- "Tonight I'm tangled in my blanket of clouds, dreaming aloud. Things just won't do without you, matter of fact"...."If you'd accept surrender, give up some more."--Walking After You, the Foo Fighters.
- "I watched the sun go down, in the moonlight you walk like a spotlight."--You Got to Move, Heatmiser
- "I get on the train and I just stand about now that I don't think of you I keep falling over I keep passing out when I see a face like you, What am I coming to?"--Black Star, Radiohead
- "I'm not a haunted mind, I'm not a thoughtless kind."--At Night, Buffalo Tom.
- "Well let me tell you about the way she looked, the way she acted and the color of her hair, her voice was soft and cool, her eyes where clear & bright, but she's not there."-She's not There, The Zombies
- "Talk of yesterday and She will show her Brothers photographed In callous clothes. Say tomorrow and She'll say come find me On a beach, and there will no moon. But say today,
and she will kiss your face And maybe forget."- Iron & Wine
- "And all my sandcastles spending time collapsing. Let me know that you hear me, let me know your touch, let me know that you love me, and let that be enough."--Let That Be Enough, Switchfoot
- "Yet my hands are shaking, I feel my body reeling, times not matter, I'm on fire, on the playground love." --Playground Love, Air.
- "The people you've been before that you don't want around anymore, they push & shove & won't bend to your will. I'll keep them still." --Between the Bars, Elliott Smith
- Remember the time you drove all night Just to meet me in the morning, And I thought it was strange you said everything changed, You felt as if you'd just woke up, And you said “this is the first day of my life I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you but now I don’t care I could go anywhere with you
And I’d probably be happy”-This is the First Day of My Life, Bright Eyes.
- This town don't feel mine. I'm fast to get away. I dressed you in her clothes, now drive me far away. --Be Quiet & Drive, by the Deftones (the Radiohead cover is good, too).