Identify the songs from these lyrics

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ok then, try these out

1. And we’re feeding on molasses, drinking all the glasses, they say
“Kill the lights!”
2. One-time friends I had a ma, I even had a pa He beat her with a belt once cause she cried She told him to take care of me, she headed down to Tennessee
3. A crowd has gathered in black and white Arms entwined, the chosen few
4. As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy
5. full of broken thoughts I cannot repair beneath the stain of time the feeling disappears
6. Odeon sky uncanny bushes are in disagreement with the heat
7. In 27 years, I've drank 15,000 beers and they just washed against me like the sea unto a pier
8. People you've been before that you dont want around any more They push and they shove and wont bend to your will I'll keep them still
9. Tonight's the night that we got the truck We're goin' downtown gonna beat up drunks
10. And if you're free to make a choice Just look towards the west and find a friend

― Michael B, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

There seemed to be a point to this kind of thing before the internet. However, I would not have come into contact with it had it not been for the internet. What does this mean?

― hmmmmm, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

#9 is from "Police Truck" by the Dead Kennedys.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

#3. "New Year's Day" by U2

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn, I know #10, but can't put my finger on it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Right on both counts, Alex. Suprised you didnt get #4 tbh

― Michael B, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

5# is Nine Inch Nails (or Johnny Cash), 'Hurt'

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

ARRGGH! What's #10?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

#7 is the Silver Jews off that maroon record with the painting of trees (possibly) on the cover that malkmus was on/ co-wrote/ heard once blah. It is also one of the great lyrics of all time.

― hmmmmmm, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

#10 is "Nikita" by Elton John

― Michael B, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

#10 Elton John - Nikita

(darn! x-post)

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

gimme some mo'

1. Infecting your religions, claiming pacts It's easy to shoulder the blame
2. And now I'm standing on the grave of a soldier that died in 1799 And the day he died it was a birthday
3. Did I forget to mention, forget to mention Memphis? Home of Elvis and the ancient Greeks
4. in a dirty little room in a nasty little world you were out of your mind you were throwing up your hands
5. We had a hedge back home in the suburbs over which I never could see
6. Portraits hung in empty halls Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

― Michael B, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

or rather...

11. Infecting your religions, claiming pacts It's easy to shoulder the blame
12. And now I'm standing on the grave of a soldier that died in 1799 And the day he died it was a birthday
13. Did I forget to mention, forget to mention Memphis? Home of Elvis and the ancient Greeks
14. in a dirty little room in a nasty little world you were out of your mind you were throwing up your hands
15. We had a hedge back home in the suburbs over which I never could see
16. Portraits hung in empty halls Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

― Michael B, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

*wakes up*
hey, you're answering your own question...

anyway, i think #1 is from Bettie serveert's Private Suit album, don't know which song...

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

#6 - Sounds like "LA" by the Fall?

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

correct dave. willem the song is called "Private Suit"

― Michael B, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

#13 - Cities - Talking Heads

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

#15 - everyone knows. it's a gimme.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

tut tut, so brash

― Michael B, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

#15 "Lost in a Supermarket"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

#4 is "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" by the Ramones, of course.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

...which is still the greatest thing they ever did.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

#2 is "waiting around to die" by townes van zandt... so, so good.

― n, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

#7 is the Silver Jews off that maroon record with the painting of trees (possibly) on the cover that malkmus was on/ co-wrote/ heard once blah. It is also one of the great lyrics of all time.
"Trains Across the Sea"

― Aaron M (Aaron M), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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