Music Quotes!

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"And honestly, I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do. And you've waited so long, and I've waited long enough for you."

~~ Aimee Mann, 'Mr Harris'

 

"Just to prove that I was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers, and you shouldn't try to mix the two. Cuz if you do it and you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you."~~ Liz Phair, 'Divorce Song'

 

"But when you said that wasn't worth talkin to, I had to take your word on that. But if you'd known how that would sound to me, you would've taken it back, and boxed it up and buried it in the ground."~~ Liz Phair, 'Divorce Song'

 

"He brings her flowers in the middle of winter, just to take away the cold"

~~ Division Street, 'Carry the Blame'

 

"I quit - I give up. Nothing's good enough for anybody else it seems. And being alone is the best way to be. When I'm by myself, it's the best way to be. When I'm by myself, nobody else can say goodbye."

~~ Edie Brickell, 'Circle'

 

"I'm going crazy. A little everyday. And everything I wanted is now driving me away. I woke this morning to the sound of breaking hearts. Mine is full of questions and it's tearing your apart."~~ Sheryl Crow, 'Home'

 

"And I'm filling up the negative spaces with positively everything."

~~ Edie Brickell, 'I Do'

 

"Hello it's me. I'm not at home. If you'd like to reach me, leave me alone."

~~ Sheryl Crow, 'A Change Would Do You Good'

 

"Must be love spinning circles in my heart
Must be loneliness that makes life feel so hard
Must be love spinning circles in my heart
Must be loneliness that makes us all fall apart"

~~ Division Street, 'Spinning Circles'

 

"Don't feel bad for everybody's baby, 'cause everybody's baby ain't nobody's gal." ~~Dan Bern, 'Everybody's Baby'

 

"Desperately trying to get you off my mind, but you get off my mind, but ya keep coming back. Love's never easy to lose my friend."

~~ Edie Brickell, 'Keep Coming Back'

 

"i guess that makes me the jerk with the heartache here to sing to you about how i been done wrong." ~~ ani difranco, 'done wrong'

 

"So what if right now everything's wrong?"

~~ Sheryl Crow, 'If It Makes You Happy'

 

"little mister limp dick
is up to his old tricks
and thought he'd call me
one last time
but I'm just about done
with the oh-woe-is-me shit
and i want everything back
that's mine."

~~ ani difranco 'going down'

 

"and before it gets so cold
that the rain turns to snow
there's just a couple things
i'd like to know

like how could you do nothing
and say, i'm doing my best
how could you take almost everything
and then come back for the rest
how could you beg me to stay
reach out your hands and plead
and then pack up your eyes and run away
as soon as i agreed."

~~ ani difranco, 'done wrong'

 

"and now i'm tired
and i am broke
and i feel stupid
and i feel used
and i'm at the end of my little rope
and i'm swinging back and forth about you"

~~ ani difranco, 'done wrong'

 

"so i let go the ratio
of things said to things heard
as i leave you to your garden
and the beauty you preferred
and i wonder what of this
will have meaning for you
when you've left it all behind
i guess i'll even wonder
if you meant it at the time"

~~ ani difranco, 'adam & eve'

 

"It was cloudy in the morning, and it rained as you drove away. And the same things looked different.."

~~ Dar Williams, 'The End of the Summer'

 

"if i was naked and screaming on your front lawn
would you turn on the light and come down?
screaming there's the asshole who did this to me,
stripped me of my power, stripped me down"

~~ ani difranco, 'superhero'

 

"Can you hear my soul screaming?" ~~Chris Stills, 'Desert Sands'

 

"Time -- thought I'd made friends with time, thought we'd be flying, maybe not this time..." ~~ Tori Amos, 'Baker Baker'

 

"But when he's gone, me and them lonesome blues collide. The bed's too big..." ~~ Joni Mitchell, 'My Old Man'

 

"Sail on silvergirl, sail on by....you're time has come to shine"

~~ Simon & Garfunkel, 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'

 

"The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time." ~~ James Taylor

 

"And I'll talk in my sleep, and you'll steal all the covers. We'll argue it out, and we'll call ourselves lovers. And I'll stay in my body and you'll stay in your own, 'cause we know that we're born and we're dying alone. So we turn out the light while the sirens are screaming. And we kiss for the waking and then join the dreaming. In love, but not at peace..." ~~ Dar Williams

 

"You're the hidden cost and the things that's lost in everything I do."

~~ Jackson Browne

 

"Come on, light the candle in this poor heart of mine."

~~ Joni Mitchell, 'This Flight Tonight"

 

"I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me."

~~ Madonna, 'MerGirl'

 

"Your behavior is so male, it's like you can't explain yourself to me..."

~~ Dar Williams, 'Mark Rothko Song'

 

"I remember that time you told me, you said,
'Love is touching souls'
Well, surely you touched mine
'Cause part of you pours out of me
in these lines from time to time.
Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine.
You taste so bitter and so sweet,
Oh I could drink a case of you..."

~~ Joni Mitchell, 'A Case of You'

 

"So I'll be sure to stay wary of you, love, to save the pain of once my flame and twice my burn" ~~ Fiona Apple, 'Shadowboxer'

 

"We greet each other in a wild profusion of words. And wave farewell amidst the wonderment of air. And in the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone"

~~ Dar Williams, 'Arrival'

 

"Oh you're a mean old Daddy, but I like you fine" ~~ Joni Mitchell, 'Carey'

 

"Well the light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness to you..."

