still living vicariously though music, are we?
November
"She flies without no feathers, a fool to try and catch her...you were born a lucid flower, a tulip and i pulled her." --Magnificent Bastards
"I wanna hate you so bad, but i can't..." --taking back sunday
"Why would you say those things when you know they don't mean anything..." --taking back sunday
"I'm don't look forward to seeing you again, and you'll look like a photoraph of yourself taken from far far away, and i wont know what to do and i won't know what to say except, fuck you -- and your untouchable face, fuck you, for existing in the first place." --Ani Difranco
"You got a new girlfriend, a bitchin new girlfriend, but she won't help you at all." --nerf Herder
"you're the kind of thing i like to wreck." --groceries
"sorry we broke up, sorry i missed you, sorry i wanted only to kiss you." --nerf herder
"someone's gonna save me." --pavement
"i think about nothing but you." --the impossibles
"i'm not the one you dream about, i'm not the one who was an old time punk rawker" --ner herder
"your cellophane skin won't hold." --groceries
"and they think you're too much for words, but they don't know how to show it."--ben lee
"i'm not sure of anyone, but i've got plans." --dasshboard confessional
"all i ever do is say i'm sorry, words come out just like ear candy." --sugarcult
"feels a little awkward sometimes, you won't talk but we're not fighting." --dashboard confessional
October
bite me.
September
“It’s a kick ass day, wish you were here…” –The Marvelous Three
”If I hurt you, then I’m sorry. Please don’t think that this was easy.” –Something Corporate
“You don’t tell me anything.” –Built to Spill
“After awhile, it hurts to smile.” –Built to Spill
“If there’s something inside that you wanna say, say it out loud it’ll be okay. It’ll be alright.” –The Beta Band
“Think I wanna cry, don’t know why. Think I’m gonna sing myself a lullabye- feel free to listen, yeah…feel free to stare.” –Ani Difranco
“I hate this town.” –Keyke
“When are you leaving Pleasantville where Jesus loves you?” –Keyke
“You better stomp me out before I get too loud.” –Keyke
“I could make you happy, if you weren’t already.” –Ani Difranco
“What is this beautiful, beautiful woman settling for?” –Ani Difranco
“I don’t like my language soft, I don’t like my edges rounded off.” –Ani Difranco
“They think you’re too much for words…” –Ben Lee
“If you think that I don’t love you, you’re just wrong. That don’t matter anyway.” –Jude
“Old friendships fade away, love falls apart, but you’ve not spent one day outside my heart.” –Jude
“I got a girl, she’ll speak her mind. I got a girl, she’ll argue anytime. I got a girl, she is so small, I got a girl, she’ll knock down any wall.” –Tripping Daisy
“Today all started with a lie.” –Home Town Hero
“I’m caught up by the angel and its heart that bleeds in blue…” –Home Town Hero
“Oh my god, this static is bad for my complexion.” –The Marvelous Three
“She dreams about the girl she used to be…” –The Marvelous Three
“Nobody ever kissed me quite like the way that you did.” –The Marvelous Three
“Well let me tell you I have seen a monster age of 17. She’ll let you in to kick you out, and knows what love is all about…” –Phantom Planet
“Everybody knows that something is wrong, but nobody knows what’s going on…” –Phantom Planet
“I’m not here, this isn’t happening.” –Radiohead
”When you wanna go, I know you will. And I can see it all, and I’m ok…I wish there was another way.” –Nada Surf
August
"I could be so much more than this." --Jimmy Eat World
"Please don't go away." --Allister
"Please don't worry too much, it only hurts when i breathe." --Atreyu
"I prefer to be remembered as a smiling face, not this fucking wreck that's taken it's place." --Bright Eyes.
"She wishes God would give her some answers and make her feel beautiful." --Our Lady Peace
"Why do we need familiar sound." --Saccharine
"Don't let me scream." --Rainer Maria
"You can't miss what you forget so let's just preten everything between you and me was never meant." --American Football.
"We were good as married in my mind, but married in my mind is no good." --Weezer
"Go try, try to make yourself right." --Midtown
"If i'm wrong let me know." --FenixTx
"Time is gonna tell your little secrets to me. There's a frightened girl inside of you and i'm gonna set her free." --Old 97s
July Bite me... i was busy in June.
