first lines of random songs

[jinian]

Random music selections, first couple lines of each, for guessing. There may well be something for everyone here, weird subset that it is.

1. There’s a ship a-sort of sinking in the harbor / And my lover is come down from the sea All-Purpose Folk Song, the Flash Girls (hattifattener)

2. Early mornin' sunrise come and pull the song from me / So I can turn away and rest my tired eyes

3. I know you like her / Well, I like her too / I know she likes you / It's not as if I'm being sent off to war

4. Am I wasting time / With all this metaphysical wandering? / And have I left my prime / from all this inspirational squandering?

5. I don't want to spend the rest of my life / Looking at the barrel of an armalite Invisible Sun, the Police (marzipan_pig)

6. I've not done anything at all since I last saw you / And I haven't had anything to eat for a day or two

7. If I called you tonight / I would be giving in

8. Don't start me talking / I could talk all night / My mind goes sleepwalking / While I'm putting the world to right Oliver's Army, Elvis Costello (rushthatspeaks)

9. Couldn't sleep so I went out walking / Thinking about you and hearing us talking

10. When I'm out walking, I strut my stuff / Then I'm so strung out Blister In the Sun, Violent Femmes (marzipan_pig)

11. I wander hopelessly trying to think about me / I'm trying to forget the things that dwell on me

12. Maybe I'm still hurting / I can't turn the other cheek

13. Let me take you on a trip / Around the world and back

14. Lime and limpid green, a second scene / A fight between the blue you once knew

15. I dream in colors / I walk the straight line / I wanna die but I'll just smile and bide my time

16. You know it'll be there / You just push on through

17. Came from the skies / Burst through the gates / With no mercy or disguise

18. Oh Sally, my dear, it's you I'd be kissing / She smiled and replied you don't know what you're missing

19. Romeo, where'd you go? / It's been years and still no sign

20. I've found a way to make you / I've found a way / A way to make you smile

21. Oh I've been traveling on a boat and a plane / In a car on a bike with a bus and a train

22. Out on the wily, windy moors / We'd roll and fall in green Wuthering Heights, Kate Bush (marzipan_pig)

23. Hear the rain falling from the mizzenmast / Feel the pain, knowing that you cannot last

24. Yo, this song, yo, this song is for all the women out there / That have been lied to by their men

25. Saturday night and I'm sitting in Andy's closet / While he's on the phone with his girlfriend

Removed: repeat artists (1), unintelligible or non-English (1), obscure covers of incredibly popular songs (1), those with titles in the first two lines (9)

Number of these I could guess myself: 4 or 5?

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