1st lines meme

[jenk]

From noelfigart: I put iTunes on my typical work playlist, set to random, and kicked it off. Here are the first lines of the first dozen. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to guess what the songs are ;)

1. You're making lists today of all the things you haven't done yet
   You're driving everyone crazy - are you having any fun yet?
   Mother says you oughta get married, shrink says "here's a little blue pill"
   Too young for you mid-life crisis, mirror says you're over the hill
   - Mary-Chapin Carpenter, "Simple Life"
   
   
2. I come from down in the valley
   where mister when you're young
   They bring you up to do like your daddy done
   Me and Mary we met in high school
   when she was just seventeen
   We'd ride out of that valley down to where the fields were green
   - Bruce Springsteen, "The River" (jw1776 got this one)
   
   
3. Swore that loneliness for a moment is through
   Gonna take time to find some faith for you
   Got a history of crash landings coming down on nothing but a prayer
   Finding no one there to break the fall
   So you got it all twisted up inside
   Got a new hairdo and a big disguise
   So no one could recognize you at all
   
   
4. If there's one thing in my life that's missing
   - Little River Band, "Cool Change"
   
   
5. Everybody's got a hunger, no matter where they are
   - Melissa Etheridge, "Precious Pain"
   
   
6. On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
   - Eagles, "Hotel California"
   
   
7. I can't relive my life, I can't retrace my tracks,
   I can't undo what's done, there is no going back
   I chased a selfish dream, did not survey the cost
   The illusions disappeared & I found my innocence lost
   
   
8. All of my days have been misspent
   Stuffing out the sofa and the antenna's bent
   Inside my heart's bustin' out at the seams
   I work for the impossible American dream
   I got a job at the grocery store
   A few bucks an hour and not much more
   The world comes in just to take things away
   And eat it all up and then they sleep in today
   - Indigo Girls, "Cold Beer & Remote Control"
   
   
9. Slow down, you crazy child, you're so ambitious for a juvenile
   - Billy Joel, "Vienna"
   
   
10. Here I stand, a free man, I
    Finding it too hard to lie
    Your regard pleads me to stay
    Yet still I must make my way
    God has answered my one plea
    I will walk forever free
    We must part, heart to heart
    Though still we will always be
    - Heather Alexander, "New Northwest" (jw1776 got this one)
    
    
11. When I was born, they looked at me and said
    - Barenaked Ladies, "What A Good Boy"
    
    
12. Woke up this morning, turned on my TV set
    There in living color was something I can't forget
    This man was preaching at me, yeah, layin' on the charm
    Asking me for $20...with $10,000 on his arm
    He wore designer clothing and a big smile on his face
    Sellin' me salvation while they sang Amazing Grace
    Askin' me for money when he had all the signs of wealth
    - Ray Stevens, "Would Jesus Wear a Rolex?"