"I will learn to say goodbye to yesterday." -- Vanessa Carlton
"Today seems like a good day to burn a bridge or two." -- 311
"There's no way in hell i'd take you back." --Garbage
When i grow up I'll be stable, When i gros up i'll turn the tables." --Garbage
"They don't realize there's more to her than what meets the eyes." --Tim McGraw
"She don't know she's beautiful." --Sammy Kershaw
"She's so pretty, that just ain't me." --Pink
"I am lost in the crowd, I'm standing in line, I'm feeling so down and i am full of doubt." --Box Car Racer
"I'm sorry, please forgive me if you would." -- Box Car Racer
"I need you more than you need me." --Box Car Racer
"Love is suicide." --Smashing Pumpkins
"I couldn't change though i wanted to." --Bush
"I would fix these flaws of mine if i could just see you." -- New Found Glory
"It won't be long before you forget my name." -- New Found Glory
"Did you lose yourself somewhere out there?" --Goo Goo Dolls
"Me and this girl we been working it out, we got a long way to go, we got a long way to go." --Old 97's
"If you don't love me would you please pretend?" --Old 97's
"19 is not an age of reason." --Old 97's
"It's really hard to get through tought times and long days, but it really just depends on the season." -- New Found Glory
"Nobody's gonna stop me from livin' out my dreams."--Lucky Boys Confusion
May
"Why can't the moon stay full forever?" --Goo Goo Dolls
"Maybe i just set aside the fact that you were broken hearted." --Alkaline Trio
"I don't know what to say to you, but i smile anyway." --Dido
"The one good thing i almost did-- i learned your name without words." --Jawbreaker
"Now it's time to make a choice, and all i wanna hear is your voice." --Unwritten Law
"Perfection never was a requirement, although some might say we desire it." --Five Iron Frenzy
"You see flowers in these weeds..." Five Iron Frenzy
"YOu're trying to look cute in your blue jeans, but you're plastic just like everyone." --Dashboard Confessional
"Stop this war..." --Operation Ivy
"I hope you'll remember me when you're homesick." --Our Lady Peace
"Did you really think that it was over when you hung up the phone and said goodbye?" --The Juliana Theory
"When you smile i melt inside." --Blink-182
"Today i woke up alone, wishing you were here with me. I wanted us to be something that we'd probably never be." --The Ataris
"Better late than never--stay forever" --SR-71
"I don't want to talk to you anymore." --Incubus
"With you i'm afraid there could be no escape." --Gob
"I never used to worry about the little things that could go wrong." --10 Foot Pole
"Big decisions overwhelm me, and i know nothing's free." --MxPx
"You're unaware that you should be scared." --The Get Up Kids
"Such a beautiful way, to break my heart." --Beck
"can you sleep as the sound hits your ears?" --THe Get UP Kids
"I can see you ignoring me." --THe Raincoats
"Fascinating new thing, you delight me..." --Semisonic
I've got a regular problem so my standard break from life is in order." --Alkaline Trio
April--on hiatus
March
"Why can't i just feel something besides, just some numbness...i can't feel at all..." --No Motiv
"I can't seem to grasp, what's going on." --No Motiv
"I've got my heart, but my heart's no good, and you're the only one that's understood. I come along but i don't know where you're taking me." --NIN
"The more i give to you, the more i die." --NIN
"The arrow goes straight thru my heart, without you everything just falls apart...without you it's not as much fun to pick up the pieces..." --NIN
"you and me we're in this together now none of them can stop us now we will make it through somehow you and me if the world should break in two until the very end of me until the very end of you"--NIN
"All i ever do is say i'm sorry, words come out just like ear candy." --Sugarcult
"She's perfect, so perfect, somethings make-up can't fix. And i'm perfectly incapable of being with you." --Sugarcult
"We can still HA HA and laugh about it, cause all in all i never doubted i would be the one who leans on you." --theStart
"Rise up! Dance to a different beat. Rise up! Free your mind of what they say..." --theStart
"Why won't you bring me? I need a brand new glow." --theStart
"The game of life is hard to play, I'm going to lose it anyway...so this is all i have to say: suicide is painless." --Manic Street Preachers. (bet you didn't know those are the lyrics to the M*A*S*H theme song)
"Time to wake up. Where's your daughter? Hurts to break up, she was stronger. All my friends say, 'Please don't love her' What did i gain? Now i miss her so." --Blink 182
