How do I Find a Song Title By Lyrics?

Thanks to Rod J for submitting Once In A Lifetime Lyrics. Patamois tois autois embainomen te kai ouk embainomen, eimen te kai ouk eimen. I would translate: "Cross and we not cross the same river, we are and we are not".

This song for me recalls you are not the same before or after cross the river. Neither be the same the second time you cross the same river. This song is pure existencialism!

Is when you question yourself and when you act that you know and be you. I think this is an amazing song. It's quite deep, and I believe it's a song about existentialism.

Whish is to say that you are aware you exist, but you don't "Wel.. How did I get here?" and you could end up anywhere in life searching for meaning. And since my favorite book, "The Stranger" communicates the same thing, this is one of my favorite songs. I really enjoy this song.

It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense on the surface, but that's the beauty of Talking Heads songs -- taken at face value they border on the nonsensical. This was the group at their prime; a song which demonstrates by the fluidity of the music the perpetual motion of water and how life, as water, can move you in unexpected directions. If you're a fan of 80s new-age/art rock music, I recommend giving this song a listen.

As is life, the only thing perpetual about water is that it is always moving and changing. The following area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of Once In A Lifetime Lyrics. The lyrics to your friends.

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This is a splendid job for Google, actually, particularly its ability to search for phrases rather than just collections of words. Unlike most people with tenuous memories of songs, you remembered the lyrics right, congratulations! The first match is from the site Am I Right?

, where they state that this particular lyric from Manfred Mann's song "Blinded by the Light" is commonly misheard (or misremembered) as "wrapped up like a douche". There's also some confusion about whether it's "wrapped up" or "revved up". We've already found your match, though, the song is Blinded by the Light and it's by Manfred Mann.

A bit more digging and you'll find that it was originally written by a far more successful and talented, but that's just my opinion musician, Bruce Springsteen, in the early 70's and Manfried Mann recorded their cover version in the mid 70's. One great place to dig around for music and song information, by the way, is Gracenote.com, where you can find that there are a surprising 350 matches in the database to "blinded by the light" and where I confirmed that indeed "Manfred Mann" was also known as "Manfred Mann's Earth Band". I thought so.

Go back and look at those Google results, though. There's an upload on YouTube of Manfred and his gang playing the song from back in 1976. The second match back at our original Google search is also quite interesting, it's an article from Cecil Adams for his splendid The Straight Dope column on the lyrics to this very song.

In his short piece Cecil explains that Springsteen's original lyrics were "cut loose like a deuce" and that Mann changed it to "wrapped up like a deuce", then he bails and admits he has no idea what any of it means. Uh, okay, Cecil. We'll let you slide on this one.

Finally, if you really can't live without the song, you can Google something like "blinded by the light" free mp3 download and try your luck with the various sites listed. Now, for practice, try to figure out which song the lyric "you put the lime in the coconut" comes from, the singer/band, when it was first recorded, how many people have recorded this particular song and, as a bonus, find a link to it as a video on YouTube (and double-bonus if it's a muppet singing the song). Now hold on, don't scroll down to read the answers from other readers first: that's cheating!

Here's a tougher one: who was the first woman to record a song with the lyrics "nice work if you can get it", and which of the many recordings by female singers was the most successful by sales or based purely on the popularity of the singer? Manage revision tracking display in Microsoft Word? How to delete folders in Hotmail "Outlook"?