Song meme from Trinityvixen

The meme is the lyrics. Those are lyrics from songs, verbatim as close as a I knew already/googled to be absolutely sure. Now tell me the song and artist and you get a cookie. Each artist appears only once.

( meme within )

This is a really hard meme to do, at least from my attempts to decipher other people's picks. Perhaps the puzzle-solving crew will have good luck with it.