"If you want the pain to go away, better suck up your pride, admit, you lost her. Let her go, Move on, let her go..." --Blink 182
"Girls always cry, guys will never admit they did...Guys like to run, girls like to yell, you see. Guys hate goodbye, girls think it's therapy...Hold on, Hold on. Don't tell me that it's over, I'm not used to this temptation. And when you come running back there's no use for explanation." --Blink 182
"Ease away the problems and the pain, the girl chose the guy that makes you want to kick and scream. ALl along you wish that she would stay, F*CK the guy that took her, ran away." --Blink 182
"And i don't care, he is such a dick. He treats you like you are a stupid whore...I know you feel empty all the time, you never listen to anything that i say...When all is said and done, you know, it's ok to just want more." --Blink 182
"If it was up to me, I'd never have to miss you." --Alkaline Trio
"I never did do anything that she asked. i never let what happened stay in the past. I never did quite understand what she meant...in spite of everything, in spite of everything..." --Blink 182
"i've got a big fat f*cking bone to pick with you my darling. In case you haven't heard i'm sick and tired of trying. I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you, plugged in ready to fall." --Alkaline Trio
"Never ran away for the sake of scars...never had a drink i didn't like, got a taste of you, threw up all night." --Alkaline Trio
"YOu see i don't know what i said to you. And now you're pissed at me again, so i guess i deserve it. Wish i could waste my time, without wasting all your time." --Alkaline Trio
February
"If I'm leaving with a brokenheart you're leaving with a bleeding nose. This is the last time you'll see me." --Jettingham
"Well everyday my confusion grows." --New Order
"Your nobody girl." --Ryan Adams
"Lying in my bed again and cry cause you're not here...but it's bad and its mad and it's making me sad cause i can't be with you...i wanted to be the mother of your child and now it's just fairwell..." --The Cranberries
"I don't know why, but i love to see you cry. I don't know why, it just makes me feel alive." --Enrique Iglesias
"No puedes escapar." --Enrique Iglesias
"There's nothing i believe in more than my own insignificance." --SR-71
"I hear you calling, calling for me out in the night. But it's all bad, and i know that." --Gob
"There is no hope in you for me." --Dave Matthews Band
"There are things that used to make me smile. One of them was you for just a little while." --Alkaline Trio
"I've learned so much since you've been gone. And i have done so little for so long." --Dashboard Confessional
"So lonely inside, so busy out there, and all you wanted was somebody who cares. I'm sinking slowly, so hurry hold me." --Michelle Branch
"Of course it's your decision, but jsut so you know, if you decide to leave--soon i will follow." --Bright Eyes
"The last three years were just pretend. Goodbye to you." --Michelle Branch
"Just go on pretending i have nothing to lose."--Ten Foot Pole
"My therapist said/not to see you no more/she said you're like a disease/without any cure...and you think you're so pretty....prrrrrrrreeeeeeeee-ttttttyyyyy." --James
"Do you think you're beautiful? All cool and irreplaceable, does it really matter at all...do you, do you just tell yourslf that you're beautiful? do you believe it?" --Dance Hall Crashers
"I hurt myself today, to see if i could feel. I hurt myself you said, to try and make him feel. So i hurt myself again, to see if he'd see me. I hurt myself again, i know he never could see me." --Tori Amos, cover of NIN Hurt
"Like peter pan, or superman... you will come, to save me. Come on and save me...If you could save me, from the ranks of the freaks, who suspect that they could never love anyone." --Aimee Mann
"What have i become, my sweetest friend? Everyone i know goes away in the end. You can have it all, my empire of DIRT. I will let you down. I will make you hurt." --Nine Inch Nails
"Remember when i said i loved you? Well i take it back, I was just a stupid kid back then. I take back every word that i said." --Alkaline Trio
"Sway my way, don't come and go like you do." --Bic Runga
"It all comes down to you and I, Let's have another drink, waste some time with me, we're happy in the meantime." --Lit
"I'm thinkin' about the shit that i pulled the night before..." --Lit
"Now that i've met you, would you object to, never seeing each other again? " --Aimee Mann
"I've got troubles enough..." --Aimee Mann
