Music lyrics meme

[tardis_stowaway]

I grabbed this one from eponymous_rose.  Let's play!

1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty songs that come up that do not give away the name of the song. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless LJ denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist.
4. Least hapless LJ denizen wins admiration. That's right, just like a lobbyist in budget season, the points don't matter.

ETA: 17 guessed, 13 to go! Some of the remaining ones are pretty obscure or hard to guess from lyrics alone, but there's a few I bet someone out there knows.

Shuffle seems to have given disproportionate representation to some artists and especially a particular album for this meme, but that's probability for you.  I've warned you when I had to skip some lyrics to avoid giving the title away. Sometimes this is just a few words, sometimes a whole stanza.


1.  Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do
Guessed by isiscaughey

2.  (not the opening lyrics) I grew up in New York City,
Since I was born on Broadway, baby!
Moved downtown when I was just nineteen,
To start a new life on the New York scene.

3.  (not the opening lyrics) Well what is this that I can't see
With ice cold hands takin' hold of me

4.  This old highway is just a lonely patch of blue and gray
And late at night my memory obfuscates my line of sight
Guessed by morelindo

5.  (not the opening lyrics) A sweetheart left behind
Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas
That's where my true love lies
Guessed by isiscaughey

6.  We made a plan that was subject to change
So whatever way it works out we both get the blame

7.  I am an old woman
Named after my mother
My old man is another
Child that's grown old
Guessed by isiscaughey

8.  I still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
Guessed by isiscaughey

9.  Five a.m., Friday morning
Thursday night, far from sleep
Guessed by isiscaughey

10.   I am the fountain of affection,
I'm the instrument of joy

11. (not the opening lyrics) She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's a time to change, hey
Guessed by rosa_acicularis

12.  And it's no, nay, never,
No nay never no more
Guessed by morelindo

13. (not the opening lyrics) Damn, I love the Jag, the jet and the mansion, Oh yeah
And I enjoy the gifts and trips to the islands, Oh yeah

14.  (not the opening lyrics) Sitting on a shelf, he is just a toy
But I turn him on and he comes to life
Automatic joy
Guessed by morelindo

15.  Oh yeah I'll tell you something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something
Guessed by morelindo

16. Every finger in the room is pointing at me
Wanna spit in their faces, then I get afraid of what that could bring
Guessed by isiscaughey

17.Come to me now
And lay your hands over me
Even if it's a lie
Say it will be alright

18.  (not the opening lyrics) You are everything I could never be
I want to look at life from on top of your tree
You are everything I could never be
Is it about love, or how you inspire me

19.  Stop wasting your words
Convincing yourself no one hurts

20.  (not the opening lyrics) the ground thaws
the rain falls
the grass grows
Guessed by rosa_acicularis

21.  Look, I'm standing naked before you
Don't you want more than my sex
Guessed by isiscaughey

22.  O my fair north star
I have held to you dearly
Guessed by rosa_acicularis

23.  I just want to feel safe in my own skin
I just want to feel happy again

24.  (not the opening lyrics.) Now you're laughing pretty baby
Someday you're gonna be crying

25. (not the opening lyrics) The battle's done
And we kinda won
So we sound our victory cheer
Guessed by isiscaughey

26.  Ah, look at all the lonely people!
Ah, look at all the lonely people!
Guessed by morelindo

27. (not the opening lyrics) This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
Guessed by morelindo

28. (not the opening lyrics) I heard you went to Mr. So-and-So
Knock knock knocking on his door again last night,
said you needed it bad, you know that ain't right

29. Locked inside your head
Do you realize the things you said
Never made sense?

30. I'm growing tired of the big city lights
Tired of the glamor, tired of the sights
In all my dreams I am roaming once more
Back to my home on the old river shore

Comments

[morelindo.livejournal.com]

4. Girlyman, This Is Me
12. The Wild Rover. Irish trad so could be any band. Dubliners?
14. Dresden Dolls. Coin Operated Boy
15. Beatles, I Want To Hold Your Hand
26. Beatles, Eleanor Rigby
27. REM, The One I Love

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

Correct on all counts! The version of The Wild Rover in question was by The Dropkick Murphys, but obviously there's no way to tell that.

I thought you might get the Girlyman one if it didn't get guessed by someone else first. :)

[mysticalchild_isis]

Someone else got the Girlyman song, but just commenting that it is one of my favorites :D

1. Yellow, Coldplay
5. Yankee Bayonet, The Decemberists
7. Angel from Montgomery, Bonnie Raitt
8. Changes, David Bowie (YAY!!!)
9. Me and a Gun, Tori Amos
16. Crucify, Tori Amos
21. Leather, Tori Amos
25. Where Do We Go From Here, Buffy Musical

Some of the others sound really familiar, but my brain isn't cooperating.

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

Correct all around! I knew you'd be happy when Bowie popped up. :)

Girlyman love!

[rosa-acicularis.livejournal.com]

The only ones I'm certain of that haven't been guessed:

11. Drops of Jupiter, Train
20. Without You, RENT
22. Mercy of the Fallen, Dar Williams

Also, number seven is the best song ever. Aside from this Train business, you and I clearly have similar taste. ;)

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

Correct on all counts! Angel from Montgomery is such a lovely song.

Ha, Drops of Jupiter is the only Train song I own. It's one of those songs I sort of got attached to regardless of whether I actually think it's any good. It was all over the radio my senior year of high school with lyrics about leaving and finding yourself that hit the spot at the time. Hooray for otherwise similar tastes. :)

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Dang! I got all excited because I knew a half-dozen of these, but they've all been guessed already. Alas.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Same here.

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

Congrats anyway on our shared musical knowledge!

Most of the easier ones have been guessed. About a third of the ones that are left I probably couldn't guess, and they're in my iTunes. ;)

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

Hey, congrats on knowing those and our shared musical knowledge.

Yeah, most of the easier ones have been guessed. About a third of the ones that are left I probably couldn't guess, and they're in my iTunes. ;)

There are still a few that I suspect someone may know.