Song Lyrics Meme

Step 1: Put your iPod/MP3 player or iTunes on random.

Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song. (I took out any instrumental songs, lyrics that don't meet site rules, and any song where the title is uttered in the first line, so it's not entirely the first 20 songs that came up.)

Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from. Those guessing the songs should post in the comments or shoot me a PM. I'll be curious to see how many of these everyone can guess correctly in the week that I'm gone.

Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly and post the title in bold after the stricken song when it is guessed.

Step 5: (for those guessing the songs) If you look up the lyrics on Google or any other search engine, that's called cheating, so don't do it!

1. "I run on the wrong side of life, I'm the one that you fear when you hold your wife. I run where the darker crowds run, On the rain swept streets where the black rain runs."

2. "Even in buildings and still alleys, There is a sneaking threat breaking in. A little like fog, a little like heat, Too much like an invasion of safety."

3. "Well you're in your little room, and you're working on something good. But if it's really good, You're gonna need a bigger room."

4. "In the grip of a winter came love and greed. Insane with faith, I took the driving front seat. In the lowlight comfort of Berlin streets, The calm from emptiness duetted with my body heat."

5. "Give me the song and I'll sing it like I mean it. Give me the words and I'll say them like I mean it."

6. "It's soft to see the glow from the city up ahead. Connect my heart to the rhythm it's lead. Straight forward and ready 'cause I'm on my way home. It's so good to be alive in such a hazardous world."

7. "There are times when you find lobsters in a bucket. Can't climb out, why won't they climb away? Because other lobsters pull them down."

8. "Like miracles like clockwork and like miracles, you witnessed halos, but you failed to see its horns. The illusion of intelligence, a continuous sounding bell. And can you feel the interruption in the air? Can you feel the static? I've never seen you like this, seen you."

9. "(On my way, on my way) (On my way, on my way) I would like to reach out my hand. I may see you, I may tell you to run (On my way, on my way). You know what they say about the young."

10. "I am just a cowboy, lonesome on the trail. A starry night, a campfire night. The coyote call, the howling winds wail. So I ride out to the old sundown."

11. "One more day before you go. We'll stay up late for one more show. Grab the keys, we're going out. We're leaving home and we won't come back again. We're friends till the end, we'll take on the world. We just don't care at all."

12. "When the sky is dark, and the moon aglow. And the morning star, burning from afar, enters into view. 'All that I can say, all that I can know, is that I'll be dreaming,' he says, 'of you.'"

13. "When all beside a vigil keep, the West's asleep, the West's asleep - Alas! and well may Erin weep when Connacht lies in slumber deep. There lake and plain smile fair and free, 'mid rocks their guardian chivalry. Sing, Oh! let man learn liberty from crashing wind and lashing sea."

14. "Welcome fillies and gentlecolts, no reason to scream. Your favorite princess is back, she's walking up on the scene. She has been stuck on the moon, but that's no reason to fret. She's not a nightmare no more, so buckle down and get set!"

15. "I don't know why I got it so bad, but somehow I find, out of the fry pan and into the fire, we're at it sooner. Buried our souls, out of our headset, ready to go, slippin' and slide, I'm out of control. Crying'll hide my head in a hole. There's something about you I got to know before we go too far."

16. "I woke up at two with nothing to do, but stare at the ceiling in my room. There's places I'll go when I'm stuck here lyin' on the floor."

17. "I've kept it bottled up inside. This pain is unforgiving. The imperfection is much too shy to dominate me, control me. I see it's much too late."

18. "We like talkin' dirty, we smoke and we drink. We're KMFDM and all other bands stink. Our music is sampled, totally fake. It's done by machines 'coz they don't make mistakes."

19. "So you're sick and you feel like you've gotta stay in line. I keep the questions in my mind; the time is changing with the tide. It's never too late; don't put it all aside. Don't become the one you hate."

20. "The nauseating smell of waste contaminated by the blood dripping for the knife of a hatchet man. A self-destructive (cruel) act in the name of a god that is used to justify a holy battle plan. It's going down now, no hope for pow wow. You can't expel the devil from his dwell. There ain't no sanctuary safe enough, no shelter built strong and tough, to protect against this earthly hell."

21. "Well as I stand, stand, stand and deliver. You just bought yourself a first class ticket to being the giver. 'Coz you're always on the table; so is your mistake!"

22. "Cold am I. I'm beside myself because there's no one else. Have I grown so blind? Only god could save you if you knew your way to the light."

23. "Beneath the pitiless gaze of things, we interlock in tight coils. The outbreak of plague a little while before scorched flowers."

24. "All those years, you turned your back and now you're out of here. Still doesn't mean that you were insincere, and in my heart I hope that some things still hold true for you."

25. "Alone behind the cage of bone, they beat. In wait, they lie for love to ambush and retreat. All they know is to compete. They strain for victory, who have only known defeat. Never once, it bends a fee."

26. "First you said that you would never leave me; merry were my days. Then you told me life is never easy, and left without a trace. But how come I want you, like the soil yearns for the rain."

27. "A quicksilver tiger through shopping carts, a moment of panic from when I came out. This is a fraction, a piece of the truth. A justified action for reason of proof."

28. "Nio dagar blotet varar, låtom oss nu glädjas. Vilda danser i fröjd och gamman i gudahovets hall. Nio dagar blotet varar, låtom oss nu glädjas. Vilda danser i fröjd och gamman offerröken stiger mot skyn."

29. "Without our little miss Cheerilee, I don't see where the little foals would be. But behind every smile you see on her face, is a tormented mind, her world out of place. Teaching is her only distraction; her sanity is losing traction. All she does is cover up for the good of us all; her own life, which she's always losing control."

30. "Oxygen falls from the ceiling, just keep those cocktails coming. Turn off all mobile devices, electric chair still humming. Mile high, fuselage in the shape of a pill. Mile high, starting our descent into hell."

Best of luck everypony! There are a few humdingers on here! See you all in a week!