Lyrically Speaking - 2/28/25
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:05 am
It's been kind of a weird season of LSWE this year. There was no short phrases game, no visual image game, Charlie Brown's Teacher didn't drop by to teach us another lesson... in fact, no Merry Men at all showed up to host a game. You know what else was odd about this LSWE run? None of the games contained more than 12 songs! That's mainly due to me making all of the Friday games theme games, which wasn't my intention when I started five weeks ago. Had I known, I would have flipped Thursday and Friday and had the decades game run for more songs. And..... well, the final Friday game is also a themed game. However, I can't very well have just a 12 song finale.... so this last game is going to be 16 songs long! That'll give you plenty of points to catch whoever it is you're chasing in the standings, while also giving your opponent more than enough chances to widen the gap even more.
So here we are.... sixteen songs with a common theme! And if you get the theme for this game, I'm awarding five points for it this time! I usually save the hard themes for last, but if you don't get this one, well, I just don't know what to say....
So, for the final time in 2025......... 1 point for the title, 1 point for the artist, 5 points for the theme!
1. Been away so long, I hardly knew the place
Gee, it's good to be back home
Leave it 'til tomorrow to unpack my case
Honey, disconnect the phone (2008)
2. I got a job waitin'
For my graduation
Fifty thou a year
Will buy a lotta beer (2009)
3. They say that you're a runaround lover
Though you say it isn't so
But if you put me down for another
I'll know, believe me, I'll know (2010)
4. We've been together since way back when
Sometimes I never wanna see you again (2011)
5. Now if I appear to be carefree
It's only to camouflage my sadness
And honey to shield my pride I try
To cover this hurt with a show of gladness (2012)
6. Someday, some good wind
May blow her back to me
Some night I may hear
Her like she used to be (2013)
7. Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot (2014)
8. There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday (2015)
9. And she's watching him with those eyes
And she's loving him with that body, I just know it (2016)
10. Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact, it's cold as hell (2017)
11. Oh, it's in color, your hair is brown
Your eyes are hazel and soft as clouds
I often kiss you when there's no one else around (2018)
12. Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw 'em on the floor (2019)
13. Well, if friends with their fancy persuasion
Don't admit that it's part of a scheme
But I can't help but have my suspicions
'Cause I ain't quite as dumb as I seem (2020)
14. I'm too hot (hot damn)
Make a dragon wanna retire, man (2021)
15. Look over yonder
What do you see?
The sun is a-rising
Most definitely (2023)
16. I follow you around, but you can't see
You're too wrapped up in yourself to notice
So you choose to look the other way (2024)
Theme????????
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OK, maybe I should give you a slight hint.
All of the songs above have appeared in an LSWE game before. And in the year listed, they all appeared in a game that also contained what other song in common?
Kroxquo Bonus: Name a song with artist that, if you were the regular LS-meister, you would work into the game every year.
Image Bonus: What's one of the side effects of playing the LSWE I should warn people about?
So here we are.... sixteen songs with a common theme! And if you get the theme for this game, I'm awarding five points for it this time! I usually save the hard themes for last, but if you don't get this one, well, I just don't know what to say....
So, for the final time in 2025......... 1 point for the title, 1 point for the artist, 5 points for the theme!
1. Been away so long, I hardly knew the place
Gee, it's good to be back home
Leave it 'til tomorrow to unpack my case
Honey, disconnect the phone (2008)
2. I got a job waitin'
For my graduation
Fifty thou a year
Will buy a lotta beer (2009)
3. They say that you're a runaround lover
Though you say it isn't so
But if you put me down for another
I'll know, believe me, I'll know (2010)
4. We've been together since way back when
Sometimes I never wanna see you again (2011)
5. Now if I appear to be carefree
It's only to camouflage my sadness
And honey to shield my pride I try
To cover this hurt with a show of gladness (2012)
6. Someday, some good wind
May blow her back to me
Some night I may hear
Her like she used to be (2013)
7. Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot (2014)
8. There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday (2015)
9. And she's watching him with those eyes
And she's loving him with that body, I just know it (2016)
10. Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact, it's cold as hell (2017)
11. Oh, it's in color, your hair is brown
Your eyes are hazel and soft as clouds
I often kiss you when there's no one else around (2018)
12. Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw 'em on the floor (2019)
13. Well, if friends with their fancy persuasion
Don't admit that it's part of a scheme
But I can't help but have my suspicions
'Cause I ain't quite as dumb as I seem (2020)
14. I'm too hot (hot damn)
Make a dragon wanna retire, man (2021)
15. Look over yonder
What do you see?
The sun is a-rising
Most definitely (2023)
16. I follow you around, but you can't see
You're too wrapped up in yourself to notice
So you choose to look the other way (2024)
Theme????????
????
??????????????????????????????
OK, maybe I should give you a slight hint.
All of the songs above have appeared in an LSWE game before. And in the year listed, they all appeared in a game that also contained what other song in common?
Kroxquo Bonus: Name a song with artist that, if you were the regular LS-meister, you would work into the game every year.
Image Bonus: What's one of the side effects of playing the LSWE I should warn people about?
