The Friday Random Guess 10 — the “I’m actually rushing out the door right now” Edition:
- “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones, guessed by marisa
And a man comes on and tells me how white my shirts can be - “If I Had a Boat” by the Holmes Brothers (orig. Lyle Lovett), guessed by Clayton
The mystery masked man was smart - “The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let it Roll)” by George Harrison
Fool’s illusions everywhere - “Jamaica Mistaica” by Jimmy Buffett
But every now and then the dragons come to call - “You Never Call” by Loudon Wainwright III
This year my birthday came and went - “Here Come the Bastards” by Primus
Something about a hammerhead shark - “Crosseyed and Painless” by Talking Heads
There was a line, there was a formula - “How Many Cans?” by Soul Coughing
Is you am a dog? - “Kinder Murder” by Elvis Costello
Jimmy took her down to the perimeter fence - “Life on Mars” by David Bowie, guessed by Betty
She could spit in the eyes of fools
I’ll post the answers to last week’s 10 sometime later tonight. In the meantime, good luck!
And is just me, or is there a weird, almost-story-like, disjointed-poem quality to these when read one after the other?
#1 is the stone – satisfaction.
#7 is a song by the talking heads or dave byrn, but hell if i can remember what the name of it is, and now it’s driving me crazy, cause it i google it, it’ll be cheating. 🙁
-marisa
#10 is David Bowie’s Life on Mars. Great song. Great TV show. 🙂
1. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones
2. If I Had A Boat – Lyle Lovett
8. sounds like Frank Zappa, but I don’t actually know for sure…