Let's see who still checks this old journal of mine...
Put your favorite music player on shuffle. List the first lines/couplets of the first 50 songs, no matter how lame. (i am skipping spoken word, though)
Ask friends to identify the songs in comments. Bonus points given for identification of the correct artist on multiple-covers songs. Madcap fun ensues.
1. “She says wake up, it’s no use pretending.. I’ll keep stealing, breathing her.”
2. “A shot in the dark, I woke up to find you had broke all the rules and had changed your mind.”
3. “I’m trying to tell you something ‘bout my life. Maybe give me insight between black and white.”
4. “fourteenth street and the garbage swirls like a cyclone three o'clock in the afternoon and I am going home”
5. “She’s an extraordinary girl in an ordinary world and she can’t seem to get away“
6. “Everybody’s got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear, everybody hides some scars.”
7. “And you know the light is fading all too soon. You’re just two umbrellas one late afternoon”
8. “A hundred days have made me older since the last time that I saw your pretty face”
9. “well she’d like you to think she was born yesterday with her innocent looks and her little-town way“
10. “check it out, going out on a late night, looking tight, feeling nice, it’s a cock fight”
11. “I just want you close where you can stay forever. You can be sure that it will only get better.”
12. “Tonight was just great, she taught us the sign for peace”
13. “Drew looks at me I fake a smile so he won’t see that I want and I need him, everything that we should be.”
14. “In the light of sun, is there anyone? Oh it has begun.”
15. “When you slammed through my life like a screen door in a hurricane wind, all I could think was how to find you again.”
16. “one more kiss could be the best thing or one more lie could be the worst and all these thoughts are never resting and you’re not something I deserve”
17. “ I have a smile stretched from ear to ear to see you walking down the road”
18. “I woke up from an afternoon nap feeling guilty, guilty for sleeping away half of the day, guilty and restless and dusty and gray”
19. “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, they couldn’t put our two hearts together again”
20. “I'm in the club with my homies, tryna get a lil V-I, keep it down on the low key, cause you know how it feels.”
21. “it was rain for a year drop for drop and tear for tear, on the girl who wouldn’t stand out in a crowd.”
22. “a strangled smile fell from your face it kills me that I hurt you this way”
23. “You had me, you lost me, you’re wasted, you cost me. I don’t want you here messing with my mind”
24. “I hear the drums echoing tonight, she’s only hears whispers of some quiet conversation” (Hint: a cover)
25. “Underneath your dreamlit eyes shades of sleep have driven you away. The moon is pale outside and you are far from here.”
26. “The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees/The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloudy seas/The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor”
27. “Right now, he’s probably slow dancin’ with a bleach-blonde tramp and she’s probably getting’ frisky”
28. “Doesn’t mean much, it doesn’t mean anything at all”
29. “I heard you talking bout leaving, I heard you talk about leaving before, I heard you talk about givin up on me”
30. “Oh Jacqueline, you always know what I mean. We were pigtailed pipsqueaks but now we’ve grown into our jeans”
31. “she used to be my only enemy and never let me be free, catching me in places that I knew I shouldn’t be”
32. “today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna throw it back to you”
33. “You’re not alone, together we stand, I’ll be by your side, you know I’ll take your hand.”
34. “”I know you like me, I know you do, that’s why whenever I come around, she’s all over you”
35. “I dodn’t hear what you were saying, I live off raw emotion, baby”
36. “somewhere there’s speaking, its already coming in, oh and its rising at the back of your
37. “pounding, it starts again, hurting, oh where do I begin? Screaming they dance around my head, hoping they’ll maybe end up dead”
38. “Hello, I’ve waited here for you”
39. “I’ll kill you in my dreams I turn the other cheek during the day I’ll kill you all”
40. “what you want, what you got live your life in a crawl space”
41. “I can't get you out of my head the way I feel, the things that you said everything that I try to do”
42. “His little whispers. Love Me. Love Me. That's all I ask for. Love Me. Love Me.”
43. “It’s been one week since you looked at me”
44. “You could say this was an independent love song, it’s nothing like to us what love meant to them”
45. “The most as you’ll ever go, is back where you used to know”
46. “I never loved nobody fully, always one foot on the ground”
47. “when my body wants to go tell me will my mind and soul live on and on forever”
48. “Underneath the stars I'll meet you Underneath the stars I'll greet you There beneath the stars I'll leave you Before you go of your own free will”
49. “I can see you, don’t even know you falling into the sheets at night” (Hint: a cover)
50. “Let me inside you Into your room I’ve heard its lined With the things you don’t show”
Ask friends to identify the songs in comments. Bonus points given for identification of the correct artist on multiple-covers songs. Madcap fun ensues.
