100 Favorite Lyrics

Submitted by litgeek on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 18:08
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  • "Wish You Were Here (Encore)," Pink Floyd: We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl / Year after year
  • "Sultans of Swing," Dire Straits: They don't give a damn about any trumpet-playing band / It ain't what they call rock and roll
  • "Don't Stop Believing," Journey: Oh, the movie never ends / It goes on and on and on
  • "The Teacher," Big Country: Teacher, will you show to me / The bond between the land and sea? / I am new to mystery, / I want everything laid out for me-- / All of history
  • "Veronica," Elvis Costello: Well, it was all of 65 years ago when the world was the street where she lived / And a young man sailed on a ship in the sea with a picture of Veronica
  • "All this Time," Sting: Men go crazy in congregations / They only get better one by one
  • "Hallelujah," Rufus Wainright: It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and major lift / The baffled king composing hallelujah
  • "All I Need," Matchbox Twenty: Everybody’s trusting in their heart / Like their heart don’t lie
  • "Make It Mine," Jason Mraz: How can you sleep at a time like this? / Unless the dreamer is the real you
  • "Boys of Summer," Don Henley: I can see you, your brown skin shining in the sun / You've got that hair swept back and those Wayfarers on, baby
  • "Angle Park," Big Country: The evil genius hugs his wife
  • "You Are the Everything," R.E.M.: Eviscerate your memory / Here’s the scene: / You’re in the back seat laying down
  • "Nightswimming," R.E.M.: September's coming soon / Pining for the moon / But what if there were two / Side by side in orbit / Around the fairer sun?
  • "Now Comes the Night," Rob Thomas: And when the day has all but ended / And our echo starts to fade / No, you will not be alone then / And you will not be afraid
  • "Ever the Same," Rob Thomas: We were drawn from the weeds / We were brave like soldiers / Falling down under the pale moonlight
  • "Sugar, We're Goin' Down," Fallout Boy: Lie in the grass next to the mausoleum / I'm just a notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song
  • "1973," James Blunt: And though time goes by / I will always be / In a club with you / In 1973
  • "Casey," Darren Hayes: If you take me away / All the pain will change into a memory / Of when we were amazing
  • "The Tuning of Violins," Darren Hayes: On a Sunday only we know, where the sunlight and the wind blows / Over bluebells, over Blackheath, calling your name, I will float through your window
  • "Wrapped Around Your Finger," The Police: I will turn your face to alabaster / When you find your servant is your master
  • "King of Pain," The Police: There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out / There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt
  • "In a Big Country," Big Country: In a big country, dreams stay with you / Like a lover's voice / Across the mountainside
  • "Lost Patrol," Big Country: We save no souls / We break no promises
  • "Fields of Gold," Sting: You can tell the sun / In his jealous sky / How we walked in fields of gold
  • "Round Here," Counting Crows: In between the moon and you, angels get a better view / Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right
  • "Murder of One," Counting Crows: But there's a bird that nests inside you, sleeping underneath your skin. / Yeah, when you open up your wings to speak I wish you'd let me in
  • "Mary Jane's Last Dance," Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: I feel summer creeping in / And I'm tired of this town again
  • "Loser," Beck: Baby's in Reno with the vitamin d / Got a couple of couches, sleep on the loveseat
  • "When We Dance," Sting: I will find a place to live / Give you all I got to give / (When we dance / Angels will run and hide their wings)
  • "Lightning Crashes," Live: The angel closes her eyes / And confusion returns
  • "High Hopes," Pink Floyd: The grass was greener / The light was brighter / The taste was sweeter / The nights of wonder / With friends surrounding / The dawn was glowing / The water flowing / The endless river / Forever and ever
  • "Suddenly I See," KT Tunstall: She fills up every corner like she's born in black and white
  • "Sunrise," Norah Jones: Sunrise, sunrise / Looks like morning in your eyes / But the clocks held 9:15 for hours
  • "What Am I To You," Norah Jones: To me you are the sea: / Fast as you can be, / Deepest shade of blue
  • "Void," Darren Hayes: They don’t see the good inside you / They don’t lie with you in bed / And join you when you’re dreaming
