short of using herr google

But I will add these in the hope that it will appear as a witty repartee. Or something.

1. Here I am, and I have come, to thank you, Lord
2. He is the one who plays the piano
3. With care from you, I get addicted to a man helpless and silent
4. Over the hill and far away, down the valley and past the lake
5. I scraped my knees when I was praying

I had to skip 4 to get songs with lyrics or songs without the song name in the first line. Not too shabby.

4. Electrolite - REM

My 5 :

1. Johnny's playroom is a bunker filled with sand
2. The Lunatic is on the grass
3. I met her in a club down in old Soho
4. I was born to sing a good time song, you know that nothing used to bring me down
5. Don't you worry 'bout what's on your mind, oh my

1. Whatcha gonna do? You wanna get down?
2. Blackbird singing in the dead of night...(easy one)
3. Well in my life, I never stop to worry about a thing
4. Who made up all the rules? We follow them like fools.
5. (after some speech)...Everybody's got a thing, but some don't know how to handle it.

Rich

1. Kool and the Gang is it?

2. Er, Blackbird

Get Down On It - Kool and The Gang

1. The city streets are empty now/The lights don't shine no more.
2. When I was young I told my Mum/Gonna walk on the moon some day.
3. Pass the ivy covered windows of the Angel/Down Athenium Lane
4. Mother's pregnant in some clinic/Brother Ernie is a spiv.
5. I'm prayin' for rain in California/so the grapes can grow and they can make more wine.

Had to skip loads of giveaways and instrumentals to get these. Good luck.

.. is Sam Cooke and Dancing the night away.

1: Precious words drift away from their meaning

2: You know, if ten million people bought this totally turgid record, I could be a millionaire

3: I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping

4: When I was a little boy, way back home in Liverpool

5: With big hungry tigers, table manners have no place

is "Yourself" by the Manic Street Preachers

1) Come on people, come on children, hurry down to the glory river...
2) Move his way, nice and slow, paint it all black, let the humorous glow...
3) From the height of the highway on ramp, we saw two dogs, dead in a field...
4) Oh yeah! Argghhh! You're gonna wake up one morning as the sun greets the dawn....
5) Of war and peace the truth just twists, Its curfew gull just glides, upon four-legged forest clouds...

This gives a rather false randomize though, considering I had to do 12 tunes (instrumentals, titles in opening lines and "Flintstones! Meet The Flintstones!" all came up...)

Is number two in the OP Tupelo by the Bad Seeds?

1 Wildwood setting sun, it makes the shadows longer
2 Here's to the Baker I must bring him in
3 Some bright morning when this life is over
4 When first I left Scotland
5 Davy stole a Christmas Tree from K-Mart last night

This took ages. Lots of instrumentals and I had to qualify it by my recognising the song from the title. Or stopping it from being too obvious.

1) When the dragons grow too mighty to slay with pen or sword
2) Strollin' along country roads with my baby
3) You're my size, I need to try you on
4) Oh no, here it comes again, can't remember when
5) First a drink, then a half cigarette

Another five:

1. It's been a long time coming
2. Leave yourself alone, leave yourself alone
3. Beat stress and rebalance your life
4. Please give me a second grace
5. Well I heard about the fellow you've been dancin' with all over the neighbourhood

Gave up trying to randomise, though a couple that cropped up and were usable did suggest a theme: prevailing weather conditions (sort of, in one instance).

1. “Sun is shining, there’s plenty of light
A new day is dawning, sunny and bright”

2. ªWhen the temperature dips, I’m in my baby‘s arms
His tender finger tips, Knows (sic) just how to keep me warm”

3. “The summer was out of sight, We couldn’t sleep at night
The shadows were closing in, Back in the dark again”

4.“I used to live in New York City
Everything there was dark and dirty”

5. “Good morning sun, I say it’s good to see you shining
I know my baby brought you to-ooo-oooo me”

