Lyric Meme

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The rules: Guess the song and artist based on the first line(s) of a song. Googling lyrics is cheating. Listening to songs to try to figure out what that one is that is eating you is not.

Random Section
Guess the songs based on the first lines.

1. "[song title]
   Thirty-two softly focused, brightly-colored eyes" (coco_keesses: 16 Military Wives, The Decemberists)
   
2. "Why can't you do it?" (i_iambe: Monkey, George Michael)
   
3. "Well you know just what you do to me" (letterstoed: The One Thing, INXS)
   
4. "Under the ruins of a walled city" (peachespig: Fortress Around Your Heart, Sting)
   
5. "There's a tear in the fabric of your favorite dress" (coco_keesses: Lightness, Death Cab for Cutie)
   
6. "Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone" (peachespig: Like a Prayer, Madonna)
   
7. "Don't you know what you're doing?" (letterstoed: Suicide Blonde, INXS)
   
8. "In the days
   When we were swinging from the trees" (peachespig: Wild Honey, U2)
   
9. "Thank you for coming home" (letterstoed: Gold, Spandau Ballet)
   
10. "When you close your eyes
    And go to sleep"
    

Theme Section
The songs in this section have something in common. Guess the songs, guess the theme.

1. "Can't seem to get my mind off of you" (i_iambe: Vacation, The Go-Gos)
   
2. " I hear a wind" (letterstoed: Roam, The B-52s)
   
3. "I want to have the same last dream again
   The one where I wake up and I'm alive"
   
4. "I know it's out of fashion" (letterstoed: Echo Beach, Martha and the Muffins)
   
5. "(Together) We will go our way" (peachespig: Go West, Pet Shop Boys)
   

Theme: Escape (letterstoed)