This is a soundtrack that I made for myself some time ago. Can you guess what songs these lines are from? Personally, I think the easiest are 7, 8 , 13 and 17; the hardest is probably 9.
1. That the autumn leaves were turning to the color of his hair
2. [the second is pretty much an instrumental: "Louisiana Two-Step" by Clifton Chenier]
3. Back then Jackson was a real small town
4. Out on Dafusky Island, the bulldozers bury the past
5. Climbin' up the topsails, I lost my leg
6. This morning I shot six holes in my freezer
7. Other arms reach out to me, other eyes smile tenderly
8. I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A.
9. There's Ivy League football to ruin the fall, a terrible scourge without doubt
10. I was half the naked distance between hell and heaven's ceiling and it almost pulled me under
11. They're climbing up the Devil's Stairs, against rangers' advice
12. She can tell Wyoming by the wind, she can know another trucker by the rig that he's in
13. She got a lot of pretty pretty boys that she calls friends
14. Somewhere between the soul and the soft machine is where I find myself again
15. [another instrumental: Aaron Copeland's Rodeo]
16. I was totin' my pack along the dusty Winnemucca Road when along came a semi with a high and canvas-covered load
17. I was there to match my intellect on national tv, with a plumber and an architect, both with a PhD
18. There's someone in my head and it's not me
19. God made me for a reason, and nothing is in vain; Redemption comes in many shapes with many kinds of pain
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