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"I would go to heaven, if I believed in heaven." ~Jill Sobule and Robin Eaton, The Jig is Up

"She said I don't know if I've ever been good enough, I'm a little bit rusty and I think my head is caving in...And I don't know if I've ever been really loved by a hand thats touched me---and I think something's gonna give, and I'm a little bit angry" ~Matchbox 20

"Well I probably should have known by the time you drove me home, by the vagueness in your eyes, the casual goodbye, by the chill in your embrace, the expression on your face that told me... maybe you might have some advice to give on how to be insensitive." ~Jann Arden, Insensitive

"I go to school, I write exams, if I pass, if I fail, if I drop out, does anyone give a damn? And if they do they'll soon forget, 'cause it won't take much for me to show that my life ain't over yet. I wake up scared, I wake up strange, I wake up wondering if anything in my life is ever gonna change. I wake up scared, I wake up strange, and everything around me stays the same." ~Barenaked ladies, What a Good Boy

"And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death." ~Pink Floyd, Time

"We've come a long, long way together- through the hard times and the good." ~Fatboy Slim

"Every breath you take and every move you make/ Every bond you break, every step you take/ I'll be watchin' you/ Every single day and every word you say/ Every game you play, every night you stay/ I'll be watchin' you..." ~Sting, Every Breath You Take

"Hello...can you hear me? Are you sure your there alone? Hello...do you miss me? I hear you say you do. But not the way I'm missing you. What's new? How's weather? Is it stormy where you are? You sound so close but it feels like you're so far. Would it mean anything if you knew what I'm left imagining. Why don't you, why don't you go out side, go outside...Kiss the rain!" ~Billy Myers, Kiss the Rain

"I'm glad I didn't know/ The way it all would end, the way it all would go/ Our lives are better left to chance/ I could have missed the rain/ But I'd have had to miss the dance." ~Garth Brooks, The Dance

"We all look through different windows." ~The Grateful Dead

"Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been." ~Grateful Dead

"There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone." ~Jerry Garcia

"Fred Jones was worn out from caring for his often screaming and crying wife during the day, but he couldn't sleep at night for fear that she, in a stupor from the drugs that didn't ease the pain would set the house ablaze with a cigarette..." ~Ben Folds Five, Cigarette

"How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?" ~Bob Dylan, Blowing in the Wind

"I met a girl who sang the blues/ and I asked her for some happy news/ but she just smiled and turned away/ And the three men I admire most/ The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost/ They caught the last train to the coast/ The day the music died." ~Don McLean, American Pie

"They can't hurt you unless you let them." ~Everclear

"Can you help me remember how to smile; somehow make it all seem worthwhile? How on earth did I get so jaded? Life's mysteries seem so faded." ~Soul Aslyum

"And the cat's in the cradle/ and the silver spoon/ Little boy blue and the man in the moon." ~Harry Chapin, Cat's In The Cradle

"And the seasons, they go round and round/ And the painted ponies go up and down/ We're captive on the carousel of time/ We can't return, we can only look/ Behind from where we came/ And go round and round and round in the circle game." ~Joni Mitchell, The Circle Game

"I've looked at life from both sides now/ From up and down, and still somehow/ It's life's illusions I recall/ I really don't know life at all." ~Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now

"Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels/ The dizzy dancing way you feel/ As every fairy tale comes real/ I've looked at love that way. ~Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now

"Memory. All alone in the moonlight/ I can smile at the old days/ I was beautiful then." ~Trevor Nunn, Cats

"And though you want to last forever/ You know you never will/ You know you never will/ And the good-bye makes the journey harder still." ~Cat Stevens

"Is this the real life/ Is this just fantasy/ Caught in a landslide/ No escape from reality/ Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see/ I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy/ Because I'm easy come, easy go; little high, little low/ anyway the wind blows doesn't really matter to me/ To me." ~Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody

"It's the heart afraid of dying, that never learns to dance. It's the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance. It's 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

"She's been everyone else's girl, maybe someday she'll be her own." ~Tori Amos

"When you gonna make up your mind? When you gonna love you as much as I do?" ~Tori Amos