~~ Dar Williams, 'Arrival'

 

"We're such crazy babies, little monkey. We're so fucked up, you and me..."

~~ Counting Crows, 'Recovering the Satellites'

 

"I know I've dream you a sin and a lie
I have my freedom, but I don't have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let's do some living after we die."

~~ Rolling Stone, 'Wild Horses'

 

"As you turned to go, I heard you call my name. You were like a bird in a cage, spreading its wings to fly. 'The old ways are lost' you sang as you flew. And I wondered why..." ~~ Loreena McKennitt, 'The Old Ways'

 

"i recognize the look in my eyes when i see you..." ~~ Dan Bern, 'One Dance'

 

"And I hate myself just enough to want him,
But I hate him just enough to get off.
But I understand him,
maybe I'm just crazy enough to love him..."

~~ Poe, 'Trigger Happy Jack'

 

"I wanna be the light that burns out your eyes, 'cause I know there's little things about me that would sing in the silence of so much rejection in every connection I make. I can't find nobody home. I wanna be the last thing you hear when you're falling asleep..." ~~ Counting Crows, 'Catapult'

 

"Oh I wish I had a river so long, I would teach my feet to fly..."

~~ Joni Mitchell, 'River'

 

"You were all I could see. I've got my sight now. I see everything you hid. So don't try to right now all the wrong you did. I might forget you but not forgive. But for seven years, you were loved..." ~~ Natalie Merchant, 'Seven Years'

 

"All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming..."

~~ Counting Crows, 'Angels of the Silences'

 

"Well after last night, I feel more vulnerable than I've ever been. Can't you see that I'm letting you in? I don't know how much longer I can resist. I don't know when I'm gonna start breaking..." ~~ Melissa Ferrick, 'Faking'

 

"and you're the one i've chosen
and i guess you've chosen me
let's turn off the commercials
let's turn off the tv
how well can we get to know
each other in an hour
we can fight the daylight
we have that power
i'm lookin for one thing real tonight."

~~dan bern, 'one thing real'

 

She sees shooting stars and comet tails. She's got heaven in her eyes. She says I don't need to be an angel, but I'm nothing if I'm not this high"

~~ Counting Crows, 'Recovering the Satellites'

 

"And we'll laugh and toast to nothin and smash our empty glasses down."

~~ Joni Mitchell, 'Carey'

 

"Well this ain't no headtrip, honey. This is a collision on the road. And you've got me feeling oh just like a roadkill, but you know deep down I know,

You can't talk to a psycho like a normal human being."

~~ Poe, 'Trigger Happy Jack'

 

"Guess it's just another dream that's slipping away.
Each time I fall asleep, it seems I'm just drifting away.
Just as you have touched my heart
Babe, I wake and we're apart,
Yeah, and it's slipping away..."

~~ The Rolling Stones, 'Slipping Away'

 

"I tell you how I feel, but you don't care. I say tell me the truth, but you don't dare. You say love is a hell you cannot bear, and I say gimme mine back and then go there, for all I care..." ~~ Fiona Apple, 'Sleep to Dream'

 

"All these wasted dreams waiting for the sun to open up my heart to anyone. Bring me some rain because I'm dying and I can't get this damn thing closed."

~~ Counting Crows, 'Children in Bloom'

 

"So take your sweet self out to lunch
And sleep in every room of your big house
'cause without love you can only resist
'n without feeling you can't exist
Falling on fists, I'm stepping in time
And I'm takin the garbage out of my mind"

~~ Melissa Ferrick, 'Falling on Fists'

 

"She said, 'everybody loves you'
she says, 'everybody cares'
But all the things I keep inside myself,
they vanish in the air
If you tell me that you'll wait for me,
I'll say I won't be here.
I want to say goodbye to you..."

~~ Counting Crows, 'Daylight Fading'

 

"You stared at the pictures on your wall and all the postcards from your friends. As you heard the birds and old familiar sounds. And that's when you knew this world can't be saved, only discovered. And you knew things could be different from before. And you will not be alone anymore."

~~ Dar Williams, 'Arrival'

 

"1-2-3-4-5-6-7am all alone again. But I've been through all this shit before. Spend my nights in self-defense, cry about my innocence. But I ain't that innocent anymore..." ~~ Counting Crows, 'I'm Not Sleeping'

 

"And there ain't no talkin to this man
he's been tryin to tell me so
it took awhile to understand
the beauty of just letting go.
'Cause it would take an acrobat
I already tried all that
I'm gonna let him fly"

~~Patty Griffin, 'let him fly'

 

"I want to kill this killing wish. They're too many stars and not enough sky"

~~Tori Amos, 'The Waitress'

 

"And I have the sense to recognize that I don't know how to let you go..."

~~Sarah McLachlan, 'Do What You Have to Do'

 

"It doesn't matter what I do, 'cause I'm burning either way"

~~The Nields, 'Waco Lake'

 

"my choice, my chance, roulette, romance.
i couldn't say say no, now i still can't
god curse this moment, god bless this dance
i will never be the same"

~~Jonatha Brooke, 'the choice'

 

"Spend all your time waiting for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay.
There's always some reason to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day.
I need some distraction,
oh beautiful release
Memories seep from my veins...."

