i'm a pixel here, myself

I love this meme. Gacked from cathybites:

Step 1: Put your Media player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s)/ your favourite lines of the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly. no, just guess as many as you can!

I took out the "no cheating" rule, because it's obvious I cheated -- I have way too much crap in my iTunes, including stuff I never listen to, some language lessons, comedy albums, instrumental-only stuff... it's too much not to cheat. So there. But y'all guessers: no Googling!

1. But come ye back when summer's in the meadows, or when the valley's hushed and white with snow "Londonderry Air" (aka "Danny Boy"), various. Mine is by Eva Cassidy. (between_names, starstillwonder, bexone)

2. and I guess that's how you started, like a pinprick to my heart "Ghost", Indigo Girls (wrenlet)

3. my love, you know that you're my best friend "Hold On", Sarah McLachlan (wrenlet, the_liftedlorax, starstillwonder)

4. all my life I have been searchin' for the fabled promised land

5. wherever I go, whatever I do, whenever my heart is crying out for you "Crazy For You", *NSYNC (sparklyfabulous, deepsix)

6. a blue-stocking suffragette who remedied society between her cigarettes "Ophelia", Natalie Merchant (wrenlet)

7. come with me and we shall run across the sky, illuminate the night "Up The Ladder", The Nylons (between_names)

8. where you going with that load of nothing in your hand "Going Down To Liverpool", The Bangles (magickly)

9. this is an obsession, a kind of aggression

10. snow can wait; I forgot my mittens "Winter", Tori Amos (wrenlet, starstillwonder)

11. a Picasso or a Garfunkel "If I Had $1000000", Barenaked Ladies (between_names, the_liftedlorax)

12. there is cool shit to do, but it can't come to you, and who knows dude, you might even score "There Is Life Outside Your Apartment", Avenue Q cast (between_names, the_liftedlorax)

13. what you see's not what you get, with you there's just no measurement

14. I sit two stories above the street "Least Complicated", Indigo Girls (the_liftedlorax)

15. a key in the door, a step on the floor "Shoebox", Barenaked Ladies (sparklyfabulous)

16. if your life was bad to you, just think what tomorrow will do

17. gettin' my nerve up, but my past is pullin' me down "Black Sheep", Martin Sexton (starstillwonder)

18. it's been seven hours and fifteen days since you took your love away "Nothing Compares 2 U", Sinéad O'Connor (between_names, wrenlet, the_liftedlorax, starstillwonder, traveller)

19. digging down where roots would burrow underneath "Backyard", Guster (the_liftedlorax)

20. when you're on a golden sea, you don't need no memory "Island In The Sun", Weezer (winterlive)