katy’s music pop quiz (not pop music quiz)

great lines from music i’m listening to this evening whilst shredding documents, sorting bills, and playing world of warcraft. how many can you recognize? if you can get more than two or three i will be most impressed. much of what i like is rather obscure.

1. and i feel like i’m being eaten by a thousand million shivering furry holes
   

2. and it’s you when i look in the mirror
   

3. so you’re running ’round the parking lot, till every lightning bug is caught, punching some pinholes in the lid of a jar, while we wait in the car
   

4. but the film is a saddening bore, ’cause she’s lived it ten times or more
   

5. the dreams in which i’m dying are the best i’ve ever had
   

6. and so with gods and men, the sheep remain inside their pen, though many times they’ve seen the way to leave
   

7. the music we make is serpentine and bittersweet
   

8. in my youth, you know i loved you like gangbusters and now i watch you fall
   

9. fruit is rusting on the vine
   

10. now we have light to see the gifts that we’ve exchanged, you now hold the sun and i am left with pain
    

11. our amoeba, my little liebe schön
    

12. lost among echoes of things not there, watching the sound forming shapes in the air
    

13. the edge of time closes down as i disappear
    

14. god will remind us what we already know, that the human race is about to reap what it’s sown
    

15. if the real jesus christ were to stand up today, he’d be gunned down cold by the CIA
    

16. you’re only popular with anorexia, so I turn myself inside out in hope someone will see
    

17. but what if I’m a mermaid in these jeans of his with her name still on it?
    

18. bruised silken sky and burning flag
    

19. and all the people that you made in your image, still believing that junk is true, well i know it ain’t and so do you
    

20. when you fuck it up later, do i get my money back?
    

21. the heat and the sickliest sweet smelling sheets, that cling to the backs of my knees and my feet
    

22. it’s not such a wicked awesome good time when the shopping mall militia point their cannons at you
    

23. cheerleader waves her cyanide wand, there’s a smell of peach blossom and bitter almond
    

24. i’d give you all of my dreams, if you’ll help me find a door that doesn’t lead me back again
    

25. i see the truth when i’m all stupid-eyed
    

26. wishes she could call him heartache, but it’s not a boy’s name
    

27. if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
    

28. ballerinas that have fins that you’ll never find
    

29. carnival, the wheels fly and colors spin through alcohol, red wine that punctures the skin
    

30. i have watched the manimals and cried, buying time, buying ends to other peoples’ lives
    

and yes, i’ll be nice and give you the answers… 🙂

1. the cure, lullaby
   

2. sometimes you can’t make it on your own, u2
   

3. red vines, aimee mann
   

4. life on mars, david bowie
   

5. mad world, tears for fears
   

6. firth of fifth, genesis
   

7. our story, judybats
   

8. our story, judybats
   

9. low, cracker
   

10. pull it down, payne’s grey
    

11. humdrum, peter gabriel
    

12. humdrum, peter gabriel
    

13. omegaman, police
    

14. armageddon days (are here again), the the
    

15. armageddon days (are here again), the the (man, there are SO MANY good lines in this song)
    

16. jackie’s strength, tori amos
    

17. silent all these years, tori amos
    

18. bad, u2
    

19. dear god, xtc
    

20. how am i different, aimee mann
    

21. home, depeche mode
    

22. accidentally 4th street (gloria), figures on a beach
    

23. broadway melody of 1974, genesis
    

24. the chamber of 32 doors, genesis
    

25. the perfect drug, nine inch nails
    

26. appetite, prefab sprout
    

27. freewill, rush
    

28. spark, tori amos
    

29. the unforgettable fire, u2
    

30. jason and the argonauts, xtc