1. “Silence” by Delerium fea. Sarah McLachlan
   from Karma
2. “I Burn for You” by Sting
   from Bring on the Night
3. “Sampson” by Regina Spektor
   from Begin to Hope
4. “Why Georgia” by John Mayer
   from Room for Squares
5. “Thank U” by Alanis Morissette
   from Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
6. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 – First Movement (Allegro)
   by Philip Pickett and New London Consort
7. “Darkness” by The Police
   from Ghost In The Machine
8. “Dream On” by Aerosmith
   from Aerosmith
9. “Jeremy” by Pearl Jam
   from Ten
10. “Magic” by Colbie Caillat
    from Coco
     
    [Apparently I don't have this mp3 on the server...I'll fix this ASAP]
     
11. “I Will Possess Your Heart” by Death Cab for Cutie
    from Narrow Stairs
12. “Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol
    from Eyes Open
13. “All Around the World or The Myth of Fingerprints” by Paul Simon
    from Graceland
14. “Don’t Let Go” by Bryan Adams (With Sarah McLachlan)
    from the Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron soundtrack
15. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade – IV Movement – “Festival at Baghdad”
    by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic
16. “Porcelain” by Moby
    from Play
17. “Old Blue Chair” by Kenny Chesney
    from Be As You Are
18. “Breakdown” by Jack Johnson
    from In Between Dreams
19. “Silent All These Years” by Tori Amos
    from Little Earthquakes
20. “Idaho” by Train
    from Train

So, without further ado, here’s a music meme I stole from Taoist Biker and Lara David.

The rules are simple:

• Put your MP3 player on shuffle for ALL songs.
• Post the first four lines from the first twenty songs that play, no matter how embarrassing; skip repeat artists.
• Let everyone guess in the comments what songs and artists are on the list.
• Remind everyone NOT to be dirty rotten cheaters who google the answers.

I’m not embarrassed by any of my end results, but I did have a problem where several of my random items were instrumental…I thought about it for a while and decided that I’d post an mp3 of those songs, and let people guess the composer and title.

1. Give me release, witness me
   I am outside, give me peace
   Heaven holds a sense of wonder
   and I wanted to believe that I’d get caught up when the rage in me subsides
    
2. Now that I have found you
   in the cool of your evening smile
   the shade of your parasol
   and your love flows through me
    
3. You are my sweetest downfall
   I loved you first, I loved you first
   Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
   I have to go, I have to go
    
4. I am driving up 85 in the
   kind of morning that lasts all afternoon
   just stuck inside the gloom.
   Four more exits to my apartment but
    
5. how ’bout getting off of these antibiotics
   how ’bout stopping eating when I’m full up
   how ’bout them transparent dangling carrots
   how ’bout that ever elusive kudo
7. I can dream up schemes when I’m sitting in my seat
   I don’t see any flaws ’til I get to my feet
   I wish I never woke up this morning
   Life was easy when it was boring
    
8. Every time I look in the mirror
   all these lines on my face getting clearer
   the past is gone
   it goes by like dusk to dawn
    
9. At home drawing pictures of mountain tops
   with him on top, lemon yellow sun, arms raised in a “V”
   and the dead lay in pools of maroon below.
   Daddy didn’t give attention
    
10. You’ve got magic inside your finger tips
    it’s leaking out all over my skin.
    Every time that I get close to you
    you’re making me weak with
     
11. How I wish you could see the potential,
    the potential of you and me.
    It’s like a book elegantly bound,
    but in a language that you can’t read just yet.
     
12. We’ll do it all, everything, on our own.
    We don’t need anything, or anyone.
    If I lay here, if I just lay here,
    would you lie with me and just forget the world?
     
13. Over the mountain
    Down in the valley
    Lives a former talk-show host
    Everybody knows his name
     
14. I can’t believe this moment’s come
    It’s so incredible that we’re alone
    There’s so much to be said and done
    It’s impossible not to be overcome
16. In my dreams I’m dying all the time
    Then I wake, it’s kaleidoscopic mind
    I never meant to hurt you
    I never meant to lie
     
17. There’s a blue rocking chair, sitting in the sand.
    Weathered by the storms and well oiled hands.
    It sways back and fourth with the help of the winds.
    It seems to always be there, like an old trusted friend.
     
18. I hope this old train breaks down
    then I could take a walk around
    and see what there is to see
    time is just a melody.
     
19. Excuse me, but can I be you for a while?
    My dog won’t bite if you sit real still.
    I got the anti-Christ in the kitchen yellin’ at me again.
    Yeah I can hear that.
     
20. Texas, are you my friend?  You live so close to me.
    Texas, are you my friend?  ‘Cause I’m afraid of you.
    Hey, Maine! Hey, you’re a little to high for me.
    And F-L-A, you’re just a little too low.

I am: tired of fighting the war, but FAR too stubborn to surrender.
I think: before I leap.  Or after I jump.  Or not at all.  It all depends.
I know: way more than will ever be useful, and never what I need at the time.
I have: my reasons why.
I wish: myself out of these woods, and into a picture with you.
I hate: nothing and no one.  Hate is the weapon that harms the slayer as much as the slain.
I miss: someone I have never seen or touched with the whole of my being.
I fear: that I will die before I have told my stories, sung my songs or painted my visions.  I have always felt the reaper’s breath on the back of my neck.
I hear: the voices in my head louder than the voice of reason.
I smell: the sand in my shoes and the surf that left it there.
I crave: harmony and peace.  Apparently we always want what we can’t have.
I search: every hour of every day for the heart that can accept me as I am.
I wonder: at the miracle of love in all it’s forms.
I regret: more than I can ever say, yet nothing that I can ever change.
I love: my daughter, my family, and my heart’s dearest wish.
I ache: for a touch I have never felt, and a kiss I’ve never known.
I am not: able to get much sleep.  Insomnia has been a curse for several years now.
I believe: that the best really just might be yet to come.
I dance: better than my Adventist upbringing would suggest.
I sing: in the shower, the car, and with other people.  I do NOT sing karaoke solo.
I cry: quietly and to myself.  I have only cried openly twice since the evening my son died.  Both times were during my divorce.
I fight: the urge to pack up a few essential things and just disappear into some third-world country.
I win: at carnival games.  It’s just some freakish and useless talent I have.
I lose: my keys when I really REALLY need them, which is ALSO a useless talent.
I never: expected life to turn out like this.
I always: thought being an adult would be easier and more fun.
I confuse: anyone I try to explain my labyrinthine personal life to.
I listen: to my iPod (16GB Touch) waaaaaaay too much.
I can usually be found: taking the long way home.
I am scared: that no matter how hard I believe, I just might be wrong.
I need: very little to be happy.  I’m hoping I’ve found her.
I am happy about: more than I’m unhappy about.  That’s pretty much the best we can hope for, isn’t it?
I imagine: stories in my head ALL THE TIME.  Seriously, ALL THE TIME.