• I intentionally wrote it out to be an illegible mess. (Death Cab For Cutie, _Information Travels Faster_)
• A storm at sea, bow cracked and I was capsizing, I sunk below where I swore I would never go. (Death Cab For Cutie, _Pity and Fear_)
• Barefoot in the shallow creek, I grabbed some stones from underneath and waited for you to speak to me. (Death Cab For Cutie, _Bixby Canyon Bridge_)
• It's just an escape, it's overrated anyways. (Death Cab For Cutie, _Blacking Out The Friction_)
• synapse to synapse: the possibility's thin. (Death Cab For Cutie, _Company Calls Epilogue_)
• how I know your face, all the ways you move; I can read you, you're my favorite book. (Stars, _My Favorite Book_)
• When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire. (Stars, _Your Ex-Lover Is Dead_)
• I counted all the lights, they don't shine as bright, they don't pierce the night like you do. (Stars, _The Aspidistra Flies_)
• I dreamed you were a cosmonaut of the space between our chairs, and I was a cartographer of the tangles in your hair. (Andrew Bird)
• You're riding on the para-success of a heavy-handed metaphor and feeling like you've been here before. (Andrew Bird)
• Being alone, it can be quite romantic, like Jacques Cousteau underneath the Atlantic. (Andrew Bird, _Lull_)
• I'm all for moderation, but somtimes it seems, moderation itself can be kind of extreme. (Andrew Bird, _Lull_)
• I'm rambling on rather self consciously while I'm stirring these condiments into my tea. (Andrew Bird, _Lull_)
• But on the days and nights its hard to breathe and you can't believe you still walk the streets, stretch out your weary hand to me. (Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, _Little Dawn_)
• I'm not the great communicator that I used to be, apparently. (Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, _Great Communicator_)
• Goodbye to Rosie, the queen of Corona. (Simon & Garfunkel, _Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard_)
• Sail on, silvergirl. Sail on by. (Simon & Garfunkel, _Bridge Over Troubled Water_)
• I'd rather be a hammer than a nail. (Simon & Garfunkel, _El Condor Pasa, If I Could_)
• Oh Cecilia, you're breaking my heart, you're shaking my confidence daily. (Simon & Garfunkel, _Cecilia_)
• The monkeys stand for honesty, giraffes are insincere, and the elephants are kindly but they're dumb. Orangutans are skeptical of changes in their cages, and the zookeeper is very fond of rum. Zebras are reactionaries, antelopes are missionaries, pigeons plot in secrecy, and hamsters turn on frequently. (Simon & Garfunkel, _At The Zoo_)
• I've been losing lots of keys lately, I don't know what that means, but maybe I'd be better off with things that can't be locked at all. (Jack Johnson, _Losing Keys_)
• But if we're the ones to blame then the fruit shouldn't taste so good. (Jack Johnson, _They Do, They Don't_)
• I'm falling in love with you, balloons or no balloons. (The Format, _Janet_)
• I was on your porch last night, the smoke sank into my skin. (The Format, _On Your Porch_)
• I love love, I love being in love, I don't care what it does to me. (The Format, _Inches and Falling_)
• A re-arranger of the proverbial bookshelf. (Ingrid Michaelson, _Die Alone_)
• Something tastes different, maybe it's my tongue. Something tastes different, suddenly I'm not so young. (Ingrid Michaelson, _Die Alone_)
• The rock candy's melted, only diamonds now remain. (John Mayer, _Clairty_)
• I want to live in the center of a circle, I want to live on the side of a square. (John Mayer, _Home Life_)
• Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever, and when it rained I'd be the talk of the day. (John Mayer, _Sucker_)
• So go and drift away from me, adopt some new philosophy that doesn't hold the two of us in mind. (John Mayer, _Another Kind Of Green_)
• I don't know this sea of neon, thousand surfers, whiffs of freon. (Rufus Wainwright, _California_)
• I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down, going to a place that has already been disgraced. (Rufus Wainwright, _Going To A Town_)
• Every kind of love, or at least my kind of love, must be an imaginary love to start with. (Rufus Wainwright, _Imaginary Love_)
• We were walking just the other day, and it was so hot outside you could fry an egg. (Dave Matthews Band,)
• Just love will open our eyes, just love will put the hope back in our minds. Much more than we could ever know, so don't burn the day away. (Dave Matthews Band)
• Rolling stone gathers no moss, but leaves a trail of busted stuff. (Dave Matthews Band, _Busted Stuff_)
• sometimes I'd stand by the royal walls, the sky'd be so big that it broke my soul. (Regina Spektor, _Oedipus_)
