So I found something on my hard drive today: the document I used to make myself my last message board in college. I shook my head, lamenting over how few of these songs anyone had ever heard of, then I got an idea. I could take away the band names and see if anyone else knew the songs!
To be a challenge, though, there have to be points. And since it’s my challenge, I get to decide which are easy, sort of hard, really hard, and damn near impossible, to figure out. 
So I assigned them points between 1 and 3. I’ll let you know in advance how many points each is worth.
Whoever gets the most points, wins. What do you win? My admiration, other people’s envy, and the joy of knowing you made me do math. Or maybe you’d like a pretty award I could make in paintshop.
You only need to give the band/artist name, not the song title, though you can if you want to. There are a few people/bands that are on here twice. Unfortunately, it will only let me post 100 of the 150 quotes I had ready. Perhaps I’ll post the rest in another thread.
Ready?
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“All I want to do is to be there for the things you’re going through. Is it good for you? Is it good for you? You haunt the nights when I don’t know where my life should go, is that good for you?”- 2pts
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" It’s all right to tell me what you think of me. It’ll happen once again, I’ll turn to a friend. Someone who understands the master plan, but I’ve been here too long to face this on my own. Well, I guess this is growing up." –1pt
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“I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve”- 1pt
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" You my friend, I will defend. If we change, well, I’ll love you anyway." -1pt
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" You got to leave it alone, let it be. You can’t hide from the evil in me, if you want to find some kind of peace of mind." – 3pts
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“When you get close to something that big, you can’t see anything at all.”-3pts
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" I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah." –1pt
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" Are we half way?" –3pts
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" Meet me halfway, we can’t help but come together. I’ll make you happy. Don’t you know it’s not really that complicated? Listen you, think of all the time we’ve wasted. Don’t ask how, dreams come true. We’ll find a way to make it right. " – 2pts
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" Born to be down, I think I’ve said this before now. Born to be down, what good is confidence? And you just don’t get it, you keep it copacetic, and you learn to accept it. You know it’s so pathetic, and you don’t. and you don’t. " –1pt
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" I know I get cold, cause I can’t leave things well alone. Understand I’m accident prone. Me, I get free every night the moon is mine. But when the morning comes don’t say you love me, don’t say you need me. I really don’t think that’s fair." – 2pts
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“ She’s afraid of a light in the dark…Say you don’t want it, but you don’t really mean it.”-2pts
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" I go from strange to stranger every year. I take it back, you’re panicking. I take it back. I just don’t know, and I really thought I wanted to go, but when we’re close you look through me like a ghost." – 3pts
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" One last thing before I quit, I never wanted any more than I could fit into my head. I still remember every single word you said and all the shit that somehow came along with it. Still there’s one thing that comforts me since I was always caged and now I’m free." – 1pt
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“This is the noise that keeps me awake, my head explodes and my body aches.”-1pt
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" Why should I care? Too late to say I’m sorry. Don’t look for her. She’s not there. " –2pts
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“ She flew too high. It’s too late. She’s come undone."- 2pts
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" She didn’t want to play the role of the fool again, won’t be fooled again." 2pts
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“I don’t want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we’ll rock through the night.”-2pts
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"She says that love is for fools that fall behind. And I’m somewhere in between. I never know a killer from a savior. – 2pts
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“Love don’t change, don’t come around here. Don’t wear my heart on your sleeve like a high school letter. Don’t strain cause nothing ever comes of it. And the people we’ve become, well they never been the people who we are.” –3pts
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" You confuse me in a way that I’ve never known. Break me, shake me, hate me, take me over. When the madness stops you’ll be alone." –2pts
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" She didn’t believe in transcendence." –2pts
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" You’re in the thick of it, we’re in the thick of it all." – 2pts
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" Despite all my rage, I’m still just a rat in a cage." – 1pt
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" Don’t you hate it when people are in love? They’re so happy, so fucking happy. I want to cut you down."- 3pts
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" There may be a lot I don’t know about you, but I know if I don’t swim I’m already drowning." - 2pts
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" Doesn’t it seem most precarious, doesn’t it seem such a chance to take? Doesn’t it seem most precarious, why does it feel like a big mistake?" – 1pt
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" I face the change, I’ve tasted pain, digging a hole, now take the blame. I fell aside, I cast away, covered in shame, now take the blame." – 2pts
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" But it’s easier not to, so much easier not to. And what goes around never comes around to you." –2pts
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" So you think you can tell heaven from hell? Blue skies from pain? I wish, how I wish you were here. We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl year after year." – 1pt
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" You want it all, but you can’t have it. It’s in your face, but you can’t grab it."- 1pt
