Since a character of the week every single Friday seems a bit much, I've decided to alternate between characters and quizzes on Fridays. Movie quote quizzes and video game quizzes are fine, but I thought I'd bring you something different this time: a song lyric quiz.

Now my musical tastes may not align well with yours, but my tastes are varied enough, and these selections mainstream enough that I imagine you'll be familiar with most of the artists, even if you don't recognise the songs.

Good luck - you can post your guesses in the comments.

1. I look at the mirror
   I watch it come clearer
   I look like a painter behind all the grease
   but painting's creating
   and I'm just erasing
   a crystal-clear canvas is my masterpiece
2. Time is a gypsy caravan
   steals away the night
   to leave you stranded in dreamland
   Distance is a long range filter
   memory a flickering light
   left behind in the heartland
3. In the mornings, when I'm usually wide awake
   I love to take a walk through the gardens and down by the lake
   where I often see a duck and a drake
   and I wonder as I walk by just what they'd say if they could speak
   although I know that's an absurd thought
4. Your everlasting summer you can see it fading fast
   so you grab a piece of something that you think is gonna last
   you wouldn't even know a diamond if you held it in your hand
   the things you think are precious I can't understand
5. Make a hole with a gun perpendicular
   to the name of this town in a desktop globe
   exit wound in a foreign nation
   showing the home of the one this was written for
6. They invented a reason - that's why it stings
   They don't think you matter
   Because you don't have pretty rings
7. So what is love then? Is it dictated or chosen?
   Does is sing like the hymns of 1000 years, or is it just pop emotion?
   And if it ever was there and it left, does that mean it was never true?
8. Really don't mind if you sit this one out
   My words but a whisper and deafness a shout
   I may make you feel, but I can't make you think
   Your sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink
9. You consider me a young apprentice
   Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis
   Hypnotized by you if I should linger
   Staring at the ring around your finger
10. Skiddle-eh Be-Bop we rock, scooby doo
    Guess what, America? We love you
    Cause you rocked and rolled with so much soul
    You could rock till you're a hundred and one years old
    I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast
    But we like hot butter on our breakfast toast