  • "Read My Mind," The Killers: A teenage queen and a loaded gun / A drop dead dream and the chosen one / A southern drawl and a world unseen / A city wall and a trampoline
  • "Nothing Left to Lose," Mat Kearney: I can still hear the trains out my window / From Hobar Street to here in Nashville / I can still smell the pomegranates grove
  • "18th Floor Balcony," Blue October: Your head is on my stomach / And no / We're not goin to sleep
  • "Into the Ocean," Blue October: Wish I was much more masculine / Maybe then I could learn to swim / Like fifteen miles away
  • "When the Stars Go Blue," The Corrs feat. Bono: Laughing with your pretty mouth / Laughing with your broken eyes
  • "Burnin' Up," The Goo Goo Dolls: Life seems pretty easy / When it's from my easy chair
  • "Ain't That Unusual," The Goo Goo Dolls: See, I'd love to be you / At least then I'd see you
  • "Impersonality," The Goo Goo Dolls: When I was three feet tall / I loved the mall / And lived life for myself
  • "Only One," The Goo Goo Dolls: Why, you used to be a folk singer / Now you're just a joke singer / Ain't no smoking dope singer / Swinging from a rope singer
  • "Whispers in Blindness," Ace of Base: Swedish summer nights are hot / And the trees can talk. / We laid on the grass
  • "Lemon Tree," Fool's Garden: I wonder how / I wonder why / Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue, blue sky / And all that I can see / Is just a yellow lemon tree
  • "Foolish Games," Jewel: You were always brilliant in the morning, smoking your cigarettes and talking over coffee
  • "One Headlight," The Wallflowers: As I listen through the cemetery trees // I seen the sun coming up at the funeral at dawn
  • "Hang," Matchbox 20: He smokes his cigarette, he stays outside till it's gone / If anybody ever had a heart, well, he wouldn't be alone
  • "Goodnight Elizabeth," Counting Crows: I was wasted in the afternoon / Waiting on a train
  • "Have You Seen Me Lately?" Counting Crows: Like she said she loved to watch me sleep. / She said / It's the breathing, it's the breathing / In and out and out and in
  • "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand," Primitive Radio Gods: Seconds ticking killed us all / A million years before the fall
  • "Barely Breathing," Duncan Sheik: I only taste the saline when I kiss away your tears
  • "Busted," Matchbox 20: In my head I heard a sound like / Fifteen strangers dancing
  • "Superman's Dead," Our Lady Peace: Doesn't anybody ever know / That the world's a subway
  • "Promises," Savage Garden: You know that time will be the thief / And your fallen king will end up alone
  • "Violet," Savage Garden: If there's a way to infiltrate you / Sway your mind and complicate you
  • "Flagpole Sitta," Harvey Danger: Fingertips have memories / Mine can't forget the curves of your body
  • "Motorcycle Driveby," Third Eye Blind: You are so serene / Careening through the universe, your axis on a tilt
  • "Sherry Fraiser (I Saw Stars)," Marcy Playground: The Mad Hatter / He waits for Alice / To come to tea again / He waits / Forever
  • "Good Ship Lifestyle," Chumbawamba: This is the good ship lifestyle, I fly my very own flag / TV dinners for one at the captain's table
  • "Hate This Place," The Goo Goo Dolls: Hold on / Dream away / You're my sweet charade
  • "Black Balloon," The Goo Goo Dolls: I saw the world spin beneath you / And scatter like ice from the spoon
  • "More Than This," The Cure: Make believe in magic, make-believe in dreams / Make-believe impossible, nothing as it seems
  • "Crystal Ship," The Doors: The days are bright and filled with pain / Enclose me with your gentle rain
  • "Flower Man," Tonic: So you put on your armor and stand in the way / You're wearing the target it took so long to earn / And you start looking sideways at every turn
  • "2HB," Venus in Furs: Take two people romantic, smoky nightclub situation / Your cigarette traces a ladder / Here's looking at you, kid
  • "Gimme Danger," Ewan McGregor: There's nothing in my veins but some ugly memories / But kiss me like the ocean breeze
  • "I Miss You," blink-182: And as I stared I counted / Webs from all the spiders catching things / And eating their insides / Like indecision to call you
  • "Honey and the Moon," Joseph Arthur: But right now / Everything you want is wrong / And right now / All your dreams are waking up
  • "Good Man," Third Eye Blind: How do you do it when I'm overwhelmed by a violet sky? And we fly / In a decayed orbit / Sixty-six thousand miles an hour
  • "Palm Reader," Third Eye Blind: I kept your sweater / Till the scent was gone / Wrapped up in my hands when the day were long / But I'm still sniffing
  • "Crystal Baller," Third Eye Blind: Macramé queens in the afternoon / And I'm in tune or did I speak too soon? / Punch drunk off of somebody's joke, / What happens to the time?
