Here's how it works: Weekday mornings at about 8:10, Anita
& Chuck read a song lyric. You figure out the song title, and the artist
or band who recorded it! For answers, just click on the clues!
Tuesday, January 28-- "Now we can live in fear or act
out of hope, for some kind of peaceful situation"
Monday, January 27-- "I won't dance, you won't sing.
I just wanna love you, but you want to wear my ring"
Friday, January 24-- "You speak to me in riddles and
you speak to me in rhyme"
Thursday, January 23-- "There he is fast asleep, he's
just a little plaything"
Wednesday, January 22-- "Nothing's true and nothing's
right, so let me be alone tonight, you can't change the way I am"
Tuesday, January 21-- "Got more right than people--got
more say than people, 40,000 years can make a difference to the state of
things"
Monday, January 20-- "Never before and never since, I
promise, will the world be warm as this"
Friday, January 17 -- "Don't you think we need a woman's
touch to make you come alive."
Thursday, January 16-- "I would hate my disappoinment
to show, there's nothing for me here, so I will disappear. If she turns
up while I'm gone please let me know."
Wednesday, January 15 -- "Your love is thick and it swallowed
me whole, you're so braver than I gave you credit for"
Tuesday, January 14 -- "I've been here before and I'm
locking the door and I'm not going back again"
Monday, January 13 -- "I'll do as I'll decide and let
it ride until I've died"
Friday, January 10 -- "I had my hair piled high and my
baby just looked so right"
Thursday, January 9 -- "I was open to pain and crossed
by the rain"
Wednesday, January 8 -- "Dark sky all around, I can't
feel my feet touching the ground"
Tuesday, January 7 -- "Christ, what's she doing with
him, she could be dancing with me"
Monday, January 6 -- "She might need another lover, but
she don't need you"
Friday, January 3 -- "I've been in my mind it's such
a fine line"
Thursday, January 2 -- "Though nothing will keep us together,
we could only steal time."
Friday, December 27-- "I would be the one to hold you
down kiss you so hard I'll take your breath away"
Wednesday, December 25 -- "It's written all over your
face there's nothing better we could do than live forever. Well that's all
we've got to do"
Tuesday, December 24 -- "Calm the storms that drench
my eyes, dry the streams still flowing, cast down all the waves of sin and
guilt that overthrow me"
Monday, December 23 -- "Now and again I get the feeling,
well if I don't win I'm gonna break even"
Friday, December 20 -- "Show me round your snow peaked
mountains way down south"
Thursday, December 19 -- "In violent times you shouldn't
have to sell your soul"
Wednesday, December 18 -- "You're the best listener that
I've ever met-you're my best friend"
Tuesday, December 17 -- "If I could be king, even for
a day, I'd take you as my queen"
Monday, December 16 -- "Like a Madman laughing at the
rain, little out of touch"
Friday, December 13 -- "You know you could have been
a candle"
Thursday, December 12 -- "They might take away my life,
I just want someone to hold me"
Wednesday, December 11 -- "Don't harass me, can't you
tell I'm going home"
Tuesday, December 10 -- "We gave her everything we owned
just to sit at her table"
Thursday, December 5 -- "Your love is thick and it swallowed
me whole"
Wednesday, December 4 -- "Mother reads aloud, child tries
to understand it, tries to make her proud"
Tuesday, December 3 -- "Together we're gonna go out tonight
and make that highway run"
Monday, December 2 -- "An old friend calls and tells
us where to meet, her plane takes off from Baltimore"
Wednesday, November 27 -- "There is something amiss I
am being insincere"
Monday, November 25 -- "This youthful heart can love
you and give you what you need"
Friday, November 22 -- "By now you should've somehow
realized what you gotta do"
Thursday, November 21 -- "Drying up in conversation you
will be the one who cannot talk"
Wednesday, November 20 -- "Think I'm going down to the
well tonight, and I'm going to drink till I get my fill"
Tuesday, November 19 -- "A cloud appears above your head,
A beam of light comes shining down on you"
Friday, November 8 -- "It's been a long cold lonely winter"
Thursday, November 7 -- "On our way the sun broke free
of the clouds"
Wednesday, November 6 -- "If I had my way I'd take a
boat from the river and bury the old man"
Tuesday, November 5 -- "And as far as they can see they
can offer no explanation"
Monday, November 4 -- "Workin' on the dreams he planned
to try-the days go by"
Friday, November 1 -- "Drop your reds, drop your greens
and blues"
Thursday, October 31 -- "Held my hands never knew how
to act"
Wednesday, October 30 -- "In the diamond markets the
scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me."
