You know the drill. Identify the song the lyrics are from. Use Google if you want -- some of these have such incorrect lyrics on every lyric site that they're pretty much ungoogle-able.
1. We all want / we all yearn / be soft / don't be stern / love was not supposed to make you cry.
2. Whatever you want from me / whatever you want, I'll do / I'll try to squeeze a drop of blood / from a sugarcube.
3. I hope that she’s happy / I’m blamed for the death of a man / who would take her from me .
4. Fragile stem / lay down your arms and then / Steer into the headlights like the dead light of the last sun you'll see.
5. Hold your head up, you silly girl / see what you've done / when you find yourself in the thick of it, help yourself to a bit of what is all around you / silly girl. "Martha, My Dear" by the Beatles (
doogly)
6. I said, "I didn't get nothing. I had to pay fifty dollars and pick up the garbage."
7. Now, we can't have parties like in Spain, where they go all night / shut down in North America / or like Berlin, where they go another night. All right! / Uh huh, uh huh.
8. And will you tell all your friends / you've got your gun to my head / This song was only wishful thinking / This song was only wishful thinking. "Cute without the 'e' (Cut from the team)" by Taking Back Sunday (
earlmo)
9. Emptiness is loneliness / and loneliness is cleanliness / and cleanliness is Godliness / and God is empty, just like me.. "Zero" by the Smashing Pumpkins (
earlmo)
10. THIS ISN'T SOME KIND OF METAPHOR. GODDAMNIT, THIS IS REAL!
11. Somewhere, through a thousand birds, a dragonfly descends with just a whisper / I'm lonelier than God / and all my wishes spin to fishes in the air / and every one, a different shade of you.
12. When you write a poem, I know the words, I know the song before you write it down. When you wear your clothes, I wear them too. I wear your shoes and your jacket, too.
13. Take me to a place, high above the tide / underneath the waves, where i can come inside / a reveille, told in fractured time.
14. Let the products sell themselves / Fuck advertising and commercial psychology / Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed.
15. Thirteen grand / here in the Meadowlands. "Everyone Choose Sides" by the Wrens (
miss_story)
16. What did we ever do to these guys / to make them get so violent? "Buddy Holly" by Weezer (
doogly)
17. This ain't no broken promise / no national anthem / my generation is a ghost town / roll me over
18. If you admire somebody / you should go ahead, tell 'em / people never get the flowers while they can still smell 'em.
19. With question marks in my eyes / and your strange name pressed to our lips / we arrived at number eleven / so charged and ready for slavery.
20. And for a while there, it was chaos / as they handcuffed and then roughed up some sailors / on the day my lung collapses, it's not going to be much different. "Song for Dennis Brown" by the Mountain Goats (
miss_story)
21. If you can hold on / we can fix what is wrong / buy a little time.
22. She's getting a job with the firm come monday / the missus will stay with the cheating attorney / moonlighting aside, she really needs this money / a wonderfull caricature of intimacy. "Build God, Then We'll Talk" by Panic! at the Disco (
earlmo)
23. Caroline, Caroline, stomp them out / what are your stories all about? / Carries the weight on her swing / on her swing.
24. Another phone call / with ruined plans / romantic gestures / with ruined plans. "Cold Days from the Birdhouse" by the Twilight Sad (
miss_story)
25. Oh, look, you earned your wings / Are you an angel now? / Or a vulture?