DREAMED I WAS AN ESKIMO ...

Well, I can almost never resist a musical meme (or a book meme, or or or). This one comes courtesy of guided_by_grace with a couple slight modifications. (I've never learned how to strike out sords on LJ, so I'll probably just make a parenthetical note if someone guesses.) Obviously, don't read the comments before posting your own guesses, cuz that'd be cheating and all.

Step 1: Put mp3 player (or other music-storage device) on random.
Step 2: Write the first couple lines from the first 20 songs that play
Step 3: Post and let everyone guess what song the lyrics come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

This took longer than I expected, because I dismissed any songs in which the title was in those first couple lines. Hence, no "I Want You to Want Me." Or "Shiny Happy People." Or even the Beatles' "Rain."

Have fun ...


1. He was a family man, he worked 40 hours/Mid-level management five days a week in a corporate tower ...
2. Across the room it was the girls' night out; asked me for Alanis Morissette/And I thought they were applauding, but they were just packing down their cigarettes ... Guessed correctly by vixyish
3. In a horse-powered sleigh at the top of the town/Sun coming up paints the snow all around with rose light ...
4. At my door the leaves are falling/A cold, wild wind has come ...
5. I used to watch Highway Patrol whittlin' with my knife/But the thought never struck me I'd be black and white for life ...
6. Dreamed I was an Eskimo/Frozen wind began to blow ...
7. You know I lose, you know I win/You know I called for the shape I'm in ...
8. As I stare into the flame/Filled up with feelings I can't name ...
9. Did I ever take you in my arms, look you in the eye, tell you that I do ...
10. Found him by the railroad tracks this morning/I could see that he was nearly dead ...
11. Wander on/from time to time and hand to hand ...
12. Well, they say that Santa Fe/is less than ninety miles away ...
13. Anthony works in the grocery store, saving his pennies for someday/Mama Leone left a note on the door -- she said, "Sonny, move out to the country ... " Guessed correctly by guided_by_grace and vixyish
14. I called up my friend Leroy on the phone/I said "buddy I'm afraid to be alone/cause I got some weird ideas in my head ..."
15. I see you now and then in dreams/Your voice sounds just like it used to ...
16. It's 3 o'clock in the morning ship-time/Only five more hours to go ...
17. Got a good reason for taking the easy way out/Got a good reason for taking the easy way out now ... Guessed correctly by peteralway and vixyish
18. There is no political solution/to our troubled evolution/I've no faith in constitutions/There is no bloody revolution ... Guessed correctly by guided_by_grace and vixyish
19. Of war and peace the truth just twists/Its curfew gull just glides ...
20. Down peppers the rain from a clear blue sky/Down trickles the tear from a youthful face ...