Stolen from jickle
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 20 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: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
I ignored any instrumental (obviously) and non-English songs. And songs I couldn't for the life of me work out the lyrics of. I had to skip so many songs. But anywhere, here we go!
1. And I sat down, said I don't want to suffer. But she told me she had nothing to offer no more.
2. Where do we go? Nobody knows.
Coldplay - God Put A Smile Upon Your Face thenorthernline
3. Eyes, boring a way through me, paralyse, controlling completely.
Franz Ferdinand - This Fire thenorthernline
4. I'd like to see you, I had a funny dream and you were wearing funning shoes.
Belle & Sebastian - I'm a Cuckoo aliasthejester
5. So long, Frank Lloyd Wright, I can't believe your song is gone so soon.
6. It's so cold in this house, open mouth swallowing us.
Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass musicsoundnoise
7. You're all whores, and I hate you all. Best opening line for an album ever IMO.
Drowsy - Some Cursing translucent
8. He bear her off, he bear her down, he bear her into an orchard ground.
Jeff Buckley - Corpus Christi Carol aliasthejester
9. All the cars down the bottom, windmill chasing, calling police so, so we're placing.
10. On the verge of ruin, you'll see it all clear.
11. The body breaks and the body is fine, I'm open to yours and I'm open to mine.
Devendra Banhart - The Body Breaks translucent
12. Summer was gone and the heat died down, and Autumn reached for her golden crown.
Nick Drake - Time Of No Reply translucent
13. Sometimes I like to get away from this maddening shroud.
14. They're taking me down, my friend, and as they usher me off to my end, will I bid you adieu?
15. I saw it written and I saw it say, pink moon is on its way.
Nick Drake - Pink Moon thriftstoredesk
16. Drink up baby down, hmm, are you in or are you out.
Frou Frou - Let Go gwendoli
17. The jester hops on the leg of time, the scurge of the wizard nation, magical chanting is no crime.
18. Well how do you do, do you like the look of me and you together?
19. I was just a boy when you called out my name, just to see what I would do.
20. I know so many places in the world, I follow the sun in my silver plane.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 20 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: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
I ignored any instrumental (obviously) and non-English songs. And songs I couldn't for the life of me work out the lyrics of. I had to skip so many songs. But anywhere, here we go!
1. And I sat down, said I don't want to suffer. But she told me she had nothing to offer no more.
2. Where do we go? Nobody knows.
Coldplay - God Put A Smile Upon Your Face thenorthernline
3. Eyes, boring a way through me, paralyse, controlling completely.
Franz Ferdinand - This Fire thenorthernline
4. I'd like to see you, I had a funny dream and you were wearing funning shoes.
Belle & Sebastian - I'm a Cuckoo aliasthejester
5. So long, Frank Lloyd Wright, I can't believe your song is gone so soon.
6. It's so cold in this house, open mouth swallowing us.
Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass musicsoundnoise
7. You're all whores, and I hate you all. Best opening line for an album ever IMO.
Drowsy - Some Cursing translucent
8. He bear her off, he bear her down, he bear her into an orchard ground.
Jeff Buckley - Corpus Christi Carol aliasthejester
9. All the cars down the bottom, windmill chasing, calling police so, so we're placing.
10. On the verge of ruin, you'll see it all clear.
11. The body breaks and the body is fine, I'm open to yours and I'm open to mine.
Devendra Banhart - The Body Breaks translucent
12. Summer was gone and the heat died down, and Autumn reached for her golden crown.
Nick Drake - Time Of No Reply translucent
13. Sometimes I like to get away from this maddening shroud.
14. They're taking me down, my friend, and as they usher me off to my end, will I bid you adieu?
15. I saw it written and I saw it say, pink moon is on its way.
Nick Drake - Pink Moon thriftstoredesk
16. Drink up baby down, hmm, are you in or are you out.
Frou Frou - Let Go gwendoli
17. The jester hops on the leg of time, the scurge of the wizard nation, magical chanting is no crime.
18. Well how do you do, do you like the look of me and you together?
19. I was just a boy when you called out my name, just to see what I would do.
20. I know so many places in the world, I follow the sun in my silver plane.