• I've woken up once and I've woken up twice and I've woken up millions and millions of times. (Regina Spektor, _A Cannon_)
• Everything is plastic and everyone's sarcastic. (Regina Spektor, _Ghost Of Corporate Future_)
• this story's old but it goes on and on until we disappear ... I am the one who haunts your dreams of mountains sunk below the sea. (Brand New, _Play Crack The Sky_)
• Is that what you call a getaway? Tell me what you got away with, 'cause I've seen more spine in jellyfish, seen more guts in eleven-year-old kids. (Brand New)
• Wasting words on lowercases and capitals. (Brand New)
• Call me a safe bet, I'm betting I'm not. (Brand New, _The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot_)
• you are calm and reposed, let your beauty unfold, pale white like the skin stretched over your bones. spring keeps you ever close, you are second hand smoke. you are so fragile and thin, standing trial for your sins, holding onto yourself the best you can. you are the smell before the rain, you are the blood in my veins. (Brand New, _The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot_)
• Last night, I swallowed liquor and a lighter, and this morning I threw up fire. (Brand New)
• well I wrote your name and burned it to see the color of the flame, and it burned out the whole spectrum as if you were everything. mine just burned gold, a normal flame. I am not anything. (Brand New, _Untitled 01_)
• I am heaven sent, don't you dare forget. I am all you ever wanted, what all the other boys ever promised ... I think in decimals and dollars, I am the cause to all your problems ... I hope this song starts a craze. the kind of song that ignites the airwaves ... this is war. every line is about who I don't want to write about anymore. (Brand New, _Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't_)
• We have one chance, one chance to get everything right. (Modest Mouse, _One Chance_)
• I've seen so many ships sail in, just to head back out again and go off sinking. I'm just a box in a cage. (Modest Mouse, _One Chance_)
• And it's true we named our children after towns that we've never been to. And it's true that the clouds just hung around like black Cadillacs outside a funeral. (Modest Mouse, _Black Cadillacs_)
• I like songs about drifters, books about the same. they boy seem to make me feel a little less insane. (Modest Mouse, _The World At Large_)
• The universe is shaped exactly like the earth, if you go straight long enough youll end up where you were. (Modest Mouse, _3rd Planet_)
• Look how low I've sunk, don't ask me to rise. I'll lose you when I'm high, all alone in the dark. (Azure Ray, _Rise_)
• So it's grey, well so are my favorite cities. (Azure Ray, _Favorite Cities)
• Perhaps heartstrings resuscitate. (Interpol, _Public Pervert_)
• So swoon, baby, starry nights. (Interpol, _Public Pervert_)
• Black Goddess, Red Goddess, White temptress of the sea, you treat me right. Oh my love we are sailing to Norway, oh my love we're leaving tonight. (Interpol, _Take You On A Cruise_)
• I ran from the desert with rocks on my feet, I couldn't run fast enough, I'll admit my defeat. (Forest City Lovers)
• I feel so tall when I'm with you, tiptoes and all, I never feel small. We found red hearts beating fast, I want this to last, I want this to last. (Forest City Lovers, _Mermaids_)

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• "My whole existence is flawed." - Nine Inch Nails
• "I was meant to tread the water, but now I've gotten in too deep." - James Morrison
• "And she went to see a mystic who made medicine from rain." - Bright Eyes
• "These things take forever, I especially am slow." - Bright Eyes
• "I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones." - Ben Harper
• "Out there you don't hear the echoes and calls." - Cake
• "It's hard to argue when you won't stop making sense." - Snow Patrol
• "And after I have travelled so far, we'd set the fire to the third bar." - Snow Patrol
• "It's not that we're scared, it's just that it's delicate." - Damien Rice
• "I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in and stops my mind from wandering." - The Beatles
• "A warning sign, came back to haunt me and I realized that you were an island and I passed you by." - Coldplay
• "Nobody said it was easy, but nobody said it would be so hard." - Coldplay
• "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year. Running over the same old ground, what have we found? Wish you were here." - Pink Floyd
• "Most days I spend like a child, who's afraid of ghosts in my mind." - Amos Lee
• "You said I must eat so many lemons, 'cause I am so bitter." - Kate Nash
