Biographical music meme

[eeknight]

Saw an interesting meme on kradical, where he gives a song lyric and then you're supposed to guess or know the song. I thought I'd do something similar, but add a twist or two.

I'm going to give a musical biography of myself (unfortunately publication date for the song the and the events they refer to don't sync up very well). Sorry it's so much bland pop, but I like bland pop. I didn't go for any particular rhyme or reason on the number of lines to use, just whatever made the point.

1. Teach your children well,
   Their father's hell did slowly go by,
   And feed them on your dreams
   The one they picked, the one you'll know by.
2. Used to daydream in that small town
   Another boring romantic that's me
3. He sits in his room with a lock on his door
   with his maps and his battles laid out on the floor
   And he likes to be known as the angry young man
4. Wrong, Do it again!
5. My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold!
6. Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen.
   And I don't know when,
   But just saying it could even make it happen.
7. I can make it longer if you like the style,
   I can change it round and I want to be a paperback writer
8. She calls my name,
   Pulls my train
   No one else could heal my pain
   And I just can't contain
   This feeling that remains
9. Now first it wasn't easy
   Changin' Rock & Roll and minds
   And things were getting shaky
   I thought I'd have to leave it behind
   But now its so much better ( spoken: it's so much better )
   I'm funking out in every way
   But I'll never lose that feelin' ( spoken: no I won't)
   Of how I learned my lesson that day
10. Honey, come and dance with be, 'cause I ain't gonna work here no more.
11. Off into the world we go, planning futures, shaping years
12. I can't complain but sometimes I still do
    Life's been good to me so far

So go ahead. Make a playlist of your life.