• belle and sebastian - "your cover's blown"
    • "write down a list of things you wanna do / and then you leave it in work because you wanna live a little"
  • ben folds five - "do it anyway"
    • "read me off a list of the things i used to not like / but now i think are ok"
  • bright eyes - "a line allows progress..."
    • "as you try to find one source of light / try to name one thing you like / you used to have such a longer list / and light, you never had to look for it"
  • bright eyes - "let's not xx ourselves..."
    • "now a mother takes loans out, sends her kids off to colleges / her family's reduced to names on a shopping list"
  • bright eyes - "nothing gets crossed out"
    • "it's so hard to focus thru all this doubt / keep making these to-do lists but nothing gets crossed out / working on the record seems pointless now / when the world ends, who's gonna hear it?"
  • counting crows - "cowboys"
    • "this is a list of what i should have been / but i'm not"
  • dear & the headlights - "happy in love"
    • "long list in black pen / happy in love"
  • grizzly bear - "ready, able"
    • "checking it off my list / unable to rewrite"
  • kevin devine - "splitting up christmas"
    • "so i have been thinking of splitting up christmas / to see everyone I'd like to see / and you're first on that list / you're the lotto i hit / you're the star on the top of the tree"
  • lemon jelly - "ramblin' man"
  • los campesinos - "my year in lists"
    • "on your request, i compile a list / of my top 5 resolutions for this year (1!) / i declined cus i decided that i (2!) / do not believe in the new year anymore (3!) / and you must confess that at times like these / hopefulness is tantamount to hopelessness (4!) / and i accept that it's time for a change but not in / places like this with people like these (5!) / my year in lists"
  • phoenix - "lisztomania"
    • "a lisztomania(!) / think less but see it grow"
  • tennis - "timothy"
    • "jot some things down on a list / under the header, 'things to fix'"
  • the format - "the first single"
    • "so let's make a list of who we need and it's not much if anything / let's make a list of who we need and we'll throw it away cus we don't need anyone / no, we don't need anyone"
  • the mountain goats - "commandante"
    • "i got a great big secret written down somewhere / i got a rosary to protect us both from harm / i got a storage locker full of cow figurines / and a laundry list of grievances longer than my arm"
  • the notorious b.i.g. - "10 crack commandments"
    • "#1: never let no one know how much dough you hold"
    • "#2: never let 'em know your next move"
    • "#3: never trust no-bo-dy"
    • "#4: never get high on your own supply"
    • "#5: never sell no crack where you rest at"
    • "#6: that goddamn credit? dead it! you think a crackhead paying you back? shit, forget it!"
    • "#7: this rule is so underrated - keep your family and business completely separated"
    • "#8: never keep no weight on you! them cats that squeeze your guns can hold jums too"
    • "#9: if you ain't gettin' bagged stay the fuck from police"
    • "#10: if you ain't got the clientele, say hell no!"
  • the shins - "a coment appears"
    • "a list of things i could lay the blame on / might give me a way out"
  • tilly & the wall - "bad education"
    • "you smeared on cool lips while checking off a checked off list"
  • vampire weekend - "cousins"
    • "you, 'greatest hits 2006,' little list-maker"
sep 18 2019 ∞
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