qatarperegrine | Music meme (again)

One of my favorite memes is going around again, so I'm yet again joining in. :-)

Here are lyrics from the first 25 songs that came up on my iPod. (OK, I cheated -- if the same band came up more than once or twice I skipped their later songs.)

Read the lyrics, guess the song. No Googling!

Radiohead's "No Surprises" (jcreed)
Bring down the government,
They don't, they don't speak for us.
I'll take the quiet life,
A handshake of carbon monoxide...
I'm young and I love to be young
I'm free and I love to be free
To live my life the way I want
To say and do whatever I please
Jonathan Coulton's "Skullcrusher Mountain" (nicodemusrat)
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you
But I get the feeling that you don't like it --
What's with all the screaming?
I spoke your name for many days,
Pronouncing it in several ways
And moving letters all around...
Carbon Leaf's "Desperation Song" (lasa)
I've waited by the phone,
Cold as river stone.
Anxiety. Alone...
Ben Folds Five's "Selfless, Cold and Composed" (jcreed)
But you just smile
Like a bank teller,
Blankly telling me,
"Have a nice life."
Akon's "Smack That" (cmucheer)
Maybe go to my place and
Just kick it like Tae Bo...
Men at Work's "Land Down Under" (lasa)
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich.
The Beatles' "Something" (lasa)
You're asking me will my love grow,
I don't know, I don't know.
Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" (_tove)
But for now we are young,
Let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we can see.
TMBG's "Destination Moon" (nicodemusrat)
Thank you for the card with the cartoon nurse,
But you see there's nothing wrong with me
You are complete, George, you all alone.
I am unfinished, I am diminished,
With or without you.
The Beatles' "Yesterday" (lasa)
Why she had to go
I don't know;
She wouldn't say...
Nirvana's "All Apologies" (chrisamaphone)
I wish I was like you,
Easily amused...
Now I wonder, I wonder what she would say
If I told her that I felt, that I felt this way
You know it might make her turn, might make her turn, might make her turn either way,
So all I can do is patiently pray, pray, I pray pray pray pray
My mind's distracted and diffused
My thoughts are many miles away
They lie with you when you're asleep
And kiss you when you start your day
Mika's "Any Other World" (cmucheer)
I tried to live alone
But lonely is so lonely, alone
So, human as I am,
I had to give up my defenses
Sleepy time when I lie
With my love by my side
And she's breathing low
And everything's spinning
You're beginning to think
Women are swimming in pink
Linen again in the sink...
Damien Rice's "Volcano" (chrisamaphone)
What I am to you is not real
What I am to you, you do not need
What I am to you is not what you mean to me
You give me miles and miles of mountains and I ask for the sea.
Kimi no kami
Sora to kumo tokashita sekai
Himitsu ni michite...
The Decemberists' "Legionnaire's Lament" (nicodemusrat)
I am on reprieve,
Lacking my joie de vivre,
Missing my gay Paris
In this desert dry.
Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (chrisamaphone)
All I know is that to me
You look like you're lots of fun
Open up your lovin' arms,
Watch out, here I come
Mika's "Grace Kelly" (cmucheer)
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me
Without making me try?
David Bowie's "Life on Mars" (_tove)
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show...

Music meme (again)

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