Because I'm waiting for my dinner to do.

[apolla]

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line of lyrics for the first 40 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

I'm giving you two lines and excluding instrumentals, spoken word and mash-ups - cause that would be cruel and would involve things like 'So, pornography' or 'If you're in marketing kill yourself" courtesy of Bill Hicks.

1. Do you remember a guy who's been/in such an early song
2. I'm walking backwards for Christmas/across the Irish Sea.
3. Close your eyes my sleeping child/Don't let a teardrop fall
4. I've got a job back in Texas/Cutting the grass before breakfast.
5. Goodnight my love/Pleasant dreams and sleep tight my love
6. Hurry hurry, step right up/See the saddest show in town
7. I am just a cowboy/Lonesome on the trail
8. Sul mare luccica/L'astro d'argento
9. You'd be so easy to love/So easy to idolise
10. I've got a feeling/A feeling deep down inside oh yeah
11. Everytime I kiss somebody new I/Make believe I'm kissing you, but oh
12. Stars shining bright above you/Night breezes seem to whisper I love you
13. You dance at the discotheque/That's why you look such a wreck.
14. If the smile on my face/Doesn't mean much anymore
15. In the morning we arise and/Start the day the same old way
16. Here come the Nice looking so good/He makes me feel like no one else could
17. Well it ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe/If'n you don't know by now.
18. Well... Oh baby baby/Don't you want a man like me?
19. Well they took some honey from a tree/Dressed it up and they called it me
20. Long afloat on shipless oceans/I did all my best to smile.
21. Deep in the back of my mind there's an unrealised sound/Every feeling I get from the street says it soon could be found.
22. She was a Mexican girl, she had Mexican blood/I seen it the night that she died.
23. She came in through the bathroom window/Protected by a silver spoon
24. I'm gonna leave you here/I'm gonna leave you at the station
25. You never wear a stitch of lace/Your powder's never on your face
26. Waltzing round the room tonight/In someone else's clothes
27. I remember there was mist/Swirling mist upon a vast glassy lake
28. Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak/Somewhere in this town
29. Good morning campers/I'm your Uncle Ernie
30. Oh, oh oh oh oh oh/You don't have to go
31. I've got a word or two/To say about the things that you do
32. Now I've watched you sitting there/Seenthe passersby all stop and stare
33. There'll be dancing in heaven/On the night before the longest day
34. And theyll lay you down low in the easy/And the lips that you kiss will say Christmas
35. Ah Tim Finnegan lived in Walken Street/A gentleman Irish, mighty odd
36. Cloudy morning/Dark as night
37. Dream when you're feeling blue/Dream that's the thing to do
38. In the year of the famine when starvation and black death raged across the land/There were many driven by the hunger to set sail for the Americas
39. Love is like oxygen/You get too much, you get too high
40. It's a tedious existence/Laying your love on the line.

Some of these could be by a number of artistes, so I guess your job is to guess which I'd listen to. Knock yourselves out  

Comments

[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

23. "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window", The Beatles
28. "Jailbreak", Thin Lizzy
30. "D'Yer Mak'er", Led Zeppelin
31. "Think For Yourself", The Beatles

However, that's certainly not all of them I know. Finals (and the death of my iPod) have eaten my brain.

[fair-terentia.livejournal.com]

Goodnight my love/Pleasant dreams and sleep tight my love: Is this from "Goodnight, My Someone" from The Music Man? It's almost it, but not quite I think.

Sul mare luccica/L'astro d'argento: Santa Lucia, popular Italian folk song

You never wear a stitch of lace/Your powder's never on your face: Argh, I know this. Is it "The Lady is a tramp" by Frank Sinatra?

[zorb]

9. "Easy to Love" - I have John Barrowman, which I'm guessing yours isn't. *g*
12. "Dream A Little Dream" - and I'm going to guess yours is Dino's (me, too!).
27. "I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It" from The Phantom of the Opera. I have the musical, and I'm betting yours is the film?

[emiliap.livejournal.com]

27. Ok well it's driving me crazy because I can't figure out what song it would technically be but I know it's just after Christine wakes up from passing out during "Music of the Night". Yay Phantom of the Opera!

37. Is it "Smile" by Nat King Cole?