Tuesday, October 29 -- "I know your friend, you told
her about me, she filled you with fear."
Monday, October 28 -- "A connecting principle linked
to the invisible."
Friday, October 25 -- "The man in the crowd with the
multi-colored mirrors."
Thursday, October 24 -- "Come on baby take a seat on
my fender."
Wednesday, October 23 -- "When I tell him that I'm falling
in love why does he say hush, hush."
Tuesday, October 22 -- "I've been feeling so much older.
Frame me and hang me on the wall."
Monday, October 21 -- "Crossing that bridge with lessons
I've learned. Playing with fire and not getting burned."
Thursday, October 17 -- "I don't remember losing track
of you. You were always dancing in and out of view."
Wednesday, October 16 -- "The vice is nice, they stay
in the back all day, but when the night time comes, hey hey."
Tuesday, October 15 -- "And the feeling was bad at home,
I was out of my mind and you were on the phone."
Monday, October 14 -- "Up on the hill people never stare,
they just don't care"
Friday, October 11 -- "What would you ask if you had
just one question?"
Thursday, October 10 -- "Let us walk thru this barren
desert in search of truth."
Wednesday, October 09 -- "Cool kids never have the time,
on a live wire right up off the street."
Tuesday, October 08 -- "When my head's full of things
that I can't mention."
Monday, October 07 -- "Turn Your Head Now, Baby Just
Spit Me Out."
Friday, September 27 -- "I was a lonely soul, I had nobody
till I met you."
Thursday, September 26 -- "I know you're alone. I watched
the car leave. Your lover is gone. Let me in."
Wednesday, September 25 -- "Underneath the velvet skies,
love is all that matters, won't you stay with me?"
Tuesday, September 24 -- "You're bound to see that you
and me were meant to be for each other"
Monday, September 23 -- "Walk away into the night and
through the rain"
Friday, September 20 -- "He runs, wishing he could fly,
only to trip at the sound of goodbye"
Thursday, September 19 -- "There you stand before me,
all that fur and all that hair"
Wednesday, September 18 -- "You know who I am, you know
I can't let you slide through my hands "
Tuesday, September 17 -- "'If it's love,' she said, 'then
we're gonna have to think about the consequences' "
Monday, September 16 -- "It just seems so useless to
have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seems to come from it."
Friday, September 13 -- ... some sweet lovin' brighten
up my day"
Thursday, September 12 -- "one tiny little touch, aah,
he's wanting it so much"
Wednesday, September 11 -- "It's a turn-around jump
shot, it's everybody jump start. It's every generation throws a hero up the
pop charts."
Tuesday, September 10 -- "I wanna buy your leather,
make noise, try and talk me away, we can't be seen together...."
Monday, September 9 -- "Can you show me the shine in
your Japan, the sparkle of your China?"
Friday, September 6 -- "we are immune when fact is fiction
and TV reality"
Thursday, September 5 -- "It's hard to think about what
you lost, this doesn't have to be the big 'get even'"
Wednesday, September 4 -- "How can love survive in such
a graceless age?""
Tuesday, September 3 -- "With her hands on her hips
and that smile on her lips, because she knows that it kills me...."
Friday, August 30 -- "If you want to kiss the sky, better
learn how to kneel"
Thursday, August 29 -- "You must have nothing more with
your time to do. There's a war in Russia and Sarajevo too"
Wednesday, August 28 -- "I've had my fun and now its
time to serve your conscience overseas"
Tuesday, August 27 -- "Yesterday I got so old I felt
like I could die, yesterday I got so old it made me want to cry..."
Monday, August 26 -- "Now I'm walking again to the beat
of a drum and I'm counting the steps to the door of your heart"
Friday, August 23 -- "The sirens ring, the shots ring
out. A stranger cries, screams out loud."
