- "You'll know it's true that you are blessed and lucky. It's true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you." - 10, 000 Maniacs, These Are the Days
- “Today’s the fourth of July, another June has gone by, and when they light up our town I just think, what a waste of gunpowder and sky” - Aimee Mann, 4th of July
- “This is for the time that I lost, the death of who I thought I was, the things in which I cannot believe, for fear I’ll wear them on my sleeve” - Aimee Mann, I Could Hurt You Now
- “It's a void that I can't fill, an empty space I can't replace, with anything at all” - Air Traffic, Empty Space
- "As if I run fast enough, I can leave all the pain and the sadness behind" - The Alarm, Rain in the Summertime
- "Run around just so I don't have to think about thinking that silent sense of content that everyone gets just disappears 'soon as the sun sets."-Amy Winehouse, Wake Up Alone
- "Driving away from the wreck of the day. And the light's always red in the rear-view. Desperately close to a coffin of hope. I'd cheat destiny just to be near you." - Anna Nalick, Wreck of the Day
- "And maybe I'm not off of being a victim of love. All my resistance will never be distance enough." - Anna Nalick, Wreck of the Day
- “Those eyes have always left me dry” -…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, How Near How Far
- “Popular culture no longer applies to me.” - Art Brut, Bad Weekend
- “The heart is a stone and this is a stone that we throw” - Beach House, 10 Mile Stereo
- "Real love, it finds you somewhere with your back to it"- Beach House, Real Love
- "I read the news today, oh boy." - The Beatles, A Day in the Life
- “If you want me look me up, I don’t exist in usual places”- Belle & Sebastian, Simple Things
- “What did you learn from your time in the solitary cell of your mind?” - Belle and Sebastian, The Boy With the Arab Strap
- "These habits are so hard to break and they're so easy to make." - Beth Orton, Thinking About Tomorrow
- “You’ll be a freak and I’ll keep you company”- Blonde Redhead, For the Damaged
- “Used to be one of the rotten ones and I liked you for that” - Broken Social Scene, Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl
- “But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight, got to kick at the darkness ‘til it bleeds daylight” - Bruce Cockburn, Lovers in a Dangerous Time
- "Feel the city searching for my loneliness in all the dust and glass." - The Clientele, Reflections After Jane
- “I hope that you realize you never are alone” - The Clientele, These Days Nothing but Sunshine
- "Come here, oh my star is fading and I swerve out of control, and I swear I waited and waited I've got to get out of this hole." - Coldplay, Amsterdam
- "You know I'm such a fool for you, you've got me wrapped around your finger, do you have to let it linger?" - The Cranberries, Linger
- "Oh, I thought the world of you, I thought nothing could go wrong but I was wrong, I was wrong." - The Cranberries, Linger
- “I’ll be true, I’ll be useful, I’ll be cavalier, I’ll be yours my dear.” - Dashboard Confessional, As Lovers Go
- “Don’t blink. Everyone’s watching. They’ll think that you’re up to something. They need for you to be everything that they cannot be themselves” - Dashboard Confessional, Morning Calls
- "The space between our wicked lies where we hope to keep safe from pain." - Dave Matthews Band, The Space Between
- “Are you looking for answers to questions, under the stars” - Dave Matthews Band, Where Are You Going
- "This year's love had better last, heaven knows it's high time and I've been waiting on my own too long" - David Gray, This Year's Love
- "What on earth is going on in my head. You know I used to be so sure/ You know I used to be so definite. Thought I knew what love was for. I look around these days and I'm not so sure." - David Gray, My Oh My
- “Oh together there in a shroud of frost, the mountain air, began to pass through every pane of weathered glass, And I held you closer” - Death Cab for Cutie, We Looked Like Giants
- “You and me, babe, how about it?” - Dire Straits, Romeo and Juliet
- “I’m lost in a sweet dream. I’m living on chocolate ice cream” - Dramarama, Emerald City
- “When you were young, did you ever fall down, graze your knee, and want to run to someone,‘cause now that you’re older, I’ve been falling down, I want to run to someone but there’s nobody around” - The Dream Academy, The Edge of Forever
- “I’ve got static in my head the reflected sound of everything” - Elliott Smith, Tomorrow Tomorrow
- "I wish you a hopeful Christmas, I wish you a brave New Year, all anguish pain and sadness, leave your heart and let your road be clear" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer, I Believe in Father Christmas
- "She is like a cat in the dark and then she is the darkness. She rules her life like a fine skylark and when the sky is starless." - Fleetwood Mac, Rhiannon
- "Run in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies" - Fleetwood Mac, The Chain
- "Did she make you cry, make you break down, shatter your illusions of love." - Fleetwood Mac, Gold Dust Woman
- “Something wrong in my stars. Could you look at my chart and help me heal these scars” - Grant Lee Buffalo, Honey Don’t Think
- “But are we all lost stars, trying to light up the dark?” - Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Nick Lashley, & Nick Southwood, Lost Stars
- “I am a lost soul. I shoot myself with rocknroll.” - Guided By Voices, I Am A Scientist
- "My biggest fear will be the rescue of me." - Incubus, Echo
- "have you ever felt that it's someone else living your life? the image of you only better." - Jesus Jones, Who? Where? Why?
