I don't know if everybody's already heard this or not, but
The Roots Feat. Patrick Stump - Birthday Girl It's not album quality unfortunately, but it's okay.
Lyrics meme snagged from
magnoleo because I can not resist a music meme. Just to make it a little more fun, I'll upload anything off my
cd list for whoever gets the most right.
1: Put your MP3 player iTunes or whatever on random.
2: Post the first lines from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song [unless first lines are dead giveaways. like. "Follow the Yellow Brick Road"].
3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
1. In the shadows of tall buildings / Of fallen angels on the ceilings / Oily feathers in bronze and concrete / Faded colors, pieces left incomplete
teeming_horde, Jump Little Children- Cathedrals
2. I stepped into the elevator with Mattie Safer and Milk-Eyed Mender when there was a blackout
The Cloud Room- Blackout!
3. Love / This is getting harder / And I can't seem to pick you out of the crowd / But you my dear Have been discovered a liar / And I'm afraid that this is building up for far too long
+44- 155
4. The flowers by your bed are wilted / And the sun is setting in the west
Jason Webley- Dance While The Sky Crashes Down
5. I will sail to the far shore / and I will chop a hole in the hull too big to repair / And I will turn the soil with my hands
teeming_horde, The Mountain Goats- Island Garden Song
6. kanjin na toki ni wa itsumo soba ni inai / nani ga taisetsu na mono na no ka wakarou to mo shinai
Gackt- Mirror
7. I'm timeless like a broken watch / I make money like Fred Astaire / I see that you've come to resist me, I'm a pit bull in time
Interpol- Take You On A Cruise
8. He controls her / You're not going out tonight / And then he holds her / Too tight / Oh did I mention? / That we could get a takeaway?
Reverend & The Makers- You Get So Alone Sometimes It Just Makes Sense
9. You gave a gift to me in my young age / You sent me oversea and put the fear in me / And I ask what for now / Why me, why war?
The Black Angels- The First Vietnam War
10. show me show me show me / how you do that trick / the one that makes me scream she said
ellipsesbandit, The Cure- Just Like Heaven
11. Headed down south to the land of the pines / And I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline / Starin' up the road / Pray to God I see headlights
skankyswank, Old Crow Medicine Show- Wagon Wheel
12. It's all a game of this or that / Now verses then better off against worse for wear / And you're someone who knows someone who knows someone I once knew
Fall Out Boy- Hum Hallelujah
13. Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth / Only, i don't know how they got out, dear / Turn me back into the pet that i was when we met / I was happier then with no mind-set
The Shins- New Slang
14. I got big balls / Big ole balls / Big as grapefruits / Big as pumpkins / Yes sir yes sir
Dan Bern- Tiger Woods
15. I am waking in the desert you are blinded by rehearsals / we drink draft beer under bankrupt chandeliers / we can't drown out the extras
Chin Up Chin Up- Mansioned
16. Stop making the eyes at me, I'll stop making the eyes at you / And what it is that surprises me is that I don't really want you to / And your shoulders are frozen (cold as the night) / Oh, but you're an explosion (you're dynamite)
Arctic Monkeys- I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
17. "Nantoka umaku kotaenakucha" / Soshite kono shita ni zassou ga fuete iku kodou wo yokogiru kage ga / Mata dareka no kamen wo hagitotte shimau / In the night I sit down as if I'm dead
Onitsuka Chihiro- Infection
18. Stop getting me off track / I mean it, there's a problem here / This time it is for real... / How can I make myself more clear?
OK Go- There's A Fire
19. Stand up you've got to manage / I won't sympathize anymore / and if you complain once more you'll meet an army of me
skankyswank, Bjork- Army of Me
20. I want to be your absolute ultimate / Want to be your only one now / Feel the wave come up from your sulkiness / Feel the rays you radiate now
ellipsesbandit, Mike Doughty- Unsingable Name
21. She's doesn't deserve to be in a place like this all alone / She's underage and so very very brave / A fake ID lent her credibility / She sits at the bar the gents are gonna try so hard
Cute Is What We Aim For- Fourth Drink Instinct
22. You were the mother of three girls so sweet / Who stormed through your turnstile / And climbed to the street / But after conception your body lay cold
Death Cab For Cutie- Death Of An Interior Decorator
23. I know 'cos I've seen it / It was great and I want it / There's no point in sitting / Going crazy on my own
Kaiser Chiefs- Modern Way
24. I took out a loan on my empty heart, babe / I took out a loan for my patient soul / And I feel alive as long as I don’t need you / And I feel alive as long as I keep hold
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- Took Out A Loan
25. Early one morning the sun was shining / I was laying in bed wondering if she'd changed at all / If her hair was still red
ellipsesbandit, Bob Dylan- Tangled Up In Blue
26. Come on, can’t I dream for one day / There’s nothing that can’t be done / But how long should it take somebody / Before they can be someone
Mute Math- Typical
27. I was never cool in school / I'm sure you don't remember me / And now it's been 10 years / I'm still wondering who to be / But I'd love to mix in circles, cliques, and social coteries - that's me / Hand me my nose ring
skankyswank, Ben Folds Five- Underground
28. My heart is on my sleeve / Wear it like a bruise or blackeye / My badge, my witness means that I believed / Every single lie you said
Fall Out Boy- Chicago Is So Two Years Ago
29. In the beginning there was semen / In a deep mound of flesh / And a crest that traveled / On a wave of their own mess
The Faint- Birth
30. You say potato and I say three / You say potato and I say three / I am a pinball machine/ I can tell the difference between my bellybutton or navel / Ping pong pool cue or a foozball table
skankyswank, moe.- Spine of a Dog
My god, 30 songs is a lot. That took forever.