below you will find 15 verses from various songs. let it be known that he or she who can best identify the artists responsible for these verses will receive… something… sometime. if you identify the most you win, that simple. but here me now and here me well: no cheating!!! “but how could you know if i cheated?” i hear the devious among you asking… i just will. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) as not to tip off your competiors. you have until friday. good luck.

1.
And I know what’s right
But I’m losing sight Of the clues
for which I search and choose
To abuse
To just unlock my mind
Yeah
and just unlock my mind

2.
I’m on the outside looking inside
What do I see
Much confusion, disillusion
All around me.
You don’t possess me
Don’t impress me
Just upset my mind
Can’t instruct me or conduct me
Just use up my time

3.
And all your two-bit friends
Have gone and ripped you off
They’re talking behind your back saying, man
You’re never going to be no human being
And you start thinking again
’bout all those things that you’ve done
And who it was and what it was
And all the different things you made every different scene
Ahhh, but remember that the city is a funny place
Something like a circus or a sewer
And just remember different people have peculiar tastes
And the -
glory of love

4.
Your everlasting summer
You can see it fading fast
So you grab a piece of something
That you think is gonna last
You wouldn’t know a diamond
If you held it in your hand
The things you think are precious
I can’t understand

5.
there never really is a good time,
there’s always nothing much to say,
pretty good not doin that fine,
gettin up most everyday.

6.
i know you’ve had a fucked up life,
growing up in a stupid town,
your mother was a mixed up jerk
and you’re father, he just fucked around,
a little too much for his own good,
i’d kill the bastard if i could,
i’d kill all the boys with their fucked up noise
and all the bullshit they seem to enjoy.

7.
Broke my pace and ran out of time
Sometimes I’m so full of shit that it should be a crime
Broke a promise cause my car broke down
Such a classic excuse it should be bronzed by now

8.
a cheerless child on a swing,
reminds you of you’re own again,
she took away you’re troubles,
oh, but then again, she left pain

9.
Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.

10.
the memories of a man in his old age
are the deeds of a man in his prime
you shuffle in the gloom of a sick room
and talk to yourself as you die
life is a short warm moment
and death is a long cold rest
you get your chance to try
in the twinkling of an eye
80 years with luck or even less

11.
I don’t mind working, ’cause I used to be jerking off most of my time in bars,
I’ve been a cabbie and a stock clerk and a soda-fountain jock-jerk
And a manic mechanic on cars.
It’s nice work if you can get it, now who the hell said it?
I got money to spend on my gal,
But the work never stops, and I’ll be busting my chops
Working for joe and sal.

12.
Drive up and down thru water
Live where poor
Big dreams nice
Sighing babies go to work

13.
such a mystique
when the writing gets weak
break up coherence
with a cut cut cut-up technique
when you’ve got nothing to say
shut up
or show
that you’re willing
to play…

14.
i sent my love in a letter girl
but hugs and kisses weren’t the same
and then i called you on the telephone
till the bill came that i could not pay.

15.
Oh it’s so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl.
And with the way you look I understand
That you are not impressed.
But I heard you let that little friend of mine
Take off your party dress.
I’m not going to get too sentimental
Like those other sticky valentines,
’cause I don’t know if you’ve been loving somebody.
I only know it isn’t mine.