• A Stone by Okkervil River

"You love a stone, because it’s smooth and it’s cold. And you’d love most to be told that it’s all your own. You love white veins, you love hard grey, the heaviest weight, the clumsiest shape, the earthiest smell, the hollowest tone - you love a stone."

• Tiny Vessels by Death Cab for Cutie

"This is the moment that you know That you told her that you loved her but you don't. You touch her skin and then you think That she is beautiful but she don't mean a thing to me."

• Let Me Touch You for a While by Alison Krause
• Pool Shark by Sublime

"now i've got the needle and i can shake but i can't breathe i take it away but i want more, and more one day i'm gonna lose the war"

(and then he did)

• Lucy by Aesop Rock
• Bubbly by Colbie Calliat (for personal reasons)
• Twilight by Elliott Smith
• Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd (or the cover by Rasputina)
• The Child is Gone by Fiona Apple

"I ran my hand over a strange inversion A vacancy that just did not belong The child is gone"

• Untouchable Face by Ani DiFranco

"tell you the truth i prefer the worst of you too bad you had to have a better half she's not really my type but i think you two are forever and i hate to say it but you're perfect together

so fuck you and your untouchable face and fuck you for existing in the first place and who am i that i should be vying for your touch and who am i i bet you can't even tell me that much"

• Sign of the Zodiac by Rasputina

"Do you beleve in the Signs of the Zodiac? Haven't you found that the systems for Planning always fail? Can you avoid what gave Daddy his heart attack? Have you tried everything, anything All to no avail? I know what you need. This will really work. In ancient times, if you were sick They make you bleed. Oh, honey I know it hurts."

• Tear by Tori Amos

"I don't believe you're leaving Cause me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream I think it's that girl And I think they're pieces of me you've never seen Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen"

• crescent moon by cowboy junkies

"`Won't you come with me', she said, `there's plenty of room in my iron bed You're looking cold and tired and more than a little human I know I'm not part of the life you had planned, but I think once your body feels my hand your mind will change and your heart will lose its pain'"