song lyrics

[schmerica]

I'm going to copy notemily's rules, because she put it so nicely. So:

Step 1: Put your media player on random.
Step 2: Pick your favorite lines from the first 20 songs that play.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from.
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

Plus, I will add that I weeded out repeat artists for this list. (Because, uh, I was getting the same group five times in a row. Weird.)

Songs:

1. When the loved one finally learns that the fire no longer burns, I can see how this thing is gonna end, mrbig1316, "Nervous Guy", Old 97's
2. You're asking the wrong questions, you're opening the wrong doors, mrbig1316, "I Can't Touch You Anymore", Magnetic Fields
3. Make me happy, for one moment / Of my lifetime, I'd be there, mrbig1316, "Burndt Jamb", Weezer
4. And if it helps I think I feel a little worse than I did when we met sabine101, Dar Williams, "As Cool as I Am"
5. Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow / To blow off Auntie Em ladysorka, Rent, "La Vie Boheme">
6. Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads girl_clone, "We Want a Rock", They Might Be Giants
7. Carve the turkey turn the ball game on, mix margaritas when the eggnog's gone ladysorka, "Merry Christmas from the Family"
8. Only boys who save their pennies make my rainy day, sophia_helix, Madonna, "Material Girl"
9. And you can't understand why all the other boys are going for the new tall elegant rich kids, runpunkrun, Belle & Sebastian, "Seeing Other People"
10. She only licked her lips but I saw it notemily, "Tell Her Tonight", Franz Ferdinand
11. You're the real American Idol, you're the poor man's Mandy Moore, fox1013, "Hated", Nikki Cleary
12. Well I feel good, yeah I feel fine / Stopped complaining all the time, fox1013, "You're a Star", Josie & the Pussycats
13. From now on our troubles will be miles away, sophia_helix, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
14. I could have warned you, but really what's the point, notemily, Fiona Apple, "To Your Love"
15. But now I know that rose trees can never grow in New York City, darchildre, Elton John, "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters"
16. You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile, sophia_helix, "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"
17. Here's Leda in her white glory, all her back story has been wiped clean, dragonduerme, New Pornographers, "It's Only Divine Right"
18. You write it down, you strategize / Never go over your little lines
19. I don't care if you really care as long as you don't go, goss, "Love Fool", The Cardigans
20. And would she have your babies / I'm sure she'd make a really excellent mother, goss, "You Oughta Know", Alanis Morissette

Comments

[goss.livejournal.com]

19. I don't care if you really care as long as you don't go

Lovefool - The Cardigans


20. And would she have your babies / I'm sure she'd make a really excellent mother

You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette

[claire.livejournal.com]

6 is "We want a rock" by They Might be Giants, and 20 is Alanis Morisette's "You Oughta Know" (I think)

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

8. Material Girl - Madonna

13. Have Yourself a Merry Little Xmas - Hopefully by Judy Garland

16. You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Boris Karloff

(I knew 19 and 20 too, damn).

So I know Christmas songs and obvious pop songs from when I was in high school. So not punk rock. *G*

[ladysorka]

5. Rent - La Vie Boheme

7. Merry Christmas From the Family

13. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

4. And if it helps I think I feel a little worse than I did when we met -- "As Cool As I Am," Dar Williams

6. Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads -- "We Want a Rock," TMBG

8. Only boys who save their pennies make my rainy day -- "Material Girl," Madonna

13. From now on our troubles will be miles away -- "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Who do you have singing?)

[notemily.livejournal.com]

10. franz ferdinand - tell her tonight
14. fiona apple - to your love?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Correct!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yep to both!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Hee. Well, you know, I'm the one with them all on my playlist, right?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes to all three.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Those are all right. The cover of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas I was listening to was Coldplay, I think.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Woot, indeed.

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you also have awesome stuff. I own, like, maybe seven cds that would be considered cool, unless things have come around and now old Elton John and the Beatles are cool again. And, like, all the Barenaked Ladies albums. My CD collection cannot be cool, simply because most people have heard of most of the artists. *g*

[runpunkrun]

9 is Belle & Sebastian "Seeing Other People.'

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yep!

[mrbig1316.livejournal.com]

1 Old 97s - Nervous Guy
2 Magnetic Fields - I Can't Touch You Anymore
3 Weezer - Burndt Jamb
17 The New Pornographers - Electric Version

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

*sulks* I knew four and five and thirteen and sixteen and nineteen and twenty! I looooooooooose.

Ahem.

11. Nikki Cleary / Hated
12. Josie and the Pussycats / You're a Star

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

The first three are right, but that's the wrong New Pornographers song.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

But on the other hand, sleep! *snug*

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

Sleep is my new favoritest friend.

It has not replaced you in any sense, but in its own way, it is very very special to me.

*curls up with you*

[darchildre.livejournal.com]

15. Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters, Elton John.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I could never be jealous of sleep. I, too, love it dearly.

*eyes clock and how long is left till nap time*

[jennifus.livejournal.com]

17 is The New Pornographers "It's Only Divine Right"... right?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Right!

[mrbig1316.livejournal.com]

damn! I thought I had it! *kicks brain* ;)