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i can't remember why i hated you,
can't remember why i still do
jenny lewis - happy
in a storm you are my destination,
in a port you are my storm
cowboy junkies - mariner's song
if i told you that i was sorry
would you tell me that you were wrong?
matt nathanson- i saw
livin' on reds, vitamin c, and cocaine
grateful dead - truckin'
morning came and i tried not to notice
tilly and the wall - bessa
twenty years asleep before we sleep forever
stars - 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 - long ride home
aint life unkind?
rolling stones - ruby tuesday
she no longer needs you
the beatles - for no one
i'd like it here if i could leave
and see you from a long way away
r.e.m. - good advices -
is there anybody here who'd like to wrap a flag around an early grave
phil ochs - is there anybody here
he kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
then he turned around and headed home again
paul simon - slip slidin away
with everything i do for you
the least you can do is keep quiet
alanis morissette - perfect
every single time i come to this town
it brings out the worst in me
martin sexton - the beast in me
she had been born with a face that would let her get her way
bob seger - 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 - 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 - positively 4th street
in 1984, i was hospitalized for approaching perfection
silver jews - random rules
i'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender
jackson browne - the pretender
she said, babe, you're just a wave, you're not the water.
jimmie dale gilmore - just a wave
distance has the way of making love understandable
wilco - 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 - don't let's start
I like driving backwards in the fog cause it doesn't remind me of anything
audioslave - 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 - someone's got a hold of my heart
the world is a vampire, sent to drain
smashing pumpkins - bullet with butterfly wings
i felt like getting high
neil young - after the gold rush
every silver linings got a touch of grey
grateful dead - touch of grey
it's one more beer and i don't hear you anymore
elton john - someone saved my life tonight
those were the happiest days of my life
the pretenders - back on the chain gang
on the day that your mentality catches up with your biology, come round.
the smiths - i want the one i can't have
the more it stays the same, the less it changes
spinal tap - 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 - 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 - fred jones part 2
oh, don't talk to me... don't talk to me
u2 - elvis presley and america
kiss my ass, i bought a boat, i'm going out to sea
lyle lovett - if i had a boat
but i once had a dream (and it never came true)
the smiths - accept yourself
sitting with all my friends and talking to myself
merle haggard - 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 - the great american novel
an ocean refuses no river
sheila chandra - ever so lonely
i am the only one to blame for this
jars of clay - worlds apart
so far away from everyone and everything starts today
guster - keep it together
you aint a beauty, but hey, you're all right
bruce springsteen - thunder road
like a tiny blade of grass in a great big field
bob seger - 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 - hyper-ballad
so to hell with what you're thinking, and to hell with your narrow mind
the cranberries - free to decide
i am beyond your peripheral vision so you might want to turn your head
ani difranco - 32 flavors
i turn the engine but the engine doesn't turn
wallflowers - one headlight
well these last few years behind me, oh lord, have been so sad
lynyrd skynyrd - four walls of raiford
you're no picnic either babe
don henley - not enough love in the world
i am not the one who laughs at people's jokes, i just pacify their egos
paula cole - me
every time i thought i'd got it made, it seems the taste was not so sweet
david bowie - changes
hallelujah, noel, be it heaven or hell, the christmas we get, we deserve.
emerson, lake & palmer - I believe in Father Christmas
nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole and everything is stunted and lost
meatloaf - bat out of hell
it's funny how life works out... the odds of faith in the face of doubt
josh joplin group - camera one
you got one good trick and you're hanging on to it
ben folds - not the same
but now old friends are acting strange... they shake their heads, they say i've changed
joni mitchell - both sides now
we are ourselves despite ourselves
josh joplin group - i am not the only cowboy
everybody's out to get me but i feel all right
jims big ego - stress
shooting tin cans with sawed-off shotguns
bob dylan - farewell angelina
burnin' himself out on a limb like a leaf in the fall
he blazed for awhile now he's feelin' all dried up and small
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 - coming down in the rain
if you want it, come and get it, for crying out loud
david gray - 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 - the airport song
i used to know a love song... it was something about a flower
that blossomed out too early when a sunny day turned sour
Only for an hour, there's a blossom in the snow
The innocence is beautifu,l but what a way to go
frozen in the snow, singing spring is coming, frozen in the snow
david wilcox - frozen in the snow
now that my life is so pre-arranged
i know that it's time for a cool change
little river band - cool change
he smiled to the world but his heart fell below his pain
guster - 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 - landslide
first i'm gonna make it then i'm gonna break it til it falls apart...
echo and the bunnymen - bring on the dancing horses
if you do not want to see me again, i would understand.
third eye blind - jumper
me and jesus got our own thing going, me and jesus got it all worked out
tom t hall - me and jesus
people love you when they know you're leaving soon
john gorka - the gypsy life
and jesus, he wants to go to venus.
elton john - Levon
love and darkness and my sidearm
moby - 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 - Center of Attention
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 - two points for honesty
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 - a day without me
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 - 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 - 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 - birth of the true
the low-life has lost its appeal
smiths/sandie shaw - jeane
didn't have the nerve to call me brother and wave the peace sign...
grandmaster flash - survival
everything seems to be wrong...
jimmy buffett - boat drinks
i been drifting along in the same stale old shoes
loose ends tying a noose in the back of my mind
beck - 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 - 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 - 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 - can't make it anymore
sometimes i'm overcome thinking about it...
van morrison - brown eyed girl
i walk the thinnest line between the good and bad sides of my mind.
dead milkmen - the thinnest line
leaves fall and the trees give up the view,
lies will fall away, leaving you.
david wilcox - leaving you
we're in a room without a door and i am sure without a doubt
they're gonna wanna know how we got in here and they're gonna wanna know how we plan to get out
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 - shameless
i don't need a clever confidante to try to soothe with hollow words, i've heard them all.
david wilcox - home within your heart
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 - one step up
look out my window and what do i see? nothing but pain looking back at me.
john conlee - 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 - fountain of sorrow
i have never known the spring to turn so quickly into autumn...
bob dylan - idiot wind
when you're dancing and laughing and finally living, hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly.
the smiths - rubber ring
the only two things in life that make it worth living are guitars tuned good and firm feeling women.
waylon jennings - luchenbach, texas
these things are clear to all from time to time.
led zeppelin - the rain song
me and susie, we're just celebrating the joys of sleeping in.
cowboy junkies - oregon hill
the only thing for certain is that nothing stays the same and falling down's as common as the rain.
david wilcox - 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 - don't think twice, it's all right
i've seen you smile, but i've never really heard you laugh.
the smiths - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
never knowing if believing is a blessing or a curse,
the going up was worth the coming down.
kris kristofferson - the pilgrim: chapter 33
yes, I am a victom of a basketball jones...
that basketball was like a basketball to me...
cheech and chong - 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 - 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 - how soon is now?
