Who sang these song lyrics?

#62 Week 13

Author

Sigrun Sørumgård
March 27, 2025

Can you identify the artists behind these iconic lyrics?

  1. Who sang: Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again?

  2. Who sang: Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes?

  3. Who sang: I work all night, I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay Ain't it sad?

  4. Who sang: You left your typewriter at my apartment. Straight from the tortured poets department?

  5. Who sang: Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees?

  6. Who sang: I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet?

  7. Who sang: Life is a mystery. Everyone must stand alone?

  8. Who sang: And if I only could. I'd make a deal with God. And I'd get Him to swap our places?

  9. Who sang: And for my nineteenth birthday. I got a union card and a wedding coat?

  10. Who sang: Tastes like strawberries on a summer evenin'. And it sounds just like a song?

The Wonder Wall

  • The word "lyric" comes from the Greek word "lyrikos," which means "singing to the lyre."

  • The oldest known song with lyrics is the "Hurrian Hymn No. 6," dating back to around 1400 BCE.

  • Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 for his impactful lyrics.

Yesterday´s Questions & Answers

  1. Which Shakespearean play features the line “To be, or not to be”?

    “To be or not to be—that is the question” is the first line of arguably the most famous speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  2. Who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest?

    The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) by Oscar Wilde is a popular play that is still widely performed in English-language theatres and also in many other languages.

  3. In Oedipus Rex, who does Oedipus unknowingly kill?

    His father, King Laius

  4. Which playwright wrote Pygmalion, which inspired the musical My Fair Lady?

    In 1913 George Bernard Shaw wrote the play called Pygmalion. Shaw's play eventually inspired the 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady.

  5. Who wrote No Exit, a play featuring the famous line "Hell is other people"?

    Jean-Paul Sartre. The play proposes that “hell is other people” rather than a state created by God.

  6. Which Shakespeare play features the character Prospero?

    The Tempest. Prospero is a powerful magician who was once the Duke of Milan.

  7. Who is the protagonist of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House?

    Nora Helmer.

  8. Which playwright is known for The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, and The Cherry Orchard?

    Anton Chekhov

  9. Which play features the characters George and Martha, a feuding married couple?

    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A play by Edward Albee first staged in October 1962.

  10. Who wrote Waiting for Godot?

    Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot is about two tramps meet by the roadside, and endlessly wait for someone—or something—named Godot.