~~Sarah McLachlan, 'Angel'

 

"and you say, you're okay, but you live your life like it's over.."

~~Jonatha Brooke, 'Crumbs'

 

"Everytime I'm close to you,
there's too much I can't say,
and you just walk away.
And I forgot to tell you I love you
And the night's too long and cold here without you
I grieve in my condition,
for I cannot find the words to say, I need you so..."

~~Sarah McLachlan, 'I Love You'

 

"Hey don't I know you?
We walked the same road together,
reachin for that same star on that same starry night.."

~~Mary Karlzen, 'i'd be lying'

 

"I can't promise that I'll grow those wings or get this tarnished halo to shine, but I'll never betray your trust, angel mine" ~~Cowboy Junkies, 'Angel Mine'

 

"And it's me who is my enemy
me who beats me up
me who makes the monsters
me who strips the confidence
and it's me who's too weak
and it's me who's too shy
to ask for the thing i love"

~~Paula Cole, 'Me'

 

"We all had our reasons to be there
we all had a thing or two to learn
we all needed to cling to something
so we did."

~~Alanis Morrisette, 'Forgiven'

 

"i will love across the borders,
i will wait until it's dark
i will fly and you'll be with me
my wings, your heart.
then our memory may fail us,
and our language will go too,
but the shooting stars will catch our celestial view"

~~Jonatha Brooke, 'ten cent wings'

 

"I don't want to be the filler if the void is solely yours."

~~Alanis Morrisette, 'Not The Doctor'

 

"Won't you please waltz with me?
I feel like I'm just like I used to be.
My heart is locked up here so quietly,
believing that you hold the key.
So won't you please waltz me free?
The turns of our steps are untangling me,
free from some dragged around memory,
and the rusty old remnants of fear
And after ten years,
I'm melting the shackles with tears"

~~David Wilcox, 'Last Chance Waltz'

 

"Hey don't I know you,
we shared some time together
we fought a lot, but now we laugh just the same.
There are times I wish I could forget and not remember
Do you ever think that we could get it back the same?
And now the dust clouds have settled on the horizon
And if I said I didn't miss you, I'd be lying"

~~Mary Karlzen, 'I'd Be Lying'

 

"You've already won me over, in spite of me.
Don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet.
Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are.
I couldn't help it."

~~Alanis Morissette, 'Head Over Feet

 

"I feel like I'm gaining my soul while I'm losing my mind." ~~Vonda Shepard

 

"I touch your face, I'm flying over fields.
I touch this moment - it's mine.
I'm an angel, I'm a parasite
I'm a vessel - I shine."

~~Heather Nova, 'glow stars'

 

"Well something's going wrong inside of you
Burdens bearing down and seeping through
Well I don't want to bleed anymore for you..."

~~Collective Soul, 'Wasting Time'

 

"Love is love - it could have gone either way. 'Cause it is also love that walks away. And I'll take one step back and pull the wool back over your eyes. And you'll walk on..." ~~Jonatha Brooke, 'Full-fledged Strangers'

 

"Everyone has a ghost." ~~LIVE

 

"There is no mystery to be revealed
And so we tell the truth and then run
I love you because I love you
And I did think that you were the one
But now I see what you've become"

~~Jonatha Brooke, 'Inconsolable'

 

"Just wait and see, we're gonna set the world free."~~Huffamoose, 'James'

 

"I need...cool friends, weekends, and someone to die for."

~~Meredith Brooks, 'I Need'

 

"I move across the room with a heart full of gloom. I'm stronger than you think." ~~REM, 'Bittersweet Me'

 

"The time when kindness falls like rain
It washes me away and Anna begins to change my mind
And everytime she sneezes, I believe it’s love and
Oh lord, I’m not ready for this sort of thing
She’s talking in her sleep
It’s keeping me awake
and Anna begins to toss and turn
And every word is nonsense but I understand and
Oh lord, I’m not ready for this sort of thing."
~~Counting Crows, 'Anna Begins'

 

"You don't know where you're goin'
You don't know what you're doin'
Hell it might be the highway to heaven,
and it might be the road to ruin.
But this is a song
for strangers in a car.
Baby, maybe that's all we really are."

~~Mark Cohn, 'Strangers in a Car'

 

"Someday you will feel a love so deep, and you'll find someone not lost in sleep. And you will be loved again."~~Cowboy Junkies

 

"I am just a dreamer, and you are just a dream. You could have been anyone to me. Before that moment you touched my lips. That moment when time just slips away, between us on our foggy trip."~~Neil Young, 'Like A Hurricane'

 

"Sister I see you, dancing on the stage of my memory."~~The Nixons

 

"who am i to close my mind from what it wants to see. and who are you to tell the truth and kill my fantasy."~~Julianna Hatfield, 'i see you'

 

"You're as soft as glass,
and I'm a gentle man.
We got the sky to talk about,
and the world to lie upon."