Thursday, August 22 -- "We stood at the altar, the gypsy
swore our future was right. But come the wee wee hours, well maybe baby,
the gypsy lied"
Wednesday, August 21 -- "...but it's all wrong. That
is, I think I disagree."
Tuesday, August 20 -- "another industrial ugly morning,
the factory belches filth into the sky"
Monday, August 19 -- "A broom is drearily sweeping
up the broken pieces of yesterday's life...."
Friday, August 16 -- "Working on the sound of the band,
trying to get the music right...." "
Thursday, August 15 -- "it's all behind me, they're
all ahead now, can't hope to find me." "
Tuesday, August 13 -- "..don't feel you anymore. You
darken my door... whatever you're looking for..." "
Monday, August 12 -- "it might take years to see through
all these tears, don't let go...when you find it you will
know!"
Friday, August 9 -- "Is she bright, so well read, are
there novels by her bed?"
Thursday, August 8 -- "I'll come back again some day
and when I do, you'd better hide all the girls"
Wednesday, August 7 -- "I wash my ahir and I kid myself,
I look real smooth"
Tuesday, August 6 -- "Gonna buy a tank and an airplane,
when she catches up with me won't be no time to explain"
Monday, August 5 -- "One thing I think you should know,
I ain't gonna miss you when you go."
Friday, August 2 -- "Someone should call him and see
if he can come out, try to lose the down that he's found.
Thursday, August 1 -- "...you don't see too many faces
coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down."
Wednesday, July 31 -- "Come on baby, come on darling,
let me steal this moment from you now...."
Tuesday, July 30 -- "If I could be king even for one
day, I'd take you for my queen"
Monday, July 29 -- "I'm walking down your street again,
and past your door, but you don't live there any
more!"
Friday, July 26 -- "Thinkin' 'bout the times you drove
in my car.... thinkin' that I might have drove you too far!"
Thursday, July 25 -- "I've got no trophies on display,
I've signed them away."
Wednesday, July 24 -- "I tell you one thing, you'll
tell me another. We walk away, maybe then shake hands."
Tuesday, July 23 -- "I can't go outside, I'm scared
I might not make it home."
Monday, July 22 -- "I give my complete attention to
a very good friend of mine, he's quadrophonic..."
Friday, July 19 -- "still, words don't come easily,
like sorry"
Thursday, July 18 -- "You always say that you want
to be free, but you come running back!"
Wednesday, July 17 -- "Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams
and fairy tales ... that's all she ever thinks about."
Tuesday, July 16: "Your plane doesn't ever land. Some
things I don't want to look at, I don't want to understand"
Monday, July 15: "I took a month-long vacation in the
stratosphere and you know it's really hard to hold your breath"
LYRICALLY SPEAKING returns to the fm 101.9 website today after a brief absence
due to Nicole's vacation and her Power Book's trip to Apple for service.
But they're both back now!
Friday, July 12: "His clinging wife doesn't understand,
his son is working for the daily mail"
Friday, June 21: "...if she hung around too much I might
take her for granted, but when I was away, she seemed an angel..the only
one who really cared about me"
Thursday, June 20: "Y'know that women never really faint
and that villains always blink their eyes and that, y'know, children are
the only ones who blush."
Wednesday, June 19: "Every A-frame had your number on
the wall, you must 'o had it all"
Tuesday, June 18: "There's a joke and I know it very
well. It's one of those that I told you long ago"
Monday, June 17: "It's true, you only want me when I
get over you"
Friday, June 14: "Hey kids rock and roll. Nobody tells
you where to go baby!"
Thursday, June 13: "I got the radio on and, man, I'm
just killing time"
Wednesday, June 12: "I close my eyes, I seem to hear
the raindrops saying you won't come back"
Tuesday, June 11: "Nobody's right if everybody's wrong"
Monday, June 10: "Sittin' around the house, watching
the sun trace shadows on the floor."
Friday, June 7: "I did my knees bend, press ups, touch
my toes. Had another sneeze and I blew my nose."
Thursday, June 6: "Follow down a side street, move in
single file... she said that's where I'll hold you."
Wednesday, June 5: "Silly people run around they worry
me and never ask me why they don't get past my door."