- “Like blood in the rain, running thin, while you stand on the inside, looking in” - Joan Armatrading, Save Me
- “And how, can the world want me to change? They're the ones that stay the same” - John Rzeznik, I’m Still Here
- “I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through, I'm ashamed of the person I am.” - Joy Division, Isolation
- “Just something that I knew I had to do, but through it all I kept my eyes on you.” - Joy Division, The Kill
- “Touching from a distance, further all the time” - Joy Division, Transmission
- "Old soul, waitin' my turn I know a few things, but I still got a lot to learn." - Kasey Musgraves, Slow Burn
- “Can anybody find their home?” - Keane, Sunshine
- "I'm falling even more in love with you. Letting go of all I've held onto. I'm standing here until you make me move. I'm hanging by a moment here with you." - Lifehouse, Hanging by a Moment
- "If shame had a face I think it would kind of look like mine, If it had a home would it be my eyes." - Lifehouse, Sick Cycle Carousel
- “We had this garden, and in this garden, there once was potential to grow.” - The Living Blue, Green Thumb
- "I'm afraid of the dark without you close to me." - The Magnetic Fields, 100,000 Fireflies
- "I went out to the forest and caught a hundred thousand fireflies as they ricochet round the room they remind me of your starry eyes." - The Magnetic Fields, 100,000 Fireflies
- “and I could make you fly away but I could never make you stay.” - The Magnetic Fields, All My Little Words
- “I cry because it looks so good, I cry, why not, it's free and there's nothing more interesting than crying constantly” - The Magnetic Fields, Bitter Tears
- “I live on the blue planet that I saw in your eyes but now I can’t stay knowing it’s made of beautiful lies” - The Magnetic Fields, My Sentimental Melody
- “Some things in this world man, they don’t make sense, some things you don’t need until they leave you and they’re things that you miss”- Matchbox Twenty, Bright Lights
- “You ask yourself when will my time come, has it all been said and done, I know I’ll leave when it’s my time to go, ‘til then I’ll carry on with what I know” - Missing Persons, Destination Unknown
- "to make a mountain of your life is just a choice but I never learned enough to listen to the voice that told me always love hate will get you every time always love hate will get you" - Nada Surf, Always Love
- "So put your anger away you're in no danger of dying out and you don't need to be right, it's overrated anyhow." -Nada Surf, Live, Learn and Forget
- “Broke a couple hearts but I’m not trying to start a collection” Natalia Kills, Not in Love
- "Looking for something, knowing that it ain't here where I'm at" - Neil Diamond, Glory Road
- "I remember when I had you and you had so much promise then. You promised me that you would never leave again. To be broken you were made, Adelaide." - Old 97's, Adelaide
- "I was born in the backseat of a mustang on a cold night in a hard rain." - Old 97's, Won't Be Home
- "Stories and cigarettes ruin lives of lesser girls." - Pete Yorn, Strange Condition
- "It’s a strange condition a day in prison it got me out of my head, and I don’t know what I came for." - Pete Yorn, Strange Condition
- "Inside you the time moves and she don't fade the ghost in you she don't fade inside you the time moves and she's living in you" - The Psychedelic Furs, The Ghost in You
- "even dreams must fall to rules so stupidly" - The Psychedelic Furs, Sister Europe
- "And I don't think before I speak and I don't know how far my words reach so wrong nearly every time, that I'm sorry I speak my mind if what I said was unkind." - Sebadoh, On Fire
- “Sometimes it takes all my energy just to forget all the memories that I’d be better off without.” - Semisonic, Never You Mind
- "I'm just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own life." - Sheryl Crow, Everyday is a Winding Road
- “I’ve earned myself an impossible crime I have to paint myself a hole and fall inside” - The Shins, Spilt Needles
- “Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, while I looked around for my possibilities” - Simon & Garfunkel, A Hazy Shade of Winter
- “Half of the time we’re gone, but we don’t know where, and we don’t know where” - Simon & Garfunkel, The Only Living Boy in New York
- "Time's tide will smother you and I will too. When you laugh about people who feel so very lonely their only desire is to die, well, I'm afraid it doesn't make me smile I wish I could laugh." - The Smiths, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
- "I've seen this happen in other people's lives and now it's happening in mine." - The Smiths, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
- ""It's me and the moon," she says. I got no trouble with that but I am a butterfly, you wouldn't let me die "It's me and the moon," she says." - Something Corporate, Me and the Moon
- "You marry a role and you give up your soul till you break down." - Something Corporate, Me and the Moon
- "I'm still loving you but you drag me through this orchestrated mess." - Stellastarr*, Warchild
- “Counting stars wishing I was okay, crashing down was my biggest mistake, I never ever meant to hurt you, I only did what I had to, counting stars again” - Sugarcult, Counting Stars
- "she's beautiful as usual with bruises on her ego and her killer instinct tells her to be aware of evil men" - Sugarcult, Pretty Girl (The Way)
- “My naive illusions distraught by confusion” - Television Personalities, Three Wishes
- "But just like the rain I'll be always falling, yeah, only to rise and fall again" - Thompson Twins, If You Were Here
- "I'm a modern guy, I don't care much for the go-go or the retro" - The Walkmen, We've Been Had
- "Sometimes I'm just happy I'm older." - The Walkmen, We've Been Had
- "When you hate that much do you get in touch with your feelings?" - The Wonder Stuff, Full of Life (Happy Now)
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