all my favourite songs of 2016 on spotify.

January

• I know that in me there's still a place that fulfills me, a sanctity here that I call home, I run to when winter descends. If I try, can I find solid ground or am I just wasting time? epica, solitary ground. ♫
• You were red and you liked me because I was blue. You touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky, and you decided purple just wasn't for you. halsey, colors. ♫
• You taught me the courage of stars before you left, how light carries on endlessly, even after death. With shortness of breath, you explained the infinite. How rare and beautiful it is to even exist. I'd give anything to hear you say it one more time, that the universe was made just to be seen by my eyes. sleeping at last, saturn. ♫

February

• Every beat of your heart tore the lies all apart, made foundations quiver. Every wave in the lake caused the porcelain to break and I shiver. epica, feint. ♫
• Her eyes fell while the shame was written on her face when she realised her failures could never be undone again. epica, run for a fall. ♫
• You will regret every life you've destroyed; blaming the whole world will never make you stronger. epica, victims of contingency. ♫

March

• Instrumental track. epica, the fifth guardian. ♫
• I always had that dream like my daddy before me, so I started writing songs, I started writing stories. Something about that glory just always seemed to bore me cause only those I really love will ever really know me. lukas graham, 7 years. ♫

April

• Instrumental track. epica, the fifth guardian. ♫
• There was an earthquake, here was an avalanche of change. We were so afraid, we cried ourselves a hurricane. sleeping at last, earth. ♫
• Instrumental track. bear mccreary, the marriage contract. ♫
• The cry goes out, they lose their minds for us and how it plays out; now we're in the ring and we're coming for blood. lorde, glory and gore. ♫
• Your beauty is beyond compare with flaming locks of auburn hair, with ivory skin and eyes of emerald green. the common linnets & the bosshoss, jolene. ♫
• Now bring my boys in; their skin in craters like the moon - the moon we love like a brother, while he glows through the room. lorde, team. ♫