A Lyrics Sentence Meme but it's my Go To Karaoke Songs
A series of prompts taken from sawyer's go to karaoke songs. In no particular order, change bits and bobs as necessary.
1 . Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland
❝Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high, there's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.❞ ❝Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.❞ ❝Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me.❞ ❝Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me.❞ ❝Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly.❞ ❝Birds fly over the rainbow. Why, then, oh, why can't I?❞ ❝If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, Why, oh, why can't I?❞
2. Rainbow Connection - Kermit
❝Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what's on the other side?❞ ❝Rainbows are visions, but only illusions and rainbows have nothing to hide.❞ ❝So we've been told, and some choose to believe it. I know they're wrong, wait and see.❞ ❝Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers, and me.❞ ❝Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on the morning star?❞ ❝Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it, look what it's done so far.❞ ❝What's so amazing that keeps us stargazing and what do we think we might see?❞ ❝All of us under its spell, we know that it's probably magic.❞ ❝Have you been half asleep, and have you heard voices? I've heard them calling my name.❞ ❝Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors? The voice might be one and the same.❞ ❝I've heard it too many times to ignore it. It's something that I'm supposed to be.❞
3. Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
❝The French are glad to die for love, they delight in fighting duels.❞ ❝I prefer a man who lives and gives expensive jewels.❞ ❝A kiss on the hand may be quite continental but diamonds are a girl's best friend.❞ ❝A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental on your humble flat or help you at the automat.❞ ❝Men grow cold as girls grow old and we all lose our charms in the end.❞ ❝Square-cut or pear-shaped, these rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.❞ ❝There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyer but diamonds are a girl's best friend.❞ ❝There may come a time when a hard-boiled employer thinks you're awful nice but get that ice or else no dice.❞ ❝He's your guy when stocks are high but beware when they start to descend.❞ ❝It's then that those louses go back to their spouses.❞ ❝Diamonds are a girl's best friend.❞ ❝I've heard of affairs that are strictly platonic.❞ ❝I think affairs that you must keep liaisonic are better bets if little pets get big baguettes.❞ ❝Time rolls on and youth is gone and you can't straighten up when you bend.❞ ❝Stiff back or stiff knees, you stand straight at Tiffany's.❞ ❝I don't mean rhinestones but diamonds are a girl's best friend.❞
4. Hook - Blues Traveler
❝It doesn't matter what I say, so long as I sing with inflection that makes you feel I'll convey some inner truth or vast reflection.❞ ❝I've said nothing so far and I can keep it up for as long as it takes.❞ ❝It don't matter who you are, if I'm doing my job, it's your resolve that breaks.❞ ❝The Hook brings you back, on that you can rely.❞ ❝There is something amiss.❞ ❝I am being insincere.❞ ❝In fact, I don't mean any of this. Still, my confession draws you near.❞ ❝To confuse the issue, I'll refer to familiar heroes from long ago.❞ ❝I ain't telling you no lie.❞ ❝Make a desperate move or else you'll win and then begin to see what you're doing to me.❞ ❝So, desperately, I sing to thee of love? Sure, but also of rage and hate and pain and fear of self.❞ ❝I can't keep these feelings on the shelf.❞ ❝I've tried -- well, no, in fact, I lied.❞ ❝Could be financial suicide, but I've got too much pride inside to hide or slide.❞ ❝I'll do as I'll decide and let it ride until I've died.❞ ❝Only then shall I abide this tide of catchy little tunes, of hip three minute ditties.❞ ❝I wanna burn all of your cities to the ground.❞ ❝I've found I will not mess around unless I play, then hey, I will go on all day.❞ ❝Hear what I say, I have a prayer to pray. That's really all this was.❞ ❝I don't rely on luck.❞
5. Love Song - Sara Bareilles
❝Head underwater and they tell me to breathe easy for a while.❞ ❝The breathing gets harder, even I know that.❞ ❝Made room for me, it's too soon to see if I'm happy in your hands.❞ ❝I'm unusually hard to hold on to.❞ ❝No easy way to say this, you mean well, but you make this hard on me.❞ ❝I'm not gonna write you a love song 'cause you asked for it, 'cause you need one.❞ ❝I'm not gonna write you a love song 'cause you tell me it's make or break in this.❞ ❝If you're on your way, I'm not gonna write you to stay.❞ ❝If all you have is leaving, I'ma need a better reason to write you a love song today.❞ ❝I learned the hard way that they all say things you wanna hear.❞ ❝My heavy heart sinks deep down under you and your twisted words, your help just hurts.❞ ❝You are not what I thought you were.❞ ❝Convinced me to please you, made me think that I need this too.❞ ❝I'm trying to let you hear me as I am.❞ ❝I'm not gonna write you a love song.❞ ❝Promise me that you'll leave the light on to help me see with daylight, my guide, gone.❞ ❝'Cause I believe there's a way you can love me because I say.❞ ❝Is that why you wanted a love song?❞ ❝If your heart is nowhere in it, I don't want it for a minute.❞ ❝I'll walk the seven seas when I believe that there's a reason to write you a love song today.❞
