Ten is the Loneliest Number

Last week’s Friday 10 featured only one lyric that was guessed, which is actually pretty standard for the run so far. John was able to pick up a point for guessing “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” by The Beatles, and the rest are now posted on the previous entry if you would like to check them out.

Among the lyrics was a bittersweet entrant: “The Saddest Song” from the soundtrack of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a comic history musical that portrays Andrew Jackson as an emo rocker who rides his celebrity status into office. The musical is far from a tribute, acknowledging Jackson’s monstrous actions and tracing the origins of modern American autocratic thought to his Presidency while calling out white America’s consistent tendency to ignore racism and genocide if it can get a nice Florida vacation out of it. It’s also very much a source of controversy with American Indian tribes rightly calling it out for its use of racial caricatures.

It’s kinda like if Pink Floyd’s The Wall had a kid with My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade and that kid was reading aloud from a Sarah Vowell history text.

And it’s become kinda hard to listen to these days because of its similarity to, well, [gestures at literally everything on the front page of the paper].

(For the record, it debuted Off-Broadway about five years before that other famous American politician musical that turned Lin-Manuel Miranda into a media darling overnight)

Of course, there’s a new 10 lyrics for this week, so get in the comments and get guessing!

Remember the rules:

1. No Searching. Not on Google, not on Genius, not on Bing.
2. Get Close to the Title. I use “Um, Actually” rules. If you’re close you get credit unless someone else gets closer before the deadline.
3. Covers Get Credit. But only ones that are easy to find. “A cult formed around this song and its members sing the song every Saturday to conclude their services”? Great. I would love to subscribe to your podcast. But you’re probably not getting credit for the guess.

The Lyrics

1. ‘Cause now I’ve seen him show his true colors in shades of green.
2. I wanna pierce my tongue – it doesn’t hurt, it feels fine. [Guessed by Sidney]
   Skatune Network, “Flagpole Sitta” (Havey Danger cover)
   https://youtu.be/Qvx4vdtNRiI?si=Obw3GuLU6FY3dv7Q
3. I’m so tired of getting nowhere and seeing my prayers goin’ unanswered. [Guessed by Thud]
   Harry Nilsson, “I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City”
   https://youtu.be/Qa4An7uzPeg?si=Q7xpRy1a1mLmW9Kr
4. I did the work and when things would go badly you left us to rot.
5. This is how they made me — Houston, Texas, baby. [Guessed by Sidney]
   Beyoncé, “Run the World (Girls)”
   https://youtu.be/VBmMU_iwe6U?si=sfwfpmyQRNCEtvC3
6. If I spoke your language, I could tell you how I feel.
7. We’ll kill the fatted calf tonight, so stick around.
8. We’re just knocked out, we heard about the sell-out. [Guessed by Thud]
   Pink Floyd, “Have a Cigar”
   https://youtu.be/Eq8ZiZ9xiLw?si=BwlF2g_CFbKtD5uO
9. You’re too intense, I’ll have to keep you in your place.
10. I could stay right here or I could disappear, and nobody’d even notice at all.

And when you’re done, stop by Thud’s blog where he has ten lyrics to guess, too! Got a blog? Wanna play the same game? Post your ten lyrics and link them in the comments!

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