Knife in the WaterStep 1: Open up whatever you use to listen to music and add every song in your collection.
Step 2: Put it on random.
Step 3: Post the first line from the first 50 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 4: Post and let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 5: Bold the songs that someone guesses correctly.
Step 6: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
01. "As the gringos block the roads inside your head."
02. "We find the teeth among the keys and turn them into traffic."
03. "Our step mom, we did everything to hate her."
04. "Look who's pulling up outside, with a trunk full of fun and a European ride."
05. "She looked me over and I guess she thought I was all right."
06. "If you need some fun, some good stereo gum."
07. "Knocky Parker told Bowlegged Sal they all know how to kick it in Cal."
08. "I've been to Nagasaki, Hiroshima too."
09. "I'm driving north to Cheyenne."
10. "Long ago, Daisy, remember we read your name by the fire's embers."
11. "Stockholm night was leaking light when your father died."
12. "Come on baby, take it easy. Stop following me around."
13. "Hey, Bobby Malone, it's good to have you home."
14. "I went up on the mountain and I looked down on my life."
15. "Whisper in the dark - she's from the other side."
16. "I fell through channels, I broke my heart."
17. "Shut your eyes across the uneven road."
18. "You're such a strange girl, I think you come from another world."
19. "My god, this town needs a shakedown."
20. "The vacuum created by the arrival of freedom and the possibilities it seems to offer."
21. "I had a date with a pretty ballerina."
22. "With your E's and your ease and I do one more."
22. "Alcohol on my hands, I got plans to ditch myself and get outside."
23. "It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing, every time you gave them shelter."
24. "No, I couldn't tell you how the house burned down."
25. "I ain't afraid of your laughin', nor afraid of your fist."
26. "Here in line, where stupid shit collides with dying shooting stars."
27. "Gonna take a chance on her, one bullet in the cylinder."
28. "How can it feel so nice? Why does it feel so right?"
29. "Nothing can change without your say, and life can go on, no matter what they all say."
30. "Onward! And onward! And onward I go, where no man before could be bothered to go."
31. "Well, mark out the name of the girl that I love."
32. "Gettin' out of the house, I'm gonna go for a ride."
33. "I remember the year I went to camp, I heard about some lady named Selma and some blacks."
34. "Met a little gypsy in a fortune-tellin' place."
35. "I picked you out of the crowd and talked to you."
36. "Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said I'd like to smash every tooth in your head."
37. "As I wait for sleep to drag me under, in the evening gloom, I sit and wonder."
38. "Pity, milky stone. Who knows such things about ghosts?"
39. "There once was a poodle who thought he was a cowboy."
40. "What the hell is wrong with you, tonight? I can't seem to say or do the right thing."
41. "Honey, I'm a roller concrete clover, Tadzio, Tadzio."
42. "Yes, I'm jealous, I'm jealous of everything that you've ever done."
43. "Who should I marry, daddy, who should I marry?"
44. "When I was just a little boy, I threw away all of my action toys."
45. "They asked me how I knew my true love was true."
46. "Way down in West Virginia, there's some people who are one of a kind."
47. "Bonfires burning bright, pumpkin faces in the night - I remember Halloween."
48. "I swear it was the wendigo that drove me to the axe."
49. "I paint the fields that your mouth sent."
50. "There's a little black spot on the sun, today."
Featured artists:
16 Horsepower
Air
Andrew Bird
Beck
Beirut
Billy Bragg
Billy Joe Shaver
Blood or Whiskey
Bright Eyes
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Chris Letcher
Clairvoyants
Corb Lund
The Cure
Dan Sartain
David Bowie
DeVotchKa
Eels
Elliott Smith
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
The Handsome Family
Hank Williams III
Imogen Heap
Joe Jackson
Josh Lederman y Los Diablos
Knife in the Water
Leonard Cohen
Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks
Micah P. Hinson
Misfits
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Old 97's
Oh No! Oh My!
Paul Simon
Pine Hill Haints
The Platters
The Police
Ramones
Rufus Wainwright
Shivaree
Slim Cessna's Auto Club
The Smiths
Songs: Ohia
Sons of perdition
Sufjan Stevens
They Might Be Giants
Toadies
Tom Waits
Tori Amos
Wanda Jackson
The WIYOS
Step 2: Put it on random.