"I remember, yes, in my peach party dress. No one dared, no one cared, to tell me where the pretty girls are. Those demi-gods with their nine-inch nails and facist panties tucked inside the heart of every nice girl" ~Tori Amos, Precious Things

"Just let me go, I won't be your shadow anymore." ~Marvilous 3

"This world is headed for mutiny, when all we want is unity." ~Creed

"Pulled down by the undertow, never thought I could feel so low, in all the darkness I feel like letting go..." ~Sarah McLachlan

"I'm so tired, and I can't sleep/ Standing on the edge of something much too deep/ It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word/ We are screaming inside but we can't be hard." ~Sarah McLachlan

"...so the years went by, I stayed the same. She began to drift away. I was left alone, still I waited for the day when she'd say, 'I will always love you.' Lonely and forgotten, I never thought she'd look my way. She smiled at me and held me just like she used to do when she loved me. When she loved me, when somebody loved me, everything was beautiful. Every hour spent together lives within my heart..." ~Sarah McLachlan

"Everybody loves you when you're easy...everybody hates when you're a fool....everone is waiting for your entrance...so don't disappoint them...." ~Sarah McLachlan

"I need someone to break the silence screaming in my head.....and in my soul..." ~Stabbing Westward

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Sinners are much more fun." ~Billy Joel, Only the Good Die Young

"Some people wear their smile like a disguise...those people who smile a lot, watch the eyes...I know it cuz I'm like that a lot, you think everything's ok, and it is......'til it's not." ~Ani DiFranco

"The one person who really knows me best says I'm like a cat-- the kind of cat that you just can't pick up and throw into your lap, no, the kind that doesn't mind being held only when it's her idea-- yeah, the kind that feels what she decides to feel when she's good and ready to feel it..." ~Ani DiFranco

"so i'll walk the plank/ and i'll jump with a smile/ if i'm gonna go down/ i'm gonna do it with style/ and you won't hear me surrender/ you won't hear me confess/ 'cuz you've lett me with nothing/ but i've worked with less." ~Ani DiFranco, Dilate

"I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap." ~Ani DiFranco, Overlap

"What if no one's watching? What if when we're dead, we are just dead? What if it's just us down here? What if God is just an idea someone put in your head?" ~Ani DiFranco, What If No One's Watching

"cause i know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands/ say this has nothing to do with me i just want to live as comfortably as i can/ you got to look outside your eyes/ you got to think outside your brain/ you got to walk outside your life/ to where the neighborhood changes/ ...you don't have to like me for who i am/ but we'll see what you're made of by what you think of me/ ...i fight fire with words/ words are hotter than flames/ words are wetter than water/ i got friends all over this country/ i got friends in other countries too/ i got friends i haven't met yet/ i got friends i never knew/ ...so why don't you give me a call/ when you decide you're willing to fight/ for what you think is real/ for what you think is right." ~Ani DiFranco, Willing to Fight

"If you're female, with long hair, and fairly cute you get plenty of the wrong kind of attention. If a woman is independent, it's not seen as sexy. At one time I remember thinking, 'If this is my only option, I'll be ugly.'" ~Ani DiFranco

"I owe my life to people that I love." ~Ani DiFranco, In Or Out

"You look at me and see the girl/ who lives inside the golden world/ But don't believe/ that's all there is to see/ You'll never see the real me." ~Mariah Carey, Looking In

"And all the people knelt and prayed/ to that neon god they made…/ and the writings of the prophets are written on the subway wall…" Simon & Grafunkel, The Sound of Silence

"In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down... or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame. 'I am leaving! I am leaving!' but the fighter still remains." ~Paul Simon, The Boxer

"With vigilance and a cheap guitar, I am my own movie star." ~Eve 6

"I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-- you're not to blame; you're just human--a victim of the insane." ~John Lennon

"Hey y'all, it's amazing with all the trouble in the world we can come here and have a good time, it doesn't make sense, but it's good to have a good time." ~Dave Matthew's Band

