End of Term Shuffle

I'm turning in my grades today, which means another year has come to an end. Also, I'm on sabbatical next year. Woo-hoo!

To celebrate, here's a silly random songs post. In honor of the end of the term, iTunes chose to serve up a set of songs with lyrics that are either completely insipid or ridiculously self-important. #10 in particular might as well be an instrumental, for all the sense the lyrics make. And you have no idea how hard it was to find a line in #19 that doesn't give the whole thing away.

Anyway, these are off the four-and-five-star playlist, and I don't think they're all that obscure:

1. "New Jersey in the morning's like a lunar landscape."
2. "I guess it was the beatings made me wise"
3. "So goodbye, so long, the road calls me dear/ And your tears cannot bind me anymore,"
4. "If there's a poor boy on the street/ Then let him have my seat"
5. "Time is never time at all/ You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth"
6. "You got me blowin, blowin my mind,/ Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?"
7. "I never seen you look like this without a reason,/ Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you"
8. "Sam Cooke is on the radio, and the night is full of space, and your fingertips touch my face."
9. "Friday night I'm going nowhere, all the lights are changing green to red."
10. "I will go in this way,/ And find my own way out,/ I wont tell you to stay,/ But I'm coming to much more"
11. "I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste,/ A flannel for my face,/ Pyjamas, a hairbrush,/ New shoes and a case,"
12. "What did you say?,/ I know I saw you singing,/ But my ears won't stop ringing."
13. "Now that Im far away it doesnt seem to me to be such a pain,/ To have you hanging off my ankle like some kind of ball and chain."
14. "There were peasants singing and drummers drumming,/ And the archer split the tree."
15. "I found out that I got eye cancer/ Too many television waves."
16. "The sun in your eyes made some of the lies worth believing."
17. "You never said you needed this,/ And you're pissed that you missed,/ The very last kiss,/ From my lips."
18. "We started recreational,/ It ended kinda medical,/ It came on hot and soft and then, It tightened up its tentacles."
19. "The poor stay poor, the rich get rich,/ That's how it goes."
20. "I pull you close but when we kiss I can feel a doubt,/ I remember back when we started,/ My kisses used to turn you inside out."

For bonus points, #1 and #11 are not the original versions-- guess the proper context for them. #19 exists in several cover versions, but this one is the original.