Thursday, September 2, 2010

Word for September 2: Hell

Okay...no one liked my word yesterday enough to post. (Or it was too difficult? I didn't think so.)

Maybe the opposite will be more interesting and (I'm sure) easier to find a song to go with.

Today's word:
Hell

11 comments:

  1. An angel's smile is what you sell.
    You promise me heaven then put me through hell.
    Chains of love, got a hold on me.
    When passion's a prison you can't break free.


    Song: You Give Love a Bad Name
    Artist: Bon Jovi

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  2. Like a bat out of hell
    I'll be gone when the morning comes
    When the night is over
    Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone gone gone
    Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes
    But when the day is done
    And the sun goes down
    And moonlight's shining through
    Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
    I'll come crawling on back to you

    Song: Bat Out of Hell
    Artist: Meatloaf

    Meatloaf was at the House of Blues last Thursday. Had I realized it I would have sooo been there! The review said it was a typical Meatloaf concert - full of angst and drama, what fun!

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  3. This is my favorite song about hell. If you haven't heard it, go find it right away!:

    In the afterlife
    You could be headed for the serious strife
    Now you make the scene all day
    But tomorrow there'll be hell to pay

    People listen attentively
    I mean about future calamity
    I used to think the idea was obsolete
    Until I heard the Old Man stamping his feet

    There is a place where eternally
    Fire is applied to the body
    Teeth are extruded and bones are ground
    Then baked into cakes which are passed around

    Beauty, talent, fame, money, refinement
    Top skill and brain
    But all the things you try to hide
    Will be revealed on the other side

    Now the D and the A
    And the M and the N and the A
    And the T and the I-O-N
    Lose your face, lose your name
    Then get fitted for a suit of flame

    In the afterlife
    You could be headed for the serious strife
    Now you make the scene all day
    But tomorrow there'll be hell to pay

    Song: Hell
    Artist: Squirrel Nut Zippers

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  4. I just watched the video for the first time. Pretty interesting:
    http://www.mtv.com/videos/squirrel-nut-zippers/10096/hell.jhtml

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  5. OK - my first official post and this one's for Meridith - all in good fun, of course :)

    -one of my favorite songs to sing along with on the radio - for obvious reasons!

    Hey I'm redneck woman
    And I ain't no high class broad
    I'm just a product of my raisin'
    And I say "hey y'all" and "Yee Haw"

    And I know all the words to every Tanya Tucker song

    So here's to all my sisters out there keeping it country
    Let me get a big "Hell Yeah" from the redneck girls like me
    Hell Yeah !


    Song: Redneck Woman
    Artist: Gretchen Wilson

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  6. Candace, I like that song as well. I really like the Turkish version you gave me! And I'd forgotten about the video!

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  7. why on earth would I take offense to that!!! lol! thanks Celia! I too love to rock out to that song! Its good to give other drivers on the road something to laugh at! Here's another one along the same lines!

    She's got an MBA and a plush corner office
    She's got a don't mess with me attitude
    She'll close a deal she don't reveal that she can feel
    The loneliness the emptiness
    Except when she comes in here
    She's the product of the Me generation
    She's got a rock and roll side when you get her agitated
    She got the tattoo there on her derriere from a spring break dare
    In Panama where love was all she thought she'd ever need

    She yells out to the band
    Know any Bruce Springsteen
    Then she jumps up on the bar
    And she, and she starts to scream
    She says

    Hell yeah!
    Turn it up!
    Right on!
    Hell yeah!
    Sounds good!
    Sing that song!
    Guitar man playin' all night long
    Take me back to where the music hit me
    When life was good and love was easy

    Hell Yeah - Montgomery Gentry

    By the way Calinda, I posted on yesterdays before I posted todays, I just did not have the chance to get on yesterday.... My FAVORITE song ever!

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  8. I see the light at the end
    But every time I take a step, it gets dim
    Tell me is this hell we're livin in?
    If so, heaven's got to be better
    But if we're hellbound, whatever, let's go down

    Eminem - Hellbound

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  9. I know the word's only in the song once, but I'm going to post the whole lyrics anyway. Because this has been one of my favorite songs since...well, pretty much since I knew what music was and started learning to sing. The words are funny even read without the music behind them.

    The Mississippi Squirrel Revival
    By: Ray Stevens


    Well when I was kid I'd take a trip
    Every summer, down to Mississip'.
    To visit my granny in her ante bellum world.
    I'd run barefooted all day long,
    Climbing trees free as a song.
    One day I happened catch myself a squirrel.

    I stuffed him down in an old shoebox,
    Punched a couple holes in the top,
    And when Sunday came, I snuck him in the church.

    I was sittin way back in the very last pew
    Showin' him to my good buddy Hugh,
    When that squirrel got loose
    And went totally berserk!

    Well, what happened next is hard to tell.
    Some thought it was Heaven. Others thought it was Hell.
    But the fact that something was among us
    was plain to see.

    As the choir sang "I Surrender All",
    the squirrel ran up Harv Newlan's coveralls.
    Harv leaped to his feet and said, "Somethin's got a hold on me! YEOW!"

    CHORUS
    The day the squirrel went berserk,
    In the First Self-Righteous Church
    In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula.
    It was a fight for survival,
    That broke out in revival.
    They were jumpin' pews and shouting "Hallelujah!"

    Well Harv hit the aisles dancin' and screamin'.
    Some thought he had religion. Others thought he had a demon.
    Harv thought he had a weed-eater loose in his fruit of the looms.
    He fell to his knees to plead and beg,
    And that squirrel ran out of his britches leg,
    Unobserved to the other side of the room.

    All the way down to the Amen pew,
    Where sat Sister Bertha "Better-than-you",
    Who had been watching all the commotion with sadistic glee.
    Shoot, you should've seen the look in her eyes
    When that squirrel jumped her garters and crossed her thighs.
    She jumped to her feet and said, "Lord have mercy on me!"

    As the squirrel made laps inside her dress,
    She began to cry and then to confess
    To sins that would make a sailor blush with shame.
    She told of gossip and church dissention,
    But the thing that got the most attention
    Is when she talked about her love life...
    Then she started naming names!

    REPEAT CHORUS

    Well seven deacons and then the pastor got saved.
    And twenty-five thousand dollars got raised.
    And fifty volunteered for missions in the Congo
    on the spot.
    And even without an invitaion,
    There were at least five hundred re-dedications.
    And we all got re-baptised whether we needed it or not.

    Now you've heard the Bible stories I guess
    Of how He parted the waters for Moses to pass.
    All the miracles God has brought to this ol' world.
    But the one I'll remember to my dyin' day
    Is how He put that church back on the narrow way
    With a half-crazed Mississippi Squirrel"

    The day the squirrel went berserk.
    In the First Self-Righteous Church
    Of that sleepy little town of Pascagoula.
    It was a fight for survival,
    That broke out in revival.
    They were jumpin' pews and shoutin' "Hallelujah!"

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  10. He's the lonely fear of dying,
    And for some, of living too.
    He's your private nightmare pricking.
    He'd just love to turn the screw.
    So stand as one defiant,
    Yes, and let your voices swell.
    Stare that beastie in the face,
    and really give him hell.


    Song: Beastie
    Artist: Jethro Tull

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  11. How the hell did we wind up like this?
    Why weren't we able, to see the signs that we missed
    And try turn the tables

    Nickelback "Someday"

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