1. Lead me to forbidden doors / You know I'm yours

• Alphaville
• Madonna
• Sammy Hagar
• Melissa Etheridge

2. Steals the stars from the sky/puts on Sinatra and starts to cry

• Bertie Higgins
• The Dream Academy
• Stephen Bishop
• Steve Forbert

3. He's got a permanent hack / deals dope out of Denny's / keeps a table in the back

• Pittbull
• E-40
• Kottonmouth Kings
• David & David

4. A picture perfect painting/That's what our love is

• Atlantic Starr
• Don McLean
• Journey
• Billy Ocean

5. A need to quench the thirst of many

• Bob Marley
• U2
• INXS
• Collective Soul

6. She calls me her Dapper Dan

• The Bell Notes
• The Diamonds
• Marty Robbins
• Joe Jackson

7. I was walking in a midnight sun

• Ringo Starr
• Smash Mouth
• Traffic
• Electric Light Orchestra

8. The longer I thought I could find her / the shorter my vision became

• Eddie Money
• Jackson Browne
• Foreigner
• Dan Fogelberg

9. The life I've left behind me is a cold room

• Fine Young Cannibals
• Badfinger
• Roxette
• Sarah McLachlan

10. Sometimes I wanna leave and then I'll say / It wouldn't make sense now anyway

• Al Green
• The Grass Roots
• Wilson Pickett
• Aretha Franklin

11. Give you courage in a world of compromise

• Jeffrey Gaines
• Regina Belle
• David Gray
• Vanessa Williams

12. She's so sweet with her get back stare

• No Doubt
• Jet
• Weezer
• The Dandy Warhols

13. The note that you left me leaves / a space in this room

• Lisa Stansfield
• Bad English
• Peabo Bryson
• Janet Jackson

14. I've found a paradise that's trouble proof

• The Drifters
• Ruby & the Romantics
• The Righteous Brothers
• Roy Orbison

15. Your smile girl, brings the morning light to my eyes

• Lionel Richie
• Bruce Springsteen
• The Chi-Lites
• Daryl Hall & John Oates

16. I heard the sound of a cappella groups

• Paul Simon
• Al Green
• The Supremes
• The Moody Blues

17. Searchin' her eyes, lookin' for traces

• Classics IV
• Johnny O
• Johnny Lee
• TKA

18. Take your hat off boy / when you're talking to me

• Veruca Salt
• Belly
• Lisa Loeb
• Bonnie Raitt

19. Feeling bluesy, you know you do confuse me

• Jonny Lang
• Little River Band
• L.T.D.
• Ray Parker, Jr.

20. But your defense don't help my case

• Babyface
• Pointer Sisters
• Tina Turner
• The English Beat