~~Cowboy Junkies, 'to live is to fly'

 

"When all there's left to do is reflect on what's been done. This is where the sadness breathes, the sadness of everyone."~~LIVE

 

"And where would Willie Mays have been without Jackie Robinson. And who can say what I'd been without you to lead the way." ~~Dan Bern, 'Oh Sister'

 

"All I am begins with you..."~~The Nixons

 

"Who could bring me heaven, when heaven's already here."

~~Collective Soul, 'Heaven's Already Here'

 

"These are the days you'll remember,
Never before and never since, I promise,
will the whole world be warm as this.
And as you feel it, 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'

 

"I've been searching for the answers,
I've been diving in the sea,
I've been haunted by the shadows,
of what we could have been.


And it's not that I'm broken,
And it isn't that I bleed.
But when you pulled the stars from the heavens,
it got so hard to see."

~~Heather Nova, 'blind'

 

"Same old story
that everybody knows.
It's one heart holdin on
One letting go..."

~~Tony Arata, 'Same Old Story' (Garth Brooks)

 

"Do me a favor and appease my aching eyes,
Won't you please materialize
Play another of your tricks with my sight
Be here in the flesh tonight."

~~Julianna Hatfield, 'i see you'

 

"Every night I'm in my bed, holding you close in my dreams."

~~The Eagles, 'Best of my Love'

 

"We grew up too fast, now there's nothin to believe. And reruns all become our history..."~~GooGoo Dolls, 'Name'

 

"And when you make me feel,
when you make me bleed,
my lucky stars fall down on me.
You know I need to know you,
I need to see,
I need to take ahold of what's underneath.
So close your eyes, close your eyes,
Unlock your mind, unlock your mind,
Throw off the fear, and let us fly"

~~Heather Nova, 'spirit in you'

 

"Time's just pages and pages in my book of memories."

~~Guns 'n' Roses, 'Yesterdays

 

"It gets inside you like the sun,
it makes you wet just like the rain,
it makes you sound so sentimental,
it's a lovely kind of pain


I used to dream,
I used to dream about Verona,
I used to dream, to dream
I used to dream about Verona


And if there ever was an earthquake,
I'd go down in the earth with you.
And if there ever was an avalanche,
I'd landslide down with you.


I used to dream
I used to dream about Verona
I used to dream
I used to lean over the side of the boat,
And get hypnotized by the water and dream"

~~Heather Nova, 'Verona'

 

"Because I've been treated to wrong,
I've been treated so wrong.
As if I'm becoming untouchable.
Well, content loves the silence,
it thrives in the dark
with fine white tendrils
that strangle the heart.
They say that promises sweeten the blow,
but I don't need them, no I don't need them..."

~~Natalie Merchant, 'my skin'

 

"Here we are again saying good-bye, still we'll fall asleep underneath the same stars. You're all I knew you'd become..."~~The Nixons

 

"Cuz I have found all that shimmers in this world is sure to fade away again..."

~~FUEL, 'Shimmer'

 

"Sent on a mission to find out just how much shit one man can take"

~~Soul Asylum, 'Draggin the Lake'

 

"It's memory that hides the whole wide world"~~LIVE

 

"Half moon in the sky tonight,
bright enough to come up with an answer to the question,
Why is it that everytime I see you,
my love grows a little stronger.
But your memory leaves my stomach churning,
feeling like a lie about to be revealed.
But I'll horde all this to myself,
cuz cheap is how I feel"

~~Cowboy Junkies

 

"And that old star that you been wishin on is shinin mighty bright. But it's the fire inside your heart that's gonna lead you to the light."

~~Garth Brooks, 'How You Ever Gonna Know'

 

"You've been reading some old letters,
you smile and think how much you've change.
All the money in the world couldn't bring back those days..."

~~TheThe, 'This Is The Day'

 

"What would an angel say? The devil wants to know..."

~~Fiona Apple, 'Criminal'

 

"Keep on dreamin boy. Cuz when you stop dreamin, it's time to die"

~~Blind Melon, 'Change'

 

"And all your friends and family think that you're lucky
but the side of you they'll never see
Is when you're left alone with the memories
that hold your life together like glue"

~~TheThe, ''This Is The Day'

 

"Strange how laughter looks like crying with no sound. Raindrops taste like teardrops without the pain..."~~Queensryche, 'Another Rainy Night'

 

"Occurred to me the other day, you've been gone now a couple years. Well I guess it takes awhile for someone to really disappear"

~~Patty Griffin, 'Goodbye'

 

"My arms can only reach so far, tell me how to get where you are."

~~Dakota Moon, 'Violet'

 

"Forget me now
Forget me not
Bury me lovely
Bury the lies
Bury me under
a thousand goodbyes"

~~October Project

 

"Hey Tony, what's so good about dying? He said I think I might do a little dying today..."~~Patty Griffin, 'Tony'

 

"dreams die hard - ghosts won't go away when the heart will not agree with what the mind will say and say. Longing is like a needle left to long in the vein - the blood goes crazy, that past goes insane."~~Peter Mulvey, 'Take This'

 

"Here's the morning shining on us, here's the twilight upon us. Here's the moon, here's the stars. Here I am, here you are -- Let's go now."

