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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