The answers to the lyrics meme, complete with the songs, because that's how I roll.

The winner, by the way, is frontyardninja, who is, in fact, a ninja. She got 11 right.


No one guessed are plain text, italics are the guessed ones. All songs hosted at mediafire, about half mp3 and half m4a, deal with it. ♥ no actually I'll swap to mp3 if anyone vitally needs me to, but you should be using iTunes anyway, suck it up.

...oh shit, I can't get out of GQMF mode!


1. I feel good about the place that I've been made in the world today, I get all sticky inside when I close my eyes and I open up wide.
===Everclear - When It All Goes Wrong Again

2. Would you like a cigarette or my hand upon your shoulder? I think we might have met. Would you like me to come over?
===Scissor Sisters - Lovers in the Backseat

3. And you don't want to be here in the future, so you say the present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.
===Something Corporate - Konstantine

4. I'm the same as I was when I was six years old, and oh my God, I feel so damn old I don't really feel anything.
===Modest Mouse - Never Ending Math Equation

5. I changed my plans, I rented a camera and a van and then I called you, "I need you to pretend that we are in love again."
===The Postal Service - Clark Gable

6. I gotta sing and I dance when I glance in my pants, and the feeling's like a sunshiney day...
===Da Vinci's Notebook - Enormous Penis

7. I wouldn't want you to want to be wanted by me, I wouldn't want you to worry you'd be drowned within my sea. I only wanted to be wonderful, in wonderful is true, in truth I only really wanted to be wanted by you.
===Damien Rice - Rat Within The Grain

8. I close my eyes and I keep seeing things, rainbow waterfalls, sunny liquid dreams. Confusion creeps inside me raining doubt, gotta get to you but I don't know how.
===Yoko Kanno - Call Me Call Me

9. Why so mysterious? Why so sacred, why so serious? Maybe you're just acting tough or maybe you're just not man enough... What's wrong?
===Feist - Secret Heart

10. Take me on a roller coaster, take me for an airplane ride, take me for a six days wonder but don't you, don't you throw my pride aside besides what's real and make believe.
===Roxy Music - Virginia Plain

11. You know what they say might hurt you, and you know that it means so much, and you don't even feel a thing.
===BoA - Duvet

12. Keeping my eyes open, I cannot afford to sleep; Giving away promises I know that I can't keep. Nothing fills the blackness that has seeped into my chest, I need you in my blood, I am forsaking all the rest.
===Melissa Etheridge - Come To My Window

13. can't stand your loneliness, can't stand your loneliness. shit night life, been trying not to laugh though, you won't get money, I'm doing what you loving.
===Gorillaz - Slow Country

14. Here by my side, you are destruction. Here by my side, a new colour to paint the world. Never turn your back on it, never turn your back on it, again. Here by my side, it's Heaven.
===Matthew Good - Weapon

15. All this having been said, I married an executive company head. All this having been done, a Turner - I own one.
===Rufus Wainwright - The Art Teacher

16. It's real early morning, no-one is awake. I'm back at my cliff, still throwing things off. I listen to the sounds they make on their way down.
===Yeah Yeah Yeahs covering Bjork - Hyperballad

17. There's too many people you used to know, they see you coming, they see you go. They know your secrets and you know theirs. This town is crazy, nobody cares.
===Beck - Lost Cause

18. The river of love flows deep through the night, rolls you in with the waves, drags you out with the tides.
===I Am Kloot - The Same Deep Water As Me

19. And all I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape. All I can say is that my life is pretty plain... You don't like my point of view, then I'm insane. It's not sane...
===Blind Melon - No Rain [note: I have very often been compared to the bee girl in this music video. I'm not sure f the right response is "thank you" or "fuck you"]

20. I'll take what you're willing to give, and I'll teach myself to live with a walk-on part of a background shot from a movie I'm not in.
===Blink-182 - Apple Shampoo

21. You walk along by yourself. There's no sound, nothing is changing. Been gone away, left you there; emptiness is nothing you can't share. All those words that hurt you more than you would let it show... Come apart by yourself, all is well and everything is wasted.
===Sugar Ray - Falls Apart

