Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line of lyrics for the first 40 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
1. My baby's on the level. I try to read her mind.
2. I never knew. I never knew that everything was falling through.- "Over My Head(Cable Car)" by The Fray
egirl 3. If you're driving into town with a dark cloud above you dial in the number
4. This place has a history, the Spaniards settled here
5. I'm sitting on the roof of my house with a shotgun and a sixpack of beer
6. I'm looking at another day to find that i've got nothing to say
7. I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph.
8. I’m leaving you all my _____I didn’t have the money or I would have gotten roses
9. Let's put our heads together and start a new country up
10. I lost my heart under the bridge
11. Mott the Hoople and the game of LIFE- Man on the Moon by R.E.M.
manynames 12. Gonna close my eyes, Girl and watch you go
13. you could follow logic or contest it all
14. Lying in the hot sun today, watching the clouds run away
15. The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping, I dreamed i held you in my arms
16. So glad you're coming, I've nothing on my mind
17. Hey, it might never be the same, we might never live those days gone by
18. death may come invisible or in a holy wall of fire
19. I was wasted in the afternoon, Waiting on a train
20. God, there is gold hidden deep in the ground
21. Minutes til dawn and I'm awake, stare at the phone and I wait
22. You only hold me up like this 'cause you don't know who I really am- "Of All the Jin Joints in All the World" by Fall Out Boy
manynames 23. half underwater, i'm half my mother's daughter
24. Skipping the first line:
We've got fun 'n' games, We got everything you want, Honey, we know the names- "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns-N-Roses
egirl 25. Open up and let me in, I was lucky to live, don;t need to win
26. Forty years since you washed ashore, carried out of the sea
27. I'll never feel the weight of your hands 'side mine like diamonds
28. Well, you young pop singers, devouring zingers, tone deaf death bringers
29. Drop your guard, I'll get to know you, Simon says it's time to move
30. the cat calls through the night and two chicks in the parking lot crack wise on the price of fame
31. Theres a problem, feathers iron, bargain buildings, weights and pullies, feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air
32. Same demons sitting on the woodwork, we're on speaking terms I know them by name
33. smeared black ink, your palms are sweaty, i'm barely listening- "District Sleeps Alone Tonight" by The Postal Service
gigglestheblood 34. See your reflection in your mind, you keep your revelations wide eyed- "California" by Low
gigglestheblood 35. We are here to save your life, the fool, the drunk, the child, and his wife
36. What is the name to call, for a different kind of girl who knows the feelings but never the words
37. Life can be so fair, let it go on and on, I can push for good
38. It was muggy July around supper time when I pulled into New Orleans
39. You're supposed to have a laugh and have a lot to say, you're supposed to have a gas and make your getaway
40. Well I ain't sure, but I been told, he's baking cakes inside our souls
HA! And because this one came up right after the last one:
41. I've been having a bad, bad day, come on, won't you put that pad away?
Whew. I'm exhausted. That took forever and a day or the entire first half of Chieko's football game.