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