  • "Misfits," Third Eye Blind: Tick, tick / Tell me where the time goes / All night, / You know it moves much too slow
  • "Silver and Cold," AFI: Light / Like the flutter of wings / Feel your hollow bones rushing / Into me
  • "Birdcage," The Wallflowers: As the bells in the trees up above swung and rang softly / You said you rang them for me
  • Hidden Track, The Wallflowers: When all my colors fade and my wings, they turn to leather / I wanna know the reasons why God let me get older
  • "Sleepwalker," The Wallflowers: Cupid, don’t draw back your bow: / Sam Cooke didn’t know what I know.
  • "Witness," The Wallflowers: Keep one eye open when / Whenever you kiss
  • "I've Been Delivered," The Wallflowers: I was once lost in the corridors of the arena in blindfolds / I’ve been the bull / I’ve been the whip / I just poked down a matador
  • "Beautiful Thing," Sister Hazel: I'll follow you wherever when you lead me by my nose / On another big adventure, I suppose
  • "Rest Stop," Matchbox Twenty: The light was shining from the radio / I could barely see her face
  • "Two Story Town," Bon Jovi: Seven days of Monday morning / Oh / In this two-story town
  • "St. Robinson and his Cadillac Dream," Counting Crows: All toe shoes and twin with the girl in the mirror who spins when she spins / From where you think you'll end up to the state that you're in, your reflection approaches and recedes again
  • "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," Counting Crows: If dreams are like movies, / Then memories are films about ghosts
  • "You Can Still Be Free," Savage Garden: Keep moving way up high / You see the light / It shines forever / Sail through the crimson skies
  • "Gunning Down Romance," Savage Garden: As I console myself that Hallmark cards are true
  • "Defeat You," Smash Mouth: Born is a human with a kung-fu spine / Equipped with a detector of what's on your mind
  • "Rebel Sodville," Marcy Playground:Bring wine for the knights in crying armor / As time beats away / And wiling in an acid bath of hours
  • "Dying in the Sun," The Cranberries: I wanted to be so perfect you see / I wanted to be so perfect / Like dying in the sun
  • "Echo," Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: If poison came in liquid / She was naked all the time and no one could explain it / It was all between the lines
  • "Accused of Love," Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: The attorney grins / The witness is drug in / With his face half hid / In shadow
  • "Anything," Third Eye Blind: Jackie-O with the top down, open / A king’s horse for what’s been broken
  • "1000 Julys," Third Eye Blind: 'cause I'm a vampire, y'all, and we toast the blood of our enemies
  • "Meltdown," Live: Like the sun on the icecaps / My only friend in the prison
  • "The Dolphin's Cry," Live: The way you're bathed in light / Reminds me of that night / God led me down into your rose garden of trust
  • "Run to the Water," Live: Oh, desert, speak to my heart / O woman of the earth
  • "Californication," Red Hot Chili Peppers: Marry me, girl, be my fairy to the world / Be my very own constellation
  • "Windmills of Your Mind," Sting: Why does summer go so quickly-- / Was it something that you said?
  • "Love Bites," Def Leppard: When you make love, do you look in a mirror? / Who do you think of? Does he look like me?