So Ok, y'all had a week to figure this stuff out. Halie, I love ya and you would have swept the table, but you missed it for some reason *sigh*
1: Taking Back Sunday - You're So Last Summer - taken by
barnesy"The truth is you could slit my throat
And with my one last gasping breath
I'd apologise for bleeding on your shirt"
2: The Animals - House of the Rising Sun - taken by no-one
"My Mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gambling man
Down in New Orleans"
3: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere over the Rainbow/Wonderful world - taken by
barnesy"Where trouble melts like lemondrops
High above the Chimney-top
That's where you'll fine me"
4: Dashboard Confessional - Again I go unnoticed - taken by
fallbackschism"This mood of yours is temporary
It seems worth the wait to see a smile again
Out of the corner of my eye will be the only way you're looking at me then"
5: Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Zoot Suit Riot - taken by
cabaiste84"Whipped up jitterbuggin' brown-eyed man
Straight cat frontin' up an 8-piece band
Cut me Sammy and you'll understand
In my veins hot music ran!"
6: Stone Temple Pilots - Plush - taken by no-one
"And I feel, so much depends on the weather
So is it raining in your bedroom
And I see, that these are the eyes of disarray
Would you even care?"
7: Evanescence - Where Will you go? - taken by no-one
"You play the role of all you want to be
But I know who you really are
You're the one who cries when you're alone"
8: 3 Doors Down - Here Without you - taken by
cabaiste84"Everything I know, and everywhere I go
It gets hard but it won't take away my love"
9: Blondie - One Way or Another - taken by no-one
"I walk down't'the mall
Stand over by the wall
Where I can see it all
Find out who ya call
Lead you to the supermarket checkout
The specials and wrapping
get lost in the crowd"
10: Harvey Danger: Flagpole Sitta - taken by no-one
"Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding
The cretins cloning and feeding
And I don't even own a TV"
11: Pearl Jam - NothingMan - taken by no-one
"She once believed in every story he had to tell
One day she stiffened, took the other side"
12: Cake - I Will Survive - taken by
miriamus"And so you're back, from outer space
I just walked in to find you here without that look upon your face
I should've changed my fucking lock
I should've made you leave your key"
13: Semisonic - Closing Time - taken by
fallbackschism"Closing Time, open all the doors
Let you out into the world
Closing Time, turn all of the lights on
Over every boy and every girl"
14: Atreyu - Dilated - taken by no-one
"Have you ever stopped raised your face up to the sun and screamed
Let it out exhale the pain that strangulates your soul
When will I be free?"
15: Foo Fighters - Everlong - taken by
fallbackschism"Come down and waste away with me
Down with me...
Slow down, you wanted it to be
I'm over my head, out of my head she sang..."
16: David Gray - Babylon - taken by no-one
"Sunday all the lights in London shinin'
Sky is fading, red to blue
Kickin' through the autumn leaves
And wonderin' where it is you might be going to"
17: Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven - taken by NO ONE!!!!! (Why the mother-truck not????)
"There's a sign on the door
But she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings"
18: John Lennon - Imagine - taken by
fallbackschism"Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no country,
It isn't hard to do"
19: Lil' John and the Eastside Boyz - Get Low - taken by no-one
"Drop that ass, hey, shake it fast, hey,
Shake that ass to the left and the right, hey"
20: Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott - Hero - taken by no-one
"Now that the world isn't ending
It's love that I'm sending to you
It isn't the love of a Hero
And that's why I fear it won't do"
21: Dashboard Confessional - A Plain Morning - taken by
barnesy"The phone is always dead to me
So I can't tell you the temperature is dropping
And it feels like, its' colder than it oughta be in March"
22: Beach Boys - Kokomo - taken by no-one
"Bodies in the Sand
Tropical cake melting in your hand
We'll be falling in Love
To the rhythm of a steel drum band
Down in Kokomo..."
23: Michelle Branch - Are you Happy Now? - taken by
fallbackschism"I know it's just no use
When all your lies become your truths
And I don't care"
24: Letters to Cleo - Because of You - taken by no-one
"So the wonder of you is done
I'm tired and bloody and good to be gone
I know that you did me wrong
'Cause I'm ready, I'm ready"
25: Nelly - Shake Ya Tail-Feather - taken by no-one
"Eighth girl this week and it's only tuesday
I like the cocky bow-legged ones
Like wiley dominicans, hispanics and asians
You shake it for Nelly-san
Manolo's Mano-nos, I can't tell"
26: The Strokes - Reptilia - taken by no-one
"I was afraid that you would not insist
You sound so sleepy, just take this, now leave me"
27: Stacie Orrico - More to Life - taken by
cabaiste84"I've got the time and I'm wasting it slowly
Here in this moment, I'm halfway out the door
I'm onto the next thing, I'm searching for something that's missing"
28: Coheed and Cambria - The Crowing - taken by no-one
"I severed my ties to shove this body under the streets of this city
And wait for the day when I am summoned to walk across the face
Well, slowly but clearer now, in visions that play and plague memories
I loved them with all as the son should to mother and father"
29: Pink Floyd - Wish you were here - taken by
fallbackschism"Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot Ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze?
cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange, a walk-on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage?"
30: Katy Rose - Overdrive - taken by no-one
"I need to take a shower when I look at you
You sting and hurt like a bad tattoo
I wish you'd change my point of view...
I cruise the canyon to get some breeze
With hidden treasures up my sleeve
I like the light and hate the heat
But I'll lick the blood right off your street"
Man, that took ages as...I was gonna say extra stuff but that maybe a task for undertaking another day...definitely
Ciao Bellas!