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I hear there's a meme going around where you list all the songs whose lyrics you've used as song titles, which I am jumping on since I am a terrible, serial offender. :)
First instance: Love is Strange
Most recent instance: Real
Oldest song: Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight (1972)
Newest song: One More Weekend / Under Your Skin (2008)
Artist used most: The Whitlams / Bright Eyes
Most frequently in which fandom: bandom (8 fics!)
Shameless - Ani DiFranco
This is my skeleton / This is the skin it's in / That is, according to light and gravity / I'll take off my disguise / The mask you met me in / 'Cause I got something for you to see
(According to Light and Gravity, Baby Sitters Club)
One More Weekend - The Academy Is
You've got all the friends you need / Bad tattoos and worse IDs / You feel alive / Do you feel alive?
(All the Friends You Need, bandom)
Under My Skin - Jukebox The Ghost
I can fit two people under my skin / And I will prove it if you will listen / You crawled up in there you joined me within
(Under My Skin, bandom)
Maybe Not - Cat Power
We can all be free / Maybe not in words / Maybe not with a look / But with your mind
(All Be Free, bandom)
Brain - N.E.R.D.
Do I really even love you / Or do I really love your brain
(I Just Love Your, bandom)
In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach) - Elliott Smith
Stay with me, hanging around in the lost and found
(In the Lost and Found, bandom)
Deja Vu - Something for Kate
I'd be the luckiest man in the universe / if cause and effect doesn't get there first / But she keeps looking for patterns / and the world just happens
(The World Just Happens, bandom)
Bad Light - Built to Spill
How this is done like so much science / Can't be explained through common sense
(Like So Much Science, bandom)
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
And the feeling coming from my bones / Says find a home
(This Feeling From My Bones, bandom)
Fondness Makes the Heart Grow Absent - The Whitlams
When fondness makes the heart grow absent / I gotta find an orbit a little closer to the ground / When fondness in my heart is absent / I'm in awe of the sabotage within
(A Little Closer to the Ground, Entourage)
Charlie No. 1 - The Whitlams
I had my dreams for both of us / For both of us / You might be unworthy / But you remember what I remember / And that's enough to care / You don't fall off the rails
(Had Our Dreams, Harry Potter)
Oh My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams
Oh my sweet disposition / May you one day carry me home
(May You One Day, Harry Potter)
omg there's a version with Mandy instead. <333
Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight - James Taylor
I'm undecided, and your heart's been divided / You've been turning my world upside down
(Heart’s Been Divided, Harry Potter)
Take it Easy (Love Nothing)- Bright Eyes
We'll both take it easy / But if you stay too long inside my memory / I will trap you in a song tied to a melody / And I will keep you there so you can't bother me
(A Song Tied to a Melody, Imaginary Heroes)
Drunk Kid Catholic - Bright Eyes
Then suddenly it occurs to me / I've slept alone before you
(Slept Alone Before You, Imaginary Heroes)
Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
I was standing / You were there / Two worlds collided
(Precious Heart, pop)
Neon - John Mayer
She's always buzzing just like neon / Who knows how long / She can go before she burns away
(Neon, pop)
Summer Rain - Belinda Carlisle
I can here him singing / Ooh love is strange / Come dance with me baby / In the summer rain
(Love Is Strange, pop)
For Real - Okkervil River
I want to know this time if you’re really finally mine / I need to know that you're not lying / so I want to see you tried
(Real, Revenge)
Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Close your eyes and I'll kiss you 'cause with the birds I'll share
(This Lonely View, Veronica Mars)
First instance: Love is Strange
Most recent instance: Real
Oldest song: Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight (1972)
Newest song: One More Weekend / Under Your Skin (2008)
Artist used most: The Whitlams / Bright Eyes
Most frequently in which fandom: bandom (8 fics!)
Shameless - Ani DiFranco
This is my skeleton / This is the skin it's in / That is, according to light and gravity / I'll take off my disguise / The mask you met me in / 'Cause I got something for you to see
(According to Light and Gravity, Baby Sitters Club)
One More Weekend - The Academy Is
You've got all the friends you need / Bad tattoos and worse IDs / You feel alive / Do you feel alive?
(All the Friends You Need, bandom)
Under My Skin - Jukebox The Ghost
I can fit two people under my skin / And I will prove it if you will listen / You crawled up in there you joined me within
(Under My Skin, bandom)
Maybe Not - Cat Power
We can all be free / Maybe not in words / Maybe not with a look / But with your mind
(All Be Free, bandom)
Brain - N.E.R.D.
Do I really even love you / Or do I really love your brain
(I Just Love Your, bandom)
In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach) - Elliott Smith
Stay with me, hanging around in the lost and found
(In the Lost and Found, bandom)
Deja Vu - Something for Kate
I'd be the luckiest man in the universe / if cause and effect doesn't get there first / But she keeps looking for patterns / and the world just happens
(The World Just Happens, bandom)
Bad Light - Built to Spill
How this is done like so much science / Can't be explained through common sense
(Like So Much Science, bandom)
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
And the feeling coming from my bones / Says find a home
(This Feeling From My Bones, bandom)
Fondness Makes the Heart Grow Absent - The Whitlams
When fondness makes the heart grow absent / I gotta find an orbit a little closer to the ground / When fondness in my heart is absent / I'm in awe of the sabotage within
(A Little Closer to the Ground, Entourage)
Charlie No. 1 - The Whitlams
I had my dreams for both of us / For both of us / You might be unworthy / But you remember what I remember / And that's enough to care / You don't fall off the rails
(Had Our Dreams, Harry Potter)
Oh My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams
Oh my sweet disposition / May you one day carry me home
(May You One Day, Harry Potter)
omg there's a version with Mandy instead. <333
Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight - James Taylor
I'm undecided, and your heart's been divided / You've been turning my world upside down
(Heart’s Been Divided, Harry Potter)
Take it Easy (Love Nothing)- Bright Eyes
We'll both take it easy / But if you stay too long inside my memory / I will trap you in a song tied to a melody / And I will keep you there so you can't bother me
(A Song Tied to a Melody, Imaginary Heroes)
Drunk Kid Catholic - Bright Eyes
Then suddenly it occurs to me / I've slept alone before you
(Slept Alone Before You, Imaginary Heroes)
Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
I was standing / You were there / Two worlds collided
(Precious Heart, pop)
Neon - John Mayer
She's always buzzing just like neon / Who knows how long / She can go before she burns away
(Neon, pop)
Summer Rain - Belinda Carlisle
I can here him singing / Ooh love is strange / Come dance with me baby / In the summer rain
(Love Is Strange, pop)
For Real - Okkervil River
I want to know this time if you’re really finally mine / I need to know that you're not lying / so I want to see you tried
(Real, Revenge)
Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Close your eyes and I'll kiss you 'cause with the birds I'll share
(This Lonely View, Veronica Mars)