author_by_night | LJ Topic Prompt #1: What's the Song? (Reply)

Name a few songs you know a few words to, but you couldn't say who the singer was or even most of the lyrics. Can be past tense, if you've figured it out. Also feel free to apply this to other mediums - books you remember a bit about but couldn't name, etc.

I'll go. :)

One song I never knew the whole lyrics to was Natalie Imbrigulia's (sp?) "Torn." I knew the refrain:

I'm all out of faith
This is how I feel
I'm cold and I am shamed
Lying naked on the floor

But that was it. And I didn't even really know what went in between "this is how I feel" and "lying naked floor." So I'd have it in my head, but it would be "I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel, something some-thing, lying naked on the floor." I also think I mostly knew the songs from covers, rather than the actual artist, so I didn't know who she was.

(I figured it out because of a fic prompt. Naturally. Le sigh.)

There's also a song - possibly also from the nineties - that's something like "you make me crazy." I don't think it's Britney Spears's "Drive Me Crazy", though. The refrain is something like this:

You make me CRAY-zay

You make me cray-ZAY

You make me CRAY-zay...

As far as books go...

- When I took French in private school, we had to read a book about a little girl who wandered off even though her mother to be careful, lest a man with a name like "Creepy-leese" found her. Of course she did and he found her; he had a head like a pumpkin and hair like pasta. I don't remember anything else, just the story.

- I read a book where some girl found out she had AIDS, and it ends with her brother writing in her diary that he can't believe his sister's gone. I remember there was a part of the book where she says "it turns out AIDS doesn't aid you."

- In school we read a book about a boy who befriended a caveman - I'm not sure if one of them time traveled, or if he just happened to be a caveman.

I'm sure I'll think of more later.