Bolt Upright

Ok, I saw this on another blog and I thought it was fun. Here’s the drill:

Step 1: Put your iPod on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the 1st 25 songs no matter how embarrassing
Step 3: Add the artist and track once someone guesses both correctly.
Step 4: For those who are guessing, looking up the lyrics is CHEATING.
Step 5: If you like the game post your own and link to it in the comments.

Here are mine… my fellow 80s music fans are going to have an edge on some of these,  and #7 is a freebie if you were even ALIVE in the 80s. But a few of them are pretty obscure and surprised me when they came up on shuffle since I’d sort of forgotten the albums were on there.  Also, embarrassing true fact: I had to look up the lyrics to #14 myself, since I never was sure exactly what they were saying.

1.  Haïti, mon pays, wounded mother I’ll never see.
2. Friday night I’m going nowhere – Babylon, David Gray
3. As I walk away I look over my shoulder
4. I get up in the evening – Dancing in the Dark, Bruce Springsteen
5. You say that you’re leaving - It Hasn’t Hit Me Yet, Blue Rodeo
6. I took my love and I took it down. – Landslide, the Dixie Chicks
7. Little ditty about Jack and Diane.-  Jack and Diane, John Cougar aka John Cougar Mellencamp aka John Mellencamp
8. When there’s nowhere else to run – All These Things That I’ve Done – the Killers
9. No I would not sleep in this bed of lies
10. Johnny take a walk with your sister the moon – Mysterious Ways, U2
11. Shock to the heart, and you’re too late – You give love a bad name, Bon Jovi
12. I don’t look the way the one you dreamed about should look
13. I heard there was a secret chord – Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen (actually the k.d. lang version)
14. So 1,2,3 take my hand and come with me – Are You Gonna Be My Girl, Jet
15. I once knew a girl in the years of my youth
16. Live baby live, now that the day is over – New Sensation, INXS
17. You sit there in your heartache – When You Were Young, the Killers
18. I am an old woman named after my mother
19. I woke up got my lazy ass out of bed
20. And so tomorrow there will be another number
21. I met this girl, she was walking through one of my dreams – Dark Angel, Blue Rodeo
22. Last night I dreamt of San Pedro – La Isla Bonita, Madonna
23. This is where I’ll be so heavenly
24. She said that time is unfair
25. I feel my wings have broken in your hands

Guess away.

- edited to add – no, you don’t have to guess all of them! If you know one (or think you do) just put it out there.