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Friday 10: Sitting on a Cornflake

Waiting for the van to come

The eyes and forhead of a walrus are barely visible above the waterline.
You let your face grow long.
Source: Pixabay / Pixabay Content License

Last week’s answers are now up. We had eight correct guesses in short order! Despite what I thought was a give-away name-drop in the lyric, no one recognized the Wu-Tang Clan’s Protect Ya Neck. Nor did anyone seem to remember Glen Yarbrough’s The Hobbit theme The Greatest Adventure. Based on my last watch-through of the 1977 Rankin/Bass production, that’s not a bad thing. I watched it a ton when I was a kid, but as an adult I found it tooth-grindingly awful in a way nostalgia just couldn’t offset.

Oh, the video for Protect Ya Neck is from PBS and has a live orchestra. “Classic rappers + live orchestra” seems to be a video genre now. The Simpsons should be proud for again predicting (maybe creating?) a fad.

Here’s another ten lyrics; I think chances are good we’ll see all of them guessed this week.

If you’ve never played before, the rules are simple:

  1. Post your guesses in the comments. Provide both the artist and the title.
  2. No fair searching.
  3. Covers are accepted if I can find them. (It’s surprising how often hit songs are covers, actually.)

If’n that ain’t enough for ya, try Glen’s. Also, let’s all welcome Fred, who has also posted ten lyrics for you to guess! I’d considered adding more than ten each week, but this is much better: more people posting their own versions of this game!

This week’s lyrics:

  1. When we met I was sure out to lunch. Now, my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch. (1966)
    Along Comes Mary, The Association (covered by The Bloodhound Gang)
    Guessed by
    Frodis Caper
  2. Come and see me. I’m the same boy I used to be. (1981)
    Valerie, Steve Winwood
    Guessed by
    Lazlo Hollyfeld
  3. My confidence is leavin’ me on my own. No one can save me, and you know I don’t want the attention. (2007)
    Bat Country, Avenged Sevenfold
    Guessed by
    Bubs Meany
  4. Fingertips have memories — mine can’t forget the curves of your body. (1998)
    Flagpole Sitta, Harvey Danger (covered by The All-American Rejects)
    Guessed by
    Lazlo Hollyfeld
  5. At Citibank we will meet accidently; we’ll start to talk when she borrows my pen. (2001)
    Short Skirt / Long Jacket, Cake
    Guessed by
    Glen
  6. There’s an army on the dance floor. It’s a fashion with a gun, my love. (1982)
    Love My Way, Psychedelic Furs
  7. They took the credit for your second symphony, rewritten by machine on new technology. And now I understand the problems you could see. (1979)
    Video Killed the Radio Star, The Buggles (covered by Presidents of the United States of America)
    Guessed by
    Glen
  8. Girls will be boys and boys will be girls; it’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world. (1970)
    Lola, The Kinks
    Guessed by
    Fred
  9. Mr. Play-It-Safe was afraid to fly. He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye. (1995)
    Ironic, Alanis Morissette
    Guessed by
    Fred
  10. The vision never dies, life’s a never-ending wheel. (1983)
    Holy Diver, Dio
    Guessed by
    Robin

Your guesses