Tuesday, June 4: "...if I do my job, what would you
complain about? So I let it go to hell"
Monday, June 3: "You loved him stronger than he could
feel but he was wrapped up in himself like an orange peel"
Friday, May 31: "I know my mind is made up so put away
your make-up!"
Thursday, May 30: "That's the reason I'm asking, and
that's the reason that I want to know"
Wednesday, May 29: "...those who are successful be always
on your guard, success walks hand in hand with failure"
Tuesday, May 28: "You want to talk to her, all those
things you bought for her would not get a temperature."
Friday, May 24: "Thank you for your wine, California.
Thank you for your sweet and bitter fruit."
Thursday, May 23: "Like a moth to a flame,
Like a song without a name, I've never been the same since I met you."
Wednesday, May 22: "I was there when the bear ate his
head, thought it was a candy!"
Tuesday, May 21: "Whichever way I go, I come back to
the place you are."
Monday, May 20: "on my radio some cat was layin' down
some rock 'n roll 'lotta soul"
Friday, May 17: "Nothin' but blues and Elvis and somebody
else's favorite song..."
Thursday, May 16: "Wear it out, the way a three-year
old would do!"
Wednesday, May 15: "Poor man wanna be rich, rich man
wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied till he rules
everything"
Tuesday, May 14: "I know you're dissatisfied with your
position and your place. Don't you understand it's not my
problem?"
Monday, May 13: "Though he says he'll wait forever,
it's now or ever"
Friday, May 10: "As she closed her eyes upon the world
and picked upon the bones of last week's news, she spoke his name out loud
again."
Thursday, May 9: "All you got is this moment, the 21st
century's yesterday"
Wednesday, May 8: "I don't know, but I've been told
you never slow down, you never grow old!"
Tuesday, May 7: "I've got your number, so does every
kiss and tell who dares to cross your threshold"
Monday, May 6: "Another day, another dollar, another
war, another tower went up where the homeless had their home."
Friday, May 3: "If I could choose a place to die, it
would be in your arms."
Thursday, May 2: "If you don't expect too much from
me you might not be let down."
Wednesday, May 1: "I want to love but it comes out wrong,
I want to live but I don't belong."
Tuesday, April 30: "A smile relieves a heart that grieves,
remember what I said."
Monday, April 29: "We have to shout above the din of
our rice crispies. We can't hear anything at all"
Friday, April 26: "You'd better buy yourself an electric
guitar. You better play, there's no other way to beat the blues."
Thursday, April 25: "When I look in your eyes I see
the harmonies, and the heartaches soften."
Wednesday, April 24: "I've got a pocket full of money,
and a pocket full of keys that have no bounds."
Tuesday, April 23: "I had a dream that no one else could
see, you gave me love for free."
Monday, April 22: "As people assemble civilization is
trying to find a new way to die."
Friday, April 19: "I rode a tank in a general's rank
when the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank."
Thursday, April 18: "Two jumps in a week. I bet you
think that's pretty clever, don't you boy."
Wednesday, April 17: "Now me and my mate were back at
the shack, we had Spike Jones on the box"
Tuesday, April 16: "When you got to get it out, I'll
be your shoulder, you can tell me all. Don't keep it in ya"
Monday, April 15: "Seems I usually get things right,
but I can't understand what I did last night."
Friday, April 12: "Ducks and pigs and chickens call,
animal carpet wall-to-wall. American ladies five-foot tall, in blue"
Thursday, April 11: "It took a day to build the city.
We walked through it's streets in the afternoon"
Wednesday, April 10: "I'm sure you've heard it all
before, but you never really had a doubt"
Tuesday, April 9: "Huggin' and a kissin', dancin' and
a lovin'. Wearin' next to nothin' 'cause it's hot as an oven!"
Monday, April 8: "He's seen this and he's done that,
and now he's making fried eggs an art!"
Friday, April 5: "Losing you would change my life you
see, 'cuz you mean so much to me"
Thursday, April 4: "I go to put my arms around you,
and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds."
Wednesday, April 3: "There's some progress, we have
found a way to talk around the problem."
Tuesday, April 2: "We smiled without any style, we
kissed altogether wrong"
Monday, April 1:"So the days float through my eyes, but
still the days seem the same"
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