Ok, we're going to play The Music Game in honor of me having a snow day today. (You should all go play too on your blogs. It's fun.)
I've created a playlist of all the music on my computer, shuffled it, and am now presenting a list of the first lines from the first 25 songs. (Or if the title is in the first line, some other line.) Now you look over the list and see if you can tell me what songs they are and who does them. Who ever gets the most correct wins, and you get bonus points if you can tell me what album it’s off of. Okay? Here we go...
1. What just happened? The Hollywood Empire strikes back and this time I am standing in their way.
2. Wake up, think fast. Three weeks have passed, we are changing.
3. [lots of "bum, bum, bum bum"s] Here you can feel divinity they sing of(out?) every year. "It's A Wonderful Life" on TV, but it's even better here.
4. Now you’ve been staring at the sun for awhile, is it hurting your eyes? I know you want to put those shades on and walk on home with a tan.
5. The phone starts ringing again, I think it’s my girlfriend. This time I know that it’s finally over.
6. Take me (far from all that’s wrong), let these (fears collapse inside), take me (back to when I) believed. [all those parentheses should give you a clue =)]
7. She said what I was supposed to think, “Thank God for freedom, thank God for liberation.” Yeah.
8. Mark said he could hold his own head up and share his mind with the peeling paint on the bedroom wall.
9. I know we just got here but I think it’s time to go. I didn’t want to believe it but now I know.
10. Save yourself, ‘cause the only thing that matters is that you get away from the pain and the thought of losing your mind.
11. Wasted, paralyzed, beneath ten thousand layers of disguise. Built to save what's left that has already worn away.
12. We write to apologize. We ask to look past life as it goes by. I know you have sacrificed time, life, love, time to fly.
13. Yeah! With big guns and big ambitions. Never-ending arguments. When is your ammunition spent?
14. Tonight my heart is cold, lost in your lies, shallow replies.
15. Turning over in interrupted slumber, you ponder others, growing ever wakeful.
16. One in three, you're here to tell me we can't do this. Three for three, I'll disagree.
17. I thought you'd come back, at least I prayed. (So I prayed.) The romance has been dead (the romance is dead, the romance is dead) for years.
18. I think you know what I'm getting at. I find it's so upsetting that the memories that you select- you keep the bad but the good you just forget.
19. They won't see the fire you have lit inside of me.
20. Take, take these words in. Take them like you did the foreign excitement.
21. Are you listening? We write a thousand pages, they're torn and on the floor.
22. And while I sit and watch girls and boys trade views of new tattoos, I wonder if it's too late to call your mom and catch up on some news. [So cute. Too cute to resist.]
23. I know I told you, but I dole out excuses. I'll get home just as soon as I can, it'll be alright.
24. Case is closed, you're back into focus. The jury's out, you're closing in.
25. As I recall when my stomach turned and I was hiding away from myself, away from You, like nothing -but something- was terribly wrong.
This really does make my music sound quite weird. Especially 13-16, that's just an odd bunch.
Ok, have at it!