I have taken snippets of lyrics from 12 reasonably well known songs. Each of these snippets contains one or two instances of a whole number in it.
For a consistent format, I've written these numbers in their digital form, removed all non-alphanumeric characters besides spaces, and made all letters lowercase. The tricky part is that I then replaced all digits with #
and all consonants (including all instances of y) with _
. Your task is to identify all 12 songs with this limited information.
Here are the 12 mangled lyric snippets, one per line:
# i_ __e _o_e_ie__ _u__e_
i __o_e # _oi___
# _i___e _i___
# _a__ a _ee_
# i_ __e a__e__oo_
_ou a_e ## _oi__ o_ ##
__e_ i_ ##
## __o__o_e_ _e_ __e _i_ _a_a_e _i__ ### _o__e__ __o_e a_ _a__
__e_ _ea_ _i_e __ ###
i _ou__ _a__ ### _i_e_
__o a_ i #####
#######
It can be seen that only the 6th and 8th songs have two numbers in them, so there are 14 mystery numbers in total. None of the numbers have leading zeros. All the lyric snippets are in standard English and their songs can be easily found on the web.
Just to clarify what has been done to the snippets, suppose the lyric A seven nation army couldn't hold me back
from Seven Nation Army was one of them (just as an example, this is not one of the 12 songs):
- make numbers digital →
A 7 nation army couldn't hold me back
- remove non-alphanumerics except space →
A 7 nation army couldnt hold me back
- make lowercase →
a 7 nation army couldnt hold me back
- replace digits with
#
→a # nation army couldnt hold me back
- replace consonants and y's with
_
→a # _a_io_ a___ _ou____ _o__ _e _a__
Winning
I will accept the earliest answer that correctly identifies all the songs and gives the unobscured lyrics and numbers.
Hints
The songs are not all necessarily from bands or individuals. Some may be from movies and/or musicals.
The 14 mystery numbers are strictly increasing in the order they appear in the mangled lyric snippet list.
(You'll need this one to really be certain of your answer.)
The sum of all 14 mystery numbers is 8701125.