This has been done before, so it’s not an original idea, but it’s long. Identify the lyrics in the following list (without using a search engine). The only hint you get is that I either own the album containing the lyric, or have performed it live for an audience at some point. Oh, and no band is repeated, though some artists may be. Some of these may be overly easy, others are nearly impossible. Post your guesses.
- Impotence. Boomerang. I’ll stab you.
- I’m worse at what I do best
- Bein’ alone’s a nowhere state of mind
- Feel me in your bones
- And, every night, I shut my eyes so I don’t have to see the light
- But singers and songs will never change it alone
- But, I ain’t never punched a tourist
- If you can feel what I’m feeling then it’s a musical masterpiece
- Although we both lie close together, we feel miles apart inside
- There’s just five words to say as you go down
- The ashtray’s full and I’m spillin’ my guts
- Everything I want the world to be is now coming true, especially for me
- No matter the pain, he ought to be unwinceable
- I’ve been everything you want to be
- Since birth I’ve been cursed with this curse to just curse
- She says it’s lack of sex that’s bringing me down
- Here I lie, in a lost and lonely part of town, held in time
- But many came, to much for Cree
- Scabbed knees and rice
- Je veux aller au bout de me fantasmes
- I know you, little libertine
- Your prison is walking through this world all alone
- He moves through space with minimum waste
- I drip steam like a microphone fiend
- My energy’s spent at last and my armor is destroyed
- Help me, I’m flaming. I must be a hundred and nine.
- It took a rumor to make me wonder
- Don’t believe in anything that you can’t break
- There’s a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall
- I take things off to clear my head
- Hey, Mr. Moonlight wont’cha follow me down? I need the company.
- Your pride has built a wall
- Half my life is in books’ written pages
- Dressed for the battle but not fatigued, my hat’s made of metal to avoid debris
- Jenata iazdi samotna
- Got my pills ’gainst mosquito death
- Here come the planes. Please form a straight line.
- Mom, please flush it all away
- Picture this. Paint a picture. Picture perfect. Paint a perfect picture.
- I am losing my mind. My head’s on the floor, for evermore.
- Don’t think ’cause I understand, I care
- Next to her cheap silicone, I look minimal
- No serenade, no fire brigade
- His days of asking are all gone
- Won’t go to Harlem in ermine and pearls
- Reflections in the waves spark my memory
- It could be normal but it isn’t quite
- Giant, ape-like invaders swim the river to New York
- Funny how my memory slips while looking over manuscripts
- Two eyes from the east
- Who knows? Maybe you were kidnapped, tied-up, taken away, and held for ransom
- I’ve felt the coldness of my winter
- Cuius latum perforatum aqua fluxit et sanguine
- I’m working, but I’m not working for you
- When in doubt, I whip it out
- Back street hoop star, you’ve got it good
- Burns like a red coal carpet, mad bull lost it’s way
- Daddy’s got a new .45
- Wake in the world with a clear conscience and clean hands
- Some people stand like trees, without a word
- London, Hamburg, Paris, Rome, Rio, Hong Kong, Tokyo
- If I swallow anything evil, put your fingers down my throat
- Dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris
- Convenience is the enemy
- I’ll get home early from work if you say that you love me
- To leather, to dildos, to curry vindaloo
- You make a move, I’ll make you feel like a human target
- He hears the silence howling, catches angels as they fall
- Sometimes you tell the day by the bottle that you drink
- And when I hurt, hurtin’ runs off my shoulders
- Breathe into me and make me real
- Put your straitjackets on tonight
- Have they lost their heads, or are they just all blind mice? We’ve heard all their stories one too many times.
- He’d give up all his comforts and sleep out in the rain
- Those not so blessed would be crying out murder
- Yes, I believe, but I’d rather not pray
- Give me your dollar whores
- Wider baby smiling you’ve just made a million
- You’re lucky to even know me. You’re lucky to be alive.
- Who will stay when the rain is fallin’ and won’t let it fall on you?
- Put the needle on the record while the drum beats go like this
- They’re borders and boots on top of us, pullin’ knobs on the floor of their toxic metropolis
- Night blooms will whisper to me “I’m lonesome as I can be”
- I will stand firm in the tempest
- Your CIA, you see I ain’t kiddin’
- I’m hard, but I’m friendly, baby
- I gave you a golden ring to show you my love, you went to stick it in a printed circuit to fix a voltage leak in your collector
- My fantasy has turned to madness
- I missed the bus and there’ll be hell today
- We are watered down and fully grown
- I left my body laying somewhere in the sands of time
- Please, I want a silver kitchen knife. I feel like taking a life.
- Your cotton ain’t rotten, just needs to be picked
- Snarling equinox among the rocks will seize you
- But the wind blows stronger, cold and long
- Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone
- You smile as I sip
- But look at Epitaph. He wins it by a half.
- The roar of guns and cannons almost made me cry
- I’m telling you, the tribesmen wouldn’t stand for this, man
- When I get through throwing it on you, you gotta come back for more
- Tied to machines that make me be
- Bought a beat up six string in a secondhand store
- This girl was in her working clothes
- I don’t like a thing about your sister
- A built-in remedy for Kruschev and Kennedy
- I got to laugh, ’cause I know I’m gonna die
- I know you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky.
- And where are all the gods?
- No, I’m not here to harm you; I only want to kill
- I had to tell them, baby, you were armed with all you’d need
- My favorite weapon is the look in your eyes
- …but first, take care of head
- It’s not so pretty when it fades away
- Run in the shadows. Damn your love. Damn your lies.
- The billions shift from side to side
- Like staring at the sun, such gorgeous destruction
- The doctor came in, stinking of gin, and proceeded to lie on the table
- I saw the seven phials open, the plague claimed man and son
- He gave his life for tourism
- I missed ten million miles of road I should have seen
- She obliterated everything she kissed
- It’s the same old theme since 1916
- The cutout magazines remind me
- You’ll be dead before your time is due, I know
- We have nothing here except ourselves
- The comfort you’ve demanded is now mandatory
- The great almighty dollar leaves you lonely, lost and hollow
- Give me my freedom, and then you lock me in a tomb
- I’m goin’ down in it three times but, Lord, I’m only comin’ up twice
- Past eight by tens in shattered frames
- In Bengal, to move at all is seldom, if ever, done
- Some balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress
- And you, you are a victim of this age
- I’m about to ruin the image and the style that you’re used to
- Tell me: when did the light die?
- The soul I took from you was not even missed
- Hey, cool cat, does this apply to you?
- Trade in your hours for a handful of dimes
- I’m a five foot mirror for adoring himself
- Men drinking beer with the foam afloat heard…
- All this machinery making modern music can still be open hearted
- Later on, they discovered this would make a great way of life for them
- …only stupid people are breeding, the cretins cloning and feeding
- I’m gonna hurt you if it happens twice
- Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a leading role in a cage?
- I could change my life to better suit your mood
- I seek to cure what’s deep inside, frightened of this thing that I’ve become
- The dusty road that’s ahead will be my board and my bed ’til what I am looking for is found
- Keep smiling until then