So I'm totally wasting time that I don't have to do this meme. I always miss it when it comes around, but I always want to do it, so I'm nicking this one from
rowan_d, and saying the hell with not having time.
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. (Skip the instrumentals, the remixes and the mashups)
Step 3: Let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
1. "Don't chase ghosts, don't get too close."
2. "The summer days are gone too soon."
3. "I'm gonna ask you so you understand…what you done with your time?"
4. "The Atlantic was born today and I'll tell you how."
5. "They say an end can be a start."
6. " Remember the weight of the world, it’s a sound that we used to buy."
7. " Don't know why I'm still afraid--if you weren't real I would make you up."
8. "She's reformed, just like the neighbor's girl."
9. "Helping the kids out of their coats, but wait the babies haven't been born."
10. "Cover me with kisses, baby, cover me with love."
11. "I feel like a quote out of context withholding the rest."
12. "Boy, you're gonna carry that weight a long time."
13. "I'm the singer, I'm the singer in the band. You're the loser, I won't dismiss you out of hand."
14. "No one seems to be around today."
15. "Heaven, I need a drug, her eyes are all but fixed on her coffee cup."
16. " When winter comes along these shores, Old Hollywood we're knocking down."
17. "I'm coming up only to hold you under."
18. "I feel the room surround me with possibility."
19. "On the bus, that's where we're ridin'."
20. " Well, I walked over the bridge into the city where I live and I saw my old landlord."