"he says he reckons i'm a watercolor stain...he says i run and then i run from him...and then i run"
-tori amos "father lucifer"

"she's been everybody else's girl... maybe one day she'll be her own"
-tori amos "girl"

"doesn't take much to rip us into pieces"
-tori amos "little earthquakes"

"and there's too much going on, but it's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion"
-fiona apple "sullen girl"

"i've never been defenseless...i can't even make sense of this...
you speak and i don't hear a word...what would happen if we kissed?
-meredith brooks "what would happen"

"we are the people our parents warned us about"
-jimmy buffett

"i take my chances...i can't cling to remorse or regret"
-mary chapin carpenter "i take my chances"

"in this world you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings"
-mary chapin carpenter "why walk when you can fly"

"don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be"
-leonard cohen "anthem"

"i hate time...i hate the clock...i want to be a dog or i want to be a rock"
-paula cole "bethlehem"

"far away, to an infinite world i escape...i'm clear and calm, i'm unafraid.
sunless days, in my sheltered milky way...in saturn's rings i feel no pain."
-paula cole "saturn girl"

"i've left bethlehem and i feel free...i've left the girl i was supposed to be"
-paula cole "tiger"

"i don't know why the sky is so blue...and i don't know why i'm so in love with you...
but if there were no music, then i would not get through"
-shawn colvin "i don't know why"

"whenever i'm alone with you, you make me feel like i am free again"
-the cure "love song"

"in the dead of the night, in my deepest of dreams we are always together in every scene"
-catie curtis "falling silent in the dark"

"i try to laugh at whatever life brings,
cuz when i look down i just miss all the good stuff, and when i look up i just trip over things"
-ani difranco "as is"

"i'm just riding the tide nothing more, and it's bound to take me out some before it brings me back to shore"
-ani difranco "circle of light"

"you could try to train me like a pet...you could try to teach me to behave,
but I'll tell you if I haven't learned it yet, you know, I ain't gonna sit...I ain't gonna stay"
-ani difranco "cradle and all"

"when i need to wipe my face, i use the back of my hand
and i like to take up space just because i can
and i use my dress to wipe up my drink...i care less and less what people think"
-ani difranco "dilate"

"taken out of context i must seem so strange"
-ani difranco "firedoor"

"it's a long long road...it's a big big world...we are wise wise women...we are giggling girls...
we both carry a smile to show when we're pleased...we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves"
-ani difranco "if he tries anything"

"who says i like right angles? these are not my laws these are not my rules"
-ani difranco "i'm no heroine"

"i don't think war is noble, and i don't like to think love is like war"
-ani difranco "independence day"

"some days the line i walk turns out to be straight; other days the line tends to deviate."
-ani difranco "in or out"

"i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl
because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world"
-ani difranco "joyful girl"

"i still think of you as my boyfriend, i don't think this is the end of the world
maybe you should follow my example and go meet yourself a really nice girl"
-ani difranco "light of some kind"

"i will bring my heart...i will bring my face...you just name the time and place"
-ani difranco "loom"

"i sing sometimes for the war that i fight 'cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right."
-ani difranco "my IQ"

"they said, which one is different? it does not belong... they taught me different is wrong"
-ani difranco "my IQ"

"i got lots of personalities, i just can't tell them apart
and i never remember anything except for those things that i never forget--there's no in between"
-ani difranco "names and dates and times"

"this is who i am, what i do, and what i say.
if you like it, let it be...if you don't, please do the same.
-ani difranco "pick yer nose"

"i am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding
offering me intricate patterns of questions rhythms that never come clean
and strengths that you still haven't seen"
-ani difranco "the slant"

"dance without sleeping...dance till i'm numb...dance till i think i can overcome"
-melissa etheridge "dance without sleeping"

"...and i don't want to confuse you...yeah you're my favorite person in the world... and i always want to be your best friend,
but my heart can't stop beating faster every time i hear your name or your laughter..."
-melissa ferrick "favorite person in the world"

"turn and run to me when you feel lonely...come to where you're safe and warm
run to me if you need holding...there will be a place in these open arms"
-kristen hall "open arms"

"i have talked of love til it's ragged hanging loose...my heart is busted from enthusiastic overuse
now love is stealthy hiding under ribs...love laughs at me, it knows exactly what it is"
-veda hille "seasoned"

"...wash up on some distant shore where truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us sets us free..."
-janis ian "searching for america"

"i am looking for someone who can take as much as i give and give back as much as i need and still have the will to live
cause i am intense, i am in need, i am in pain, i am in love"
-indigo girls "blood and fire"

"and the best thing you've ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously... it's only life after all"
-indigo girls "closer to fine"

"...the music whispers you in urgency...hold fast to that languageless connection..."
-indigo girls "everything in its own time"

"why do we hurtle ourselves through every inch of time and space
i must say around some corner i can sense a resting place
with every lesson learned a line upon your beautiful face
we'll amuse ourselves one day with these memories we'll trace"
-indigo girls "get out the map"

"...and I guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart,
but at this point you rush right through me and i start to drown..."
-indigo girls "ghost"

"hey kind friend, help me forget where i been...help me remember who i am"
-indigo girls "hey kind friend"

"so we must love while these moments are still called today...take part in the pain of this passion play
stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust...until time makes history of us"
-indigo girls "history of us"

"i could go crazy on a night like tonight...when summer's beginning to give up her fight and every thought's a possibility"
-indigo girls "mystery"

"i draw you, every single feature in my head...i try to do my homework, but i dream of you instead"
-k's choice "wait"

"i've got to live my life the way i feel is right for me ...might not be right for you, but it's right for me"
-sarah mclachlan "elsewhere"

"i have so much to lose here in this lonely place, tangled up in your embrace
there's nothing i'd like better than to fall, but i fear i have nothing to give."
-sarah mclachlan "fear"

"i don't have to pretend--she doesn't expect it from me"
-sarah mclachlan "good enough"

"every time 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"
-sarah mclachlan "i love you"

"fly away, sweet bird of prey...fly fly away...nothing can stand in your way...
sweet bird, if you knew the words, i know you'd say: fly fly away"
-poe "fly away"

"can't you see me reaching out for you? can't you see me there? won't you please believe me?
i could never touch you for the fear that i might never let you go."
-amy ray "always be there"

"did i disappoint you? or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
you act like you never had love and you want me to go without
-U2 "one"

"but we love trees, we love the snow, the friends we have, the world we share,
and you find magic from your god, and we find magic everywhere."
-dar williams "the christians and the pagans"

"how i long to fall just a little bit,
to dance out of the lines and stray from the light,
but i fear that to fall in love with you
is to fall from a great and gruesome height."
-dar williams "iowa"

"we walk in the world of safe people, and at night we walk into our houses and burn."
-dar williams "iowa"

"and the ones that can know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole"
-dar williams "the ocean"