"I find sometimes it's easy to be myself/ Sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else." ~Dave Matthews, The Best of What's Around

"What do you say in a moment like this, when you can't find the words to tell it like it is?" ~Reba

"'Is the glass half-full or empty?' I ask her as I fill it. She said 'It doesn't really matter, pretty soon you're bound to spill it.'" ~Indigo Girls

"I close my eyes, wishing I am fine, even though I'm not this time..." ~Indigo Girls

"We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free." ~Amy Ray, "Reunion"

"Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable/ And lightness has a call that's hard to hear/ I wrap my fear around me like a blanket/ I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it/ I'm crawling on your shore." ~Emily Saliers, "Closer to Fine"

"You have to laugh at yourself because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't." ~Emily Saliers

"You said good friends are hard to come by I laughed and bought you a beer 'cause it's too corny to cry well sentiment given and sentiment lost you shook it off with a smirk and a toss and you were only joking." ~Amy Ray, "Joking"

"Cause if you're ever believing i'm thinking of leaving look to the moon, cause it's a fact she may go wandering about but she always come shining back and it's true, i'll wait for you. you dry your tears, don't be thinking grey is here to stay. sometimes everything is in the way you're wanting to look at it, turn your view around, dry your eyes, eyes like yours should carry a smile, i haven't seen them sparkle in awhile, give it one more try, dry your eyes." ~Emily Saliers, "Crazy Game"

"And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path." ~Emily Saliers, "Watershed"

"An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical." ~Amy Ray

"All the girls with anorexia are on the street tonight/ And the boys in the band think they look just fine/ ...Well you seem like a girl with the world on her side/ But then that's just a point of view/ And you know how quickly that can change too/ See I heard you were free or someone thought you should be/ And I know just how that feels/ I thought maybe we could just talk for awhile." ~Amy Ray, Chiapas Bound

"You just have to let yourself go and not be worried about what other people are going to say or the things that might come out...Just jump right in full force and be as silly and stupid and adolescent and introspective as you want to be." ~Amy Ray

"Every step you take becomes a twist of fate." ~Indigo Girls

"I am looking for someone who can take as much as I give/ and give back as much as I need/ you know and they still have the will to live." ~Amy Ray, Blood and Fire

"Why do we hurdle 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." ~Emily Sailers, Get Out the Map

"and it's alright if you hate that way/ hate me cause I'm different/ you hate me cause I'm gay/ truth of the matter come around one day/ it's alright." ~Emily Sailers, It's Alright

"If I have a care in the world, I have a gift to bring." ~Emily Sailers, Hammer and a Nail

"Now I'm running to the end of the earth/ and I'm swimming to the edge of the sea/ and I'm laughing, I'm under a starry sky/ this world was meant for me, don't bury me." ~Amy Ray, World Falls

"We got to learn to respect what we don't understand." ~Indigo Girls, Fugative

"Now I know a refuge never grows/ from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful prose/ gotta tend to the earth if you want a rose." ~Emily Sailers, Hammer and a Nail

"You creep up like a cloud/ and you set my soul at ease/ then you let your love abound/ and you bring me to my knees." ~Fionna Apple

"Before you judge me take a look at you/ can't you find something better to do/ point the finger, slow to understand/ arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand." ~Metallica

"The door is locked now, but it is open if you are true. If you can understand the me, the I can understand the you." ~Metallica

"You used to tell me so many nights you don't deserve me. Well, maybe you were right." ~Sara Evans, Fool I'm a Woman

"...you're the song I can't get out of my head. Instead of being the first thing I heard in the morning, you were the last thing I thought of when I slept." ~Ella, Untitled 1

"Thank you for giving to the Lord, I am the life that was changed..." ~Chancel choir, Thank you

"No, we've never met/ haven't found him yet/ but I know him by heart." ~Vonda Shepard

"There is no future, there is no past, I live this moment as my last, there's only us, there's only this, forget regret, or life is yours to miss, no other road, no other way, no day but today...." ~RENT

"Let he among us without sin be the first to condemn, La Vie Bohem!" ~Rent, La Vie Bohem