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.
I cheated a little and skipped a couple of artist repeats, 'cause it's just not as fun that way. This is from my little 2gb mp3 player, so it's a different sort of mix to the random selection I got before my proper-size iPod went kablooie.
ETA: Answers now added.
1. Another lifetime lived in a long night / I'm watching the sunrise before I lay down to sleep
Not guessed: Lonesome Blues - Shooter Jennings.
2.She was born in November 1963, the day Aldous Huxley died Run, Baby, Run - Sheryl Crow, guessed by ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
annienau08.
3.I'm broke but I'm happy, I'm poor but I'm kind Hand In My Pocket - Alanis Morrissette, guessed by caladria.
4. Ride the wild wind (push the envelope, don't sit on the fence)
Not guessed: Ride The Wild Wind - Queen.
5.Billy-Ray was a preacher's son Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield, guessed by fearless_leader.
6.She walked through the corn leading down to the river / Her hair shone like gold in the hot morning sun Fox On The Run - Manfred Mann, guessed by abyssinia4077.
7.Hey little sister, what have you done? White Wedding - Billy Idol, guessed by surreallis.
8. Every day I spend my time drinking wine, feeling fine
Not guessed: In A Broken Dream - Python Lee Jackson
9. Try to tell me what I shouldn't do / You should know by now I won't listen to you
Not guessed: Freak Out - Avril Lavigne
10. Lend me your ear while I call you a fool / You were kissed by a witch one night in a wood
Not guessed: The Witch's Promise - Jethro Tull
11.When I die and they lay me to rest / Gonna go to the place that's best Spirit In The Sky - Doctor & The Medics, guessed by surreallis.
12.Prisoner of your love / Entangled in your web Better Be Good To Me - Tina Turner, guessed by beanpot.
13.Should've been different but it wasn't different was it / Same old story, dear John and so long There's Your Trouble - Dixie Chicks, guessed by geneeste.
14.It's over – you don't need to tell me / I hope you're with someone who makes you
feel safe in your sleeping tonight No Distance Left To Run - Blur, guessed by caladria.
15.She comes in colours everywhere, she combs her hair She's A Rainbow - Rolling Stones, guessed by supplyship.
16. Turn around, look at what you see / In her face the mirror of your dreams
Not guessed: Never-Ending Story - Limahl
17.I'll light the fire, you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today Our House - Crosby, Stills & Nash, guessed by fearless_leader.
18. Let's take a ride to the seaside / We can go out swimming in the high tide
Not guessed: One Big Love - Emmylou Harris
19. Hoverin' by my suitcase, trying to find a warm place to spend the night
Not guessed: Rainy Night In Georgia - Randy Crawford
20. Tell me baby, tell me / Are you still on the stoop, watching the windows close?
Not guessed: Bird Stealing Bread - Iron & Wine
Not guessed: Lonesome Blues - Shooter Jennings.
2.
annienau08.3.
caladria.4. Ride the wild wind (push the envelope, don't sit on the fence)
Not guessed: Ride The Wild Wind - Queen.
5.
fearless_leader.6.
abyssinia4077.7.
surreallis.8. Every day I spend my time drinking wine, feeling fine
Not guessed: In A Broken Dream - Python Lee Jackson
9. Try to tell me what I shouldn't do / You should know by now I won't listen to you
Not guessed: Freak Out - Avril Lavigne
10. Lend me your ear while I call you a fool / You were kissed by a witch one night in a wood
Not guessed: The Witch's Promise - Jethro Tull
11.
surreallis.12.
beanpot.13.
geneeste.14.
feel safe in your sleeping tonight
caladria.15.
supplyship.16. Turn around, look at what you see / In her face the mirror of your dreams
Not guessed: Never-Ending Story - Limahl
17.
fearless_leader.18. Let's take a ride to the seaside / We can go out swimming in the high tide
Not guessed: One Big Love - Emmylou Harris
19. Hoverin' by my suitcase, trying to find a warm place to spend the night
Not guessed: Rainy Night In Georgia - Randy Crawford
20. Tell me baby, tell me / Are you still on the stoop, watching the windows close?
Not guessed: Bird Stealing Bread - Iron & Wine
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I think I need a Marion Ravenswood icon. (Which has nothing to do with the song meme, it's just I've been thinking about it.)
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That song sends me back to it every time I hear it. Which is a good thing. :)