Back to the Classics

rockinlibrarian did the lyric guessing game again, so I figured that was as good an excuse as any to follow suit. Sometimes I think I do these too often, but if people keep participating, I might as well, right? There are thirty this time, and all opening lines.

1. Please don't ask me how I am. I'd have to lie and say I'm fine.
2. My daughter needs a new phonograph, she wore out all the needles.
3. To my dear, dear mother, I leave my only shoes.
4. She said, "I think there's something wrong with making out to the tunes of a Daniel Johnston song."
5. Maybe I'm a witch, lost in time, running through the fields of Scotland by your side.
6. [Title], I don't know your real name, but I love you just the same.
7. If I was the [title], I'd echo everything you say.
8. Well, she crept back in the house at half past three, shook her head to see him snoring in his sleep.
9. Oh, my beloved [title], how I long to see your face photographed in fifteen-second intervals in a bank in San Leandro.
10. I never went to the tropical island, though everybody says they saw me there.
11. The jungle was giving a party, a post-hibernation ball.
12. Just before we got up here, all the guys were having a fight.
13. At the [title], you stare right at the ocean, mountains at your back you think you've tamed.
14. I don't want to change your mind. I don't want to think about your mind.
15. [Title] when they say that you're mistaken thinking hopes and dreams that aren't there?
16. Hey, hey, remember me? Oh yeah, we've met before. I used to know the drummer who's not with you anymore.
17. Having ended all life and absorbed all other robots, ruler of the cosmos, she walks into the sunset.
18. Actually I was never conceived, and I don't expect to be believed, but I've found my mouth stitched up with glossy pink thread.
19. What is there to say? Still I can't be silent. Hear [title], and you'll be enlightened.
20. Two big babies met on a winter's day. They thought they'd get all dressed up to play.
21. About a maid I'll sing a song, sing rickity-tickity-tin. About a maid I'll a sing a song, who didn't have her family long.
22. You're one groovy gypsy man. I did this abandoned car. I slip off my flip-flops and walk past the crash pad, and step on some broken glass.
23. [Title] is where I hang. [Title] is where I am again, and don't try hard to get down or move to better company there.
24. There's a sale on our gabardine suits today. They're all 30% off from yesterday.
25. We're caught in a trap. I can't walk out, because I love you too much, baby.
26. Now, somewhere in the black mining hills of Dakota, there lived a young boy named [title].
27. Laying on the [title], my heart, it flares like fire.
28. I met someone at the dog show.
29. Good morning lethargy. Drink Pepsi, it's good for energy.
30. It's such a dreamlike view from the ceiling where every feeling is part of the fall.

10, 12, 14, 22, and 28 are all by the same band. 3 and 7 are as well, and 17 is by a related band. The band responsible for 1 and 23 has a member in common with the one that did 6. 13 and 19 are by the same artist. So are 18 and 20. I think those are all of the repeat artists, but to err is human, so it's possible I missed one or two.

I'll probably screen comments on this for about a week, and then post the answers.