Song meme

From reldnahkram: On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down your favorite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then, have your friends comment and see if they know the songs. No cheating!

Ha! Good luck, kids! If anyone gets five, I'll be amazed—although I misread the instructions, and selected the first line of each song, which should make it easier. From The Amazing Rotating Playlist, ignoring (for instance) TMBG's I'm Having a Heart Attack:

1. It's colder in this house than anywhere in Boston.


2. Nights are long, oh so long, on the prairie.


3. I came home on a Monday night, as drunk as drunk can be.


4. Is it worth it? A new winter coat and shoes for the wife?


5. Our love is like water, pinned down and abused for being strange.


6. Everyone agreed that she looked delightful / except for her sister who was hateful and spiteful.


7. Hush my little one, don't cry so.


8. La la la, I'm the maker, I'm the maker, I'm the maker, oh yeah.


9. Where did your long hair go?


10. You've seen it all, you've seen it all before.


11. Got a surprise from my honey! Got a message from my girl!


12. The western lands, day turns to night, / the immaterial play of light.


13. People point us out and shake their heads in shame.


14. Washed my cotton socks, I'm in the news.


15. Gypsy gal, the hands of Harlem / cannot hold you to its heat.


16. Up those stone steps I climb, / hail this joyful day's return.


17. Where is Mona? She's long gone.


18. Aren't you the wise one? Isn't that what you claim to be?


19. It'll all wash down, it'll wash down when it rains.


20. Hello my friend; it seems your eyes are troubled. / Care to share your time with me?

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