Lying here in the darkness, you hear the sirens wail: sombeody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail.

Well, severe back pain prevented me from attending Karaoke Friday, but I managed to get out tonight, and here's what I sang:

1. Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Greenday
2. Mr. Brightside, The Killers
3. Power of Love, Huey Lewis and the News
4. If I had $1,000,000, Barenaked Ladies
5. Turn the Page, Metallica

Now, next week's list will probably be conspicuous in its absence, since I will be forsaking Karaoke in favor of going to visit the woman who sets my life to music. So, rather than stiffing you guys for two out of three weeks, I'm going to super-size this week's list with the contents of the CD I am mixing right now for a couple of friends, on the occasion of my having remembered that they asked me if I could provide them with a copy of a particular song a few weeks ago. (For [4 points], guess which one it was. The rest are just there because I hate to not fill a disc to something near capacity). So...

6.. The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes, Elvis Costello
7. Tonight and the Rest of my Life, Nina Gordon
8. Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits
9. New York Minute, The Eagles
10. Behind Blue Eyes, Limp Bizkit
11. Somebody Told Me, The Killers
12. Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley
13. Feed The Tree, Belly
14. Maria, Blondie
15. Get Out of This House, Shawn Colvin
16. Only In My Dreams, Debbie Gibson
17. Save Tonight, Eagle Eye Cherry
18. Take Me Home Tonight, Eddie Money
19. Bittersweet Symphony, The Verve
20. Live Anyway, Quiddity