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" Tell me, who’s that girl running around with you? " –3pts
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" I remember running through the wet grass, falling a step behind. Both of us never tiring, desperately wanting." –1pt
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" Come on try a little, nothing is forever. There’s got to be something better than in the middle." –1pt
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" With my naked eye I saw the rain coming down on me."- 1pt
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" I’d come along but I don’t know where you’re taking me. " – 2pts
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" I’m never alone, I’m alone all the time." –2pts
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" I’m the only one who will let you in tonight. " –2pts
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" I alone am the one you don’t know you need, don’t know you need me. Make me blind when your eyes close, tie me to the bed posts." –2pts
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" What I didn’t know was that I was killing you. I said a lot of things that I didn’t mean to. But I’m older now, and I believe in you. I’m willing to wait a while if it brings me back to you."- 3pts
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" Got the urge to do it, skin to skin. What the hell, here I go, jump right in." – 2pts
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" And you, you were acting like it was the end of the world." – 2pts
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" Slide over here, and give me a moment. You’re one of my kind." –1pt
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" I’ll be your only, your one and only, that’s the way that it starts." –3pts (original or cover)
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" I should have known you were the devil, dressed up as a sweet sweet divine thing."- 2pts
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" Dizzy moon, the dream is over. Dizzy moon, the dream is dead." –3pts
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" If I hadn’t screwed it up years ago I might be here with you." –1pt
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" No one said it would be easy, but no one said it would be this hard. No one said it would be easy, but no one thought we’d come this far." –2pts
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" Stay the night, fight the break of dawn. Because in the morning I’ll be gone." 1pt
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" It’s not the way you say it, but it’s more the way you mean it when you tell me how it’s going to be. And when you stop and thing about it you won’t believe it’s true, the whole love you’ve been giving has all been meant for you." – 2pts
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" Yeah, if I make it I’ll really be amazed just to find tomorrow. Yeah, one more day and I’d be amazed to see that way again. Yeah if I make it, I’m still alone, no more hope for better days. And if I could change I’d really be amazed. When you can’t relate to one more shining face, your heart breaks. No one cares. " – 2pts
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" Get over regret, while you were sleeping with the angels he was under the bed. And the more skin that you shed the more that the air in your throat will linger when you call him your friend. And it was never a question, he was crowing for repair. You’d give him love and affection, but you couldn’t keep him there." –2pts
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" No one knows what we’ll do when we’re free, might as well just crash with me. " - Folk Implosion
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" I couldn’t taste it, I’m tired and naked. I don’t know what I’m hungry for, I don’t know what I want anymore." –1pt
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" I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway. " – 2pts
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" Somewhere along the line I must have gone off the track with you. Excuse me, I think I’ve mistaken you for someone else, someone who gave a damn, someone more like me." – 2pts
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" What is it that I think I need? Is there love in me that wants to be freed? Or is it just selfishness and ego we carry everywhere we go? This feeling that life is incomplete, do you feel that too? Do you want what I want? And if I should start to cry and I can’t begin to tell you why, and I stumble when I begin, it’s cause I don’t understand anything." –3pts
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" Seems like I’ve been here before, seems so familiar, seems like I’m slipping into a dream within a dream. It’s the way you whisper, drag me under, take me whole." – 2pts
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" Where will it lead us from here? With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats you can’t say we’re satisfied…can’t say we didn’t try." 1pt
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" I see you, the only one who knew me, and now your eyes see through me. I guess I was wrong."- 2pts
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" Did you want me to say that I’d die for you?" – 3pts
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" You know you have me wrapped around your finger, that all I really want is to be with you. Do you have to let it linger?" – 1pt
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"And I’m barely breathing, I can’t find the air. Don’t know who I’m kidding, imagining you care. I can stand here waiting, fool for another day. I don’t suppose it’s worth the price, the price I’d pay. But I’m thinking it over anyway. " –1pt
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" And I wish I had a way to make it better, to rearrange the world and make you smile, but it’s dumb to even think I had that power, and we haven’t been that close in a while…but I tried to chase you down and I got tired, so I’m leaving you to you or someone else, 'cause you never wanna hook up in the middle, and I’d meet you there to talk if you would show, but you answer every question with a riddle and refuse to even choose to let me go." – 2pts
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" To me, coming from you, friend is a four letter word. End is the only part of the word I heard…I am wishing you would say to me that I’m really only praying that the words you say might betray the way you feel about me." –2pts
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" I want you to notice when I’m not around. You’re so fucking perfect. I wish I was perfect." – 1pt
