jenepherre | Guess the song meme

I really shouldn't inflict my music library on you guys, but who knows? You all might surprise me.

Found on

i_am_tre's journals.

Put your music library on shuffle.
Post the first lines of the first 25 songs that come up.
The game: Guess which songs the first lines are from!
Google is ~~your friend~~ cheating!

ETA: Added a bit more of the lyrics for the ones that haven't been guessed yet. Included hints on some of the more obscure ones too. Try again, you guys. I know you can get more of them than you have so far. I know you can. Or send your friends over to guess. It'll be fun... come on... please?

No one can blame you for walking away
But too much rejection, uh huh...
No love injection Underground - David Bowie - darksylvia

He thinks he's Oscar Wilde but he's Paul Lynde
Can't say anything good about anything
(the band was mentioned in season 1 of QAF)

My baby moves at midnight
Goes right on till the dawn
My woman takes me higher
My woman keeps me warm - You Should Be Dancing - The Bee Gees - rgrandixie
(from the late 70's)

Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
And they're young and alive There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths - falling_words

~~I'm crazy flowing over with ideas~~ Love to Hate You - Erasure - katya23

Then when you let it
You asked for nothing
Why don't you share it
All of the time you live
There's something out there
(a bit more obscure, I think, though a lot of you should know the band)

The means are right for taking, fade to grey
Trying to be ruthless, in the face of beauty
In this matrix, it's plain to see
It's either you or me.

I'm ridin' in your car
You turn on the radio
You're pullin' me close
I just say no
I say I don't like it
But you know I'm a liar Fire - The Pointer Sisters - rgrandixie
(lots of speculation on this one... and the most embarrassing one on the list for me - also from the late 70's)

~~We're caught in a trap I can't walk out~~ Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley (and later covered by Fine Young Cannibals) - i_am_tre

You wear guilt
Like shackles on your feet
Like a halo in reverse
I can feel
The discomfort in your seat
And in your head it's worse Halo - Depeche Mode - katya23

~~Maybe in you I'll believe Maybe I'll believe in you~~ Crumb By Crumb - Rufus Wainwright - calidearie

Last night I saw a movie
and I thought about many movies I've seen at your house
excuse me if I'm rude
but I'd rather that we just strike from the record ones I'd see again without you
leaning on my shoulder
distracting me from the plotline
(early song by a band we're all talking about right now)

Can you feel me coming
open the door it's only me
I have that desperate feeling
in trouble is where I'm going to be
(artist has a tie-in to artist for #10)

Hey now the well run dry
Pages of the book on fire
Read the writing ...on the wall...

Hoedown, say showdown
Everywhere you look
they're fighting...Hear the call...
(classic rock, was probably used on Supernatural)

I don't get many things right the first time
In fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
Brought me here The Luckiest - Ben Folds - falling_words
(I love this song so damn much... incredibly beautiful)

Jamie's on the bathroom floor she don't know why
She's shaking underneath the sink can't feel a thing
She'd love to live a life she's afraid of failure
With all the voices in her head
Now what was that I thought I hear you scream
(slightly more obscure; Canadian artist who has a tie-in to a Canadian ex-gf of Gale Harold)

Sucking on a tap that never dries
Could you take it right between your eyes
Bending blood, bending blood
The father stood, the father's hood
Like shadow on an acid bird that etched her way across a field
So long ago
(I don't really expect anyone to get this one. English singer/songwriter. Lyrics tend to be very surrealist, focusing on death, eating or sex. Also had a small acting role in 2004's The Manchurian Candidate)

A house on fire
A wall of stone
A door that once was open
An empty face and empty bones
Who ate your heart?
You're cold inside
You're not the one I hoped for
I'll see you on the other side
I'll see you on the other side

~~It's you, you, you again~~ Minimal Peach - Greek Buck - darksylvia

~~You are the lighthouse, the seamark~~ Echo - The Hush Sound - disc0_dancer

I'm in a mess, I'm in a dress
There's nothing from here till tomorrow morning
How will I get there?
How will I get there?
I don't do drugs
All my friends are on their holidays
(I have a love/hate relationship with one of the words in the title of this song)

Unbidden shadows of you formed yesterday
I ran away to a room here on the bay
Interrupted life again, another new beginning
Where the silence echoes you're no longer with me

Here and now, i feel that i'm embracing freedom
Even though i may be alone, but that's ok
(artist does very ethereal sounding music; they had a remix of one of their songs used in season 2 of QAF)

~~These are the days of the open hand~~ Praying for Time - George Michael - katya23

Baby, when you walk that sweet walk
Oh, you walk it good, yes you walk it good
Baby, when you talk that sweet talk
Oh, it sounds so good, oh so good
(classic rock; title has a tie-in to a Cobra bandmember)

She had something to confess to
But you don’t have the time so
Look the other way
You will wait until it's over
To reveal what you’d never shown her
Too little much too late
(I don't even know this song well, but love the artist, who has a tie-in to the Twilight saga)