January 22, 2007

Puzzler Solved!

Fryday, 27 Premise 2007

Here's the lyrics to the eighth of the latest round of Guess Ten songs. The lyrics we asked you to guess about are shown this way within the body of the song lyric.

Skin

This is someone else's story
Someone that I never knew
This is someone else's body
Am I getting through to you

If you peel away the armor is something underneath
If you look below for hidden treasure underneath another layer
Are you hiding underneath the skin

If you peel away the skin is there anybody there
If you peel away the skin is there anybody there
If you peel away the armor is it too late to begin
Is there anybody hiding if you peel away the skin

Now a spark has passed between us now
A momentary recognition
Something lost and something gained
And something shared that feels strange

Something cold that will not go away

There's a heart as cold as ice
In a vault that's made of stone
O'er years the walls got higher
O'er years the walls have grown

Is there anybody in there in this self inflicted tomb
If you peel away the layers is there someone in this room
If you peel away the skin, if you peel away the skin

This is someone else's story
Someone that I never knew
This is someone else's body
Am I getting through to you

If you peel away the layers is there anybody there
If you peel away the armor is something underneath
If you look below for hidden treasure underneath another layer
Are you hiding underneath the skin

If you peel away the skin is there anybody there
If you peel away the skin is there anybody there
If you peel away the skin is there anybody there
If you peel away the skin
If you peel away the skin
If you peel away the skin
If you peel away the skin
If you peel away the skin

From the album Dark At The End of The Tunnel by Oingo Boingo

This band was originally a musical theatrical group known as the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, and its' heart and soul was Danny Elfman, who wrote the soundtracks for approximately a gazillion and a hlaf movies, including Batman, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, Scrooged, and Nacho Libre (to name a very few). The band itself played what is referred to here at the Funny Farm as carnival rock, as I can easily imagine these guys as the band for a really freaky circus or carnival. The band performed their song Dead Man's Party as the live band at a frat party in the movie Back To School. Unfortunately, I was mistaken in one of my hints - their drummer, Johnny 'Vatos' Hernandez, did not eliminate the house band, he was the drummer in the house band in the Quentin Tarantino movie From Dusk Till Dawn. Also, unfortunately, Oingo Boingo has not been together since 1995.

Danny Elfman is also one of the luckiest people on the face of the planet - he married Bridget Fonda in November 2003.

Posted by (: Tom :) at January 22, 2007 11:09 PM