Song Quotes

i've seen this happen in other people's lives
but now it's happening in mine

the smiths - meat is murder - that joke isn't funny anymore

preacher says that when the master calls us, he's gonna give us wings to fly. hope that mine are mine from hay and corn husks, so i can't leave this world behind.

josh ritter - golden age of radio - lawrence, ks

it's just so hard to leave these cages that we think in,
by stages we just sink in, to a slow decline.

chris smither - leave the light on - leave the light on

i can't remember why i hated you,
can't remember why i still do

jenny lewis - rabbit fur coat - happy

in a storm you are my destination,
in a port you are my storm

cowboy junkies - caution horses - mariner's song

if i told you that i was sorry
would you tell me that you were wrong?

matt nathanson - at the point - i saw

livin' on reds, vitamin c, and cocaine

grateful dead - american beauty - truckin'

morning came and i tried not to notice

tilly and the wall - wild like children - bessa

honest is easy. fiction is where genius lies.

guster - goldfly - demons

twenty years asleep before we sleep forever

stars - set yourself on fire - set yourself on fire

aint nothing left at all in the end of being proud
with me riding in this car and you flying through the clouds

patty griffin - 1000 kisses - long ride home

aint life unkind?

rolling stones - between the buttons - ruby tuesday

she no longer needs you

the beatles - revolver - for no one

i'd like it here if i could leave
and see you from a long way away

r.e.m. - fables of the reconstruction good advices

is there anybody here who'd like to wrap a flag around an early grave

phil ochs - there but for fortune - is there anybody here

he kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
then he turned around and headed home again

paul simon - negotiations and love songs (1971-1986) - slip slidin away

with everything i do for you
the least you can do is keep quiet

alanis morissette - jagged little pill - perfect

every single time i come to this town
it brings out the worst in me

martin sexton - american the beast in me

she had been born with a face that would let her get her way

bob seger - stranger in town - hollywood nights

everybody i know says they need just one thing
and what they really mean is they need just one thing more

rich mullins - songs - my one thing

do you take me for such a fool to think i'd make contact
with the one who tries to hide what he don't know to begin with?

bob dylan - bob dylan's greatest hits - positively 4th street

in 1984, i was hospitalized for approaching perfection

silver jews - american water - random rules

i'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender

jackson browne - pretender - the pretender

she said, babe, you're just a wave, you're not the water.

jimmie dale gilmore - spinning around the sun - just a wave

distance has the way of making love understandable

wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot - radio cure

no one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful
everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful

they might be giants - dial-a-song - don't let's start

I like driving backwards in the fog cause it doesn't remind me of anything

audioslave - out of exile - doesn't remind me

never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine,
never could learn to look at your face and call it mine.

bob dylan - the bootleg series - someone's got a hold of my heart

the world is a vampire, sent to drain

smashing pumpkins - mellon collie and the infinite sadness bullet with butterfly wings

i felt like getting high

neil young - after the gold rush - after the gold rush

every silver linings got a touch of grey

grateful dead - in the dark - touch of grey

it's one more beer and i don't hear you anymore

elton john - captain fantastic - someone saved my life tonight

those were the happiest days of my life

the pretenders - learning to crawl - back on the chain gang

on the day that your mentality catches up with your biology, come round.

the smiths - meat is murder - i want the one i can't have

the more it stays the same, the less it changes

spinal tap - the majesty of rock - the majesty of rock

sometimes i wish that i could stop you from talking when i hear the silly things that you say

elvis costello - my aim is true - alison

life barrels on like a runaway train where the passengers change, they don't change anything... you get off, someone else can get on.

