View Full Version : The 'Guess the Morrissey Lyric' Thread.


Sparacus
August 21, 2002, 07:44 PM
Ok - here's how this works. I post a Moz lyric and if you know the answer you post the song title and then THE NEXT LYRIC for people to guess. Ok here's the first one:

"Love at first sight may sound trite, but its true you know....."

Almodis
August 21, 2002, 07:48 PM
> "Love at first sight may sound trite, but its true you
> know....."

Late Night, Maudlin Street.

"And thirty years could be a thousand/And this Peugeot ad./Spins round in my head"

The Draize Train
August 21, 2002, 08:49 PM
This Is Not Your Country.

" Jet trails in the sky-leave one word behind. A hand bangs into sand a name, and we all understand..."

Weiß
August 21, 2002, 08:58 PM
Lost.

"...in the alley by the railway station, it's all over my face".

me
August 21, 2002, 09:03 PM
"I Want the One I Can't Have"

Try to guess this one:
"...Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave, oh Dagenham Dave/Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave, oh Dagenham Dave..."

this game is lame

3/4 Of A Person
August 21, 2002, 09:22 PM
> "I Want the One I Can't Have"

> Try to guess this one:
> "...Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave, oh Dagenham Dave/Dagenham Dave,
> Dagenham Dave, oh Dagenham Dave..."

> this game is lame

Some people are such spoilsports.

Here's one:

"They're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives"

The Draize Train
August 21, 2002, 09:24 PM
> "I Want the One I Can't Have"

> Try to guess this one:
> "...Dagenham Dave, Dagenham Dave, oh Dagenham Dave/Dagenham Dave,
> Dagenham Dave, oh Dagenham Dave..."

> this game is lame

"me", dont take it out on our game if your life is miserably depressing and generally uninteresting-your insipid comment finds itself unwelcome here..

Notastitchtowear
August 21, 2002, 09:26 PM
> Ok - here's how this works. I post a Moz lyric and if you know the answer
> you post the song title and then THE NEXT LYRIC for people to guess. Ok
> here's the first one:

> "Love at first sight may sound trite, but its true you
> know....."

Oh I know! Eminem....right?

Sparacus
August 21, 2002, 09:41 PM
> Some people are such spoilsports.

> Here's one:

> "They're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives"

ANSWER: Interesting Drug

New lyric: "I've never had a job because I've never wanted one..."

Transmission_NYC
August 21, 2002, 10:12 PM
"You've Got Everything Now".

guess this one:

"She's the lifeblood of me
As you walk hand in hand
And I try, and I try, and I try
But I will never understand"

3/4 Of A Person
August 21, 2002, 10:32 PM
> "You've Got Everything Now".

> guess this one:

> "She's the lifeblood of me
> As you walk hand in hand
> And I try, and I try, and I try
> But I will never understand"

"What Do You See In Him?"

Quite rare, I understand...

"Your father cracks a joke and in the usual way empties the room"

arch
August 21, 2002, 10:41 PM
> "What Do You See In Him?"

> Quite rare, I understand...

> "Your father cracks a joke and in the usual way empties the
> room"

that is from 'now my heart is full'

next lyric:

Ice water for blood with neither heart or spine

The Draize Train
August 22, 2002, 12:40 AM
> that is from 'now my heart is full'

> next lyric:

> Ice water for blood with neither heart or spine

Wonderful Woman.

" I dont need a house thats a showplace, I just feel that we're going no place, while you say that"...

Naughty Ned
August 22, 2002, 01:38 AM
> " I dont need a house thats a showplace, I just feel that we're going
> no place, while you say that"...

That's "Work is a Four Letter Word."

Next Lyric:

"...Don't Take Your Life, Some People Have Got No Pride, They Do Not Understand The Urgency of Life..."

Born Again Human
August 22, 2002, 03:47 AM
> "...Don't Take Your Life, Some People Have Got No Pride, They Do Not
> Understand The Urgency of Life..."

Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together.

What about this one:

"...and no one knows a thing about my life, I can come and go as I please"

Almodis
August 22, 2002, 09:34 AM
> "...and no one knows a thing about my life, I can come and go as I
> please"
Jack The Ripper

"All held together by management glue"

Frankshankly
August 22, 2002, 06:14 PM
> Jack The Ripper

> "All held together by management glue"

What's The World

All the lies that you made up, what's at the back of your mind/
Oh the face I can see, and it's desperately kind

Almodis
August 22, 2002, 07:10 PM
> All the lies that you made up, what's at the back of your mind/
> Oh the face I can see, and it's desperately kind

Stretch Out And Wait (World Won't Listen Version)

"On the escalator, you shit paracetamol"

Me
August 22, 2002, 07:17 PM
> Stretch Out And Wait (World Won't Listen Version)

> "On the escalator, you shit paracetamol"

My Insatiable One.

now

'..Where the loser removes one item of clothing'

Jen
August 22, 2002, 07:38 PM
> '..Where the loser removes one item of clothing'

That's "Striptease with a difference"

ok, here goes: "who can make hitler seem like a bus conductor?"

Almodis
August 22, 2002, 07:43 PM
> That's "Striptease with a difference"

> ok, here goes: "who can make hitler seem like a bus conductor?"

Oh Phoney

"The bleakness arouses a longing to leave"

The Draize Train
August 22, 2002, 09:52 PM
> Oh Phoney

> "The bleakness arouses a longing to leave"

That's from "East West", the song morrissey covered from Herman's Hermits.

" He was just somebody's luckless son, oh but now look what he's done, oh look what he's done"...

Girl Drowning
August 22, 2002, 10:11 PM
> That's from "East West", the song morrissey covered from
> Herman's Hermits.

> " He was just somebody's luckless son, oh but now look what he's
> done, oh look what he's done"...

Michael's Bones (which I hate btw)

'And there's enough gloom in her world, I'm certain... without my contribution'

Born Again Human
August 22, 2002, 10:14 PM
> " He was just somebody's luckless son, oh but now look what he's
> done, oh look what he's done"...

Michael's Bones

"...and please don't you ask me if I love you..."