Aindriahhn's Random lyric quiz - Try to guess where it comes from

[Aindriahhn]

hmm, maybe my music tastes are to uncommon?

[Sperrit]

I think a lot of what it is is that it's harder to guess lyrics without the accompanying music. I mean, there are lots of songs out there that people LOVE but they don't know some of the words (because of the singer being too into it and thus not pronoucing things very well, or some other reasons). That might be a problem. Another is that people are READING the words, but hearing them, and hearing them might jog their memory better. I wouldn't say that you have uncommon tastes, it's just that it's not easy to guess in this forum. Keep at it, though! There are people who have gotten it before, so there is still hope! Plus, I listen to odd music, so I can't guess most of these.... CURSE YOU ODD MUSICAL TASTES!

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[Therin]

Wrong again, sperrit, but getting warmer...since it's so simple, maybe I should just tell you and bring on one of my hard ones? ::

[Sperrit]

Eh, I don't care. What is it?

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[Therin]

It's the first 4 words of the music for the opening movie for FFVIII. Now for a hard one:

Let's drink a toast as each of us recalls
Ivy-covered professors in ivy-covered halls.

[Akira]

I BE STUMPED!!!!
but i have heard FFVII's sephiroth battle and i dont think that you can hear the words to dat one cause they are speakin faster than a guy running an auction.

[Therin]

I don't know, man, I think I used to be able to say the words. Mostly they consist of saying SEPHIROTH over and over and over many times, but you're right, they do go pretty fast sometimes...oh well. does anyone else know? if not, I'll tell you.

[Akira]

Go ahead lews. tell us.

[Therin]

Bright College Days, by Tom Lehrer


For my first encore, I'd like to turn to a type of song...to a type of song that people like myself find ourselves subjected to with increasing frequency as time goes on, and that is the College Alma Mater. You find yourself at a reunion of old grads and old undergrads...and somebody will start croaking out one of these things and everyone will gradually join in, each in his own key of course, until the place is just soggy with nostalgia.
Well, a typical such song might be called Bright College Days, and might go like this:

Bright college days, oh, carefree days that fly,
To thee we sing with our glasses raised on high. [holds up eyeglasses]
Let's drink a toast as each of us recalls
Ivy-covered professors in ivy-covered halls.

Turn on the spigot,
Pour the beer and swig it,
And gaudeamus igit...
...itur.

Here's to parties we tossed,
To the games that we lost
(We shall claim that we won them someday).
To the girls, young and sweet,
To the spacious back seat
Of our roommate's beat up Chevrolet.
To the beer and benzedrine,
To the way that the dean
Tried so hard to be pals with us all.
To excuses we fibbed,
To the papers we cribbed
From the genius who lived down the hall.

To the tables down at Mory's
(Wherever that may be),
Let us drink a toast to all we love the best.
We will sleep through all the lectures,
And cheat on the exams,
And we'll pass, and be forgotten with the rest.

Oh, soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. (Oooo!)
But as we go our sordid separate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.

Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.

[Sperrit]

That was beautiful, man! BEAUTIFUL! *sniff*

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