1. I couldn't believe what I was seeing/faces all screwed up like what I've done.

2. Who wants to buy a heart; one broken lover's heart?

3. Looking out on the morning rain/ I used to feel uninspired

4. In the deepest ocean/ the bottom of the sea.

5. Lisa knows a girl who's been abused.

1. Hey Hey mercy woman/plays a song an no-one listens
2. Destination outward bound
3. I'm so tired of working everyday
4. Got an easy place to be
5. I found smog at the end of my rainbow

1) I'm glad you're home I bet you really missed me

2) Take a look at my girlfriend she's the only one I got

3) I can still remember when your city smelt exciting

4) Every chance, every chance that I take, I take it on the road

5) Sky's as deep as it can be

1.Perhaps it's the color of the sun cut flat…
2.Walking along, playing a song. It won’t be long, it’s gonna be strong…
3.Caroline laughs and it’s raining all day…
4.Piece of cake...*
5.All of the friends I knew found someone they could love, right from the start…

*this is the first line of the song, not a reference to the line above!

Number 2 is Orange Blossom Special aka Long Black Train. That and 5 i knew too

So here's some more to try:

1) When I get home it's late at night, I'm black and bloodied from my life

2) Stars shining bright above you, Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"

3) Life is hard and so am I, you'd better give me something so I don't die

4) Similar mother, similar father, similar dog, cat and fish

5) [spoken] Just behind the station, before you reach the traffic island, a river runs through a concrete channel

1. Who would be a poor man, a beggarman, a thief / if he had a rich man in his hand?

2. Health-food faggot with a bartered bride / liked to comb his hair with a dipper ride

3. Fifty thousand men were sent to do the will of one

4. Here at the glass - all the usual problems, all the habitual farce

5. Bring me round, kicking and screaming /Off my rocker on a Saturday night

But there's some serious Prog in that lot,Fitter.

is it me, but this all seems very confusing?

1. Everyday I wake up alone because I'm not like all the other boys.
2. This ain't the down, it's the upbeat. Make it complete.
3. Even though I lose it sometimes, you bring it back. I'm ready.*
4. Oh komm doch, komm zu mir.
5. The dreams of dying mothers/I awoke my insides shudder.

*If anyone gets this, I'll be impressed.

1. Give me one more chance and you'll be satisfied
2. Your tongue is sharp but I miss the taste of it
3. I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday
4. Along with the shoes and the shirts and the ties
5. Endless distance, wildlife and stars blanket the night

...and I had to skip over truckloads of classical, jazz, and other instrumental stuff, not to mention songs that start with the chorus, to get these five!

1. Nothin' for us in Belfast, The Pound so old it's a pity

2. Well I'll bet my Maria's got an elbow full of lonely

3. Come as you are sweetheart, come as you are.

4. Rock me baby, rock me all night long

5. You mean that much to me and it's hard to show, gets hectic inside of me when you go

1. You're obsessed with finding a new brain but what you need is a new body

2. Hey, come on over, you know the dawn is going slower

3. Last night I had a little altercation, they wobbled menacingly

4. "Hey", said the Devil, when I met her at the roundabout

5. I walk in silence through the snow, drifting softly to your door

The first five that came up. It seems my iPod has an odd idea of random this morning...

1. Times were tough and love was not enough

2. I got the fortunes of heaven in diamonds and gold

3. Sing bird of prey, beauty begins at the foot of you

4. I woke up this morning I could barely breathe

5. It’s rainin’ but there ain’t a cloud in the sky

1. All the king's horses, all the king's horses stuck their dick in my sister. [Ahem, sorry about that]
2. There is a town in North Ontario
3. If travel is searching and hope what's been found
4. A boy is born in hard time Mississippi
5. It was bound to happen from when you first knew me.

Aren't intros long..? About five weeded out for mentioning the title or unintelligibility. Remarkably 4 They Might be Giants came up in a row (in a selection of nearly 15,000) - all of which mentioned the title in the first line - must be how they write so many...