"Fire in my shoes, still walking forward, walking back to you." --Bic Runga
"I know it's time, i know it's time to go." --Bic Runga
"Every star is a valid reason for every dream." --Alkaline Trio
"I love myself today, not like yesterday. I'm cool, I'm calm, I'm gonna be ok. I love myself today, not like yesterday..take another look at me now cause it's your last look, last look FOREVER...I'm lookin in the mirror and i like what i see, I've lost the fear and the horror that's been eating at me. Cause living with you was like a hangman's noose, i was living my life in dead man's shoes." --Bif Naked
January
"In the cathedrals, of New York and Rome there is a feeling, that you should just go home, and spend a lifetime finding out just where that is." --Jump Little Children
"I'm better off without you, and you're better off without me too." --Tasty Snax
"What's wrong baby? Don't they treat you like they should...we once walked out on the beach and once i almost touched your hand..." --Jimmy Eat World
"My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so i die happy. My heart is your to fill or burst or break or bury or wear as jewelry, which ever you prefer." --Dashboard COnfessional
"I'm alright, i'm gonna make it, even if i've gotta fake it." --Sugarcult
"I'm dying to know, do you do you like dreaming of things so impossible, or only the practical, or ever the wild or waiting through all you bad bad days just to end it with someone you care about. and do you like making out and long drives and brown eyes and guys that just don't quite fit in. yeah do you like them?" --Dashboard Confessional
"Don't you know i miss you?" --Jimmy Eat World
"Life just sucks, i lost the one. i'm giving up, she found someone." --blink 182
"So all you little ladies, be sure to choose the right guy." --blink 182
"i won't hear anything that you say to me." --mest
"I can't do wrong, can't do right, i feel so alone tonight." --mest
"You're better off without him, don't call him. He's breaking your heart." --The Ataris
"The world don't spin without you. I'm amazed you're standing still. I'm taking my kisses back from you, i want my kisses back from you." --Jimmy Eat World
"I thought you were the one, but i was wrong cause you've already gone." --Mest
"Back with the streets i know will never take me anywhere but here..."--The Weakerthans
"She walks in the room...all jaws drop, the guys just stare. Perfect complection and perfect smile. Congrats, you're beautiful" --New Found Glory
"I like the ones who say they listen to the punk rock. I like the kids who fight against how they were brought up. They hate the trends and think it's f***ed to care. It's cool when they piss people of with what they wear." --Blink 182
"I can't forgive, can't forget, can't give in. What went wrong? 'Cause you said this was right. You F***ed up my life." --Blink 182
"I should hate you, but i can't replace you in my heart. Why am i so pathetic? Don't get it, why you won't return my calls. Can't you look at me once, and please if you've got a minute, enjoy this lonely sky with me...it'll swallow us whole, if we'd only let it." --Saves the Day
"i can't sit back and wonder why it took so long for this to die." --Sum 41
"So here's your holiday, hope you enjoy it this time, you gave it all away. It's not right." --Blink 182
"I'm scared by all the lies that were once promises you made." --The Ataris
"Something isn't right here, cause you've gone and left me here on the ground. Something isn't right in this world called confusion, you gave it all away before you could lose it." --The Juliana Theory
"...Like what happened when i said you'd never go- 'cause i'm a fool, to think that you could ever be that true." --Letters to Cleo
"It would be kick to get my way, but i hardly ever do." --Letters to Cleo
"Life ain't all that bad." --The Ataris
"I said i love you and i swear i still do." --Nickelback
"I'll think about your other girls and how i want to be the only one."--Letters to Cleo
"Did someone switch you ritalin with efedrine? Just don't take your F' problems out on me." --The Ataris
"Why can't i forget you and everything you do?"--Mest
"I don't care what you say and i dont care what you do, just make it me." --Letters to Cleo
"You say you don't love me, well that's alright with me, 'cause i'm in love with you. I just want us to do the things we used to do." --Goldfinger
"It's over and done, but the heartache lives on inside, and who is the one you're clinging to instead of me tonight?" --Destiny's Child
"Please send me anything but signals that are mixed" --Dashboard Confessional