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The fifteen songs my $39 mp3 player will play me, out of the 500 songs saved to selfsame player. Ver. guess-from-the-lyrics-what they are.

There's a definite, um. Theme. Left to be identified are two non-Regina Spektor tracks and three Regina Spektor tracks, thanks to my very discerning tiny mp3 player.

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1. ~~been stuck in airports, terrorized, sent to meetings hypnotized, overexposed, commercialized~~ (Traveling Wilburys' "Handle With Care" as sung by Jenny Lewis, thx

resonant8 and

sloganeer)

2. let's get a silver bullet trailer and have a baby boy, I'll safety pin his clothes all cool and you'll graffiti up his toys (More Regina Spektor, "Folding Chair")

3. ~~well I'll look at it this way, I mean, technically our marriage is saved~~ (Panic! At the Disco, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies," thanks,

arglefraster!)

4. but now the fields are all four lanes, and the moon's not just a name, are you more amazed at how things change or how they stay the same? (Cheryl Wheeler's sniffly "75 Septembers")

5. ~~oh little bag of cocaine, oh little bag of cocaine, oh who's the girl wearing my dress~~ (More Regina Spektor, "Hotel Song," as per

janet_carter)

6. ~~I remember all the house parties that took place, bein' in my bed upstairs and we could still feel the bass~~ (It's "Miss Dy-na-mi-tee," by Miss Dynamite, thank ye

scrunchy!)

7. I don't wanna know if you've got a gun or a new stepson or you think you're gonna bail (The hot new single from Nellie McKay, PETA Anthem "Columbia is Bleeding")

8. ~~he steps right into somebody's fat loogie and everyone who sees him says "ew"~~ (

_swallow correctly located "The Ghost of Corporate Future," yet another Regina Spektor song.)

9. ~~lately I've been thinking about combustication as a welcome vacation from the burdens of the planet earth, like gravity, hypocrisy and the perils of being in 3-D~~ (Is "Pardon Me" by Incubus, go team

sloganeer)

10. they'll grow right through if I don't watch it, they'll grow right through even if I watch it and a sunset wouldn't save me now (And yet MORE Regina Spektor, "Baobabs")

11. ~~you know I took the poison from the poison stream and then I floated out of here~~ (This, of course, is U2's "Running to Stand Still," as found by

ubixtiz and

pene too)

12. ~~in the he said/she said sometimes there's some poetry if you sit back and let it happen naturally~~ (Is Ani DiFranco's "Hell Yeah," thanks to Missus

runpunkrun)

13. ~~I bang my own drum, some think it's noise, I think it's pretty!~~ (As

marinwood correctly stated, The Divine Ms. Gloria Gaynor sings "I Am What I Am" as part of a gay pride mix that samples, among other things, the Northern Exposure theme song. Faaaahhbulous!)

14. ~~she will kiss you till your lips bleed, but she will not take her dress off~~ (The first Regina Spektor song to be identified correctly herein: "Sailor Song," found by

arglefraster)

15. he's got enough money to bother someone else, to solder two wires together, someone else (Finally still more Regina Spektor, "Scarecrow & Fungus")

16. ~~it might have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline, but on the Che Guevara Highway filling up with gasoline Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying over luxury disappointments~~ (The fifteen fame-filled minutes of a fanzine writer, or, Billy Bragg's "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards," identified and toe-tagged by the illustrious four-star

general_jinjur)