Elton John | Tom Rants.

Next up on the Lyric-of-the-Day project recaps from 2013-2014 is the January 2014 playlist. As a refresher, each day from Jan. 1, 2013 through Dec. 31, 2014, I posted a lyric on my Twitter feed. At the end of each month, I created a Spotify playlist of the songs featured, and throughout much of 2013-14 here on the blog.

Here’s January’s #LOTD2014 playlist (find the Spotify playlist I’ve created from these lyrics linked at the end of the post or on the clickable image at right), with some brief explanations (in italics) for a number of the lyrics.

“It’s time to spread our wings and fly/Don’t let another day go by my love” #JohnLennon “(Just Like) Starting Over” #LOTD2014 1/1
“But there’s something about us I’ve got to do/Some kind of secret I will share with you” #DaftPunk “Something About Us” #LOTD2014 1/2
“Got a 7-inch trigger finger/Don’t know how to stop it” #7Horse “Meth Lab Zoso Sticker” #LOTD2014 1/3 (Memorable tune from Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” which I saw on this Friday night.)
“Yeah, uh huh, you know what it is/Everything I do, I do it big” #WizKhalifa “Black And Yellow” #LOTD2014 1/4
“Cause we were raised/To see life as fun and take it if we can” #TheCranberries “Ode To My Family” #LOTD2014 1/5
“Roots that spread so deep/Bring life to frozen ground” #CrowdedHouse “Something So Strong” #LOTD2014 1/6
“We never once thought of the fears/For what we’d do when the battle cry was over” #Alarm “Sixty Eight Guns” #LOTD2014 1/7
“I’m not the only soul who’s accused of hit and run/Tire tracks all across your back” #JimiHendrix “Crosstown Traffic” #LOTD2014 1/8
“Forever never seems that long til you’re grown & notice the day-by-day rule can’t be too long” #Outkast “Ms. Jackson” #LOTD2014 #Coachella 1/9 (Coachella 2014 lineup announced, featuring the Outkast “reunion.”)
“These days, days, days run away like horses over the hill…” #U2 “Dirty Day” #LOTD2014 1/10 #Bukowski
“Before the teacher and the test/Before the journey and the rest” #BigCountry “Fields Of Fire” #LOTD2014 1/11
“And all this science I don’t understand/It’s just my job five days a week/A rocket man …” #EltonJohn “Rocket Man” #LOTD2014 1/12 (Visited the Space Shuttle at the California Science Center in Exposition Park with my Aunt Sue.)
“Tough guy, what you got to prove/Moving like an elephant, that’s your favorite move” #BeastieBoys “Tough Guy” #LOTD2014 1/13
“Winter’s winners and those summer sons/Aren’t good for everyone, aren’t good for everyone” #EchoAndTheBunnymen “The Game” #LOTD2014 1/14
“Yeah, we’re runnin’ a little bit hot tonight/I can barely see the road from the heat comin’ off it” #VanHalen “Panama” #LOTD2014 1/15
“This is what they call the life/I’m melting in the sun/Great expectations/Of all we seem to be” #INXS “Melting In The Sun” #LOTD2014 1/16
“Just 2 lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year/Running over the same old ground” #PinkFloyd “Wish You Were Here” #LOTD2013 1/17
“Greedy little people in a sea of distress/Keep your more to receive your less” #RedHotChiliPeppers “Give It Away” #LOTD2014 1/18
“Why you all in my ear?/Talkin’ a whole bunch of sh*t I ain’t tryin’ to hear” #Ludacris “Get Back” #LOTD2014 1/19 #Sherman to #Crabtree
“Sleep, sleep tonight/And may your dreams be realized” #U2 “MLK” #LOTD2014 1/20 #IHaveADream #MartinLutherKing
“Now I’m makin’ them wait/Except for you mama, I’m ready/I don’t wanna be late” #ChildishGambino “Make It Go Right” #LOTD2014 1/21
“I remember traffic jams/Motor boys and girls with tans/Nearly was and almost rans” #REM “I Remember California” #LOTD2014 1/22 (USC hoops upsets Cal for its first Pac-12 win of the season.)
“Nothing stayed the same/But there were always renegades” #AfrikaBambaataa #RageAgainstTheMachine “Renegades Of Funk” #LOTD2014 1/23
“Wrote a nasty letter & I sent it to the Lord/I said don’t you dare come & bother me no more” #TheDeadWeather “Rocking Horse” #LOTD2014 1/24
“If one guy’s colors and the other’s don’t mix/They’re gonna bash it up” #TheOffspring “Come Out And Play” #LOTD2014 1/25 #StadiumSeries #LA (L.A. Kings vs. Anaheim Ducks in front of more than 54,000 at Dodger Stadium in the NHL Stadium Series game.)
“Seasons change with the scenery/Weaving time in a tapestry” #SimonAndGarfunkel “Hazy Shade Of Winter” #LOTD2014 1/26
“I met you on the Palisades/The sun was spilling kerosene/And I was feeling wide awake” #MiikeSnow “Song For No One” #LOTD2014 1/27
“You could have a bumper car, bumping/This amusement never ends” #PeterGabriel “Sledgehammer” #LOTD2014 1/28
“Sometimes I say stupid things I think/Well, I mean/Sometimes I think the stupidest things” #FranzFerdinand “No You Girls” #LOTD2013 1/29
“Painted lies on broken lips/That promise heaven tastes like this” #PsychedelicFurs “All That Money Wants” #LOTD2014 1/30
“Flip on the tele/Wrestle with Jimmy/Something is bubbling/Behind my back” #Weezer “Say It Ain’t So” #LOTD2014 1/31 #PhoenixOpen #BirdsNest (After a full day on No. 16 at the Phoenix Open, a group of us stuck around to catch the Weezer concert at the famed “Birds’ Nest” location at TPC Scottsdale.)

Here’s the Spotify playlist if you’d like to listen along: #LOTD2014: January

Ready for a rush to the finish of my 2013 Photo-A-Day project? Good, because just a couple of days ago, I finally finished working up images from late November and December — and they’ve been loaded into the media cache on the blog.

Let’s get started by reaching back to mid-October of last year, for a week that started in Chicago, stretched through the Dodgers’ final home playoff game and on to my sister’s 40th birthday and beyond! Remember, to see any image at full size, just click on it!