lyrics meme again

1. i don't want clever conversation/ i never want to work that hard - Billy Joel, "Just the Way You Are" - mrshamill

2. you love this town even if that doesn't ring true/ you've been all over and it's been all over you - U2, "Beautiful Day" - caribbeanblue

3. when there's all kinds of chaos/ and everyone is walking lame/ you don't even blink now do you/ don't even look away

4. somebody tell my head to try to tell my heart/ that i'm better off without you - Dixie Chicks, "Without You" - juice817

5. here in this lonely place/ tangled up in our embrace/ there's nothing i'd like better than to fall - Sarah McLachlan, "Fear" - caribbeanblue

6. child it's lovely/ let the river take it all away

7. i went all across the continent to relieve this restless love/ i walked through the ruins, icons of glory - Indigo Girls, "History of Us" - the_star_fish

8. do you wish your nose was longer/ so you'd have an excuse not to see past it? - Kathleen Edwards, "Hockey Skates" - the_star_fish

9. we watch the shows -- we watch the stars/ on videos for hours and hours - Queen, "Radio Ga Ga" - juice817

10. that nonsense doesn't mean a thing/ they tried to bust you in a sting/ but virtue isn't everything/ so don't waste time

11. you can call me pavlov's dog/ ring a bell and i'll salivate. how'd you like that? - Barenaked Ladies, "Brian Wilson" - the_star_fish

12. and i burn up in your presence/ and i know now how it feels/ to be weakened like achilles/ with you always at my heels - Indigo Girls, "Ghost" - the_star_fish

13. pardon the way that i stare/ there's nothing else to compare/ the thought of you leaves me weak/ there are no words left to speak - Frankie Valli (also Lauryn Hill, and various others), "Too Good to be True" - juice817

14. there's a pain in her heart, she's trying so hard to unwind/ makes her cry in the night, when visions so real make her blind

15. words, playing me deja vu/ like a radio tune i swear i've heard before - Duran Duran, "Come Undone" - caribbeanblue

16. love walked out on me and didn't even close the door/ next thing i know i'm starin' at your shadow on the floor

17. seen all the movie stars in their fancy cars and their limousines - Billy Joel, "New York State of Mind" - rustler

18. how could i even try/ i can never win/ hearing them, seeing them/ in the state i'm in - The Beatles, "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" - maliwane

19. meanwhile our friends we thought were so together/ they've all gone and left each other in search of fairer weather - Indigo Girls, "Love's Recovery" - the_star_fish

20. dream about the days to come/ when i won't have to leave alone - John Denver, "Leaving On a Jet Plane" - maliwane; Peter, Paul and Mary, "Leaving On a Jet Plane" - darththalia

21. you promised me everything/ and then you promised me thick and thin - Dire Straits (and the Indigo Girls), "Romeo and Juliet" - the_star_fish

22. oh, mirror in the sky/ what is love? - Fleetwood Mac (also the Dixie Chicks), "Landslide" - elocinoco

23. the smoke is rising in the shadows overhead/ my glass is almost empty - Sarah McLachlan, "Song For a Winter's Night" - the_star_fish

24. she comes to me when i'm feelin' down/ inspires me without a sound - Billy Joel, "She's Got a Way" - maliwane, darththalia, and juice817

25. i can't take any more bad water/ i've been poisoned from my head down to my shoes - Elton John, "Border Song" - juice817

french hens

-- answers to the original lyrics meme:

1. and i've walked most all the way and i ain't heard her call/ and i'm getting to thinking if she's coming at all
Elton John, "Come Down In Time" (actually, this version is the one covered by Sting on the Two Rooms album)

6. you need help or i'd have never spoken/ and why break someone in when i'm already broken?
"Try Me" from She Loves Me

8. i can't see why people disagree/ each time i tell them what i know is true
"Run and Tell That!" from Hairspray

11. unless there's something else you've got in mind/ we've got better things to do
Chicago, "Stay the Night"

12. if your love has to tie me, don't try me/ say good-bye
The Monkees, "I Wanna Be Free"

15. ontario, you know i've seen a place i'd rather be/ your scummy lakes and the city of toronto don't do a damn thing for me
Stan Rogers, "Watching the Apples Grow"

-- have signed up to pinch-hit for yuletide. because am insane. woo-hoo!

-- my brother was supposed to come home today after his contracts exam in the morning. figured he'd be here mid-afternoon. he called around 4:30, not having left yet, and not quite ready to go. he finally called again at about 10:30, having taken four and a half hours to reach his mother-in-law's, where he was going to stay put and not try to get the rest of the way here. the roads where he was were bad, and there's less-traveled roads between there and here, including a quite steep and somewhat windy hill that's always a little exciting in bad weather. so we'll see him tomorrow morning.

we were supposed to get six to eight inches of snow today.

there were maybe six or eight inches on the ground already; it is now above my knees.

final snow total

UNAVAILABLE. it's still coming down.

going to take some pictures.