Verbosely paraphrased lyrics quiz - B

[undyingking]

How would you assess my inferior musical performance -- would you boycott it?

And for a bonus:

A wealthy metropolitan appreciated his fortune but found his life generally hollow and unhealthy.

Comments

[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

That second one's more an encapsulation of the whole thing, "City dweller, successful fella, thought to himself, oops, I've gotta lot of money..." Blur, Country House

Ah ha, and now I've got the first one,

"What would you do if I sang out of tune, would you stand up and walk out on me" Beatles, With a little help from my friends.

Guess I need to come up with some now...

[metame.livejournal.com]

I totally had the Beatles one on the tip of my tongue. Amazed I couldn't quite get my brain to give me the song it clearly knew...