Hunter-Bjork ('er indoors got that one)

1. If I could find the words to say, the sunshine's in your eyes
2. Na-na-na-na nah nah nah, na-na-na-na nah nah nah
3. Babs and Clean Willie were in love, they said
4. Will you stay in a lover's story
5. When I fall asleep, it could be forever

Steely Dan - Haitian Divorce
Bowie - Kooks

1 - Check this strange beverage that falls out from the sky
2 - Don't ask the question 'cos you won't like the answer
3 - Oh it's not easy to resist temptation
4 - Well, I stand up next to a mountain
5 - I was standing down in Jerusalem Town one day

I'd only have got 3 of these.

1. Ahhhhhh oooooo, this is the way I always dreamed it would be

2. Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies

3. You've got to improve, Your walk hardly moves

4. Love's just the word for boy meets girl when you know it's fear we've found

5. Hey now, little speedyhead, the read on the speedmeter says.....

1. "I had me a wife, I had me some daughters, I tried so hard I never knew still waters"

2 "Carry a moon in the afternoon, hiding a spoon she will be soon"
( the beginning may be a litle bit misheard)

3. "Take an axe to your past, your family tree, carve a face from the wound, an effigy"

4 "Hush my little one, don't cry so,you know your daddy's bound to go

5. " Taking the dogs across the street to a grassy space betwen the buildings"

I'd have got one of those but I'm well chuffed with the selection - had to skip a Ricky Spontane album track as I'm not sure it was ever released outside Liverpool and a track from the Lost La's album that I doubt the band would remember.

1. "So you been to school for a year or two and you know you've seen it all".
2. "A city freeze, get on your knees and pray for warmth and green paper".
3. "I thought I'd take a walk today. A mistake I sometimes make".
4. "She is susceptible. He is impossible".
5. "When I get off of this mountain, you know where I want to go".

Skipped one that's a very obscure live once-only thing and another where I just couldn't make out the opening words.

here's another 5 (I'd have got the first two)

1. Hands up who wants to die?!
2. Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb
3. It came to me like the ladder to jacob, it came to me like a two headed calf
4. Driving with St Saviour in a big old car, curving up through the stars and his arms could tear you up and never waver
5. ooo-ooooh yeah , sunlight on a winter's day, we are driving, driving on the way

Half Man Half Biscuit - Time Flies By (When your a driver of a train).

i must put up mine. To play nice,i'll skip the obscure Northern Soul ones,
1)..... ..... Where you going to ? The title is the first two words hence...
2)If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you
3)You were hiding behind that wolverine smile
4)The cash machine is blue and green
5)We sell crack to our own, nigga I'm back in the zone

I expect 3 of them for sure and 4 would be impressive,you might struggle with #3

1. "So I wrote it all in a letter / But I don't know if it came"

2. "Oh hello / I am the ghost of Troubled Joe / Hung by his pretty white neck"

3. "It's a hard way to come home / You've got me on my knees"

4. "We're pushing through these burning towns / We worked hard ploughing over ground"

5. "Destiny, destiny protect me from the world / Destiny, hold my hand, protect me from the world"

2)The Smiths - A Rush And A Push
5) Anyone can play guitar-Radiohead (we both got that one)

1. Once upon a time science opened up the door

2. When you're in love you know you're in love

3. Shake it like a ladder to the sun

4. Long ago and oh so far away

5. See that girl barefoot in the park

1. People I know, places I go, make me feel tounge-tied
2. I know your leaving is too long overdue
3. Experiences have a lasting impression, but words once spoken don't mean a lot now
4. Sam...you've been waiting much too long now
5. Why does it hurt when my heart misses a beat?

Couldn't contribute to any of the above, those I knew were already identified. How about these:

1. "Here the mirror of dreams of beauty, here the looking glass of pride and ruined vanity"
2. "I am leaving this harbour, giving urban a farewell"
3. "There is no culture is my brag, Your taste for bullshit reveals a lust for a home of office"
4. "I've been travelling down this river, so many rocks pop up in my sight"
5. "The weather's variable, and so are you"

Oh dear, these are easy (I think). Damn you, iPod.

1. Gimme danger, little stranger.
2. He knows, he knows, or I think he does.
3. You're just a waste of time.
4. I've been lost since she's gone.
5. Charlemagne shakes in the streets.