Day after day I'm more confused2. 2005 - A song from the latest album by a pretty popular rock band. From the beginning...
So I look for the light in the pouring rain
You know that's a game that I hate to lose
And I'm feelin' the strain
Ain't it a shame
Oh, give me the beat boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Dobie Gray - "Drift Away"
I reside in 209,
You're in 208
You moved in last Friday night,
and I just couldn't wait
So I tried to call across the hall,
to ask you out someday
But a lineup formed outside your door,
And I was way too late
Well I'd rather start off slow
This whole thing's like
some sort of race
Instead of winning what I want
I'm sitting here in second place
Because somewhere the one I wanna be with's with somebody else
Oh god, I wanna be that someone that you're with
(I wanna be that someone that you're with)
Nickelback - "Someone That You're With"
3. 1998 - An album track from a band that's been around since the early '80s. From the beginning...
As the sun comes up, as the moon goes down4. 2002 - I've had this band come up before, but not this song. This is from their self-entitled debut album. The title never comes up in the song. The song starts with the chorus, so this is the chorus, followed by the first verse...
These heavy notions creep around
It makes me think long ago
I was brought into this life a little lamb, a little lamb
Courageous, stumbling
Fearless was my middle name
But somewhere there I
Lost my way
Everyone walks the same
Expecting me to step
The narrow path they've laid
They claim to
Walk unafraid
I'll be clumsy instead
Hold my love me or leave me high.
R.E.M. - "Walk Unafraid"
Please help me cause I'm breaking down5. 1984 - This band was fairly big on college radio stations around the mid-'80s, but fairly unknown everywhere else. From the beginning...
This picture's frozen, and I can't get out
Please help me cause I'm breaking down
This picture's frozen, and I can't get out of here
Release me, I'm just as lost as you
Believe me, I'm just as lost as you
And every time I think I've finally made it
I learn I'm farther away than I have ever been before
I see the clock and its ticking away
And the hourglass empty
What the fuck do I have to say
Trapt - "Still Frame"
Seven o'clock in the morning and I'm riding the overnight train6. 1988 - This is the first song on a fairly memorable self-entitled debut album. The woman is still recording today. This song also starts with the chorus which we have to skip to keep from giving away the answer. First verse. Only verse really...
I've got ten ton of luggage but I left it behind when I came
I look at my watch, says September seventeen
We're riding past some place where I've never been
And I'm waving through the window as we go
Somebody says "Well, hey, what are you waving at?"
Well, what do I have to lose?
Somebody might wave back.
The Waterboys - "Somebody Might Wave Back"
While they're standing in the welfare lines7. 1980 - A rock 'n roll classic. First verse...
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
Don't you know
They're talkin' about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Tracy Chapman - "Talkin' Bout a Revolution"
She was a fast machine8. 1987 - A very eclectic, little known band. The theme of this song is "a wise man was telling stories to me about the places he had been to and the things that he had seen." Here's a couple of those stories in the middle of the song...
She kept her motor clean
She was the best damn woman that I ever seen
She had the sightless eyes
Telling me no lies
And knockin' me out with those American thighs
Taking more than her share
Had me fighting for air
She told me to come, but I was already there
'Cause the walls started shaking
The earth was quaking
My mind was achin'
And we were makin' it
And you shook me all night long
AC/DC - "You Shook Me All Night Long"
Four small boys playing ball in a parking lot9. 2002 - Another eclectic band that's not as well-known as they should be. From the beginning...
A preacher, a teacher, and the other became a cop
A car skidded into the rain
Making the last little one a saint
One more light goes out in America
A young girl tosses a coin in the wishing well
She hopes for a heaven while for her there's just this hell
She gave away her life
To become somebody's wife
Another wish unanswered in America
People having so much faith
Die too soon while all the rest come late
We write a song that no one sings
On a cold black stone
Where a lasting peace will finally bring...
A quiet voice is singing something to me
An age old song 'bout the home of the brave
In this land here of the free
One time one night in America
Los Lobos - One Time One Night
Well, I sat down next to a photograph10. 2005 - A track from the third and latest album by band with quite a few rock hits. From the beginning...
Tried my best, almost made her laugh
She was my toughest crowd
But there in the way was a mountain up in the clouds
Well, I can't sleep and I'm not in love
Well, I can't speak without messing up
Eyes tell of what's behind
And hers showed the way to a long and a lonely climb
But through failure I'll proceed
And she'll see how far I've come
And it's you and me in the sun and sea
I'll offer my arm to yours
It seems to me no mystery
It isn't
So I'll try hard to speak
Nickel Creek - "Speak"
The shades go up
Mother's staring down
She don't know where he's been
Or how long he's been out
She said "Boy, I'm tired of waiting up
While you're out with your friends"
He said "Mom, I'm trying and I'm living my life
The best way that I can"
Cause I'm trying to be somebody
I'm not trying to be somebody else
This life is mine I'm living
Don't you know me? I won't ever let you down
3 Doors Down - "Be Somebody"
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