How To Disappear Completely

The Game: You Know You Want to Play!

Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the songs that play
Step 3: Move the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING! On the contrary, if you know the artist and have the song on your computer, I see nothing wrong with browsing thru your own music library to find a match.
Step 5: Solve the puzzle.
Step 6: Hints are provided to make it easier/harder. Hints may sound weird, but they ARE somehow related to either the performer or the song. (I apologize because most of my hints are really bad puns, but hey, it's a Funke and her music we are talking about here...)

PS I skipped the instrumental pieces of music and the C-Pop. I am not going to transcribe the Firebird or Kind of Blue and I don't have Chinese characters on my computer. I also skipped stuff that was really really obscure, or if an artist was getting overly represented.

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1. After years of waiting, nothing came. (So you want a hint? I'm a reasonable woman, get off my case...)
2. I am the anti-Ithycus; tried to fly up through the sky; didn't care if he died, such anti-thesis. (I will be surprised if anyone gets the actual song, but the artist is from Arizona...)
3. Righteous men of the earth, o have you been patient (2 states down; 48 left to go).
4. Jenny said that she was just five years old; there was nothing happening at all.
5. Creme tangerine and Montélimar; a ginger sling with a pineapple heart (this band might bug you till you get it....okay that was a bad hint...)
6. Don't mean a thing, if you ain't got that swing. (A jazz royale)
7. Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna, hosanna, excelsius. (We need to get "back" to the basics with this one...ah, another bad hint....)
8. So many fish there in the sea; I wanted you, you wanted me. (What is that song doing in my iTunes? I believe it is doing the backstroke, sir.)
9. There's nothing you can do that can't be done, there's nothing you can sing that can't be sung.... (No hint necessary for this one)
10. Running to and fro hard working at the mill, never failed at the mill yet come a rotten bill (the roots of rock n roll right here....)
11. The myriad choices of his fate set themselves out upon a plate (what I notice about this song is the viola; I actually can't understand the lyrics very well.)
12. Well my name it is Sam Hall, it is Sam Hall. (Joaquin Phoenix's alter ego....)
13. Bloodstains on the carpet, bloodstains on my hands
14. My name is Leslie Ann Levine; my mother birthed me down a dry ravine (This one is too easy...no hints given)
15. You say wanna revolution, well you know, we all want to change the world (again no hint)
16. Jo-jo was a man who thought he was a loner, but he knew it couldn't last (no hint again, for extra credit name the album)
17. Alexander, our older brother, set forth a great adventure
18. And with his stripes we are healed (this is rather easy, too, if you have a handle on your music history)
19. To life, to life, L'chai-im! (Ah, one of my top five favorite musicals...)
20. Resonet in Laudibus (considering that the first line usually IS the title for these sorts of songs, I will refrain from further hinting.)
21. Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day you fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
22. Transport, motorways and tramlines, starting and then stopping, taking off and landing, the emptiest of feelings
23. Honey pie, honey pie (um, this is rather painfully obvious)
24. We come on the Sloop John B., my grandfather and me
25. It was 20 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (again, obvious)
26. Tourists rob you of your home in sunken boats, and you can hide quiet as a mouse, but they'll find you out
27. As I was motivating, back in town, I saw a Cadillac sign saying "no money down," (more rock in roll goodness)
28. They say the joint was a-rockin, going round and round (the previous song is the hint)
29. From the housetops to the gutters, from the oceans to the shore, the warning signs have all been bright and garish, far too great in number to ignore
30. Oh life, with your shoulders in the mirror from the park when Dakota ran and brought you there
31. Lonesome cowboy bill, rides the rodeo; lonesome cowboy bill, you got to see him yodel ay-hee-ho! (off this band's most rock in roll album)
32. This thing called love, I just can't handle it
33. When I get home, I'll think about you
34. Stagger Lee met Billy and they go down to gambling (punk sounding like Beach Boys here...)
35. In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to sea, and he told us of his life, in the land of submarines...
36. I've got the horse right here, the name is Paul Revere, and there's a guy that says if the weather's clear, can do, can do... (another one of my top five musicals...)
37. Let his flesh not be torn, let his blood leave no stain, though they beat him, let him feel no pain (We're really not in Kansas musicals anymore, are we? I kind of forgot this was in my iTunes...)
38. I look at all the lonely people....
39. They're selling postcards of the hanging, they're painting the passports brown, the beauty parlor is filled with sailors, the circus is in town
40. Help! I need somebody, not just anybody, you know I need someone....
41. What if there is was no light, nothing wrong, nothing right (ah, Radiohead wanna bes, but I love them anyway...)
42. High flying, adored, so young, an instant queen (another top five musical....)
43. I can't seem to face up to the facts, I'm tense and nervous and can't seem to relax
44. I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like
45. Welcome, mousieur, sit yourself down, and meet the best innkeeper in town (I have a lot of musicals on hand, oui, oui?)
46. Think of me, think of me fondly when you say goodbye (not really a narrative song in the musical)
47. Be gracious to me, for I'm falling away, hear me O Lord, for my bones are dismayed (being a psalm, the text should provide a hint)
48. I'll be your mirror, reflect what you are
49. Getting too busy to make amends, I should try to make it right (Scottish band....I love the chorus: "Maybe I can do it if I put my back into it I can leave it if I want it but there's no where else that I can go")
50. Look at me, I'm a movie star, every inch a movie star (Another obscure musical, have fun)