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So, just *ages* ago now,

leemoyer made a post with some of his favourite lyrics in it. This prompted me to make a meme-post, urging people to identify the lyrics that I adore and provided.

I told myself at the time that I'd go ahead and keep adding to the playlist/file, because it's one of my favourite things on my computer. And now, it's been an age, and I actually have 25 more songs for you to try and identify! (plus a super bonus all-N2N-all-the-time section because Next to Normal has eaten my brain)

So yeah. Identified lyrics are in bold. Entries with an "-Or-" just mean that there were multiple sets of lyrics I loved from that song.

26) And remember Love's a verb

27) One little girl
Is just a bit confused
Thought that she was human too

28) Let's Dance to Joy Division
And celebrate the irony
Everything is going wrong
But we're so happy!

29) Did he buy your heart with Visa
Or his platinum Mastercard?

30) And hearts getting broken
Leads to people getting cold
-Or-
So what's the Complication
Yeah it's only Conversation

31) A little bit of anarchy
But not the hurting kind

32) All I need
Is one good night's sleep
In your loving arms
To mend

33) In fighting there's no dignity
It's such a waste of time
Take my hand
I don't think God will mind

34) Don't lose your head
Because every night
Who's in your bed?

35) We got no class
And we got no principals
And we got no innocence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes!

36) Ten years waiting for this moment of fate
Where we say the words and sign our names
If they take it away again someday
This beautiful thing won't change...

37) Oh you were the truth
Of my running mascara
The moment my mask
Was no more

38) I want adventure in the great wide somewhere

40) Freedom is being alone
I fear liberation
-Or-
And something more alive than the silence
Swallows conversation

41) That a life of great potential
Is dismissed, inconsequential
And only ever seen as being "cute"

42) I am nothing without you
But I don't know who you are

43) Wish you were here
Or else wish I was there
Don't you wish, that that wish, could come true?
I wish there were here
Or else I wish here were there
Don't you wish, silly things, like I do?

45) I'm not gonna live my life
On one side of an Ampersand
Even if I went with you
I'm not the girl you think I am
And I'm not gonna match you
'Cause I'll lose my voice completely

46) And the hardest part of life
Is to live while you're alive

47) Watch your heart when we're together
Boys like you love me forever
-Or-
Not psychotic or dramatic
I like boys and that is that.

50) If money's all you want
Then money's all you'll get
I'd rather be drunk and in love

51) Never been too good at asking
I'm more apt to do it alone
It's strange how a lot of us think something's wrong
When we can't do it all on our own

So tonight I'd like you to rock me to sleep
I'd like you to sing me a song
I'm tired of trying to figure things out
And I'm tired of being so strong.

52) Stop calling, stop calling, I don't wanna think anymore
I left my head and my heart on the dance floor

53) I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
I know -right now you can't tell

54) Russian roulette is not the same without a gun
And baby when it's love if it's not rough it isn't fun

***

And these are all from Next to Normal, because it really is a fantastically quotable musical. Go ahead and identify the songs, one of you four people who know what I'm talking about:

39) Everything's great, why wouldn't it be great, it's great!
-Or-
And you're living on a latte and a prayer
-Or-
For what doesn't kill me, doesn't kill me
-Or-
We're the perfect loving family
If they say we're not, then fuck 'em!
-Or-
It only hurts when I breathe
It only hurts when I try
It only hurts when I think
It only hurts when I cry
It only hurts when I work
It only hurts when I play
It only hurts when I move
It only hurts when I say

44) And you find out you don't have to be happy at all
To be happy you're alive
-Or-
Give me pain, if that's what's real
It's the price we pay to feel
-Or-
The price of love is loss
But still we pay
We love anyway

48) Maybe we can't be okay
But maybe we're tough, and we'll try anyway
-Or-
We tried to give you a normal life
I realize now I have no clue what that is.
I don't need a life that's normal
That's way too far away
But something Next to Normal could be okay.

49) Natalie! And this must be Henry! A pleasure to finally meet you. Come in! Why don't you join us for dinner?
Um, dad, Henry can't really stay. He's got um..
It's gonna be good
...Homework.
It's gonna be good
...Surgery!
We'll sit right down together like a happy family should
...Rabies!!