~~Patty Griffin, 'Go Now'

 

"You shine like the moon over water. And you darken the sky when you leave."~~October Project, 'return to me'

 

"A little voice inside my head said, 'Don't look back, you can never look back.' I though I knew what love was, what did I know? Those days are gone forever, I should just let them go..."~~Don Henley, 'Boys of Summer'

 

"If you had the real thing, how would you tell? Liars can say it all just as well."

~~Patty Griffin, 'Christina'

 

"Girls you've got to know when it's time to turn the page. When you're only wet because of the rain."~~Tori Amos, 'Northern Lad'

 

"So many faces in and out of my life. Some will last, some will just be now and then. Life is a series of hello's and goodbye's, I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again..."~~Billy Joel, 'Say Goodbye to Hollywood'

 

"There's nothing left to lose
There's no more heart to bruise
There's no greater power
than the power of goodbye."

~~Madonna, 'Power of Goodbye'

 

"When your dream comes true, you're out one dream."

~~The Nields, 'Tomorrowland'

 

"So I would choose to be with you
That's if the choice were mine to make
But you can make decisions too,
and you can have this heart to break


And so it goes, and so it goes
And you're the only one who knows"

~~Billy Joel, 'And So it Goes'

 

"Don't talk of love, well, I've heard the word before. It's sleeping in my memory. I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved, I never would have cried. I am a rock, I am an island." ~~Simon & Garfunkel

 

"Love is needing, to be loved..." ~~John Lennon

 

"Yes, there are two paths you can go by - but in the long run there's still time to change the road you're on." ~~Led Zeppelin, 'Stairway to Heaven'

 

"If you smile at me, I will understand. Cuz that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language."

~~Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, 'Wooden Ships'

 

"And I'd not believe it till I loved, I love. The river's sing and stars awaken above me. And the wind and the moon in fits of restless conspiring turn night to heaven for you." ~~Dar Williams, 'I Love, I Love'

 

"You were made of wood and cried that no one understood, but I had splinters in my fingers..." ~~Buffalo Tom

 

"I walk along these hillsides in the summer 'neath the sunshine, I am feathered by the moonlight falling down on me." ~~Counting Crows

 

"Sometimes it hurts so badly, i must cry out loud. I am lonely. I am yours, you are mine. You are what you are. You make it so hard."

~~Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes'

 

"Watch the lights flash by the window - throw ghosts on the wall. And every room in my house answers back when I call. Trace the outline within, trusting dreams to begin....to try." ~~Billy Pilgrim, 'Try'

 

"So I live my life to be with you. Cuz no one can do the things you do." ~~Bonnie Raitt, 'You Got It'

 

"I didn't mean to hurt you. I'm sorry that I made you cry. Oh well, I didn't want to hurt you. I'm just a jealous guy..." ~~John Lennon

 

"Could not believe
came here today
helmet was on
you blew me away.
House is on fire
we're naked again
maybe all we need
is water and friends."

~~Bush, 'Swim'

 

"In the gloaming, oh my darlin, when the lights are soft and low. Will you think of me and love me as you did once long ago?" ~~'In the Gloaming'

 

"There's no need to argue anymore
I gave all I could
but it left me so sore
and the thing that makes me mad
is the one thing that i had
I knew, I knew I'd lose you.
You'll always be special to me."

~~The Cranberries, 'No Need to Argue'

 

"I can't believe I've lost the very best of me."

~~Natalie Merchant, 'Beloved Wife'

 

"And everytime you look that way -- I would lay down my life for you. I don't know why I know these things, but I do."

~~Shawn Colvin, 'I Don't Know Why'

 

"Some words when spoken can't be taken back." ~~Pearl Jam

 

"Don't be afraid to be weak; don't be too proud to be strong. Just look into your heart my friend. That will be the return to yourself -- the return to innocence. ~~Enigma, 'Return to Innocence'

 

"I do it for the joy it brings. Cuz I am a joyful girl. Because the world owes me nothing, and we owe each other the world." ~~Ani Difranco, 'Joyful Girl'

 

"I think you know the whole thing's a damn shame...I don't wanna calm down, I don't wanna come down." ~~Throwing Muses, 'Calm Down, Come Down'

 

"I want to feel sunlight on my face, see that dust cloud disappear without a trace. I want to take shelter from the poison rain, where the streets have no name..." ~~U2, 'Where the Streets Have No Name'

 

"I'm standin in the shadow left by my father. Nobody knows but God, and sometimes even he doesn't bother..." ~~The Nields, 'Einstein's Daughter'

 

"Mother, Mother are you listening?
Just a phone call to ease your mind. Life is perfect -- never better.
Distance making the heart grow blind."

~~Tracy Bonham, 'Mother Mother'

 

"When I tell you that I love you, don't test my love, accept my love. Don't test my love, cuz maybe I don't love you all that much." ~~Dan Bern, 'Jerusalem'

 

"I waited all day
You waited all day...
but you left before the sunset,
and i just wanted to tell you
the moment was beautiful.
Just wanted to dance to bad music
drive bad cars
watch bad tv...
Should have stayed for the sunset, if not for me..."

~~Pearl Jam

 

"I fight fire with words. Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water..." ~~Ani DiFranco, 'Willing to Fight'

 

"If this is the future, I don't wanna know..." ~~Throwing Muses, 'Teller'

 

"All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming..."

