Song lyric contest

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Congrats to bafleyanne for winning the lyrics-guessing contest! bafleyanne, if you'll send me your snailmail address, I will send you a suitably tacky prize package.



GUESSED 1) "'I am not much of a joiner,' she says. 'That's not where I draw my strength. Some of them go for the depth of field, while most of 'em go for the length. Me, I will go for the hard combination...'"
Answer: "Flying Red Horse", by John Gorka

GUESSED 2) "Because there ain't a man who got the money in his hand who got any of that bread by bein' slow in the head. The easier it looks, the harder it hooks -- there ain't no such thing as easy money."
Answer: "Easy Money", by Rickie Lee Jones

GUESSED 3) "We both know what memories can bring. They bring diamonds and rust. [...] And if you're offering me diamonds and rust, I've already paid."
Answer: "Diamonds and Rust", by Joan Baez

GUESSED 4) "I would shelter you and keep you in light, but I can only teach you night vision."
Answer: "Night Vision", by Suzanne Vega

GUESSED 5) "I was so wary then, the Ugly American, thinner than oxygen, tough as a whore. I said 'You can lie to me. I own what's inside of me, and nothing surprises me any more.'"
Answer: "Polaroids", by Shawn Colvin

6) "He's like a boxer who had to retire after winning, but killing a man. All of the moves, but none of the courage, afraid to throw a punch that might land."
Answer: "One Part Be My Lover", by Bonnie Raitt and Michael O'Keefe

GUESSED 7) "I'm gonna do my best swan dive into shark-infested waters. I'm gonna pull out my tampon and start splashing around, 'cause I don't care if they eat me alive -- I've got better things to do than survive... And they can call me crazy if I fail. All the chance that I need is one in a million, and they can call me brilliant if I succeed. Gravity is nothing to me, moving at the speed of sound. I'm just gonna get my feet wet until I drown."
Answer: "Swan Dive", by Ani DiFranco

GUESSED 8) "I can smell the bleach that they use in the hall, but it can't clean the dirt off of me. It seeps under the door, and across the floor. It's starting to hurt every time I breathe."
Answer: "Basement Apartment", by Sarah Harmer

GUESSED 9) "The name she gave was Caroline, daughter of a miner. And her ways were free, and it seemed to me the sunshine walked beside her."
Answer: "Tecumseh Valley", by Townes Van Zandt (the version I heard first was by Nanci Griffith)

10) "I want to plan a city and play the cello, play at Monte Carlo, play Othello, move into the White House, paint it yellow."
Answer: "Everything", by Barbra Streisand

11) "They want you, they need you, they train you to kill. To be a pin on some map, some vicarious thrill. The old hate the young, that's the cold, heartless thing. The old pick the wars, we die in 'em."
Answer: "Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm", by Joni Mitchell

GUESSED 12) "We own nothing. Nothing is ours. Not even love so fierce, it burns like baby stars. But this poverty is our greatest gift: the weightlessness of us as things around begin to shift."
Answer: "Everything In Its Own Time", by Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls)

GUESSED 13) "What if no one's watching? What if when we're dead, we are just dead? I mean, what if it's just us down here? What if god is just an idea someone put in your head?"
Answer: "What If No One's Watching?", by Ani DiFranco

GUESSED 14) "Step out the front door like a ghost into a fog, where no one notices the contrast of white on white."
Answer: "'Round Here", by Adam Duritz and several other people (Counting Crows)

GUESSED 15) "You come from far away, with pictures in your eyes of coffee shops and morning streets, and the blue and silent sunrise."
Answer: "Gypsy", by Suzanne Vega

16) "Well, I too have chosen that which left no choice -- to sing without loving my solitary voice."
Answer: "Altar Boy", by Rickie Lee Jones

GUESSED 17) "I'm glad no one's here, just me by the sea. I'm glad no one's here to mess it up for me. I'm glad no one's here, just me by the sea. But man, I wish I had a hand to hold... I'm in the habit of being alone. I've tried hard to break it, I can't on my own."
Answer: "Me By The Sea", by Edie Brickell

18) "She does anything she wants, any time she wants to, with anyone, you know, she wants it all. Still, she gets all upset over the least little thing -- man, you hurt her, it makes you feel so small."
Answer: "Nobody's Girl", by Larry John McNally (performed by Bonnie Raitt)

GUESSED 19) "Some will strut and some will fret, see this an hour on the stage. Others will not but they'll sweat in their hopelessness, in their rage. We're all the same: the men of anger and the women of the page"
Answer: "Virginia Woolf", by Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls)

20) "The flowers were furnished by the funeral parlor. The whole thing was paid for by the funeral director, who poisoned the saxophone section."
Answer: "An Acceptable Level of Ecstasy (The Wedding Song)", by Lyle Lovett