First lines music meme

[moragmacpherson]

Picked up this meme because it looked like fun. The playlist is my main writing playlist, which is all I've listened to in ages except for the radio and random youtube links.  Normally I'd say this is pretty obscure stuff, but I'm curious to see what some of my new f-listies are familiar with.

Step 1: Set your primary playlist to random and shuffle it.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play (or more, if you like!), no matter how embarrassing the song. If you want to, skip instrumentals, songs that have the title in the first line and songs that aren't in the first language of the majority of your flist (it makes it easier for most).
Step 3: Tag people if you want, but anyone is allowed to guess the answers.
Step 4: Strike through and add the artist and title below the lyric when someone gets one right.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is cheating. Please don't.
Step 6: If after 30 days, there are still gaps, put people out of their misery.


1. "Waiting on a Sunday afternoon for what I read between the lines..."
Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots guessed by whomadethatup

2. "Well it would have been, could have been worse than you would ever know."

3. "Oh, man, tied myself, tied myself too tight."

4. "Where do we go, nobody knows?"

5. "High above the mucky-muck, castle made of clouds..."
Wonderboy by Tenacious D, guessed by 13chapters

6. "Bar room clock says time to go."

7. "One wound-up punch of intuition lays flat my whole take on us."

8. "I've got nothing to say, someone has taken my place."

9. "I went out with a waitress, the way I always do..."

10. "I want to be with you, I want to be clear..."

11. "Everything that keeps me together is falling apart"

12. "Nobody's coming down the hall"

13. "Haunted by myself until I found there were other ghosts"

14. "Hey ya, Tom, it's Bob, from the office down the hall..."
Re: Your Brains by Jonathan Coulton, guessed by reena_jenkins

15. "She turned away, what was she looking at?"
Sour Girl by Stone Temple Pilots, guessed by whomadethatup

16. "You're a part-time lover and a full-time friend"
Anyone Else But You - The Moldy Peaches - guessed by labellementeuse

17. "Goddamn you half-Japanese girls..."

18. "If you hold on when love is gone..."

19. "This here is the place where I will stand..."

20. "I see the shapes I remember from maps."

ETA: whomadethatup has me feeling all self-conscious about my love of 90s music, so here's the chronological distribution of the remaining 15 songs:

2000s - 7
90s - 4
80s - 1
70s - 3