Fiddle and Burn

I'm giving a final exam today, which means I really ought to be grading papers so that I can just plug the final grades in and be done quickly. I don't quite feel like doing that, though, so I'll write blog posts instead.

In the exam week spirit, though, here's another guess-the-song list of lyrics. Because, well, I'm not feeling especially inspired. This is a very recent tape, so these are mostly recent songs. They're also harder to identify than the last couple, in part because the songs are more obscure (thank you KEXP), and in part because some of them are mumbled so badly that I can't quite figure out what the singer is saying. Finding even speculative lyrics to #19 was tough, even with Google, so good luck with that one.

Anyway, here's the list. Show all work for partial credit.


  • 1) "You don't know, just how I lie awake, and dream a while about your smile, and the way you make your ass shake."
  • 2) "Got it just don't get it 'till there's nothing at all."
  • 3) "I asked her if she wanted to dance, she said that all she wanted was a good man."
  • 4) "I ain't a jock and I ain't a freak, and I ain't no computer geek."
  • 5) "I think I had a black wallet in my back pocket with a bus ticket and a picture of my baby inside."
  • 6) "I'll cater, with all the birds that I can kill."
  • 7) "I hide in a cave, where I can grab hold of love when I want it."
  • 8) "Bittersweet baby, where'd you get that gun?"
  • 9) "I don't know what it is they're trying to do to me, make me into some sick joke."
  • 10) "Whatever happened, I apologize. Dry your tears and baby, walk outside."
  • 11) "It's the hardest way to give, it's the hardest way to take, it's the hardest way to live for Christ's sake."
  • 12) "I know things happen for a reason, and that's quite all right with me."
  • 13) "You probably told yourself you're better off without me. When I'm out of sight, I'm out of mind."

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