1. you lock the target, the second only makes you wonder: numbered lists in songs, are there a lot?

Did "Three Steps To Heaven" start this? It's quite a good ruse usually.

One, you’re like a dream come true
Two, just wanna be with you
Three, girl it’s plain to see
That you’re the only one for me and
Four, repeat steps one through three
Five, make you fall in love with me
If ever I believe my work is done
Then I’ll start back at one

One for the money, two for the show...

Mylène Farmer - "Maman a tort"

Divine Comedy - Ten Seconds to Midnight

Ten
Apes turn into men
And grapes turn into wine
How we made it to nine
Ill never know

Eight
Man looks for a mate
But fate plays cruel tricks
And seven turns to six
Still hes alone

Along comes number five
Eureka Im alive
I think therefore I am
A lucky man

Three
From this balcony
The two of us can see
The place where we first met
One wet sunday

Pooh Sticks - Time To Time

Violent Femmes: I forget was eight was for.

Aphrodite's Child, both "The Four Horsemen" (chorus) & "Seven Bowls" (first verse) use that.
Both're from the 666 alb, 'fcourse.

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Ten commandments of love? I don't know if the list is numbered in the song though.

NKOTB "Step by Step"
STEP ONE: We can have lots of fun...

Pixies "Monkey Gone To Heaven"

if man is 5
then the devil is 6
then god is 7

Practically every French-speaking child learns this nursery rhyme:

Un, deux, trois,
Nous irons au bois,
Quatre, cinq, six,
Cueillir des cerises,
Sept, huit, neuf,
Dans mon panier neuf,
Dix, onze, douze,
Elles seront toutes rouges.

Chapter 1: You love her, you love her with all your heart
Chapter 2: You tell her that you never never never never never wanna part
Chapter 3: You understand the meaning of romance
Chapter 4: You break up, but you give her just one more chance

1. Cut a hole in a box.

Chapter One, we didn't really get along
Chapter Two, I think I fell in love with you
You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three
But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Four, Five and Six . . .

The Church - "Numbers"

"1 law for the officers
1 for the gentlemen
2 bad you 3 know what it's 4
5 for this awful dive
6 for the genetics
7 for the lucky pricks who went into heaven"

...

"1 for the flaming sun
2 for the location
3 for the martyrs and the stars
4 for the wind and sand
5 so you understand
6 for the slips 'twixt the cup and the lips"

...

"1 for the cockpit blues
2 for the Panzer crews
3 for the vast and molten sky
4 for the failed talks
5 for the knives and forks
6 for forbidden kicks"

Er, "One and One", 2 Live Crew, but I will leave the lyrics to your imagination.

First rule is: The laws of Germany
Second rule is: Be nice to mommy
Third rule is: Don't talk to commies
Fourth rule is: Eat kosher salamis

"Commando" - The Ramones

1 face
2 face new
etc

1 2 3 4, get your woman on the floor. Oh, wait...

Another countdown:

"Well they're building a gallows outside my cell I've got 25 minutes to go
And the whole town's waitin' just to hear me yell I've got 24 minutes to go
Well they gave me some beans for my last meal I've got 23 minutes to go
But nobody asked me how I feel I've got 22 minutes to go
Well I sent for the governor and the whole darn bunch with 21 minutes to go
And I sent for the mayor but he's out to lunch I've got 20 more minutes to go
Then the sheriff said boy I gonna watch you die got 19 minutes to go
So I laughed in his face and I spit in his eye got 18 minutes to go
Now hear comes the preacher for to save my soul with 13 minutes to go
And he's talking bout' burnin' but I'm so cold I've 12 more minutes to go
Now they're testin' the trap and it chills my spine 11 more minutes to go
And the trap and the rope aw they work just fine got 10 more minutes to go
Well I'm waitin' on the pardon that'll set me free with 9 more minutes to go
But this is for real so forget about me got 8 more minutes to go
With my feet on the trap and my head on the noose got 5 more minutes to go
Won't somebody come and cut me loose with 4 more minutes to go
I can see the mountains I can see the skies with 3 more minutes to go
And it's to darn pretty for a man that don't wanna die 2 more minutes to go
I can see the buzzards I can hear the crows 1 more minute to go
And now I'm swingin' and here I go-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!"

somehow it took me a couple years to realize how gay 'headhunter' is.

An eel slithers to the chalkboard
And it writes
One plus
Two plus
Three plus
Four plus
Five plus
Six plus six plus six plus six

(well not a list so much as counting but hey)

Well its 1 2 3 4
Take the elevator...

And its 4 5 6 7
Grab your umbrella

Hey, come to think of it, why isn't it "5 6 7 8"?

I was gonna make this threat last month...

Cornershop's Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III

I dunno if this quite countes, but what the hell!

Second verse, same as the first
[...]
Third verse, different from the first

countes, eh? Good show!

"This old man, he had one, he played knick-knack with his thumb" etc. I guess that's not really a list either. I'm not very good at this.

Connie Stevens - Sixteen Reasons (Mulholland Dr. soundtrack)

(Sixteen reasons)
Why I (why I) love you

(One) the way you hold my hand
(Two) your laughing eyes
(Three) the way you understand
(Four) your secret sighs
They're all part of sixteen reasons why I (why I) love you

(Five) the way you comb your hair
(Six) your freckled nose
(Seven) the way you say you care
(Eight) your crazy clothes
That's just half of sixteen reasons why I (why I) love you

(Nine) snuggling in the car
(Ten) your wish upon a star
(Eleven) whispering on the phone
(Twelve) your kiss when we're alone

(Thirteen) the way you thrill my heart
(Fourteen) your voice so neat
(Fifteen) you say we'll never part
(Sixteen) our love's complete
Those are all of sixteen reasons why I (why I) love you

(Sixteen reasons)
Why I (why I) love you

Amy Rigby, 20 Questions, which is very good but I can't remember the lyrics well enough to reproduce them here.

What's that song, "One, two, three, what are we fightin' for, who cares I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam" or something like that?

apparently, that's The Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag by Country Joe & The Fish.

Now that you mention 2O Questions: The Posies also have a song called that:

The first time I passed her
The second I asked her
The third wish will last her

The first time was the worst time
The second time was worse than the first
The third time was a great crime

Archers of Loaf, Let the Loser Melt

Oh god, the band I try to forget I once liked... My Life Story, 12 reasons why:

One. She prefers the night to day
Two. She never calls me when she says
Three. Her motorcycle riding to the South
Four. The way she puts her fingers in her mouth
Five. Running just in time to miss our train
Six. The old park bench is where we scratched our names
Seven. She says do or die
Seven reasons why

Eight. Her swirling hips and lips of ice
Nine. Consumes the hopes of all men dressed in black and flame
Ten. Oh she ain't got the time to speak
Eleven. She leaves the pie and always, always eats her greens
Twelve. Well she cries do or die
Twelve reasons why

Checklist:
I never leave home without:
1 sunglasses: I wear them all year around, and seem to need them more often, it’s a habit
2 music: cassettes cds
3 palm pilot: it’s my lifeline I think it’s my p.a.’s computer, she rules my diary and I download it
4 mobile phone
5 amex card; they made such a fuss about giving it to me but I spent more time getting it turned down.

Classic!