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The Lyrics game restarted!

133 replies

Jessicatmagnificat · 24/03/2007 10:09

To kick us off, who sang this: "You can have a steam train if you just lay down your tracks".

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mamama · 24/03/2007 19:03

Teenage fanclub

mamama · 24/03/2007 19:05

And the song is Mellow Doubt, I think

ArcticRoll · 24/03/2007 19:06

I keep your picture upon the wall
It hides a nasty stain that's lying there

mamama · 24/03/2007 19:11

I am not in love, 10Cc

mamama · 24/03/2007 19:12

"We'd like to help you learn to help yourself.
Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes."

funnypeculiar · 24/03/2007 19:18

Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson?

mamama · 24/03/2007 19:19

Yep, your turn FP

(The pretenders did the 10 cc song too, I just realised)

funnypeculiar · 24/03/2007 19:20

um...
"double pneumonia in a single room, and the sickest joke, was the price of the medicine..."

SenoraPostrophe · 24/03/2007 19:24

loyd cole

buggered if I can remember the title

mamama · 24/03/2007 19:24

Oh, its about a weekend in Amsterdam...

dunno anything else though

mamama · 24/03/2007 19:25

Lost weekend?

But SenoraP got the artist, so it's her go...

CadburyCremeSquonk · 24/03/2007 19:25

lost weekend

funnypeculiar · 24/03/2007 19:26

bit of an easy one, obviously!

pirategirl · 24/03/2007 19:30

'watching the telly and thinking 'bout your holidays...'

StrangeTown · 24/03/2007 19:31

oooh oooh me
That's Entertainment The Jam

amynnixmum · 24/03/2007 19:31

Thats entertainment - The jam

amynnixmum · 24/03/2007 19:32

Doh - beaten

SenoraPostrophe · 24/03/2007 19:32

Oh is it czalled lots weekend.

anyway how about...

"I wasn't sure if it was Marx or Hitler who was in this year, I hadn't been to Brighton for a while."

StrangeTown · 24/03/2007 19:33

amynnix, I would have been rightly reprimanded if I had not at least got that one, given my name

pirategirl · 24/03/2007 19:36

was gonna say, oh yeah!! strange town!!

'though i've only been hear for three weeks now'

StrangeTown · 24/03/2007 19:41

Yes pirate, I love them. I am a bit limited musically, but what about

'swear I never had a gun, was philosophising some, checking out the bums'

Cadbury · 24/03/2007 19:42

Walking down Madison by Kirsty MaColl

pirategirl · 24/03/2007 19:45

'every day just the same, old rules for the same old game...'

pirategirl · 24/03/2007 20:01

need a hint?

funnypeculiar · 24/03/2007 20:02

yup

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