Step 3: Post the first line from the first 50 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 4: Post and let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 5: Bold the songs that someone guesses correctly.
Step 6: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
01. "As the gringos block the roads inside your head."
02. "We find the teeth among the keys and turn them into traffic."
03. "Our step mom, we did everything to hate her."
04. "Look who's pulling up outside, with a trunk full of fun and a European ride."
05. "She looked me over and I guess she thought I was all right."
06. "If you need some fun, some good stereo gum."
07. "Knocky Parker told Bowlegged Sal they all know how to kick it in Cal."
08. "I've been to Nagasaki, Hiroshima too."
09. "I'm driving north to Cheyenne."
10. "Long ago, Daisy, remember we read your name by the fire's embers."
11. "Stockholm night was leaking light when your father died."
12. "Come on baby, take it easy. Stop following me around."
13. "Hey, Bobby Malone, it's good to have you home."
14. "I went up on the mountain and I looked down on my life."
15. "Whisper in the dark - she's from the other side."
16. "I fell through channels, I broke my heart."
17. "Shut your eyes across the uneven road."
18. "You're such a strange girl, I think you come from another world."
19. "My god, this town needs a shakedown."
20. "The vacuum created by the arrival of freedom and the possibilities it seems to offer."
21. "I had a date with a pretty ballerina."
22. "With your E's and your ease and I do one more."
22. "Alcohol on my hands, I got plans to ditch myself and get outside."
23. "It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing, every time you gave them shelter."
24. "No, I couldn't tell you how the house burned down."
25. "I ain't afraid of your laughin', nor afraid of your fist."
26. "Here in line, where stupid shit collides with dying shooting stars."
27. "Gonna take a chance on her, one bullet in the cylinder."
28. "How can it feel so nice? Why does it feel so right?"
29. "Nothing can change without your say, and life can go on, no matter what they all say."
30. "Onward! And onward! And onward I go, where no man before could be bothered to go."
31. "Well, mark out the name of the girl that I love."
32. "Gettin' out of the house, I'm gonna go for a ride."
33. "I remember the year I went to camp, I heard about some lady named Selma and some blacks."
34. "Met a little gypsy in a fortune-tellin' place."
35. "I picked you out of the crowd and talked to you."
36. "Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said I'd like to smash every tooth in your head."
37. "As I wait for sleep to drag me under, in the evening gloom, I sit and wonder."
38. "Pity, milky stone. Who knows such things about ghosts?"
39. "There once was a poodle who thought he was a cowboy."
40. "What the hell is wrong with you, tonight? I can't seem to say or do the right thing."
41. "Honey, I'm a roller concrete clover, Tadzio, Tadzio."
42. "Yes, I'm jealous, I'm jealous of everything that you've ever done."
43. "Who should I marry, daddy, who should I marry?"
44. "When I was just a little boy, I threw away all of my action toys."
45. "They asked me how I knew my true love was true."
46. "Way down in West Virginia, there's some people who are one of a kind."
47. "Bonfires burning bright, pumpkin faces in the night - I remember Halloween."
48. "I swear it was the wendigo that drove me to the axe."
49. "I paint the fields that your mouth sent."
50. "There's a little black spot on the sun, today."
Featured artists:
16 Horsepower
Air
Andrew Bird
Beck
Beirut
Billy Bragg
Billy Joe Shaver
Blood or Whiskey
Bright Eyes
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Chris Letcher
Clairvoyants
Corb Lund
The Cure
Dan Sartain
David Bowie
DeVotchKa
Eels
Elliott Smith
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
The Handsome Family
Hank Williams III
Imogen Heap
Joe Jackson
Josh Lederman y Los Diablos
Knife in the Water
Leonard Cohen
Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks
Micah P. Hinson
Misfits
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Old 97's
Oh No! Oh My!
Paul Simon
Pine Hill Haints
The Platters
The Police
Ramones
Rufus Wainwright
Shivaree
Slim Cessna's Auto Club
The Smiths
Songs: Ohia
Sons of perdition
Sufjan Stevens
They Might Be Giants
Toadies
Tom Waits
Tori Amos
Wanda Jackson
The WIYOS