Man, I *really* ought to make a CD that is just this much of all these songs. It would be pretty fantastic, in a seriously ADHD way.

Accusations that I only like emo lyrics and pop songs are...well...really true, actually. Whee.

~Sor
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28) This one's a little obvious, seeing as the first line is the title of the song...

35) School's Out, by Alice Cooper

37) I recognize this one, but can't come up with it yet. Maybe later.

Ah, well, Marc beat me to it.

Also, I don't know the title for (49), but I heard it quite recently. I'm pretty sure it was on

gallian's iPod on the way to or from NEFFA.

Wait, reeeeeally?! Excellent. I approve of this Gallian person and their *excellent* taste in musicals.

~Sor

You know her -- we went to TSO with her.

28) Well yeah, fine. At least one other set of lyrics has the name in the song, so nyah.

~Sor

36) Vienna Teng - City Hall

37) S. J. Tucker - Carousel

40) Vienna Teng - Between

42) This one's also Vienna Teng, right? I can't quite place it.... *glances at playlist* Oh, "Nothing Without You". Heh.

53) I believe the title is, in fact, "Unwell". I don't know who sings it. It gets stuck in my head surprisingly often for a song I don't have a copy of.

53) It's by Matchbox 20.

45 is that ampersand song that i can't remember who did it but she was one of your favorites... Vienna or Amanda.. stupid not working brain :P

51 i knoow 'cause you just sent it to me :D :D Juliana McCorison's Rock Me to Sleep . o O (Jinkies is that song perfect for me right now or what.. but you knew that already 'cause you sent it to me :D)

38) ...I can't remember the title, but it's the song from the beginning of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. The one that starts out, "Little town, it's a quiet village."

The Vienna songs have already been identified, so I think that's about all I've got.

27. Aw, dammit. I know I know this song.
31. (if correctly written as "bit") - Great Big Sea, "Consequence Free"
32. and 33. I know, too. Darn brain.

27. is Toad the Wet Sprocket's "One Little Girl," I think.

You think correctly! Good catch.

~Sor

aw man, the only one I knew was the one from the tropical island of Newfoundland...

Heh. From ZombieDog's comment below, I now know I know both 32 and 33 as GBS songs. Had to dig a bit to place titles to them, even after my brain coughed up the albums, though (partly 'cause I don't know titles for them all). 33 is "Love" I think (off Something Beautiful). 32 is "Dream to Live," but ZD deserves at least joint credit on that one.

31) Hurrr, that was bad of me. *fixes*

I do like the GBS, yep.

~Sor

54: Lady GaGa's Poker Face.

It makes me happy that you got that.

~Sor

Without looking at any other comments...

31 is Consequence Free by Great Big Sea.
32 is ... um, another GBS song, from Fortune's Favor, but I forget the title. It's the one about the Newfie who moves to the USA and his love leaves him.
34 is Take Me or Leave Me from Rent.
52 is Telephone, Gaga and Beyoncé.
54 is Poker Face by Lady Gaga.

Great Big Sea and GaGa, huh?

I think part of the fun of this is seeing how my very eclectic musical tastes intersect with other people's very eclectic musical tastes.

~Sor

38 is driving me nuts because I can sing the whole thing from start to finish and the part mentioned is my favorite part (I really identify with Belle). I think it is just called 'Belle' I'm not sure though.

Belle is totally my Disney Princess --all she needs is a pair of glasses, and she'd be perfect.

~Sor

47 is Lady Gaga Boys Boys Boys

Best wifey ever!

~Sor

Duh! I think you need to make me a cd with these songs...the snippets of lyrics intrigue me.

38 is the reprise of "Belle" that is my favorite scene of the movie. I don't know if it has a name, though. Does it?

Just "Belle (Reprise)" is what my copy says. So yeah. That.

~Sor

30 is "Love it When You Call" on the album Twelve Stops and Home by The Feeling.

41: strongest suit (reprise, i believe) from Aida
39: Just Another Day
44: Light
49: Its gonna be good

i know 48 but i can't remember the title offhand