ON AIMLESSNESS

• I'm totally not down with Rob's Alien, Minus the Bear

So I swim out as far as I can, float on my back, wait for nothing, I'll jut stay out here until the night comes crashing down

• Wise up, Aimee Mann

It's not what you thought, when you first began it, you got what you want, you can hardly stand it though, by now you know, it's not going to stop, til you wise up...it's not going to stop, so just, give up

• Somedays, Regina Spektor

Somedays aren't yours at all, they come and go and they're someone else's days

ON TRYING TO FORGET

• Silver, Josh Pyke

Check the ashes on my history, I can't leave them alone, sometimes I wish they could rot down below, but on the contrary, these fires flourish in me...I lay, just for awake, you catch the Sun and throw it down on my face, I know you're plotting my course, still influencing my dreams silver seahorse

• A sorta fairytale, Tori Amos

I didn't know that we could break a silver lining, and I'm so sad, like a good book I can't put this day back, a sorta fairytale with you

• Kissing the lipless, the Shins

It's hard to leave all these moments behind

ON LOVE

• Sew My Name, Josh Pyke

I'm always thinking about you, and how you always wear me well...try to rationalise this thing we've never seen before...there's only one truth that I know, it's that the stitches that we made are the best that I've ever sewn

• Waiting for tonight, Tom Petty

I'm fighting with my thoughts, I'm gonna trust my intuition, I'm gonna hope I don't get lost...for sometime I've been lonely, I've been too weak to fight

ON LOSING LOVE AND LONELINESS

• Sunlight (for Bronwyn), Epicure

I know I'm nothing much to speak of, I'm broken in so many places, here's my heart be gentle when you're breaking it

• F-Word, Jens Lekman

Would you stand up for this kind of beauty, cause this kind of beauty, won't stand up for you, won't lift a finger for some lazy dreamer, here comes, the average dirty word pardon my French

ON REGRET

• Call it off, Tegan and Sara

Maybe I could have been something you'd be good at, maybe you could have been something I'd be good at, but now we'll never know, I won't be sad but in case I go there everyday to make myself feel bad there's a chance I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do

ON OBSESSION

• Dig, Incubus

We all have a sickness that cleverly detaches and multiples, we all have something that digs in us

ON DEPRESSION

• 23, Jimmy Eat World

I won't always love these selfish things, I won't always live in my regret

• Charlie Number 2, Whitlams

You're killing your soul with an audience looking on...you're not the only one you're going to hurt...if you don't believe me, I don't believe in you

ON DEATH

• Magic, Ben Folds

From the back of your big brown eyes, I knew you'd be gone as soon as you could and I hoped you would...we could see you weren't yourself, and the lines on your face did tell you'd never be yourself, again...stars in your eyes, free from the life that you knew, trading places with an angel now