okay, since everybody else seems to be having fun with this...
these are the first lines from 30 songs semi-randomly* selected from my iTunes collection. if you know 'em, post your guesses.....
1. I don't hate my parents / I don't get drunk just to spite 'em
jeffkahl 2. One Saturday I took a walk to Zipper Head / I met a girl there and she almost knocked me dead
3. Mesdames et messieurs, attention / Je vais vous faire une chanson
burnstwo 4. It is complete now / Two ends of time are neatly tied
5. Twenty thousand miles to an oasis / Twenty thousand years will I burn
6. I took a drink of holy water / It tasted like the pipes were rusty
7. I was born by the railroad track / Well, the train whistle wailed and I wailed right back
jeffkahl 8. You're like a goddess / And like a goddess, you need clientele
delta_november 9. I've had relations / With girls from many nations
10. You've gotta have something on the bottom, if you want to have a band / You've gotta have a strong foundation if you want to take a stand
burnstwo 11. Some people wouldn't know what they wanted / Some people wouldn't want to know Aaron
12. I stood in this unsheltered place / Till I could see the face behind the face
13. You don't know how you move me / Deconstruct me and consume me
14. Bright light city, gonna set my soul / Gonna set my soul on fire
jeffkahl 15. Never been near a university / Never took a paper or a learned degree
16. Come with me, into the trees / We'll lay on the grass, let the hours pass
delta_november 17. I'd invite you back to my place / It's only mine because it holds my suitcase
18. Love sees love's happiness / But love can't see that love is sad, that love is sad
rhinoscillator 19. The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin' / That's what I said
jeffkahl 20. Punctured bicycle, on a hillside desolate / Will nature make a man of me yet?
rhinoscillator 21. Bon, y'est enfin cinq heures tapant / J'peux prendre mes chaines pis les enlever
burnstwo 22. Flew in from Miami Beach, BOAC / Didn't get to bed last night
jeffkahl 23. O, come back, proud Canadians, to before you had TV / No Hockey Night In Canada, there was no CBC (Oh my God!)
delta_november 24. When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come / With your hands on your head or on the trigger of your gun?
jeffkahl 25. In the howling wind, comes the stinging rain / See them driving nails into the souls on the tree of pain
mykesongs 26. I was never cool in school / I'm sure you don't remember me
27. They tell us that we lost our tails / Evolving up from little snails
rhinoscillator 28. To change the world, start with one step / However small, first step is hardest of all
29. See that couple over there, a matchmaker's nightmare / You see them everywhere.... Aaron
30. Is it all in that pretty little head of yours / What goes on in that place in the dark?
*excluding, of course, stuff without lyrics at all, things where the title is in the first line, and other stuff that i thought would be unfair....