First-lines meme

Bouncing back and forth between my knitting, teh intarwebz, and cleaning the kitchen. Here, have a music meme. I've done as several on my lists have, and shuffled my music player. Here are the first lines of the first 20 songs that come up (I'll skip anything where the first line is a dead giveaway; I also skipped "Yellow Ledbetter", whose lyrics I find indecipherable, and Wikipedia agrees with me). I don't think my collection is all that esoteric on the whole, but it did randomly pick some pretty obscure stuff, so we'll see. How many can you get without looking them up?

1. I was born in a lighthouse; my mother was the sea TMBG, Absolutely Bill's Mood (beth47)
2. If you go far, then I'll go long
3. I met a young soldier; he said his name was Killer Kyle
4. Good love, bad love, good love, yeah
5. I grew up in a house like this; you knew the groan of every stair
6. It's one-thirty in the mornin', but that's all right by me
7. Now when he was a young man, he never thought he'd see people stand in line to see the boy king Steve Martin, King Tut (janetmiles)
8. Sometimes I know that it's never enough
9. My my my TV makes me so bored Weird Al Yankovich, I Can't Watch This (kshandra)
10. Long time, no see; short time for you and me Moody Blues, Gemini Dream (autographedcat)
11. Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together Simon & Garfunkel, America (mac_arthur_park)
12. A thin ice covers my soul
13. Just got home from Illinois CCR, Lookin' Out My Back Door (the_maenad)
14. Before all of this, ever went down, in another place, another town Tom Petty, A Face In The Crowd (the_maenad)
15. Get your party gown; get your pigtails down Shine Down (on a Queen Tribute Album), Tie Your Mother Down (hnybny)
16. New Jersey lady I knew long ago, she was a lady, I say
17. There must be some kind of way out of here Indigo Girls covering Bob Dylan's All Along The Watchtower (autographedcat)
18. I walk right by him and he's freezing his ass off
19. I met someone at the dog show; she was holding my left arm TMBG, She's An Angel (beth47)
20. I took myself down to the Tally-Ho Tavern to buy me a bottle of beer Kris Kristofferson, The Silver Tongued Devil And I (beth47)

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Yesterday, aquenigmatic took me to a place that I don't want to give a lot of details about, but that makes it sound more mysterious than it really is. Well, wait, it IS mysterious, in that good way, but we weren't breaking the law or anything. In this jurisdiction, anyway. :-)

Still, I had such a beautiful morning, and a fabulous Ethiopian breakfast, with a person who makes me feel simultaneously way-not-cool-enough* and perfectly at ease. Thank you, aquenigmatic!



(*Fortunately, I'm a grownup who has come to terms with being "uncool" and doesn't actually strive for coolness. Still, sometimes I'm around people and feel like they MUST be getting ready to tell me I have to go sit at the nerds' table, even if that feeling now just amuses me rather than upsetting me. Does that make sense?)