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Gosh, these things are fun! Time for another lyrics quiz, the last one being closed, so you can check for the ones you didn't get...

Now closed.

1. You say you want diamonds and a ring of gold
Your story to remain untold, your love not to grow cold
U2, "All I Want Is You", jeff2001

2. Like tiny insects in the palm of history
A domino effect in a cloud of mystery
Thomas Dolby, "Dissidents", jeff2001

3. Speaking Hindi and Sinhalese, Spanish and Japanese
Afrikaans, Nepali, Faroese, Romany
Yiddish and English, Kurdish and Thai
Shriekback, "The Reptiles & I", jeff2001

4. I could say day, and you'd say night
Tell me it's black when I know that it's white
Living with you's just putting me through it all of the time
Genesis, "That's All", erikred

5. We go to the Bible, we go through the workout
We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
Indigo Girls, "Closer To Fine", erikred

6. No one in your life is with you constantly
No one is completely on your side
And though I moved my world to be with him
Still the gap between us is too wide
"I Know Him So Well", from the musical "Chess"(Though Google implies that Whitney Houston might have covered it more recently...)

7. And I hope when you grow up one day you'll see
Your parents are people and that's all we can be
Loudon Wainwright III, "Your Mother & I"

8. Now I believe there comes a time when everything just falls in line
We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by fate
Pat Benatar, "All Fired Up", Nicole

9. We are born without eyesight, we are born without sin
And our mama protects us from the cold and the rain
Talking Heads, "Making Flippy Floppy", fredfred

10. I was up all night, socializing
Trying to keep the latent depression from crystallizing
Now the sun is lurking just behind the Scarborough horizon
Bruce Cockburn, "Coldest Night of The Year", fredfred

11. Silver scales flash bright and fade in reeds along the shore
Like a pearl in a sea of liquid jade His ship comes shining
Bruce Cockburn, "All The Diamonds In The World", fredfred

12. Don't try to track her trail, hunter; she is not your game
This is a wildlife sanctuary and wild was why she came
David Wilcox, "She's Just Dancing" (There's two David Wilcoxes; this one is the American folksinger instead of the Canadian blues-rocker.)

13. And I wriggle like a fish caught on dry land
Struggle to avoid any helping hand
Sting, "Be Still My Beating Heart"

14. When every heart has finally found the courage to love with all its might
The chains will be broken, the doors will burst open, and we shall know the power of the light
The Nylons, "Prince of Darkness"

15. Out the window down the gray road you can see an old, walled monastery
Now become the barracks for the paramilitary police
Bruce Cockburn, "How I Spent My Fall Vacation", fredfred

16. There's a painting on the wall that wasn't there at all ten minutes ago
There's a girl who walks the line, she's with you all the time, she won't let go
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, "The Lights Are Going Out"

17. Stop teasing, saying you're leaving
Now I'm drifting, an island castaway
Go Four 3, "This Time" (My favourite obscure Canadian indie band; expect to see a few more of their songs in future quizzes, and good luck trying to Google them)

18. Climb your favourite apple tree, try to catch the sun
Hide from your little brother's gun, dream yourself away
Pink Floyd, "Remember A Day"

19. It's costing me a packet
I know that you can hack it
I wanna see you jack it
Thomas Dolby, "Quantum Mechanic"(The second Dolby song on the quiz)

20. Into the aircraft, I look for my seat
A nervous tension builds inside me
Onto the runway I pretend I'm elsewhere
In minutes we're flying through the hot evening air
Squeeze, "Hits of The Year"

Interesting...with a random sampling of twenty, one artist appears with three songs, and another one with two.