• 'Well there was a time when you let me know / What's really going on below / But now you never show that to me do you? / But remember when I moved in you? / And the holy dove was moving too, / And every breath we drew was hallelujah.' -'Hallelujah', Jeff Buckley

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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 outdrew you. / It's not a cry that you hear at night. / And it's not somebody who's seen the light; / It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.' -'Hallelujah', Jeff Buckley

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• 'There's a long, long trail a-winding / Into the land of my dreams, / Where the nightingales are singing, / And a white moon beams. / There's a long, long night of waiting / Until my dreams all come true, / Till the day when I'll be going / Down that long, long trail with you.' -'There's a Long Long Trail', old WWI standard

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• 'Wake up in the morning, stumble on my life / Can't get no love without sacrifice / If anything should happen, I guess I wish you well / A little bit of heaven, but a little bit of hell.' -'Happy Ending', Mika

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• 'If love is a labor I'll slave till the end. / I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand.' -'Swing Life Away', Rise Against

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• 'All of these lines across my face / Tell you the story of who I am / So many stories of where I've been / And how I got to where I am / But these stories don't mean anything / When you've got no one to tell them to / It's true, I was made for you.' -'The Story', Brandi Carlile

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• 'You see the smile that's on my mouth / It's hiding the words that don't come out. / And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed / They don't know my head is a mess.' -'The Story', Brandi Carlile

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• 'Now keep this line open to get this call from you / Speak the words that keep me coming back to you' -'Everchanging', Rise Against

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• 'I'm not a telephone junkie. / If I'm inserting my coin I'm doing just fine. / And the things in my head start hurtin' my mind.' -'No Action', Elvis Costello

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• 'Maybe some day we can go hiding from this world.' -'Party Girl', Elvis Costello

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• 'Theres a smart young woman on a light blue screen / Who comes into my house every night. / And she takes all the red, yellow, orange and green / And she turns them into black and white.' -'Green Shirt', Elvis Costello

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• 'Better send a begging letter to the big investigation. / Who put these fingerprints on my imagination?' -'Green Shirt', Elvis Costello

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• 'Sono sola in una stanza / Con una speranza riguarda noi.' -'Riguarda Noi', Giorgia

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• 'Your skin, your skin and bones / Turn into something beautiful / Do you know? For you I bleed myself dry / For you I bleed myself dry.' -'Yellow', Coldplay

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• 'The city's aflood and our love turns to rust. / We're beaten and blown by the wind, trampled in dust. / I'll show you a place high on a desert plain / Where the streets have no name.' -'Where the Streets Have No Name', U2

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• 'He's leaving on that midnight train to Georgia, / And he's goin' back to a simpler place and time. / And I'll be with him on that midnight train to Georgia; / I'd rather live in his world than live without him in mine.' -'Midnight Train to Georgia', Gladys Knight and the Pips

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• 'Echoes of songs still lurk on distant foreign shores where we / Danced just to please the gods that only ask for more / And so it goes.' -'The Dirt Whispered', Rise Against

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• 'Corri, non pensare ai guai / Hanno fiato corto ormai / Li supererai.' -'Corri', Anna Tatangelo

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• 'Vivi, vivi, vivi davvero / I buoni, i cattivi, i vinit, ed i vivi- / Non c'e' ideale che valga una guerra/Combatti ogni piccolo e grande tormenti / Ed esci fuori a gioire di ogni momento.' -'Vivi Davvero', Giorgia

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• 'I keep picking at a scab to see whether the wound is healed / Maybe I'll console myself with a bleacher seat at Wrigley Field / Misery loves company.' -'Half', Elizabeth Bagby

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• 'Ora so che tutto cambia prima o poi / E l'amore a volte cambia favola / Che la fiamma brucera' solo se vuoi / Che la vita devi prenderla cosi.' -'Via col Vento', Giorgia

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• 'E ti ricordi le lune che abbiamo cercato / E l'innocenza che abbiamo perduto / E dimenticato. / Adesso lo sai.' -'Lacrime Amare', Giorgia

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• 'You made yourself a bed at the bottom of the blackest hole / And convinced yourself that it's not the reason you don't see the sun anymore' -'When It Rains', Paramore

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• 'If only time flew like a dove / We could watch it fly and just keep looking up.' -'Hallelujah', Paramore

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• 'She says I'm okay; I'm alright, / Though you have gone from my life / You said that it would, / Now everything should be all right.' -'If I Ever Leave This World Alive', Flogging Molly

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• 'Ma c'e' ancora qualcosa che non so di te / Al centro del tuo cuore / Che c'e'?' -'Come Musica', Jovanotti

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• 'E come un girasole io ti seguirò / E mille volte ancora ti sorprenderò / E come un girasole guardo solo te / Quando sorridi tu mi lasci senza fiato.' -'Girasole', Giorgia