• "My scream got lost in a paper cup." - Tori Amos
• "Of all the intersecting lines in the sand." - The Shins
• "A thousand different versions of yourself." - The Shins
• "Seems like it always seems, where I go I want to leave." - matt pond PA
• "Ready to bolt at the first glimpse of failsafe, signing my checks with a name that's not mine." - The New Pornographers
• "I was happy in my harbor until you cut me loose." - KT Tunstall
• "I'm finally feeling the stitching of beautiful seams." - Tilly & The Wall
• "Like seven inches from the midday sun." - Santana
• "The fire is out anyway." - RENT
• "She only drinks coffee at midnight, when the moment is not right." - Train
• "Funny how my favorite shirts smell more like you than me." - Norah Jones
• "So your revenge on the world will be pencils through your curls." - OK Go
• "You don't have to be alone to be lonely, you might as well give in." - OK Go
• "She burns like the sun, and I can't look away, and she'll burn our horizons make no mistake." - Muse
• "I irrigate illusions and let them grow." - Yael Naïm
• "désolé, even if I scream, I can't scream that loud." - Damien Rice
• "I'm something like stormy weather... I'm also the sunlight, that shines shortly after. I just rain because I have to." - Gnarls Barkley
• "It's not raining cats, it's not raining dogs, and pigs are not flying, or turning the cogs. The sun has no hat on, whenever it shines, and I've never seen a cat with nine lives. I'm not in a film, I'm not in a play, I saw no aliens today - I just saw you, and thought of me." - Guillemots
• "And if I had you, all the stars wouldn't fall from the sky, and the moon wouldn't start to cry." - Guillemots
• "I will sing to you of greater things - money, gold and diamond rings." - My Morning Jacket
• "I'm gonna sing this song with all of my friends, and we're all from Barcelona." - I'm From Barcelona
• "I met a girl on Halloween, when she was lost and I was drunk, and it was dark and cold out when we left." - Sea Wolf
• "Black dirt will stain your feet and when you walk you'll leave black dirt in the street." - Sea Wolf
• "And now I hear your name every where I go, but I'm the quiet, polar, quiet, bear." - Seabear
• "just like a paper tiger, torn apart by idle hands, through the helter skelter morning, fix yourself while you still can." - Beck
• "Tonight I got your number, I even know your street. If you could only need me I know we're meant to meet." - Junior Boys
• "Oh Bryn, you see in the dark, right past the fireflies that sleep in my heart." - Vampire Weekend
• "Along the way, tears drown in the wake of delight, there's nothing like this built today, you'll never see a finer ship in your life." - Interpol
• "Have I been on your mind? What's a voice without a song? Something in your head You've been fighting all along..." - Metric
• "And when we meet on a cloud, I'll be laughing out loud, I'll be laughing with everyone I see." - Neutral Milk Hotel
• "If you go away on this summer day, then you might as well take the sun away." - Frank Sinatra
• "Tremor of light, the sky, a porcelain wall. Landing at Heathrow, a Tuesday in the fall, you are sleeping next to me. I just let go your hand, I hope I can go through with this, I hope you understand. I leave you dreaming in row twelve, run quickly down the escalator. At customs I am first in line, you wake now, it's three minutes later, I am gone." - Stars, The Vanishing
• "God that was strange to see you again, introduced by a friend of a friend. Smiled and said 'yes I think we've met before', in that instant it started to pour. Captured a taxi despite all the rain, we drove in silence across Pont Champlain, and all of the time you thought I was sad, I was trying to remember your name. This scar is a fleck on my porcelain skin, tried to reach deep but you couldn't get in, now you're outside me, you see all the beauty, repent all your sins." - Stars, Your Ex-Lover Is Dead

I need to reorganize this list...

• Subject titles:
• The reasons, like seasons, they constantly change.
• All you ever hear me say is how I picture me with you.
• Wish for the time right before I was born.
• Have another drink my dark-eyed beauty.
• The years go on and we're still fighting it.
• What a day for a daydream.
• Golden slumbers fill your eyes.
• But I'm the quiet, polar, quiet, bear.
• I thought I saw you breathing.
• Rendering me freakish and dazed.
• The cheerless pyre will set alight.
• Let the stormy clouds chase everyone from the place.
• These squaking birds won't quit.
• Come with me, go places.
• Trying to repair it any way you can.
• The blues are still blue.