Each of these entries contains five words from the lyrics of a song that was in the Top Ten in 1988. The lyrics are roughly in the order in which they appear in the song, and no word from the song's title appears in the quiz. Can you figure out the song from just five words?
1. wanted, sacred, naked, preacher, crime
2. smile, reminds, bluest, ounce, safe
3. permissible, compromised, unavoidable, methods, irrefutable
4. bandit, sycamore, valentines, butterfly, monkey
5. forty-seven, bedroom, nineties, flags, boom
6. ticket, convenience, border, school, shelter
7. shy, passion, coaxing, times, eleven
8. going, crown, Thunderbird, Tennessee, watch
9. whispered, happiness, trying, catch, superstition
10. Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahama, Montego
11. change, collar, disregard, message, yourself
12. bomb, radar, bottle, bubble, sticky
13. sundown, waves, together, round, tide
14. wrote, trouble, landlord, cash, frown
15. leather, flesh, half, kick, every
16. seduce, band, backstage, prestige, sleeping
17. time, possibilities, brown. cup, pretend
Bonus: crawled, woodwork, treadmill, lived, Hollywood