It's long past time since we've had a music meme round here!

[eye_of_a_cat]

iTunes, random, twenty-five songs, first lines. Post your guesses. Or, better: if you guess one, post the next line.
1. You've never had a dream like this, never felt the cold, cold steel
2. When I got up at five am to work down at the fill station
3. I must have had a million damn unlucky days
4. In Forth Worth all the neon's burning bright
5. It was a Monday when my lover told me Bif Naked, 'Lucky' (la_dame_du_lac)
6. It was an early morning bar room, and the place just opened up Harry Chapin, 'A Better Place to Be' (meganknight)
7. Drinking black-market vodka in the back of the Scotsman saloon
8. There must be some way out of here Bob Dylan, 'All Along the Watchtower' (sacredchao23)
9. I got a long, long list of things, that no-one needs to see
10. We'll be fighting in the streets with our children at our feet The Who, 'Won't Get Fooled Again' (baseballchica03)
11. I've been waiting for you to come back since you left Minneapolis
12. Early one morning, the sun was shining, I was laying in bed Bob Dylan, 'Tangled Up in Blue' (sacredchao23)
13. Satin saddles and a slow burn, on an old dirt road
14. The clock's running down, the team's losing ground
15. Alone on a train, aimless in wonder Death Cab for Cutie, 'Different Names for the Same Thing' (sefkhet)
16. So you watch the sunrise sinking, and she's talking in her sleep
17. Out under the stars dodging them night cars, baby
18. Meet you downstairs in the bar and heard your rolled-up sleeves and your skull t-shirt Amy Winehouse, 'You Know I'm No Good' (sacredchao23)
19. Do you have the time to listen to me whine? Green Day, 'Basket Case' (sacredchao23)
20. All the love you promised would be mine forever, I would have bet my bottom dollar on
21. You know it's generally known, you got everything at home
22. Won't you scratch my itch, sweet Annie Rich, and welcome me back to town?
23. Well it's Saturday night, you're all dressed up in blue 'Tougher Than The Rest', as covered by Everything But The Girl (spartezda)
24. Don't want to need the way I need you, don't want to feel like this Mary Chapin Carpenter, 'Slave to the Beauty' (mitchy)
25. Maybe I didn't love you quite as often as I could have 'Always On My Mind', covered by... Ryan Adams! (aerynne, kingtycoon, baseballchica03)

Comments

[sacredchao23.livejournal.com]

8 "said the joker to the thief" Bob Dylan "All Along the Watchtower"
12 "Wondering if she'd changed at all, if her hair was still red" Dylan again, "Tangled Up in Blue"
18 Can't do the line but it's Amy Whinehouse "I'm No Good"
19 "About nothing and everything all at once" Green Day "Paranoid"

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

That's the next line to 19, but the song is called Basket Case. I only know because I totally spent the summer between seventh and eighth grade in my friend Amanda's attic listening to it. :-D

10. And the morals that they worship will be gone [The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again]
25. Maybe I didn't treat you quite as good as I should have [Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, and about a jillion other people, Always On My Mind]

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

24. Holding back all the words, but not the kiss "Slave to the Beauty", Mary Chapin Carpenter

[la-dame-du-lac.livejournal.com]

5. Never pay the reaper with love only - Bif Naked, "Lucky"

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

25 - Willie Nelson / Pet Shop Boys - you were always on my mind.

[sefkhet.livejournal.com]

15. Different Names for the Same Thing - Death Cab for Cutie.

[thiswaste.livejournal.com]

Is the last one an Ani DiFranco song- Sorry I am?

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

It's not, but now you've pointed it out I see the resemblance...

[aerynne.livejournal.com]

19) About nothing and everything all at once - Green Day, but I don't know the title
25) And maybe I didn't treat you quite as good as I should - Always On My Mind, Pet Shop Boys

[spartezda.livejournal.com]

23. I've been watching you awhile, maybe you've been watching me too

'Tougher Than The Rest'--my version's Chris LeDoux, yours might be Bruce Springsteen.

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

I do have the Springsteen one, although this was a cover by Everything But The Girl. Chris LeDoux covered it too? Cool.

6. It was an early morning bar room, and the place just opened up

[meganknight.livejournal.com]

It's A Better Place to Be, and I know it as sung by Harry Chapin, but I'm an old fogey, and it may well have had a hipper, trendier cover since. Because, Harry Chapin is many many things, but hip and trendy has never been one of them, believe me.

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

Nope, no cover - it's Harry :) I think I have about half his albums on here now!