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Rock Lyrics #2 (Answers)

01 - 'I don't like Jamaica.'
Dreadlock Holiday - 10CC

02 - 'In the summer of '65 we were hungry, just barely alive.'
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band

03 - 'The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.'
The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel (note: not Rush, those were concert halls)

04 - 'And as the moon rises he sits by his fire, thinking about women and glasses of beer.'
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor

05 - 'The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast, I've the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest.'
Moon Over Bourbon Street - Sting

06 - 'They say he's sick, he's obscene.'
No More Mister Nice Guy - Alice Cooper

07 - 'If you got the money, honey, we got your disease.'
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns n' Roses

08 - 'The moon and the stars were the gifts you gave to the dark and the endless skies.'
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack

09 - 'I know the rent is in arrears, the dog's not been fed in years, it's even worse than it appears but it's all right.'
Touch of Grey - The Grateful Dead

10 - 'Remember what the dormouse said: 'Feed your head! Feed your head!''
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

11 - 'Now I understand what you tried to say to me and how you suffered for your sanity.'
Vincent - Don McLean

12 - 'All change! Feel your body melt: mum to mud to mad to dad, dad diddly office, dad diddly office. You're all full of ball.'
Supper's Ready - Genesis

13 - 'Begin the day with a friendly voice, a companion unobtrusive.'
The Spirit of Radio - Rush

14 - 'She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie...'
Cocaine - J J Cale

15 - 'You can see me on the tv every day: I'm the child next door three thousand miles away.'
Child of the Universe - Barclay James Harvest

16 - 'This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.'
Suffragette City - David Bowie

17 - 'How could you leave me when I needed to possess you? I hated you. I loved you too.'
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush

18 - '42-39-56, you can say she's got it all.'
Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC

19 - 'It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son.'
Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival

20 - 'Women seem wicked when you're unwanted, streets are uneven when you're down.'
People are Strange - The Doors

21 - 'I had sixteen beers and I started up a fight.'
Too Drunk to Fuck - The Dead Kennedys

22 - 'Can you hear it, see it, feel it today? If you can't it doesn't matter anyway.'
Epic - Faith No More

23 - 'You poor old sod, it's only me!'
Aqualung - Jethro Tull

24 - 'I've been trying for hours just to think of what exactly to say.'
Read 'em and Weep - Meat Loaf

25 - 'Cause baby we'll be at the drive-in in my old man's Ford, behind the bushes till I'm screaming for more.'
Talk Dirty to Me - Poison

26 - 'You might find out later that the road will end in Detroit. Honey, the road won't even end in Katmandu.'
Cry Baby - Janis Joplin

27 - 'I hope Neil Young will remember a southern man don't need him around anyhow.'
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd

28 - 'You make me feel like dirt and I'm hurt.'
Ever Fallen in Love - The Buzzcocks

29 - 'I'd love to help you, son, but you're too young to vote.'
Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochrane

30 - ''Son,' he said, 'Grab your things, I've come to take you home.''
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel

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