Lyrics Quiz

[omimouse]

And, the promised piece of fluff.

I've seen this one floating around, most recently in dour's journal.

I post twenty lyrics, all from different songs. Ya'll (dear gods, I want to use 'ihr') try and figure out which songs they're from, and use the comments section for your answers/guesses. Bonus points for the singer/group, or for the singer/group that did it first.

The following songs, BTW, are all favourites of mine.


1. Fools said I, you do not know/Silence like a cancer grows

2. Everything is relative within the eyes of God/Someone's pain brings someone else delight/And all it takes is just/A subtle shift in point of view/To make the wrongs of man seem good and right

3. With a host of furious fancies/Of which I am commander/With a flaming spear and a horse of air/Through the wilderness I'll wander.

4. Now the fallen towers have been painted on our shields/Fear is on the land as armies gather in the fields/Something smiles as shrill voices bend the archers' aim/We must see through its disguise, and call it by its name

5. Queen of Light took her bow/And then she turned to go/The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom/And walked the night alone

6. Do not distract me when you see a new soul in these eyes/For when the war god fills this flesh I wear/I am no more your friend; I am the spirit of the bear

7. Name your goal--she won't ask your soul--/She might even give you her own--/
And maybe you'd be better off alone!

8. Blue masquerade, strangers look on/When will they learn this loneliness?
/Temptation heat beats like a drum/Deep in your veins, I will not lie

9. Autumn in her flaming dress/Of orange, brown, gold fallen leaves/My mistress of the frigid night/I worship, pray to on my knees

10. I hunt, therefore I am/Harvest the land/Taking of the fallen lamb

11. Beneath this cloak of treason/Appears a thousand faces/The truth must stand to reason/For those who's heart it chases

12. Gimme charcoal to the measure two/Send the bullet where you want it to/Gimme sulphur to the measure three/Make the powder gonna keep you free/Gimme saltpetre, measure fifteen/Sweetest shooting that you've ever seen

13. Know this... it's always been a game/From order there comes chaos, but each one's just a name/And, in the dark, I'll show to you that everything's the same/That
your terror is your love is your pain.

14. Ich goss ihr Blut/Ins Feuer meiner Wut/Ich verschloss die Tür/Man fragte nach ihr

15. Drowning deep in my sea of loathing/Broken your servant I kneel/(Will you give it to me?)/It seems what's left of my human side/Is slowly changing ... in me/(Will you give it to me?)

16. They used to dance in the garden in the/Middle of the night/They were naked as the day they were/Born skin all bone-china white

17. My energy is spent at last/And my armor is destroyed/I have used up all my weapons/And I'm helpless and bereaved/Wounds are all I'm made of/Dare you say that this is victory?

18. Alarming desperation/Leads me to believe/With all my shields and protection/
It's only me I deceive

19. I cannot live/I cannot die/Trapped in myself/Body my holding cell!

20. Teacher guarding the dwindling flame/How many of your kids have beaten the game?/The wind is rising and the night's falling fast--/Will you run, save yourself, or fight to the last?

Comments

[dour.livejournal.com]

1. Simon and Garfunkel, Sound of Silence.
10. Metallica, Of Wolf and Man.
14. Rammstein, Klavier.
15. Disturbed, The Sickness.
17. Blue Öyster Cult, Veteran of the Psychic Wars.
19. Metallica, One.

Hey, six outta twenny ain't bad, and I actually pegged the Rammstein! That and the BÖC are the only two I got that I think would be difficult. That happens to be just about my favorite BÖC song, by the way, although I admit that I haven't heard terribly much by them. :>

There's some nifty lyrics in there that I don't recognize, too. Interested to see the answers on this one!