Lyrically Speaking - 1/8/21
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:53 am
Here is the first Player Participation Friday game of the 2021 LSWE, where I asked you all to send me a song for the game based on the following extremely complicated (according to Sprots) theme...
The aliens have landed, and you have been chosen to be earth's ambassador who will show them around the planet. The aliens, as you might expect, aren't too happy with what they see on the third rock from the sun. You notice on the mothership overhead that they're preparing the giant laser that will turn the earth into tiny pebbles... and you only have a few minutes remaining to change their minds and show them that there are redeeming values to humanity! You quickly whip out your music collection and select what song to play for the aliens, which you hope will save the world!
Perhaps not surprisingly, since I tried to be extremely cute with how I described the background situation, most, if not everyone, who played along didn't quite interpret this the way I had planned. That's my fault, so I decided to play along with everyone else and made my own submission sorta match with the vibe of everyone else's songs. 11 of you sent me a song (the other 5 of you are officially on report), so with my entry worked in, that made this game just meet the LSWE minimum of 12 songs! Good luck saving the world...
1 point for the title, 1 point for the artist, 5 points for identifying which song I contributed to the game...
1. When the road looks rough ahead
And you're miles and miles
From your nice warm bed
You just remember what your old pal said
2. Till forever, on it goes
Through the circle, fast and slow
I know, it can't stop, I wonder
3. All of you brothers over in Africa
Tell all the folks in
Egypt and Israel, too
4. After the laughter has died away
And all the boys have had their fun
No surface noise now, not much to say
They got the bad guys on the run
5. I'll take your part
Oh, when darkness comes
And pain is all around
6. Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew her
7. Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone I can't go on
Feelin' two-foot small
8. So many have tried,
Tried To find a love
Like yours and mine, hmm, mm, mm
Girl, don't you realize
How you hypnotize
9. Nothing seems to kill me no matter how hard I try
Nothing is closing my eyes
Nothing can beat me down for your pain or delight
And nothing seems to break me
No matter how hard I fall nothing can break me at all
Not one for giving up though not invincible I know
10. There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
11. The colors of the rainbow
So pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces
Of people going by
12. And all this science I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
Which song did I contribute to this game?
Kroxquo Bonus: Oops. Looks like that didn't work, and the earth just became another asteroid belt. Name a song with artist to remember our planet by...
Image Bonus: It came from outer space.....
The aliens have landed, and you have been chosen to be earth's ambassador who will show them around the planet. The aliens, as you might expect, aren't too happy with what they see on the third rock from the sun. You notice on the mothership overhead that they're preparing the giant laser that will turn the earth into tiny pebbles... and you only have a few minutes remaining to change their minds and show them that there are redeeming values to humanity! You quickly whip out your music collection and select what song to play for the aliens, which you hope will save the world!
Perhaps not surprisingly, since I tried to be extremely cute with how I described the background situation, most, if not everyone, who played along didn't quite interpret this the way I had planned. That's my fault, so I decided to play along with everyone else and made my own submission sorta match with the vibe of everyone else's songs. 11 of you sent me a song (the other 5 of you are officially on report), so with my entry worked in, that made this game just meet the LSWE minimum of 12 songs! Good luck saving the world...
1 point for the title, 1 point for the artist, 5 points for identifying which song I contributed to the game...
1. When the road looks rough ahead
And you're miles and miles
From your nice warm bed
You just remember what your old pal said
2. Till forever, on it goes
Through the circle, fast and slow
I know, it can't stop, I wonder
3. All of you brothers over in Africa
Tell all the folks in
Egypt and Israel, too
4. After the laughter has died away
And all the boys have had their fun
No surface noise now, not much to say
They got the bad guys on the run
5. I'll take your part
Oh, when darkness comes
And pain is all around
6. Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew her
7. Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone I can't go on
Feelin' two-foot small
8. So many have tried,
Tried To find a love
Like yours and mine, hmm, mm, mm
Girl, don't you realize
How you hypnotize
9. Nothing seems to kill me no matter how hard I try
Nothing is closing my eyes
Nothing can beat me down for your pain or delight
And nothing seems to break me
No matter how hard I fall nothing can break me at all
Not one for giving up though not invincible I know
10. There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
11. The colors of the rainbow
So pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces
Of people going by
12. And all this science I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
Which song did I contribute to this game?
Kroxquo Bonus: Oops. Looks like that didn't work, and the earth just became another asteroid belt. Name a song with artist to remember our planet by...
Image Bonus: It came from outer space.....