- "Because the radio will still play loud, songs that we heard as our guards came down." - Boomboxes and Dictionaries
- "All is forgiven, water under bridges now." - Boomboxes and Dictionaries
- "You were gonna be my Judy Garland. We were gonna share your Tin Man heart." - I Could'a Been a Contender
- "And in this unstable arena of what's left or become of my America, I'm asking this dance so come take my hand." - We Came to Dance
- "And if they end it all by the end of tonight, if the big bomb drops down over this quiet Edison sky, we'll blow one last kiss to all the beautiful nights like this under these Central Jersey skies." - We Came to Dance
- "If I'm not your kind, then don't tell a soul." - We Came to Dance
- "We were scared and tired and barely seventeen, and my first sin was the fear that made me old." - The Navesink Banks
- "And she says, 'Your first sin was a lie you told yourself.'" - The Navesink Banks
- "I was a boy on the lawn, with his eyes to the sky. You were Garbo, smoke, and deceit. And it was Saturday, September, and fire. It was a backdrop set in your smile." - Red in the Morning
- "Say goodbye, say goodbye, give a kiss and a sigh. Never, never, never bring me back to your mind. Let it slide, slide, roll off your mind like I was a movie you'd seen." - Red in the Morning
- "This was the sound of the very last gang in town as heard by my wild, young heart like directions on a cold, dark night." - I'da Called You Woody, Joe
- "And I carried these songs like a comfort wherever I'd go." - I'da Called You Woody, Joe
- "We lived those nights like we were dying." - Angry Johnny and the Radio
- "And I always have remembered, in case you're wondering, 84 takes a lifetime." - Angry Johnny and the Radio
- "I don't drive nowhere without the radio on. We always loved the sad, sad songs." - Angry Johnny and the Radio
- "But in my heart I'm the weary kind. I'm much too tired to cry, though it's sad enough for tears." - Drive
- "And tonight, for the first time, it felt good to be alive." - Drive
- "We swore the world couldn't break us even when the world took us down." - We're Getting a Divorce, You Keep the Diner
- "Were the things that we wanted when we were still sixteen only passing and fleeting, or just too far out of reach?" - We're Getting a Divorce, You Keep the Diner
- "Some hearts are gallows. I'm not here for hanging around." - We're Getting a Divorce, You Keep the Diner
- "It's all right, man. I'm only bleeding, man. Stay hungry, stay free, and do the best you can." - We're Getting a Divorce, You Keep the Diner
- "Ain't nobody got the blues like me." - Red at Night
- "Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over? Did you hear your favorite song one last time?" - The '59 Sound
- "If I could write, I'd tell you how much I miss these nights." - Old White Lincoln
- "And I miss her sometimes, shaking like a leaf on the corner of life." - Old White Lincoln
- "Some boys forget what the heartache brings. And the pounding in the street was your heart in 4/4 time and the taste of defeat was never too far from your mind." - High Lonesome
- "I always kinda sorta wished I looked like Elvis. And in my head, there's all these classic cars and outlaw cowboy bands. I always kinda sorta wished I was someone else." - High Lonesome
- "'At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet.' It's a pretty good song, maybe you know the rest. Maybe you know the rest." - High Lonesome
- "I've been less right than wrong. I've lost so much blood in the falling out." - Film Noir
- "So why don't you sing to me on this long drive home? Let the sound of your voice sway sweet and slow as we go down, down, down from our youth to the ground." - Miles Davis and the Cool
- "If you call, I will answer. I'm open ears though tired eyes, but the world closed its arms on us now." - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
- "Meet me by the river's edge. We're going to wash these sins away or else we won't come back again." - Meet Me by the River's Edge
- "And I'm not sure if we belong here, if I ever really left, or if I can go home." - Meet Me by the River's Edge
- "No retreat, no regrets." - Meet Me by the River's Edge
- "But boys will be boys, and girls have those eyes that can cut you to ribbons sometimes." - Here's Looking At You, Kid
- "In the backseats of burned-out cars, in the disenchantment lane, the ideal angels twist and turn and ask forgiveness for future mistakes." - The Backseat
- "And if you never let me go, well, I will never let you down." - The Backseat
- "You tell me yours and I'll tell you mine, my dear, and we'll bury these old ghosts here." - Señor And The Queen
- "Are you dying to move or are you dying to be the one moved?" - Señor And The Queen
- "Now I got scars like the number of stars." - Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?
- "And I got nothing for you, darling, but a story to tell about the rain on the pavement and the sound as it fell." - Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?
- "I need a Cadillac ride, I need a soft summer night." - Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?
- "'Cause everybody's shaking like the end of the world, and everybody's waiting on the end of the world, and I ain't got a friend, baby, left in the world. Don't make me dance all night alone." - Say I Won't (Recognize)
- "Still we sing with our heroes, 33 rounds per minute. We're never going home until the sun says we're finished. I'll love you forever if I ever love at all." - Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts
- "Look what you started. I seem to be coming out of my skin. And look what you've forgotten here. The bandages just don't keep me in." - American Slang
- "Look at the damage. The fortunes came for the richer men, while we're left with gallows just waiting for us liars to come down and hang." - American Slang
- "Twenty-five years gone just an hour ago and Momma never told me there'd be days like these 'til it was much too late to recover." - Stay Lucky
- "Stop clicking your red heels and wishing for home. I'm hearing that he tells you he can read your palms. Is he better than my love?" - Bring It On
- "Did you grow up lonesome and one-of-a-kind? Were your records all you had to pass the time? Or maybe you were were taken by the mysteries in New Orleans or the uptight, rowdy girls in Lower Chelsea." - The Queen of Lower Chelsea
- "Did you grow up a good girl? Your daddy's pride? Did you make all the right moves, take all the right drugs, right on time? American girls, they want the whole world. They want every last little light in New York City." - The Queen of Lower Chelsea
- "I have given you the fire of my youth and the triumph o'er my enemies." - Orphans
- "Goodbye fair weather home and your faithless factories. I have given you the blood and the truth from the wounds that they laid onto me. And whatever they left, I kept it for my own heart." - Orphans
- "We were orphans before we were ever the sons of regret." - Orphans
- "And now my lights, they never go down. They waltz the moon and stars for me now. So you can find some local libertine to take your daughters out on the town. And I can feel it in my aging bones, how the sound of the rain mixes up into the fountains where I drank my hero's blood." - Orphans
- "No, the clothes I wore just don't fit my soul anymore." - Orphans
- "Got your pride and your prose tucked just like a Tommy Gun somewhere in the smoke just in case you need it." - Boxer
- "There was something heavy holding me down and there were whispers that were driving you crazy, until you hunt the heart of this town." - Boxer
- "My teenage heart pumped all my misery, baby, to fingertips that might ignite. And all along you knew my story, didn't you? And all night long I carried yours." - Old Haunts
- "So don't sing me your songs about the good times. Those days are gone and you should just let them go. And God help the man who says, 'If you'd have known me when...' Old haunts are for forgotten ghosts." - Old Haunts
- "Old haunts are all we've ever known." - Old Haunts
- "Not another soul could love you like my rotten bones do." - The Spirit of Jazz
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