From ~The-Emerald because I love nonsense like this.

RULES!
Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.

I’m using Pandora

Step 2: Post the first line from the first 40 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.

Pandora doesn’t like fastforward, so I’m using my ‘bookmarked’ songs with a couple random ones to boost their ranks to 40. Also I’m not posting the first line, just something I think is likely to spark people’s memory (and hopefully isn’t the song title) both because I think it’s more interesting, and because I don’t know the first line of many of these, and again with this being Pandora I can’t just play them on command to find out.

Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly. (art AND title of song)

Or, you know, whatever. I think I may post your name with whatever information you supply, consider it a group scavenger hunt.

Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

Although some of these aren’t even posted on the internet as far as I can tell.

I’ve tried not to have the some artist more than twice here- and some of these quotes are somewhat longer than needed.

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1. Lying on the floor /Four stories high /In the corridor /Between the asphalt and the sky /I am caught like bottled water
~TawnytheFox
Artist: Ani Difranco

2. sun flashing red and then orange then opting for secession/on the day when you came to the door with you terrible confession

3 Maybe just a sip/To help us get a grip/Did you know Isaac Newton/Was a virgin when he died?

4. I have to confess /That I was impressed that I/I was impressed that I/despite all the mess and the broken glass /I was impressed

5. And when you’re cold it’s cold/ these men and women make decisions

6. And when the bomb shell hits I get epileptic fits /and I'm addicted to a thousand drugs.

7. On peut la voir sourire parfois depuis que son père dort /Il était bien trop triste et bien trop fort mais depuis qu'il est mort

8. He was killed by a cellular phone explosion/They scattered his ashes across the ocean/The water was used to make baby lotion/The wheels of promotion were set into motion

9 Lift up your candle dress/Unweave your nylon spine/In velvet and in onions/You will soon be mine

10. And how did one crazy night turn into six weeks?/ and how can we be going out if neither of us speaks?

11. I left the water running/and now your kitchen’s flooded/you’ll open up the window/and let it all flow out

12. You wanna get a room like no one else/You wanna be rich/You wanna be kitsch/You wanna be the bastard of yourself

13. And then I though you’d be impatiently phrasing your thoughts and you’re waking

14. They will become psychotic/And they won't make an ideal husband or wife

15. And if I were like lightning/I wouldn't need no sneakers/I'd come and go wherever I would please

16. She runs guns everyone wants guns/She runs guns everyone wants there she goes

17. That the giant on the cliff wished that she was dead /And the lemmings on the cliff wished that they were dead

18. I can't take my eyes off of you/I can't take my eyes off you/I can't take my eyes off of you/I can't take my eyes off you/I can't take my eyes off you/I can't take my eyes
(sic.)

19. They say 3 percent of the people use 5 to 6 percent of their brain/97 percent use 3 percent and the rest goes down the drain/I'll never know which one I am but I'll bet you my last dime/99 percent think we're 3 percent 100 percent of the time

20. well it won't hurt to think of you as if you're waiting for/This letter to arrive because I'll be here quite a while

21. There will be people there that I’ll recognize/ there will be no flash of recognition in their eyes

22. Have you still got that cat I gave you?/Do You still think that it will save you?

23. Tell me does he look like me at all/Cause they're all an awful lot like you

24. We can't find a need to stay/There's no more rabbits in my hat to make things right

25. Because the air outside will make our cells/Divide at an alarming rate until our shells/Simply cannot hold all our insides in,/And that's when we'll explode/(and it won't be a pretty sight)

26. Well/Guy in a skeleton costume/Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit/Runs through him with a broadsword

27. Don't believe everything you read/Yes, I'm married but I've left my wife at home

28. If heaven and hell decide/That they both are satisfied/Illuminate the ‘no's’ on their vacancy signs

29. And silver-lidded the moon that laughed and cried/Whilst the crumbs of night that leap into/Shadows as windows close and curtains open

30 Should I take another walk to the DMV /Get another learners permit with a picture of me /I'd put it in my wallet /Along with my four dollars

31. We went right out there and refused to/do acoustical versions of the/electrical songs that we had refused to/record in the first place./Then we smashed our shit.

32. but if there’s a stitch in your backbone/then it’s gonna snap like a wishbone

33. Ships are launching from my chest/Some have names but most do not

34. Your father bet ten years against this day/He wed his girl to a better man/But he stands here now with his hat in his hands/And I know he thinks my sentence was too light

35. are you made of calcium or are you carbon based?/cause if you're made of calcium I'll have to take a taste/because listen/calcium is deadly, tender to the tooth

36. Should have insured that planet/Before it crashed/Working real hard to make internet cash/Work your fingers to the bone sitting on your ass

37. So I could've been your fiancé. /I'm not saying you can't be all these things for me, /But it's just not the same because you're a man, /and so am I.
~funkyTIGER
Song: Tim, I Wish You Were Born A Girl
Artist: Of Montreal

38. a darker grey is breaking through a lighter one/a thousand sharpened elbows in the underground/that hollow hurried sound/of feet on polished floor

39. I hope I lie/and tell everyone you were a good wife/and I hope you die/I hope we both die

40. But don’t be surprised/ When the U-bahn goes up/And the S-bahn goes down