Niedziela 2 Wrz 2007, 10:00

Lyrics Game #8 – Real Places

Um, well, I still haven’t progressed with the whole 1982 thing *embarrassed silence*….so here’s another Lyrics Game instead!

This time around all the song titles have place names in them (planets,countries, cities, towns and streets). They’re all the names of real locations…though the song writer may not have necessarily have had the real location in mind. You’ll see what I mean. Some of them may also use a colloquial or slang name for that place (for instance LA might be referred to as ‘The City of Angels’)

Nest time around I’ll do fictional places…..

The Lyrics

1. Walked in the cold air
Freezing breath on a window plane
Ultravox - Vienna

2. Walked around no one around
You were the one who taught me better
a-ha - Move To Memphis

3. Well, show me the way
To the next whisky bar
The Doors - Alabama Song

4. Moving on the floor now, babe
You’re a bird of paradise
Duran Duran - Rio

5. We sit and watch umbrellas fly
I'm trying to keep my newspaper dry
a-ha - Manhattan Skyline

6. Now in the street there is violence
And then there's lots of work to be done
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue

7. Super highways, coast to coast, easy to get anywhere
On the transcontinental overload, just slide behind the wheel
James Brown - Living In America

8. Standing at the limit of an endless ocean
Stranded like a runaway, lost at sea
Icehouse - Great Southern Land

9. , Oh mist rolling in from the sea,
My desire is always to be here
Wings - Mull Of Kintyre

10. When my love said to me
Meet me down by the gallow tree
Simple Minds - Belfast Child

11. Everybody comes to
They wanna make it in the neighbourhood
Madonna - Hollywood

12. Rainman makes his pretty patterns up and down the street,
I ask about his timing but he doesn't like to speak

13. Early this morning I drove in the rain
Out to the airport to get on the plane

14. Well he was Thailand based
She was an Air Force wife
14. Kim Wilde - Cambodia

15. When the sun comes up on a sleepy little town
Down around San Antone

16. Well if you ever plan to motor west
Travel my way, take the highway that’s the best
Depeche Mode - Route 66

17. Oh my love
It's a long way we've come
U2 - The Hands That Built America

18. Somebody…told her that there was a place like heaven
Across the water on a 747
Electric Light Orchestra - Calling America

19. A church house, gin house
A school house, outhouse
Ike & Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits

20. I left my heart to the sappers 'round
And I sold my soul with my cigarettes, to a black market man
Cold Chisel - Khe Sanh

21. As the city asleep
Shares its dreams and desires

22. L.A. proved too much for the man,
So he's leavin' the life he's come to know
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train To Georgia

23. Only came outside to watch the nightfall with the rain
I heard you making patterns rhyme
Duran Duran - Planet Earth

24. Sometimes you’re better off dead
There’s gun in your hand and its pointing at your head
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

25. Well East Coast girls are hip
I really dig those styles they wear
The Beach Boys - California Girls

26. Travelling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
Men At Work - Down Under

27. It was a cold and wet December day
When we touched the ground at JFK
U2 - Angel Of Harlem

28. I hung around in your soundtrack,
To mirror all that you’ve done

29. Found a place in the southern reaches
A day or two in a saddle ride

30. Is there a time for keeping your distance
A time to turn your eyes away
U2 - Miss Sarajevo

31. Winters city side
Crystal bits of snowflakes all around my head and in the wind
Alphaville - Big In Japan

32. Let me sail, let me sail, let the ,
Let me reach, let me beach on the shores of Tripoli
Enya - Orinoco Flow

33. When you go will you send back
A ?
The Proclaimers - Letter From America

34. The tucker box is empty now, the heart of Kelly’s country cleared
The gangers on the southern line, like the steam trains have disappeared

35. Lying in the bottom of my wooden boat
Hope to God I stay afloat

36. When they kick at your front door how you gonna come?
With your hands on your head or on the trigger of your gun?

37. Aruba, Jamaica, ooo I wanna take ya
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
The Beach Boys - Kokomo

38. I was bruised and battered
and I couldn’t tell what I felt
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia

39. It was 9-29,9-29 back street big city.
The sun was going down, there was music all around

40. I was when a sandstorm rose
The road disappeared and the axle froze

41. Windin' your way down on
Light in your head and dead on your feet
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street

42. In there is a barber showing photographs
Of every head he's had the pleasure to know
The Beatles - Penny Lane

43. My my, at Napoleon did surrender
Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way
ABBA - Waterloo

44. Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
The Doors - L.A. Woman

45. Sandalwood trees are evergreen
Cut them down, plant coffee beans
Morten Harket - East Timor

46. She dreams of 1969
Before the soldiers came
The Human League-The Lebanon

47. I used to be a rolling stone
You know if the cause was right
Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom

48. I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
Toto - Africa

49. The
The sky is bigger there
It took my breath away
China Crisis - Arizona Sky

50. Fallin’ asleep at the wheel again baby,
You’re driftin’ over the line (the line) Yeah.
INXS - Pretty Vegas

The Artists

Some artists have more than one song in the game - the number of songs is in brackets after their name.

ABBA (2) (1)
Aztec Camera
Big Country (2)
The Clash
The Doobie Brothers
Drum Theatre
Electric Light Orchestra (2) (1)
Joy Division
Midnight Oil
The Stranglers

a-ha (2)
Alphaville
The Beach Boys (2)
The Beatles
James Brown
China Crisis
Cold Chisel
Depeche Mode
The Doors (2)
Duran Duran (2)
Enya
Gladys Knight & The Pips
Eddy Grant
Morten Harket
The Human League
Icehouse
INXS
Elton John
Madonna
Men At Work
Pet Shop Boys
The Proclaimers
Gerry Rafferty
Simple Minds
Bruce Springsteen
Toto
Ike & Tina Turner
Ultravox
U2 (3)
Kim Wilde
Wings