Well, I dreamt I saw you walking up a hillside in the snow Casting shadows on the winter sky as you stood there counting crows. One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for girls and four for boys, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told.

There's a bird that nests inside you Sleeping underneath your skin. Yeah, when you open up your wings to speak I wish you'd let me in. --- A Murder of One, Counting Crows

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The more the light shines through me I pretend to close my eyes The more the dark consumes me I pretend I'm burning, burning bright

There's nothing ever wrong but nothing's ever right Such a cruel contradiction I know I cross the lines its not easy to define I'm born to indecision There's always something new some path I'm supposed to choose With no particular rhyme or reason -- Burning Bright, Shinedown

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"If it's love," she said, "then we're gonna have to think about the consequences." But she can't stop shaking and I can't stop touching her and...

This time when kindness falls like rain It washes her away. And Anna begins to change her mind. "These seconds when I'm shaking leave me shuddering for days," she says. And I'm not ready for this sort of thing. --Anna Begins, Counting Crows

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Step out the front door like a ghost Into the fog where no one notices The contrast of white on white. And in between the moon and you The angels get a better view Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right. I walk in the air between the rain Through myself and back again Where? I don't know --Round Here, Counting Crows

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Well, she don't want no one around ’Cause she don't want anybody to see What she looks like when she's down ’Cause that’s a really sad place to be --She Don't Want Nobody Near, Counting Crows

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All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep Hey I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to help me sleep --Mrs. Potter's Lullaby, Counting Crows

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If you think you might come to California I think you should (Not a striking quote, but it caught my attention at a very appropriate time lately...) --A Long December, Counting Crows

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Waiting for the moon to come and light me up inside And I am waiting for the telephone to tell me I'm alive --Daylight Fading, Counting Crows

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Tell my mother, Tell my father I've done the best I can To make them realize This is my life I hope they understand I'm not angry, I'm just saying... Sometimes goodbye Is a second chance --Second Chance, Shinedown

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Whisper in the yard and turn the trees all into toys Lay there on the ground, and turn the dirt into your joy From what I see and what I know, it's all been boring lately So I suggest we trade a question mark in for a maybe Time your riddles right, and make a point that has no sense Make sure that you're smiling, and the money's been well spent Innocence and ignorance, it all goes hand in hand I'm not sure that I'm right, but I hope you'll understand I hope that you're still searching for the start that has no end And all the plastic people have now become your friends Before you start to drift and your soul begins to scream I just wanted to tell you that you're listening to a dream --Dream, Shinedown

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She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette....But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind....Life is short but this time it was bigger Than the strength he had to get up off his knees...And when we buried him beneath the willow The angels sang a whiskey lullaby --Whiskey Lullaby, Brad Paisley/Alison Krauss

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Oh, September girl, I am so scared today Already 28 and still haven't saved the world --September Girl, Jupiter Sunrise

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They say there's a heaven for those who will wait Some say it's better but I say it ain't I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints the sinners are much more fun... --Only The Good Die Young, Billy Joel

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Well maybe there's a God above But all I've ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who'd OUT DREW YA And it's not a cry that you hear at night It's not somebody who's seen in the light It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah --Hallelujah

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2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song If I get it all down on paper, its no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd 'Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud And I know that you'll use them, however you want to ---Breathe(2am), Anna Nalick

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You've crossed the finish line Won the race but lost your mind Was it worth it after all

I need you here with me Cause love is all we need Just take a hold of the hand that breaks the fall --Superman, Lazlo Bane

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And when you wake up everything is gonna be fine I guarantee that you wake in a better place in a better time So you're tired of living feel like you might give in well don't it's not your time

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I'll start the engine but I can't take this ride for you I'll draw your bath and I'll load your gun But I hope so bad that you're bathe and hunt

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and she says, "oh, this loneliness is killing me, it's filling me with anger and resentment Resentment and she says, "I'm turning into someone that I never thought I'd have to be again" --A Better Place A Better Time, Streetlight Manifesto

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and I don't know much, but I do know this: with a golden heart comes a rebel fist and I can't help agreeing with those that would not quit --Here's to Life, Streetlight Manifesto

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You say you've got the cure But i don't have a disease And you say you've got the answers But i've made no inquiries --Failing Flailing, Streetlight Manifesto

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me and mr. dylan on the ride home we had a heart to heart about life but neither him or me could decide for ourselves if we wanted to outlive that night like two children on the playground of the unconfessed souls abandoned by our mothers and our lovers and our foes if only we were brave enough to live the lives we stole what a wonderful world this could be! --The Big Sleep, Streetlight Manifesto

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We're not trading places I'm simply lending you my hand For the time spent passing Things you can't yet understand

Had to grow up last night So you could be alright today Did he never teach you the sky is blue beyond the grey? --Beyond the Grey, Naked Spatula Monkeys

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I know the lecture all too well I could give it to myself So well that I don't hear her anymore Can't be perfect like she said So I run away instead Into a place where she cannot go anymore

And if I make it to heaven tonight The clouds close in and block out the light I can hear what she says but I don't know what it means

Packed my bags, said my prayers Left my sins at the foot of her stairs I can't be the boy she wants anymore --Perfect, Naked Spatula Monkeys

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this is the lullaby for us nothing ventured nothing shared a muddy ending to our season we're both pretending not to care

this is the lullaby for us nothing gained and nothing spared just a song now as we're parting now I offer up this prayer

goodnight, my fallen angel do not think of me at all even now I reach with unsteady hands that will not break your fall --lullaby for us, Naked Spatula Monkeys

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the library shelves are closing in, threatening to topple over on to me, again and overhead the florescent light, too white too bright, struggles with life like me, where do I fit in --let me in, Naked Spatula Monkeys

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I look at the world and I notice it's turning While my guitar gently weeps With every mistake we must surely be learning Still my guitar gently weeps --While My Guitar Gently Weeps, The Beatles

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