ben folds - rockin the suburbs - fred jones part 2

oh, don't talk to me... don't talk to me

u2 - the unforgettable fire - elvis presley and america

kiss my ass, i bought a boat, i'm going out to sea

lyle lovett - anthology, vol. 1: cowboy man - if i had a boat

gone as far as i can go with this crap

cinerama - va va voom - ears

but i once had a dream (and it never came true)

the smiths - hatful of hollow - accept yourself

sitting with all my friends and talking to myself

merle haggard - merle haggard - 20 greatest hits - misery and gin

the politicians all make speeches and the newsmen all take notes
and they exaggerate the issues as they shove them down our throats

larry norman - collection - the great american novel

an ocean refuses no river

sheila chandra - weaving my ancestors voices - ever so lonely

i am the only one to blame for this

jars of clay - jars of clay - worlds apart

so far away from everyone and everything starts today

guster - keep it together - keep it together

you aint a beauty, but hey, you're all right

bruce springsteen - born to run - thunder road

like a tiny blade of grass in a great big field

bob seger - stranger in town - feel like a number

i go through all this before you wake up so i can be happy and to be safe up here with you

bjork - greatest hits - hyper-ballad

so to hell with what you're thinking, and to hell with your narrow mind

the cranberries - to the faithful departed - free to decide

i am beyond your peripheral vision so you might want to turn your head

ani difranco - not a pretty girl - 32 flavors

i turn the engine but the engine doesn't turn

wallflowers - bringing down the horse - one headlight

well these last few years behind me, oh lord, have been so sad

lynyrd skynyrd - legend - four walls of raiford

you're no picnic either babe

don henley - building the perfect beast - not enough love in the world

i am not the one who laughs at people's jokes, i just pacify their egos

paula cole - this fire - me

every time i thought i'd got it made, it seems the taste was not so sweet

david bowie - changes - changes

hallelujah, noel, be it heaven or hell, the christmas we get, we deserve.

emerson, lake & palmer - i believe in father christmas - I believe in Father Christmas

nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole and everything is stunted and lost

meatloaf - bat out of hell - bat out of hell

it's funny how life works out... the odds of faith in the face of doubt

josh joplin group - best - camera one

you got one good trick and you're hanging on to it

ben folds - rockin the suburbs - not the same

all the people who've seen it all before and all the people who already understand
know they're right and done it right and could i get to be like that?

guster - lost and gone forever - two points for honesty

but now old friends are acting strange... they shake their heads, they say i've changed

joni mitchell - clouds - both sides now

we are ourselves despite ourselves

josh joplin group - best - i am not the only cowboy

everybody's out to get me but i feel all right

jims big ego - noplace like nowhere - stress

shooting tin cans with sawed-off shotguns

bob dylan - the bootleg series, vols. 1-3 - farewell angelina

you can read him as clear as the wall where he once wrote his name
it was right next to hers but it'll only come down in the rain

nanci griffith - other voices, other rooms - coming down in the rain

if you want it, come and get it, for crying out loud

david gray - white ladder babylon

let me keep you in this place, you'll be better off this way
i will keep you warm and safe, you'll be better off this way

guster - goldfly - the airport song

now that my life is so pre-arranged
i know that it's time for a cool change

little river band - little river band - greatest hits - cool change

he smiled to the world but his heart fell below his pain

guster - parachute - fall in two

i've been afraid of changing cause i've built my life around you
but time makes you bolder, even children get older and i'm getting older too.

stevie nicks - crystal visions - landslide

first i'm gonna make it then i'm gonna break it til it falls apart...

echo and the bunnymen - killing moon - bring on the dancing horses

if you do not want to see me again, i would understand.

third eye blind - third eye blind - jumper

me and jesus got our own thing going, me and jesus got it all worked out

tom t hall - definitive collection - me and jesus

people love you when they know you're leaving soon

john gorka - company you keep - the gypsy life

and jesus, he wants to go to venus.

elton john - captain fantastic Levon

love and darkness and my sidearm

moby - play - south side

i'm the center of attention in the walls inside my head and no one will ever know it if I keep my mouth shut tight.

guster - lost and gone forever - Center of Attention

started a landslide in my ego, look from the outside, to the world i left behind
i'm dreaming, you're awake, if i were sleeping, what's at stake?
a day without me

u2 - october - a day without me

if i could, i would let it go, surrender, dislocate

U2 - the unforgettable fire - bad

they stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution to give me the needed professional help to protect me from the enemy, myself

suicidal tendencies - suicidal tendencies - institutionalized

i know i'm unlovable, you don't have to tell me...
i don't have much in my life, but take it, it's yours.