22. Last week she was here, but she had the flu. Too bad, 'cause I wanted to introduce her to you. It's so sad, there wasn't a thing that she could do but stay in bed with her legs up over her head! Oh!
===Avenue Q - My Girlfriend (Who Lives in Canada)

23. Encores can be fatal, and there I hear you say-- "thank god it’s fatal, not shy, not shy of fatal, thank god." Wait just a second now, it’s not all that bad. Are we not having fun?
===Andrew Bird - Heretics

24. Another head aches, another heart breaks, I am so much older than I can take and my affection, well it comes and goes. I need direction to perfection.
===The Killers - All These Things That I've Done

25. It's the perfect time of year somewhere far away from here. I feel fine enough, I guess, considering everything's a mess.
===Barenaked Ladies - Pinch Me

26. You really want to live but can't get rid of your frown, tried to reach unto the heights and wound bound down on the ground; given up your pride and then you heard a sound. Out of night comes day and out of day comes light...
===Matisyahu - King Without a Crown

27. Gotta keep it peace like a Buddhist, I ain't a New Jack nobody 'gon Wesley Snipe me. It's less than likely, move back, let I breathe Jedi knight, the more space I get the better I write.
===Jay-Z - Change Clothes

28. Off in the night, while you live it up, I'm off to sleep. Waging wars to shape the poet and the beat, I hope it's gonna make you notice someone like me.
===Kings of Leon - Use Somebody

29. Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy but when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine!
===The Kinks - Lola

30. It could be ten, but then again, I can't remember half an hour since a quarter to four. Throw on your clothes, the second side of Surfer Rosa, and you leave me with my jaw on the floor.
===OK GO - Here It Goes Again

31. Many roads led here, walked with the suffering, Tom in Guatemala, Philip in New Orleans. It's a long road from law to justice. I went to Vietnam, I went for peace, they dropped their bombs, right where my government knew I would be.
===Dar Williams - I Had No Right

32. In my blood I felt bubbles burst. There was a flash of fist, an eyebrow burst-- you've a lazy laugh and a red white shirt. I fall to the floor, fainting at the sight of blood!
===Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen

33. Starlight above my hometown ain't as bright as the star I've found. Every drawing that I drew was never ever as cute as you. I'm serious as a heart attack, I'm looking in my almanac, I've gotta find out all the things and find out where she got her wings.
===Hellogoodbye - Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn

34. I'm not sure all these people understand. It's not like years ago, the fear of getting caught, of recklessness and water. They cannot see me naked. These things, they go away, replaced by every day.
===R.E.M. - Nightswimming

35. Now the doctor came in, stinking of gin, and proceeded to lie on the table. He said "Rocky you met your match," And Rocky said, "Doc it's only a scratch and I'll be better, I'll be better doc as soon as I am able."
===The Beatles - Rocky Raccoon

36. Hear me singing soft and low, I've been begging on my knees, I've been kickin', help me please. Hear me prowlin', I'm gonna take you down, hear me growlin', yeah, I've got flatted feet now.
===The Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking

37. From the back of your big brown eyes, I knew you'd be gone as soon as you could and I hoped you would... We could see that you weren't yourself, and the lines on your face did tell, it's just as well. You'd never be yourself again.
===Ben Folds Five - Magic

38. There are two colours in my head. What, what is that you try to say? What, what was that you tried to say?
===Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place

39. I got a boyfriend. He's a bad boy. He is my favorite. He is my joy. I got a boyfriend. "Danger boy!" He's got a girlfriend. She is my toy!
===Bif Naked - Twitch

40. I think it's fine, building jumbo planes, or taking a ride on a cosmic train. Switch on summer from a slot machine. Yes, get what you want to if you want, 'cause you can get anything.
===Cat Stevens - Where Do The Children Play


Out of 40, 21 were guessed (and 19 weren't, lol math!) I believe this shows that I am a pretentious music whore, but it also shows that there is quite a selection inside that cut with which you should familiarize yourselves.

...really, no one got Where Do The Children Play? *headshake*