I Tell About My Life Using Suede’s Lyrics
Weee! One of the commenters on a previous entry, PsychoHippy, had this neat thing on her page…you pick song lyrics to answer questions about yourself. Here’s my own version:
To start, pick a band or singer you know really well. Got one? Good. Who is it?
Who else? Suede! Well, I guess the who else could be Pulp. Or Joy Division? Bowie! George Michael? LOL! For kicks, I actually TRIED to do one with his lyrics, but it didn’t come out right. But then again, how could it? So I went with Suede.
Now the fun (and challenging) part. Answer the following questions using only that band/singer’s lyrics. Ready? Go for it!
Are you male or female?
Modern boys, modern boys
Hand in hand
Sick of the fear
Chasing away all the hungry years
We’re the modern boys
Describe yourself.
So steal me a savage, subservient son
Get him shacked-up, bloodied-up and sucking on a gun
I want the style of a woman, the kiss of a man
How do some people feel about you?
Filmstar, propping up the bar, driving in a car, it looks so easy,
Filmstar, propping up the bar, driving in a car tonight,
Filmstar, giving it class, living it fast, it looks so easy,
Filmstar, giving it class, living it fast tonight.
How do you feel about yourself?
Maybe, maybe it’s the clothes we wear,
The tasteless bracelets and the dye in our hair,
Maybe it’s our kookiness,
Or maybe, maybe it’s our nowhere towns,
Our nothing places and our cellophane sounds,
Maybe it’s our looseness,
But we’re trash, you and me
Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend/love interest.
She walks in beauty like the night
Discarding her clothes in the plastic flowers
Pornographic and tragic in black and white
Say something to him/her.
Oh it’s bigger than the universe
It’s bigger than the universe
It’s bigger than the two of us
Oh it’s bigger than you and me
We got a love between us and it’s like electricity
Where would you rather be?
Oh and I’m never alone now
Now I’m with her
Describe where you live.
Chic thug stuttered through a stereo dream
A fifty knuckle shuffle heavy metal machine
The tears of suburbia drowned the land
Describe how you live.
Here they come gone 7am
Getting satellite and Sky getting cable,
Bills and Bens and their mums and their friends
Who just really, really want to be loved,
Uncle Teds and their legendary vests
Helping out around the disabled,
From the flats and the maisonettes
They’re reminding us there’s things to be done.
But you and me, all we want to be is lazy
Describe how you love.
Won’t someone give me some fun
(And as the skin flies all around us)
We kiss in his room to a popular tune
Oh, real drowners
Slow down, slow down, you’re taking me over
And so we drown, sir we drown
Stop takin’ me over
Share a few words of wisdom.
I don’t care if you’re black or blue
Me and the stars stay up for you
I don’t care who’s wrong or right
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All done. Don’t read all kinds of stuff into that. It’s just me choosing lyrics, not writing them.
Cool idea for a quiz…I might give it a try, but I’d have to decide between two musicians…hrmmm…
Sorry about not giving you a shout on my site — glad you came by so I could find you! :)
Hey, thanks for commenting……:)