Phil's Lyric Quiz #15

This quiz originally appeared May 23, 1995.

1.  Turning and returning to some secret place inside,
    Watching in slow-motion as you turned around and said

2. Everybody's talkin' all this stuff about me, Why don't they just let me live?

3. I was young, I learned a game that love and happiness were the same. Now I'm older and I don't play, I found out the hardest way.

4. Then you couldn't make things new Just by saying "I love you."

5. She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rain. I'd hate to look into those eyes and see an ounce of pain.

6. You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you. I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around, turned you into someone new.

7. I saw you by the wall, ten of your tin soldiers in a row, With eyes that looked like ice on fire, the human heart a captive in the snow.

8. Ten years old, stand outside, better look out, Dead and gone, never had a chance, what's it all about?

9. When I get a high, I get high on speed, Top fuel funny car's a drug for me.

10. Caroline laughs and it's raining all day, She loves to be one of the girls.

11. You have gone and made me such a fool, I'm so lost in your love, And, oh, we belong together, won't you believe in my song?

12. I've seen people turn their heads and quickly look away, Like a newborn baby, it just happens every day.

13. A man walks down the street, it's a street in a strange world, Maybe it's the third world, maybe it's his first time around.

14. But, in and out of the dancehall, they say where you come from? People, them say you come from Jamaica.

15. Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back.

16. I've heard it said, or maybe read, that only money makes the world go 'round, But all the gold won't save your soul if your world should tumble to the ground.

17. I want to run, I want to hide, I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside.

18. You put the grey skies out of my way, You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day.

19. And the men who spurred us on sit in judgment of our wrong, They decide and the shotgun sings the song.

20. I said Doctor (Doctor), Mister M.D. (Doctor), Can you tell me what's ailin' me?

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