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Song Lyrics meme, nicked from [livejournal.com profile] terrylj. My taste is much less interesting than hers, and appears to come to an end in 1985... They're not all pop music, though.

Guess the song and artist of the first 20 tracks on shuffle on my mp3 player that weren't from talking books...
UPDATE: There's still 2 left - one easy, one hard, I think ;)



1. Golden days before they end/Whisper secrets to the wind.

2. The history book on the shelf is always repeating itself
Waterloo by ABBA ([livejournal.com profile] crystalshard)

3. The telex machine is kept so clean and it types to a waiting world
I don't like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats ([livejournal.com profile] patch_tank

4. Precious kisses/words that burn me/lovers never ask you why
Do you really want to hurt me? by Culture Club ([livejournal.com profile] leebee7)

5. Open your eyes/Look up to the skies and see
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen ([livejournal.com profile] terrylj)

6. And so you're back from outer space
I will survive by Gloria Gaynor (I'm giving it to [livejournal.com profile] leebee7 who got the right artist ;))

7. Can you bake a pie?/No./Neither can I
Anything you can do by just about everyone, including John Barrowman :) ([livejournal.com profile] terrylj)

8. And you can't hide the tears that ain't falling/Or the moment of truth in your lies
Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls ([livejournal.com profile] crystalshard)

9. Little things I should have said or done/I just never took the time
You were always on my mind by Elvis (et al...) ([livejournal.com profile] miss_zedem & [livejournal.com profile] patch_tank)

10. Who shall wear the starry crown?

11. She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead.
All Star by Smash Mouth ([livejournal.com profile] leebee7)

12. She almost makes the day begin
I've grown accustomed to her face (from My Fair Lady) by Rex Harrison ([livejournal.com profile] miss_zedem)

13. Slippin' and a-slidin' all along the waterfall with you
Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison ([livejournal.com profile] patch_tank)

14. All the things that we've been through/you should understand me like I understand you
If you don't know me by now by Howard Melvin ([livejournal.com profile] terrylj)

15. It goes bang bang bang til my feet do the same
Wake me up before you go go - by Wham! ([livejournal.com profile] leebee7)

16. Everybody loves a winner/So nobody loved me
Maybe this time [my version's by Martine McCutcheon, original by Liza Minelli] ([livejournal.com profile] crystalshard)

17. Those days are over/You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne by The Police ([livejournal.com profile] crystalshard and [livejournal.com profile] leebee7)

18. It's not about your make-up/or how you try to shape up/to these tiresome paper dreams.
She moves in her own way by The Kooks ([livejournal.com profile] leebee7)

19. Your hair all around me/Baby you surround me
Amazed by Lonestar ([livejournal.com profile] patch_tank)

20. Do you feel my heart beating?
Eternal Flame by the Bangles ([livejournal.com profile] crystalshard - do you have my music collection on your computer? ;))
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