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[schmerica]

It's going around my friends list again, so ... what the hell. Lyrics meme, first twenty songs on my random playlist. Except for lyricless ones.

Unidentified ones are starred.

1. And if you want to buy me flowers, just go ahead now
And if you would like to talk for hours, just go ahead now
Spin Doctors, "Two Princes," identified by lynnmonster

2. You're the great convincer
Should I do this
Am I good?
Kristin Hersh, "Ruby," identified by corinna_5

3. I'm like Estella
I like to reel it in and then spit it out
I'm frustrated by your apathy
Alanis Morissette, "All I Really Want", identified by anyand

4. There would one long staircase just going up
And one even longer coming down
And one more leading nowhere just for show
Fiddler on the Roof, "If I Were a Rich Man," identified by thefourthvine

***5. Not like an organ, like a valentine
It's cherry cherry red and it beats on time time time time

6. Though you have not left you have said goodbye
I'm wishing that we could have made it
Old 97's, "What I Wouldn't Do," identified by corinna_5

7. California's okay
But I think I may stay in the shade
For a while, for a while
Decemberists, "As I Rise," identified by ansin

8. Tropical the island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I long to be
Madonna, "La Isla Bonita," identified by nestra

***9. I don't want to destroy your tank-top
Let's be friends and just walk away

10. The education must have cost her
It must have caused her
To go back to the civilization
Caught between here and the real one
New Pornographers, "The Loose Translation," identified by corinna_5

11. Said the hero in the story
It is mightier than swords
I could kill you sure
But I could only make you cry with these words
Belle & Sebastian, "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying," identified by ansin

12. Just get me to the airport and put me on the plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
Ramones, "I Wanna Be Sedated," identified by thefourthvine

13. You know I got my choice of any toy, little boy
Replaceable, disposable, full action-poseable
Josie & the Pussycats, "Come On," identified by fox1013

***14. Last year I had someone who worshipped at my feet
Gave me everything I wanted but did not interest me
Now I'm standing naked like one of those bad dreams
Where everyone has clothes on except for me

15. You say you wanna stay by my side
Darling your head's not right
I see alone we stand, together we fall apart
Yeah, I think I'll be all right
The Strokes, "Someday," identified by sprat

16. Keep your electric eye on me, babe
Put your ray gun to my head
David Bowie, "Moonage Daydream," identified by thehoyden

***17. Now I see love
There in the scab where you pinched my leg
Now I see love
There on your side of my empty bed

18. A can of beans or black-eyed peas
Some Nescafe and ice
A candy bar, a falling star
Or a reading from Dr. Seuss
R.E.M., "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite," identified by thefourthvine

***19. Oh fuck Guiliani
He's such a fucking jerk
Shut down all the strip bars
Workfare does not work

20. But the lows are so extreme
That the good seems fucking cheap
And it teases you for weeks in its absence
But you'll fight and you'll make it through
You'll fake it if you have to
Rilo Kiley, "A Better Son/Daughter," identified by thefourthvine

Comments

[zarahemla.livejournal.com]

1. Two Princes
4. If I were a rich man
7. Is that the Rufus Wainwright "California"? I think so.
12. The Ramones song that says "I want to be sedated."
13. Possibly that Dresden Dolls song I hear on the radio a lot. Plastic Boy? Something about a toy boy.
18. The sidewinder sleeps tonight