don't look at me; I was just minding my own business

[sab]

...or, the nice thing about memes is the inherent ability to blame time-wasting on someone else.

That said, the lyric game is going around...



1. "and they know about buying shit and they know about sex and they know about investment banking and also about brokerage firms"

2. "we got wars going down in the middle west; we got wars going down in the middle western states" - "Knuckles," The Hold Steady, guessed by paulisper
3. "the nose of a reindeer, the skin of a plum" - "The Not So Pretty Princess," Jude, guessed by walkingshadow
4. "I'd shout out an order, I think we're out of this, man, get me some" - "Real World," Matchbox 20, guessed by bexxa

5. "in a county where the dairy men all had milking machines, Eddie was the only one to separate the cream"

6. "ten o'clock, nighttime in New York"- "Sax and Violins," Talking Heads, guessed by ignazwisdom
7. "boy pick up that fiddle and play that steel guitar and find yourself a lady who can dance right where you are"- "Private Conversation," Lyle Lovett, guessed by bexxa on a second attempt
8. "you're where you should be all the time and when you're not you're with some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend" - "You're So Vain," Carly Simon, guessed by sloganeer

9. "love is a feeling like a warm dark stone"

10. "they will vanish away like your dad's best jeans, denim blue fading up to the sky"- "Oh Very Young," Cat Stevens, guessed by ignazwisdom
11. "the car is slipping on the road in the rain and this slips through my brain" - "Montpelier," Girlyman, guessed by sophinisba
12. "I'm only hanging on to watch you go down, my love" - "So Cruel," U2, guessed by trinityofone

13. "what, you Mariah? Fly through twice."

14. "but I guess I'm lucky I don't have all the power in the world so I can't fuck anything else up"- "Stitching Leggings," Kate Nash, guessed by gamesiplay
15. "we live so high above the ground satellites surround us" - "Painting by Chagall," The Weepies, guessed by lone_hobbit

16. "idiots go to college to get dumbed down"

17. "I'm not ready for some burned-down bridge just yet, and I'm not saying that I want anything from you"

18. "did a couple favors for these guys who looked like Tusken raiders"

19. "and under her breath she says, would you pick me up? I'm light as a feather" - "Migrations," Christine Fellows, guessed by sloganeer
20. "just got lost and slept right through the dawn" - "World Spins Madly On," The Weepies, guessed by walkingshadow
21. "aren't you going to come along, aren't you going to fight, aren't you going to hold your hands up to the light?"- "Monument," Mirah, guessed by missparker
22. "Holly's not invincible; in fact she's in the hospital" - "First Night," The Hold Steady, guessed by scrunchy
23. "I will return to you what I have taken long before"- "Lay Me Down," The Frames, guessed by furies

24. "me and my friends are like, doublewhiskeycokenoice"

25. "[you have seen me through some trials and tribulations and some fears, but] everybody thinks I'm weird."