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• 'With just one kiss you could change the world, / It might not be much better but it certainly couldn't hurt.' -Walk or Ride', the Ditty Bops

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• 'Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable / And lightness has a call that's hard to hear. / I wrap my fear around me like a blanket. / I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it. / I'm crawling on your shores.' -'Closer to Fine', Indigo Girls

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• 'I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m. / To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend / And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board / Twice as cloudy as Id been the night before / And I went in seeking clarity.' -'Closer to Fine', Indigo Girls

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• 'Well sometimes I go out by myself and I look across the water / And I think of all the things, what you're doing and in my head I make a picture.' -'Valerie', the Zutons

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• 'Cause since I've come on home, well my body's been a mess / And I've missed your ginger hair and the way you like to dress / Won't you come on over, stop making a fool out of me / Why won't you come on over Valerie?' -'Valerie', the Zutons

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• 'Do just what I tell you / And no one will get hurt. / Don't come any closer / Cause I don't know how long I can hold my heart in two.' -'Psychobabble', Frou Frou

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• 'I tell myself too many times / Why don't you ever learn to keep your big mouth shut. / That's why it hurts so bad to hear the words / That keep on falling from your mouth.' -'Why', Annie Lennox

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• 'This is the book I never read / These are the words I never said / This is the path I'll never tread / These are the dreams I'll dream instead / This is the joy that's seldom spread / These are the tears, the tears we shed / This is the fear / This is the dread / These are the contents of my head.' -'Why', Annie Lennox

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• 'And each and everyday will lead into tomorrow; / Tomorrow brings one less day without you. / But don't wait up just leave the light on / 'Cause all the roads that I might take / Will all one day lead back to you.' -'Like the Angel', Rise Against

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• 'And I don't think you see the places inside me that I find you, / And I don't know how we separate the lies here from the truth.' -'Roadside', Rise Against

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• 'Shadow is burnt, yellow dance and return / My lashes are dry - purple teardrops I cry/It don't have a price.' -'Paparazzi', Lady Gaga

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• 'Saw you twice at the pop show / You taste just like glitter mixed with rock and roll.' -'Boys Boys Boys', Lady Gaga

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• 'My mouth by then like cardboard / Seemed to slip straight through my head / So we crash-dived straightway quickly / And attacked the ocean bed.' -'Whiter Shade of Pale', Procol Harum

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• 'And so you see that I'm completely crazy / I even shun the south of France. / The people on the hill, they say I'm lazy / But when they sleep, I sing and dance.' -'Blue, Red, and Grey', the Who

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• 'And love is not convenient / It does not cease at your command. / You might take or leave it / But love is all I am.' -'Love is all I Am', Dawes

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• 'Somewhere there's music / How faint the tune / Somewhere there's heaven / How high the moon."' -'How High the Moon', Les Paul & Mary Ford

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• 'Lonely is the room the bed is made, the open window lets the rain in / Burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him / My body turns and yearns for a sleep that won't ever come.' -'Lover, You Should Have Come Over', Jeff Buckley

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• 'It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder / It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when I slept so soft against her / It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter / It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever.' -'Lover, You Should Have Come Over', Jeff Buckley

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• 'I feel too young to hold on / And I'm much too old to break free and run / Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage I've done / Sweet lover, you should have come over.' -'Lover, You Should Have Come Over', Jeff Buckley

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• 'The flesh that lived and loved will be eaten by plague / So let the memories be good for those who stay.' -'Winter Winds', Mumford and Sons

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• 'And if your strife strikes at your sleep / Remember spring swaps snow for leaves / You'll be happy and wholesome again / When the city clears and sun ascends.' -'Winter Winds', Mumford and Sons

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• 'Darkness is a harsh term don't you think / Yet it dominates the things I see.' -'Roll Away Your Stone', Mumford and Sons

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• 'I've just got one question / Answer me if you could / How can so much trouble / Look so god damn good?' -'Here's to the Meantime', Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

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• 'So come sit down beside me / With a dollar and a dime / And we'll drink away our fortunes / Here's to the meantime.' -'Here's to the Meantime', Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

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• 'This is the mystery of the quotient / Upon us all a little rain must fall / It's just a little rain.' -'The Rain Song', Led Zeppelin

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• 'The storms are raging on the rolling sea / And on the highway of regret. / Though winds of change are throwing wild and free, / You ain't seen nothing like me yet.' -'Make You Feel My Love', Bob Dylan/Adele

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• 'If you've got visions of the past / Let them follow you down / They'll come back to you some day. / And I found myself attached to this railroad track / But I'll come back to you some day.' -'Ghost Town', First Aid Kit

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• 'But I can give you the constellations / Lay down here and we'll count them all.' -'Madeline and Nine', Mike Doughty