6. Take Me To Church - Hozier
❝My lover's got humor, she's the giggle at a funeral.❞ ❝I should've worshipped her sooner.❞ ❝If the heavens ever did speak, she's the last true mouthpiece.❞ ❝Every Sunday's gettin' more bleak. A fresh poison each week.❞ ❝We were born sick, you heard them say it.❞ ❝My church offers no absolutes.❞ ❝Worship in the bedroom.❞ ❝The only heaven I'll be sent to is when I'm alone with you.❞ ❝I was born sick, but I love it. Command me to be well.❞ ❝Take me to church.❞ ❝I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies.❞ ❝I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife.❞ ❝Offer me that deathless death.❞ ❝Oh, good God, let me give you my life.❞ ❝Take me to church, I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies.❞ ❝If I'm a pagan of the good times, my lover's the sunlight.❞ ❝To keep the goddess on my side, she demands a sacrifice. Drain the whole sea, get somethin' shiny.❞ ❝That's a fine lookin' high horse.❞ ❝What you got in the stable? We've a lot of starvin' faithful.❞ ❝That looks tasty, that looks plenty.❞ ❝This is hungry work.❞ ❝No masters or kings when the ritual begins.❞ ❝There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin.❞ ❝In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene only then, I am human, only then, I am clean.❞ ❝Let me give you my life.❞
7. Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
❝I took my love, took it down.❞ ❝I climbed a mountain and I turned around and I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills.❞ ❝Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love?❞ ❝Can the child within my heart rise above?❞ ❝Can I sail through the changing ocean tides?❞ ❝Can I handle the seasons of my life?❞ ❝Well, I've been afraid of changing 'cause I've built my life around you.❞ ❝Time makes you bolder, even children get older and I'm getting older too.❞ ❝I've built my life around you.❞ ❝Oh, I'm getting older too.❞ ❝If you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills. Well, the landslide will bring it down.❞
8. Mama’s Broken Heart - Miranda Lambert
❝I cut my bangs with some rusty kitchen scissors.❞ ❝I screamed his name 'til the neighbors called the cops.❞ ❝I numbed the pain at the expense of my liver.❞ ❝Don't know what I did next, all I know I couldn't stop.❞ ❝Word got around to the barflies and the Baptists, my mama's phone started ringing off the hook.❞ ❝I can hear her now, sayin' she ain't gonna have it.❞ ❝Don't matter how you feel, it only matters how you look.❞ ❝Go and fix your make-up, girl, it's just a break up.❞ ❝Run and hide your crazy and start actin' like a lady.❞ ❝I raised you better, gotta keep it together even when you fall apart.❞ ❝This ain't my mama's broken heart.❞ ❝I wish I could be just a little less dramatic, like a Kennedy when Camelot went down in flames.❞ ❝Leave it to me to be holding the matches when the fire trucks show up and there's nobody else to blame.❞ ❝Can't get revenge and keep a spotless reputation.❞ ❝Sometimes revenge's just a choice you gotta make.❞ ❝My mama came from a softer generation where you get a grip and bite your lip just to save a little face.❞ ❝Run and hide your crazy and start actin' like a lady 'cause I raised you better.❞ ❝Powder your nose, paint your toes, line your lips and keep 'em closed.❞ ❝Cross your legs, dot your eyes, and never let 'em see you cry.❞
9. Holding Out for A Hero - Shrek 2
❝C minor, put it in C minor.❞ ❝Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?❞ ❝Where's the street-wise Hercules to fight the rising odds?❞ ❝Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed?❞ ❝Late at night, I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need.❞ ❝I need a hero!❞ ❝I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night.❞ ❝He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast and he's gotta be fresh from the fight.❞ ❝I need a hero! I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light.❞ ❝He's gotta be sure and it's gotta be soon and he's gotta be larger than life.❞ ❝Somewhere after midnight In my wildest fantasy, somewhere just beyond my reach, there's someone reaching back for me.❞ ❝It's gonna take a superman to sweep me off my feet.❞ ❝Up where the mountains meet the heavens above, out where the lightning splits the sea, I could swear that there's someone, somewhere, watching me.❞ ❝Through the wind and the chill and the rain and the storm and the flood, I can feel his approach like the fire in my blood.❞