~~Counting Crows, 'Angels of the Silences'

 

"Irene Goodnight. Irene Goodnight. Goodnight Irene, Goodnight Irene -- I'll see you in my dreams...." ~~Huddie Ledbetter, 'Goodnight Irene'

 

"I used to be a superhero
no one could hurt me
not even myself
You are like a phone booth
that I somehow stumbled into
now look at me
I'm just like everybody else."

~~Ani DiFranco, 'Superhero'

 

"I remember asking why there lies aggression. Separation where there should be love." ~~Rusted Root

 

"And cowards walk away, when they'd really rather stay..."

~~The Nields, 'Cowards'

 

"In the name of all the power
that's centered in your hand
If you crave some revolution,
take position of your stand.
It's the only one you'll get to make
In a moment come and gone.
So do your best to stay awake,
and own the path you're on."

~~Blues Traveler, 'Fallible'

 

"Do you gotta be a queen all your life?" ~~Dan Bern, 'Queen'

 

"Sometimes I breathe you in
and I know you know
And sometimes you take a swim
found your writing on my wall
If my heart's soaking wet
Boy, your boots can leave a mess..."

~~Tori Amos, 'Hey Jupiter'

 

"I never bleed -- I'm stronger than superman, oh I'm made of steel. Yes I am, Yes I am, Yes it's true. I'm bulletproof." ~~The Nields, 'Bulletproof'

 

"A long December and there's reason to believe. Maybe this year will be better than the last." ~~Counting Crows, 'A Long December'

 

"We stood outside in the summer rain. Different people with a common pain. A simple box in the hard red clay, where we left him to always remain."

~~Dar Williams, 'Family'

 

"With your bright yellow gun, you own the sun. And I think I need a little poison." ~~Throwing Muses, 'Bright Yellow Gun'

 

"You glorify the past when your future drives up." ~~U2

 

"I never saw the morning till I stayed up all night." ~~Tom Waits

 

"So don't give me the world today, and then tomorrow -- take it away." ~~Frederick Knight, 'Be For Real'

 

"It's a weird world. Be yourself at all times." ~~Jann Arden

 

"Think of the good times -- wishin you were still with me. The way it used to be. Graduation Day." ~~Chris Isaak

 

"What do you know about me? How can you possibly see? Without walkin in my shoes, you'll never taste enough of my blues." ~~Satchel, 'Suffering'

 

"In the wind, we hear their laughter. In the rain, we see their tears. Hear their heartbeat...we hear their heartbeat." ~~U2, 'Mothers of the Disappeared'

 

"Sweet Caroline. Good times never seemed so good. I've been inclined to believe they never would." ~~Neil Diamond

 

"Thinkin of a time when everything was right. Thinkin of a time -- if only you had eyes. Makes me sorry that it had to end that way. Learned my lesson now, there's nothin left to say...Graduation Day." ~~Chris Isaak

 

"Hello Mr Man
You didn't think I'd come back
You didn't think I'd show up with my army
and this ammunition on my back.
Now that I'm Miss Thang
Now that I'm a zillionaire
You scan the credits for your name
and wonder why it's not there."

~~Alanis Morissette, 'Right Thru You'

 

"It doesn't matter what I do, cuz I'm burning either way. It doesn't matter cuz I saw my lover with another yesterday. I must return. I watch my home inferno and I know he's holding her." ~~The Nields, 'Waco Lake'

 

"If I ever write this letter
the pages I could write
but I don't know where to send it
you have vanished
heaven knows where you live
heaven only knows

If I ever write this letter
bitter words it would contain
just an unrequited lover
wishing she had never spoken your name
had never known your name.

But if I ever write this letter
the truth it would reveal
knowing you has brought me pleasure
how I'll often treasure
moments that we knew,
the precious, the few."

~~Natalie Merchant, 'The Letter'

 

"Sometimes you're the windsheild, sometimes you're the bug..."

~~Mark Knopfler

 

"Where it began -- I can't begin to knowin, but then I know it's growin strong. Was in the spring...then spring became the summer. Who'da think you'd come along..." ~~Neil Diamond, 'Sweet Caroline'

 

"Watchin the stars fall. A million dreams have all gone by...think of all we had. I knew it all then. I thought you loved me, I was wrong -- Life goes on -- Graduation Day." ~~Chris Isaak

 

"The photograph reflects, every streetlight a reminder..." ~~REM

 

"I long for yesterday." ~~The Beatles

 

"There are things that known and things unknown, and in between are The Doors..." ~~Jim Morrison

 

"...came down to a choice: love or run. I ran." ~~Peter Mulvey, 'Out here'

 

"When I say you sucked my brain out, the english translation is: I am in love with you and it is no fun." ~~Ani DiFranco, 'Dilate'

 

"Let me dive into this water. Leave behind all that I've worked for except what I remember and believe. And when I stand on the farthest shore -- I will have all I need..." ~~David Wilcox

 

"Sometimes even music can't substitute for tears." ~~Paul Simon

 

"It is the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live." ~~Bette Midler, 'The Rose'

 

"I'm stage-diving off the church of the holier-than-thou..." ~~The Caulfields

 

"For every love letter written -- there's another one burned." ~~Aerosmith

 

"Somehow I need to love you -- more than I need to breathe."