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" I see you soul, it’s kinda gray. You see my heart and look away." –1pt
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" You’re always talking back to me, you won’t let it be. Won’t you touch me? Never bothered you before. Now I stand and appeal for more. Won’t you touch me, touch me? I finally found a reason, don’t need an excuse, got this time on my hands, you’re the one to abuse."- 1pt
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" Don’t just stand there saying nice things to me. I’ve been cheated, I’ve been wronged, and you don’t know me. I can’t change, I won’t do anything at all. I want to push you around, and I will. I want to push you down, take you for granted. I will, I will."- 1pt
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“Going to find me someone to share a common disaster.” – 2pts
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“You’re the devil in me I brought in from the cold. You said your body was young but your mind was very old. You’re coming on strong and I like the way the visions we had have faded away. You’re part of a life I’ve never had” – 2pts
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" Oh I’ve been such a fool, spent my life waiting for you…Should have been enough to know that you’d let us all down. Could have been enough to try without making a sound. It’s all part of the plan, my dear. Got to get away from here." –3pts
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" I tried living in the real world, but I was bored before I even began." –3pts
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“And the greatest of teachers won’t hesitate to leave you there, by yourself, chained to fate. I alone love you. I alone tempt you. I alone love you. Fear is not the end of this!” – 1pt
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“I left my brain inside of my other head. You don’t impress me, don’t depress me, don’t supress me, just undress me. The teachers test me, my father blessed me. The pigs arrest me, I get upset. Boo hoo.” –3pts
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" If fucking up takes practice, I feel I’m well rehearsed. Because the past is a bully, and the future’s even worse." –2pts
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“I know the secret of your soul. And I just don’t want to know- Yeah, man we got to grow up.” –2pts
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" You make me shake when I should settle down, I hold back when I should beat around. I can’t seem to get you out of my mind, I can’t get you off of my mind. So it won’t be long, no it won’t be long until I’m holding onto what you’ve just said."-3pts
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" Could you enlighten me? You’re a head-case story. Just trust me you said. I say no!"- 2pts
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" You don’t care who lies to you, you finally found something to do, don’t it make you black eyes blue? Kills you if you want it to. Isn’t it drawer?" – 3pts
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" What do I have to do to make you happy? What do I have to do to make you understand? What do I have to do to make you want me? And if I can’t make you want me, what do I have to do, to forget about you?"- 1pt
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" Tell me what you want to hear, I’ll play along. Tell me if you want me near, I’ll play along. But only for so long."- 3pts
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" You had something to hide, should have hidden it, shouldn’t ya? Now you’re not satisfied, with what you’ve been put through. It’s just time to pay the price for not listening to advice, deciding in your youth on the policy of truth. Never again is what you swore the time before. "- 2pts (original or cover)
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" Lift me up when I’m falling. Lift me up- I’m weak and I’m dying. Lift me up- I need you to hold me. Lift me up- and keep me from drowning again." –2pts
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" I think you’re smart you sweet thing. Give me your sign, I’m dying here. I’ve got you where I want you."- 1pt
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" The bigger you give the bigger you get. We’re boss at denial but best at regret. The cupboard is empty, we really need food. Summer is winter and you always knew." – 2pts
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" Like the coldest winter chill, heaven beside you, hell within. Like the coldest winter will, you wish you had it still. Heaven inside you." – 1pt
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" I know you like what’s on my mind. I know you want what’s on my mind." –1pt
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" I hope you had the time of your life." –1pt
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" How long have you been sitting in the darkness? You forget. You know you’re getting hard to be with and you’re crying every time you turn around. Oh my crazy baby, try to hold on tight. Oh my crazy baby, don’t put out the light. And your hands are shaking something awful as your worries crawl around inside your clothes. "- 3pts
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" I love all of you hurt by the cold. So hard and lonely too when you don’t know yourself."- 1pt
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"The more you suffer the more it shows that you really care. Right? Yeah. "- 1pt
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" Don’t fade this time. You’ll be inspired. I’ve been resigned. When these fears subside this time, decide, to look hard, inside. You’ll know me"- 3pts
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“You make me nervous throat dry. My brain is empty don’t know why. But I saw you doing something, Which is really truly nothing. But you could bust me out all day.”- 1pt
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“If you spin your love around, the secrets of your dreams, You may find your love is gone. And is not quite what it seemed, to appear to disappear beneath all your darkest fears.”- 2pts
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“I don’t mind you coming here and wasting all my time, 'cause when you’re standing oh so near I kinda lose my mind.”- 2pts
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" Who’s that sending devious glances in my direction?" –2pts
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" My heart fell out of my backpack and into a puddle. I didn’t feel anything even though my chest was empty. I just fished out the pieces and walked away. Nowhere and everywhere."- 2pts
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“There are many things that I’d like to say to you, but I don’t know how. Because maybe you’re going to be the one to save me.”-1pt
