Song Lyrics meme!

[kyrielle]

Open up your biggest playlist or (in my case) all your tunes. Take the first twenty-five and quote a lyric from each. Let people guess the tunes. When someone gets one right, strike it out and put the title beside it. (Actually, I'm going to put the title there, bolded, in that case.) CHANGE: I will just bold the lyrics, that way, people can still mentally guess if they want to. The comments will have the answers.

I did my entire collection from the desktop (which was handy), skipping instrumentals and those songs that, although they are on the machine, I never listen to ever. I also, where I thought a song was easy, tried to pick the most obscure line I could find, but that's because I'm a brat.

In spite of that, there are a few in here that as I typed them, I was pretty sure of a person or people on my list who would recognize 'em....

1. I've been stranded in the combat zone
   I walked through Bedford Stuy alone
   
2. I tell you
   I love you
   I sing to you
   Bring to you
   Anything
   
3. You can live without the aggravation
   Ya gotta wanna win - ya gotta wanna win
   
4. You better watch your step 'cause the path is steep
   Better hold your breath cause the water's deep
   
5. Just like every vision you neglected, every dream you left to die
   Every hope that you rejected, every truth that was a lie
   
6. He was poor as a beggar but he rode like a king
   And sometimes in the evenin' I could hear him sing
   
7. Her little pranks she did not deny,
   To do so she would have had to lie.
   
8. Hey, she give me love
   And I feel all right, now
   You gotta toss and turn
   In the middle of the night
   
9. And I know (and I know), yes I know that it's plain to see
   We're so in love when we're together
   
10. And some of us sail through our troubles
    And some have to live with the scars
    
11. The seagulls started lifting
    Like an angry banshee choir
    
12. Where deep in the desert twilight
    Sand melts in pools of the sky
    
13. I know your name,
    I know your skin,
    
14. Let me dream in your footsteps
    Walk in your sleep
    
15. And it's burning deep inside
    You'll find the answer
    In his eyes
    
16. Traditions back
    Across the centuries
    In a century where no one can explain
    
17. They snack on innocence
    And dine on self-esteem
    
18. And every time that I was down
    You would always come around
    
19. Devil and the deep blue sea behind me
    Vanish in the air you'll never find me
    
20. Did you envy all the dancers
    Who had all the nerve
    
21. There are lines upon my face
    From a lifetime of smiles
    
22. i'm calling out your name
    but you never hear me
    
23. Where a man's hope and sweat can earn him his vision
    No child cries in hunger or dies from the cold
    
24. They don't look real to me
    In fact, they look so strange
    
25. How soon spring comes
    How soon spring forgets
    

Comments

[kyrielle]

You id'd all three correctly. #7 is "The Irish Ballad" but that is indeed the first line. You nailed the other two exactly for titles/artists.