~~October Project

 

"Take a seat beside me, but don't look me in the eye. That way you won't have to ask, and I won't have to lie..." ~~The Caulfields

 

"And it was dark
so dark at night.
And we held onto each other
like brother to brother.
We promised our mothers we'd write.
And we would all go down together.
Yes we would all go down together."

~~Billy Joel, 'Goodnight Saigon'

 

"In this city, self-preservation is a full-time occupation."

~~Ani DiFranco, 'talk to me now'

 

"You have to forget about what other people, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be living. You have to forget all these things; you have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven." ~~Jimi Hendrix

 

"Why were you so surprised that you never saw the stranger? Did you ever let your lover see the stranger in yourself?" ~~Billy Joel, 'The Stranger'

 

"You are subtle as a window pane, standing in my view. But I will wait for it to rain, so that I can see you." ~~Ani DiFranco, 'Anticipate'

 

"You know I close my eyes to escape you...but your face is all I see. This war is neverending, and I'm never going to be free." ~~Patti Rothberg, 'It's Alright'

 

"I think I was lucky - I was loved but not brought up." ~~Bjork

 

"My love is gone. Would it be wrong if I should, surrender all the joy in my life. Go with her tonight." ~~Natalie Merchant, 'Beloved Wife'

 

"We came out from the deep, to help and understand but not to kill. It takes many lives till we succeed to clear the debts of many, many hundred years." ~~Enigma, 'Second Chapter'

 

"Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambition. I am a poster girl with no poster; I am thirty-two flavors and then some..."

~~Ani Difranco, 'Thirty-two Flavors'

 

"Just a perfect day. You made me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, someone good." ~~Lou Reed, 'Perfect Day'

 

"And if I had a camera, showing all the light we give and showing where the light extends, I'd give it to my friends." ~~Dar Williams, 'My Friends'

 

"This is not a black and white world. To be alive, I say that the colors must swirl. And I believe that maybe today, we will all get to appreciate the beauty of gray." ~~LIVE, 'The Beauty of Gray'

 

"I never heard the melody, till I needed the song." ~~Tom Waits

 

"Momma, I just want you to know. Lovin you's like food to my soul."

~~Boyz II Men

 

"Come on baby, Light my fire. Try to set the night on fire..." ~~The Doors

 

"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot..."

~~Joni Mitchell, 'Big Yellow Taxi'

 

"Purple haze was in my brain; lately, things don't seem the same. Actin funny, but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky." ~~Jimi Hendrix

 

"And I had a feeling that I belonged. And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone..." ~~Tracy Chapman, 'Fast Car'

 

"And the trouble with my heart is that I can't rip it out. And the trouble with myself is that I don't know me. So if you find me, would you kindly show me the way home?" ~~Melissa Ferrick, 'Trouble in My Head'

 

"I'm going to do my best swandive into shark-infested waters. I'm gonna pull out my tampon and start splashing around." ~~Ani DiFranco, 'Swandive'

 

"I hope you're happy, I hope you're happy with your glass half-empty, eventhough you got your share." ~~Jonatha Brooke

 

"You know you've done enough when every bone is sore.
You know you've prayed enough when you don't ask anymore.
You know you're coming to some kind of understanding
when every dream you've dreamed has passed and you're still standing."

~~Patty Griffin, 'Poor Man's House'

 

"I sleep with one hand on my clothes, I sleep with one hand on my heart. There's almost nothing left to guard." ~~Throwing Muses, 'No Way in Hell'

 

"I'm queen of my own compost heap and I'm getting used to the smell."

~~Ani DiFranco, 'Swandive'

 

"Hello Mr Zebra,
can I have your sweater
cuz it's cold cold cold
in my hole hole hole.
Ratatouille Strychnine,
sometimes she's a friend of mine,
with a gigantic whirlpool
that will blow your mind."

~~Tori Amos

 

"Ideas may come at any time." ~~B.B. King

 

"...strange angels made this planet glow." ~~Kristin Hersh

 

"And these children,
that you spit on
as they try to change their worlds,
are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware
of what they're going through..."

~~David Bowie

 

"I wish that I could belong here with you and just be, but that's not all that I'm about." ~~Lisa Loeb

 

"It makes sense that it should hurt in this way. That my heart should break and my hands should shake - as if to say: sure it don't matter except in the most important way..." ~~Poe, 'Fly Away'

 

"I was there when you shone as bright as Bethlehem from afar. I was there when you were young and strong and perverted and everything that makes a young man a star -- Oh, you were a star." ~~Chantal Kreviazuk, 'Surrounded'

 

"We'll love you just the way you are, if you're perfect." ~~Alanis Morissette

 

"I'll stop crying if you stop lying to me." ~~Lisa Loeb

 

"Look this is you...head underground, we'll hang around. And we shake, the earth moves...we're gonna live forever." ~~Kristin Hersh

 

"People with opinions just go around bothering one another." ~~Buddha

 

"I'm starting to ignore you. I've doubted you so long. I'm tired of overthinking; I know you don't belong. Now I'm asking questions - no one pushes me around. Everybody feels this way sometimes, and I do." ~~Lisa Loeb

 

"And it's hard to believe that God made you and me with the same hands." ~~Chantal Kreviazuk

 

"So, how are things in the small, dark movie of your life?" ~~Greg Brown

 

"There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you." ~~John Lennon

 

"You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay." ~~Tori Amos

 

"They say goldfish have no memory. I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise every time."

