Happy Thanksgiving!

Canadian Thanksgiving, obviously. We have our Harvest earlier, because it's colder here. (My toes are numb! D:)

I give thanks that 24 years ago today, I emerged into the world with none of the complications the doctors had expected! (And promptly sneezed, I am told.)

lyrics meme

Hey!
Wanna play a game?
Why don't you try identify the song and artist for each of these snippets of lyrics? ;}
Edit: 8 left to guess!
Edit the second: filled in the song titles that weren't guessed and removed the cut, just 'cause.


1.
A friend of mine, he wound up dead
His dress was stained the colour red
- Sting, "Tomorrow We'll See" - guess by teriyakibroth and spaztik_freak

2.
I won't be made useless
I won't be idle with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
- Jewel, "Hands" (Watch it here!) - guessed by spaztik_freak

3.
Well, they say that I better get a chaperone
'Cause I can't stop messin' with the danger zone
- Cyndi Lauper, "She Bop" - guessed by spaztik_freak

4.
She set my school house on fire
Down in the flames, the angels were singing
Lo! 'Tis a beautiful fire!
Heavenly choir...
- Moxy Fruvous, "We Fell In Love" - guessed by spaztik_freak

5.
When true simplicity is gained,
To bow and to bend we will not be ashamed
- Joseph Brackett, Jr., "Simple Gifts" - guessed by spaztik_freak

6.
Want to show you something like the joy inside my heart
Seems I've been livin' in the temple of the dog
- Mother Love Bone, "Man of Golden Words" - guessed by spaztik_freak

7.
When you get down to it
You find out what the truth is
It isn't what you do with it,
It's the size that counts!
- The Arrogant Worms, "Canada Is Really Big" - guessed by spaztik_freak

8.
Oh, they're never gonna find your face
It's hidden away
I found a very special place
Where you used to play
- Alice Cooper, "Roses on White Lace"

9.
I call her up at midnight
I say I'm feelin' scared
- Evan & Jaron, "And Then She Says" - guessed by spaztik_freak

10.
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the ruins of her ice water mansion.
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
- Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - guessed by spaztik_freak

11.
Love will overcome
If this love will make us men
Love will draw us in
To take our fear away
- Live, "Sparkle" - guessed by spaztik_freak

12.
When you hear temptation call
It's your heart that takes, takes a fall
Won't you come out and play with me?
- Martika, "Toy Soldiers" - guessed by spaztik_freak

13.
'Cause if you do what you've always done
You'll always get what you've always got!
Uh, could that be nuthin'?
- Aerosmith, "Get A Grip"

14.
It's like a never ending race,
It's like a time without a place,
A pointless thing, devoid of grace
- KISS, "World Without Heroes"

15.
Danny Wright
Had a light
Burning bright
Every night
Waiting for the fish to bite
- The Rankin Family, "Mulriver Shuffle"

16.
There's exultation
The sweet disintegration
A few discolorations
Then it comes along
- Great Big Sea, "When I'm Up (I Can't Get Down)" - guessed by poisonivory!

17.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
He said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"
- Leonard Cohen, "Bird On The Wire" (His most requested song! I can't believe nobody got this!)

18.
I'm breaking through the darkness
And it knocked me over
Into the light of an older soul, and I'll never die
'Cause everything I am is in your eyes
Angels in my heart, devils in my eyes
I'll live forver in your eyes
- Anthrax, "Catharsis"

19.
There's a wealth of information
Down that road that we all need
Preying on the ignorance selfishness and greed
Looking for directions
On a road that offers little guarantee
- Susan Aglukark, "Slippin' Through the Cracks"

20.
I think that you need me
Even though you tell yourself you don't
I will love you even though you won't
- Jann Arden, "I Know You"

*shakes head that no one guess the KISS or Aerosmith ones*