stolen from tsukikokoro

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post a line or two from the first 22 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: For those who are guessing -- looking the lyrics up on a search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own

(note: numerous instrumentals were skipped here, as were some of those OOIOO songs that are just chanting since who knows)

1.) and if a double-decker bus kills the both of us
2.) i know you work across the street in the indie record store i'm thinking that we'll someday meet i'm thinking we'll do something more
3.) i asked around but you could not be seen i was desperate
4.) fake out fake in fake it to me what is fake fake tv land of a thousand fake-outs fake worse than death
5.) let it all go at once not piece by piece but like a whole bucket of stars dumped into the universe
6.) i was alone i took a ride i didn't know what i would find there
7.) i need someone to take some joy in something i do
8.) martin van buren a former president and and abolitionist james buchanan a moderate lewis cass a general and expansionist
9.) bearer of the flag from the beginning now who would've believed this riot grrrl's a cynic
10.) lately all her neighbours' cats have disappeared have to hand it to her wot i calls enterprise poppin' pussies into pies
11.) i've got to to take my family and find a quiet place
12.) a paper doll of superior boyness clinging to your clubs to mask your own shyness
13.) where's that silhouette i'm trying to trace who's putting sponge in the bells i once rung
14.) the king of marigolds is in the kitchen cooking for the queen the queen is in the parlor playing piano for the children of the king
15.) as he echoes mother's words he hears the cheers cut the welfare and public housing listen up mike it's the right thing chop the healthcare you'll get your wish
16.) you know that what you eat you are but what is sweet now turns so sour we all know ob-la-di ob-la-da but can you show me where you are
17.) 14th street and the garbage swirls like a cyclone three o'clock in the afternoon and i'm going home f train's full of high school students so much shouting so much laughter
18.) now days we have all kinds of complicated so no one person ever has to have blood on their hands
19.) i'll give you neither hand nor glove with a hey ho a bonny o unless you give me your own true love
20.) i will keep my station wagon stationary and I will learn to juggle all the things we carry must be hard on your bodyguards
21.) ah destroy them crush them torg do as i say now destroy them crush them torg do as i say now destroy them crush them torg do as i say
22.) make a hole with a gun perpendicular to the name of this town in a desktop globe exit wound in a foreign nation showing the home of the one this was written for