than the other kids? Well, get outside’
Belle & Sebastian, 'Expectations'

2: ‘You’d ring me in the morning, you’d page me in the night’
Spearmint, 'I Went Away'

3: ‘She’ll hear me out and won’t easily be converted to my way of thinking, in fact she’ll often disagree’
Depeche Mode, 'Somebody'

4: ‘They’re shutting down the factory now, just when all the bills are due’
Leonard Cohen, 'Coming Back To You'

5: ‘And the world is drawn into your hands, and the world is etched upon your heart’
Smashing Pumpkins, 'Muzzle'

6: ‘When you walk without ease on these streets where you were raised’
The Smiths, 'Never Had No One Ever'

7: ‘Two feet below the surface I can still make out your wavy face, and if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place’
NIN, 'I Do Not Want This'

8: ‘Not for one second did you look behind you as you were walking away’
New Model Army, 'Green and Grey'

9: ‘You say it’s love that you need, but it’s war that you’ve got’
PWEI, 'Wise Up, Sucker'

10: ‘I saw the best minds of my generation applied by magic marker to drywall’
They Might Be Giants, 'I Should Be Allowed To Think'

11: ‘Even at 25, you’ve gotta start sometime’
Jimmy Eat World, 'Praise Chorus'

12: ‘I wanna be reckless but I’m feeling so uptight’
The Moldy Peaches, 'Who's Got The Crack?'

13: ‘Your records are here, your eyes on my wall, your teeth are over there’
Radiohead, 'Thinking About You'

14: ‘Mom’s coming round to put it back the way it ought to be’
Tool, 'Aenema'

15: ‘Though seasons change, things come to pass, remain inside of me’
VNV Nation, 'Standing'

16: ‘Won’t you walk up and down my spine? It makes me feel strangely alive’
Kirsty McColl, 'In These Shoes?'

17: ‘Seems I keep getting this story twisted, so where’s Neil when you need him?’
Tori Amos, 'Space Dog'

18: ‘”Let’s go out tonight.” So we drank and danced, for once I felt close to you’
St Etienne, 'Archway People'

19: ‘A for effort and B for delivery’
Pavement, 'Transport Is Arranged'

20: ‘I had important things to say, can’t remember what they were’
Covenant, 'Still Life'