I want to learn how to play guitar fairly good in a short amount of time maybe a few songs without lessons, any tips?
You are off to a bad start already, totally on the wrong track. If you try to teach yourself to play songs in a short amount of time, you are going to be skipping a lot of basics that you will need. You will get into bad habits that are going to be very hard to overcome later on down the road. You need to find a good instructor that knows how to teach. Remember that just because someone takes money to play guitar with you, doesn’t make them a guitar instructor. I good instructor will have some kind of formal education, will make you go through a book, will expect you to learn notes on the fretboard, chords, scales, modes etc. This is very important. You will learn some easy songs as soon as you can get the chords down, but that is just the beginning. You have to learn the other stuff with it, or your not going to progress as you should. You will instead get bored with playing the same chord progressions over and over and you will start to think that all of your songs sound the same. Do not choose a teacher who lets you come in and say "I want to learn (enter song here), you will end up learning a cool rif, but will never be able to play an entire song. Please, do it the right way, right off the bat and save yourself a heap of trouble down the road. I go through this with people all the time, I can’t stress it enough. You do not have to practice two or three hours a day either. Start out with 15 mintues to a half hour a day. This will allow time for your fingers to get used to it, plus you will not get burned out as easily. If your fingers start to hurt, take a break or stop for the day. It will not take long for you to be able to play longer. Remember "if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right". Also, remember that "It doesn’t matter what kind of guitar you have or how much it cost you, if you don’t know what your doing they all sound like crap anyhow". Good luck and don’t give up. It will be worth the time and effort you put into. The sound that you get out of your guitar will be a direct result of the effort that you put into it.