~~Ani DiFranco, 'Little Plastic Castle

 

"The time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love..." ~~Lisa Loeb, 'Falling in Love'

 

"Cuz I'm barely breathing,
and I can't find the air.
I don't know who I'm kidding
imagining you care.
And I could stand here waiting,
a fool for another day,
but I don't suppose it's worth the price
worth the price
the price that I would pay.
But I'm thinking it over anyway..."

~~Duncan Sheik, 'Barely Breathing'

 

"Catch a shape in the circles of my mind." ~~Mazzy Star, 'I've Been Let Down'

 

"To me happiness, true happiness, is when you can really dance with sad." ~~Tori Amos

 

"I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose. Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose. Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night. You gave me everything you had, Oh you gave me light. And I will remember you..." ~~Sarah McLachlan, 'I Will Remember You'

 

"They say every man goes blind in his heart, and they say everybody steals somebody's heart away. And I've been wondering why you let me down, and I've been taking it all for granted." ~~Mazzy Star, 'Flowers In December'

 

"Only memories, fading memories. Blending into dull tableaux. I want them back..." ~~Bare Naked Ladies, 'The Old Apartment'

 

"I don't want to wait for our lives to be over. I want to know right now what will it be..." ~~Paula Cole

 

"I dwell in hell, but it's a hell that I can grip. I tried to grip my family, but I slipped." ~~Rage Against the Machine

 

"A million smiles cover your heart." ~~Mazzy Star

 

"I move across the room with a heart full of gloom. I'm stronger than you think..." ~~REM, 'Bittersweet Me'

 

"I need...cool friends, weekends, and someone to die for."

~~Meredith Brooks, 'I Need'

 

"You wish that you were special. I'm just like you..." ~~The Cardigans

 

"Got enough guilt to start my own religion." ~~Tori Amos

 

"i cannot breathe you in. you're air is too thick for me, and it makes my lungs sting." ~~Chantal Kreviazuk, 'Grace'

 

"Now I tell you openly, you have my heart so don't hurt me."

~~The Cranberries, 'Dreams'

 

"If you don't need me then don't deceive me, letting my freedom turn to stone..." ~~Mazzy Star, 'Be My Angel'

 

"There's been times I'm so confused. All my roads, they lead to you. I just can't turn and walk away." ~~Sister Hazel, 'All For You'

 

"Yes, especially if he was a lite sneeze and not the flu, if you know what I mean girls. Well, guys would like to think they're the flu, wouldn't they? But sometimes, they're just hachoo..." ~~Tori Amos

 

" i won't believe in heaven and hell
no saints, no sinners, no devil as well
no pearly gates, no thorny crown
you're always letting us humans down.
the wars you bring, the babes you drown
those lost at sea, and never found.
and it's the same the whole world 'round
the hurt i see helps to compound
that Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
is just somebody's unholy hoax
and if you're up there you'd perceive
that my heart's here upson your sleeve
if there's one thing i don't believe in...
it's you...
Dear God."

~~XTC, 'Dear God'

 

"You surround me like a circle." ~~Chantal Kreviazuk

 

"You're the keeper of keys." ~~Mazzy Star

 

So you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus."

~~Tori Amos, 'Precious Things'

 

"Light the sky and hold on tight. The world is burning down. She's out there on her own and she's all right. Sunny came home..." ~~Shawn Colvin

 

"I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked." ~~ Tori Amos

 

"I was so lost and you were so profound. You taught me how to fly with my feet still on the ground." ~~Vonda Shepard, 'Serious Richard'

 

"When this trouble passes over, you and I will walk away, knowing that our love survived another test of faith. You and I can walk on water..."

~~Amanda Marshall, 'Trust Me'

 

"And I'd give up forever to touch you..." ~~GooGooDolls, 'Iris'

 

"And you bleed just to know you're alive..." ~~GooGooDolls, 'Iris'

 

"You don't know where you're goin
You don't know what you're doin
Hell it might be the highway to heaven
and it might be the road to ruin
But this is a song for strangers in a car.
Baby, maybe that's all we really are."

~~Marc Cohn, 'Strangers in a Car'

 

"Between us is nothing but grace. Help me up when you hear me behind you falling all over the place. It's not too late." ~~Kristin Hersh, 'Beestung'

 

"Fed up with my destiny
and this place of no return
Think I'll take another day
and slowly watch it burn
It doesn't really matter
how the time goes by
Cuz I still remember you and I
and that beautiful goodbye."

~~Amanda Marshall, 'Beautiful Goodbye'

 

"There's things I remember, and things I forget. I miss you. I guess that I should. Three thousand five hundred miles away. But what would you change if you could?" ~~Counting Crows, 'Raining in Baltimore'

 

"because i love you
i get tongue-tied around you
i never say smart stuff around you
i never say anything around you
that would make you wanna be with me
so because i love you
i will never be with you."

~~Dan Bern, 'One Dance'

 

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