Lyrically Speaking - 2/21/25
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:36 am
This is normally where I'd place the infamous "short phrases" game in the LSWE, but I decided not to do it this year... mainly because I think of all these great lines while listening to the songs at work, and by the time I'd think to write them down, they'd be gone an I'd always spend hours scouring lyrics at home to fill out almost all of the game. So in its place, here's yet another themed Friday game. I may as well have switched the Thursday and Friday themes this year so that there'd have been some familiarity with games past...
Anyway, the theme of this game has TWO elements to it... and you'll need to come up with both to get the three theme points. The first element is pretty simple, and you'll likely see it if you get just a few of the songs right. The second element is a bit trickier to spot, but hardly impossible. I will say that it seems the whole theme seems to be more common in modern songs (and in LSWE terms, that means anything post-80's). So it was a bit of a challenge for me to make a game that wasn't half songs hardly anyone would get. The theme and Krox credit will be judged on you getting both parts rights, but the Image Bonus just concentrates on the first part... so have your usual fun with that.
1 point for the title, 1 point for the artist, 3 points for the theme...
1. When I was younger, so much younger than today
2. There's A Cross For You To Bear
Things To Go Through If You're Going
Anywhere
3. In violent times
You shouldn't have to sell your soul
In black and white
They really, really ought to know
4. Hello, hey you
Who said that?
Baby, how you been?
You say you don't know
You won't know until you begin
5. I guess that I forgot I had a choice
I let you push me past the breaking point
I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything
6. All around the world statues crumble for me
Who knows how long I've loved you
Everywhere I go, people stop and they see
7. Don't you love the life you killed?
The priest is on the phone
Your father hit the wall
Your ma' disowned you
8. No matter how hard I try
You keep pushing me aside
And I can't break through
There's no talking to you
9. Who's gonna pick you up
When you fall?
Who's gonna hang it up
When you call?
10. I got a certain little girl she's on my mind
No doubt about it she looks so fine
She's the best girl that I ever had
Sometimes she's gonna make me feel so bad
11. I ain't no psychiatrist, I ain't no doctor with degrees
But, it don't take too much high IQ's
To see what you're doing to me
12. Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street
Chicago, New York, Detroit and it's all on the same street
Your typical city involved in a typical daydream
Hang it up and see what tomorrow brings
Theme? (Remember, it has TWO elements):
Kroxquo Bonus: Name another song with artist that fits the theme of today's game.
Image Bonus: What's the word on the street?
Anyway, the theme of this game has TWO elements to it... and you'll need to come up with both to get the three theme points. The first element is pretty simple, and you'll likely see it if you get just a few of the songs right. The second element is a bit trickier to spot, but hardly impossible. I will say that it seems the whole theme seems to be more common in modern songs (and in LSWE terms, that means anything post-80's). So it was a bit of a challenge for me to make a game that wasn't half songs hardly anyone would get. The theme and Krox credit will be judged on you getting both parts rights, but the Image Bonus just concentrates on the first part... so have your usual fun with that.
1 point for the title, 1 point for the artist, 3 points for the theme...
1. When I was younger, so much younger than today
2. There's A Cross For You To Bear
Things To Go Through If You're Going
Anywhere
3. In violent times
You shouldn't have to sell your soul
In black and white
They really, really ought to know
4. Hello, hey you
Who said that?
Baby, how you been?
You say you don't know
You won't know until you begin
5. I guess that I forgot I had a choice
I let you push me past the breaking point
I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything
6. All around the world statues crumble for me
Who knows how long I've loved you
Everywhere I go, people stop and they see
7. Don't you love the life you killed?
The priest is on the phone
Your father hit the wall
Your ma' disowned you
8. No matter how hard I try
You keep pushing me aside
And I can't break through
There's no talking to you
9. Who's gonna pick you up
When you fall?
Who's gonna hang it up
When you call?
10. I got a certain little girl she's on my mind
No doubt about it she looks so fine
She's the best girl that I ever had
Sometimes she's gonna make me feel so bad
11. I ain't no psychiatrist, I ain't no doctor with degrees
But, it don't take too much high IQ's
To see what you're doing to me
12. Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street
Chicago, New York, Detroit and it's all on the same street
Your typical city involved in a typical daydream
Hang it up and see what tomorrow brings
Theme? (Remember, it has TWO elements):
Kroxquo Bonus: Name another song with artist that fits the theme of today's game.
Image Bonus: What's the word on the street?