1. “She says wake up, it’s no use pretending.. I’ll keep stealing, breathing her.”
2. “A shot in the dark, I woke up to find you had broke all the rules and had changed your mind.”
3. “I’m trying to tell you something ‘bout my life. Maybe give me insight between black and white.”
4. “fourteenth street and the garbage swirls like a cyclone three o'clock in the afternoon and I am going home”
5. “She’s an extraordinary girl in an ordinary world and she can’t seem to get away“
6. “Everybody’s got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear, everybody hides some scars.”
7. “And you know the light is fading all too soon. You’re just two umbrellas one late afternoon”
8. “A hundred days have made me older since the last time that I saw your pretty face”
9. “well she’d like you to think she was born yesterday with her innocent looks and her little-town way“
10. “check it out, going out on a late night, looking tight, feeling nice, it’s a cock fight”
11. “I just want you close where you can stay forever. You can be sure that it will only get better.”
12. “Tonight was just great, she taught us the sign for peace”
13. “Drew looks at me I fake a smile so he won’t see that I want and I need him, everything that we should be.”
14. “In the light of sun, is there anyone? Oh it has begun.”
15. “When you slammed through my life like a screen door in a hurricane wind, all I could think was how to find you again.”
16. “one more kiss could be the best thing or one more lie could be the worst and all these thoughts are never resting and you’re not something I deserve”
17. “ I have a smile stretched from ear to ear to see you walking down the road”
18. “I woke up from an afternoon nap feeling guilty, guilty for sleeping away half of the day, guilty and restless and dusty and gray”
19. “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, they couldn’t put our two hearts together again”
20. “I'm in the club with my homies, tryna get a lil V-I, keep it down on the low key, cause you know how it feels.”
21. “it was rain for a year drop for drop and tear for tear, on the girl who wouldn’t stand out in a crowd.”
22. “a strangled smile fell from your face it kills me that I hurt you this way”
23. “You had me, you lost me, you’re wasted, you cost me. I don’t want you here messing with my mind”
24. “I hear the drums echoing tonight, she’s only hears whispers of some quiet conversation” (Hint: a cover)
25. “Underneath your dreamlit eyes shades of sleep have driven you away. The moon is pale outside and you are far from here.”
26. “The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees/The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloudy seas/The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor”
27. “Right now, he’s probably slow dancin’ with a bleach-blonde tramp and she’s probably getting’ frisky”
28. “Doesn’t mean much, it doesn’t mean anything at all”
29. “I heard you talking bout leaving, I heard you talk about leaving before, I heard you talk about givin up on me”
30. “Oh Jacqueline, you always know what I mean. We were pigtailed pipsqueaks but now we’ve grown into our jeans”
31. “she used to be my only enemy and never let me be free, catching me in places that I knew I shouldn’t be”
32. “today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna throw it back to you”
33. “You’re not alone, together we stand, I’ll be by your side, you know I’ll take your hand.”
34. “”I know you like me, I know you do, that’s why whenever I come around, she’s all over you”
35. “I dodn’t hear what you were saying, I live off raw emotion, baby”
36. “somewhere there’s speaking, its already coming in, oh and its rising at the back of your
37. “pounding, it starts again, hurting, oh where do I begin? Screaming they dance around my head, hoping they’ll maybe end up dead”
38. “Hello, I’ve waited here for you”
39. “I’ll kill you in my dreams I turn the other cheek during the day I’ll kill you all”
40. “what you want, what you got live your life in a crawl space”
41. “I can't get you out of my head the way I feel, the things that you said everything that I try to do”
42. “His little whispers. Love Me. Love Me. That's all I ask for. Love Me. Love Me.”
43. “It’s been one week since you looked at me”
44. “You could say this was an independent love song, it’s nothing like to us what love meant to them”
45. “The most as you’ll ever go, is back where you used to know”
46. “I never loved nobody fully, always one foot on the ground”
47. “when my body wants to go tell me will my mind and soul live on and on forever”
48. “Underneath the stars I'll meet you Underneath the stars I'll greet you There beneath the stars I'll leave you Before you go of your own free will”
49. “I can see you, don’t even know you falling into the sheets at night” (Hint: a cover)
50. “Let me inside you Into your room I’ve heard its lined With the things you don’t show”