smiths - louder than bombs - unlovable

sometimes i get down, but it's not you that gets me down...
it's just that sense of the impossible gratuitously handed down.

aztec camera - best - birth of the true

the low-life has lost its appeal

smiths - collection - sandie shaw - jeane

didn't have the nerve to call me brother and wave the peace sign...

grandmaster flash - message from beat street - survival

everything seems to be wrong...

jimmy buffett - songs you know by heart - boat drinks

i been drifting along in the same stale old shoes
loose ends tying a noose in the back of my mind

beck - odelay - jack-ass

i see you and i am so perplexed, what was i thinking? what will i think of next? where can I hide?

ani difranco - living in clip - untouchable face

ooh, lordy, trouble so hard... ooh, lordy, trouble so hard...
don't nobody know my trouble but god... don't nobody know my trouble but god...

moby - play - natural blues

lately, I don't feel much like talking...
instead of going home i just go out walking... and thinking too much...

richie havens - mixed bag - can't make it anymore

sometimes i'm overcome thinking about it...

van morrison - moondance - brown eyed girl

i walk the thinnest line between the good and bad sides of my mind.

dead milkmen - big lizard in my backyard - the thinnest line

things are gonna change I can feel it.

beck - odelay - loser

leaves fall and the trees give up the view,
lies will fall away, leaving you.

david wilcox - underneath - leaving you

we better have a good explanation for all the fun that we have had
'cuz they are coming for us, baby, and they are going to be mad!

ani difranco - living in clip - shameless

when i look at myself i don't see the man i wanted to be,
somewhere down the line i slipped off track...

bruce springsteen - tunnel of love - one step up

look out my window and what do i see? nothing but pain looking back at me.

john conlee - classics - miss emily's picture

you were turning around to see who was behind you and i caught your childish laughter by surprise
and at the moment that my camera happened to find you there was just a touch of sorrow in your eyes.

jackson browne - best - fountain of sorrow

i have never known the spring to turn so quickly into autumn...

bob dylan - blood on the tracks - idiot wind

when you're dancing and laughing and finally living, hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly.

the smiths - louder than bombs - rubber ring

the only two things in life that make it worth living are guitars tuned good and firm feeling women.

waylon jennings - essential - luchenbach, texas

these things are clear to all from time to time.

led zeppelin - houses of the holy - the rain song

me and susie, we're just celebrating the joys of sleeping in.

cowboy junkies - 200 more miles - oregon hill

the only thing for certain is that nothing stays the same and falling down's as common as the rain.

david wilcox - how did you find me here - common as the rain

i aint saying you treated me unkind, you could've done better, but i don't mind.
you just kinda wasted my precious time, but don't think twice, it's all right.

bob dylan - bob dylan's greatest hits - don't think twice, it's all right

i've seen you smile, but i've never really heard you laugh.

the smiths - hatful of hollow - You've Got Everything Now

the more i know the less i understand
all the things i thought i knew, i'm learning again.

don henley - building the perfect beast - heart of the matter

oh, lord, forgive the times i tried to read your mind
cuz you said if i'd be still that i would hear your voice.

keith green - ultimate collection- trials turn to gold

i don't care if it rains or freezes as long as i've got my plastic jesus sitting on the dashboard of my car.

paul newman - cool hand luke - plastic jesus

seasons don't fear the reaper, nor do the wind and the sun and the rain

blue oyster cult - don't fear the reaper: best - don't fear the reaper

never knowing if believing is a blessing or a curse,
the going up was worth the coming down.

kris kristofferson - silver tongued devil and i the pilgrim: chapter 33

yes, I am a victom of a basketball jones...
that basketball was like a basketball to me...

cheech and chong - cheech and chong's greatest hit/a> - Basketball Jones

and i've never gotten used to it, i just learned to turn it off.
either i'm too sensitive... or else I'm getting soft.

bob dylan - bob dylan's greatest hits 2 - if you see her, say hello

you say it's going to happen now but when exactly do you mean?
see i have already waited too long and all my hope is gone.

the smiths - sound of the smiths/a> - how soon is now?