and the lilacs drank the water, and the lilacs die

• (waxahatchee - "lilacs")

i'll fill myself back up like i used to do / and if my bones are made of delicate sugar, / i won't end up anywhere good without you

• (waxahatchee - "lilacs")

when i live a sparse existence, i'll drop down in the fold / lean into an urgent falter, spin silence into gold / i run it like the crop of kismet, i run it like a dilettante / i run it like i'm happy, baby, like i got everything i want

• (waxahatchee - "lilacs")

when you see me, i'm honey on a spoon

• (waxahatchee - "can't do much")

watching from a distance, whispering close / about anything else / but it's not that far / i want it all / oh, i want it all

• (waxahatchee - "oxbow")

everyday another tiny apocalypse

• (david byrne - "tiny apocalypse")

little sister gotta take her medicine / baby brother gonna do it all again / run fast but cannot catch the bus / funny feelin, this is part of us

• (david byrne - "tiny apocalypse")

and you must take your medicine (getting better every day) / good for a limited time (feelin' fine)

• (david byrne - "tiny apocalypse")

we will return your things to you / when it's time for you to leave / so quiet nobody knows, tippy toes

• (david byrne - "tiny apocalypse")

my god i'm so lonely / so i open the window / to hear sounds of people

• (mitski - "nobody")

i've been big and small / and big and small / and big and small again / and still nobody wants me / still nobody wants me

• (mitski - "nobody")

and you told me you wanted to eat up my sadness

• (bloc party - "this modern love")

your cage is what you make it / if you decorate it, it goes by faster / goes quick, laughter / permeates the carnage, laying out in sunlight / at daybreak, oh

• (deerhunter - "futurism")

you're such a pinball, yeah, you know it's true / there's always something you come back running to...

• (elliott smith - "speed trials")

but i've only lost what i didn't want

• (ten fe - "coasting")

all my favorite singers couldn't sing

• (silver jews - "we are real")

i like it when we take the long way home

• (moonface - "them call themselves old punks")

and as long as i close my eyes, i'm by myself

• (camp cope - "the omen")

i wish you caught me on a different day (when it was easier to be happy)

• (mac miller - "objects in the mirror")

still gotta wake up and be someone

• (angel olsen - "intern")

just another intern with a resume

• (angel olsen - "intern")

i just wanna be alive, make something real...

• (angel olsen - "intern")

some songs just more for the headphones

• (open mike eagle - "microfiche")

spent the summer wishing it was spring

• (the hold steady - "blackout sam")

on an evening such as this, it's hard to tell if i exist

• (bare naked ladies - "pinch me")

i knew you so long i ran out of cool things to say

• (withered hand - "religious songs")

you went on tour and i went on medication

• (camp cope - "west side story")

you don't weigh me down like you think you do

• (james blake - "choose me")

this ain't a purse, it's a satchel

• (frank ocean - "potato salad")

blew open my mind, now it's an empty room

• (monsters of folk - "temazcal")

when i leave i'll leave in a quiet way

• (slaughter beach, dog - "monsters")

the last time i was here i was somebody else

• (young statues - "somebody else")

he tried to cut me so i'd fit

• (missy higgins - "scar")

cus i'm a little bit tired of fearing that i'll be the bad fruit nobody buys

• (missy higgins - "scar")

moments can be monuments to you / if your life is interesting & true

• (silver jews - "people")

you can't change the feeling but you can change your feeling about the feelings in a second or two

• (silver jews - "people")

i'm studying the ceiling on a little afternoon... and when i paint my dining room, people gonna come around

• (silver jews - "people")

i love to see a rainbow from a garden hose, lit up like the blood of a centerfold / i love the city and the city rain / suburban kids with biblical names

• (silver jews - "people")

i'll put my dreams high on the shelf / i'll have to learn to like myself

• (purple mountains - "maybe i'm the only one for me")

real growth comes from losing your mind

• (lou the human - "blur")

closing time / every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

• (semisonic - "closing time")

why u always at the mall / when u broke?

• (mac miller - "small worlds")

a half full moon in mexico city, i think of you / and when i saw the southern cross, i wished you had, too / i wish my heart was as cold as the morning dew, but it's as warm as saxophones & honey in the sun for you

• (camera obscura - "honey in the sun")

when you said the veins in my left hand were shaped like a tree / was that the very last time you really looked at me? / i'm in training to become as cold as ice

• (camera obscura - "honey in the sun")

the trouble is i got me close to hating me / and when i wake up in the morning, it's your face i see

• (camera obscura - "honey in the sun")

it's late, we turn the tv off / it's old, makes the sound of a salt-shaker / you want to build fires on hot days / feel the coolness of my gaze / i'm a troublemaker

• (camera obscura - "troublemaker")

i'm a float in a summer parade / up the street in the town that you were born in / with a girl at the top wearing tulle & a 'miss somewhere' sash / waving like the queen

• (the weakerthans - "reconstruction site")

and i broke like a bad joke / somebody's uncle told / at a wedding reception in 1972 / where a little boy under a table with cake in his hair / stared at the grown-up feet as they danced and swayed / ...and his father laughed & talked on the long ride home / ...and his mother laughed & talked on the long ride home / and he thought about how everyone dies someday / and when tomorrow gets here, where will yesterday be? / and he fell asleep in his brand-new winter coat

• (the weakerthans - "reconstruction site")

buy me a shiny new machine / that runs on lies & gasoline / and all those batteries we stole from smoke alarms

• (the weakerthans - "reconstruction site")

and this entire song