100 Favorite Lyrics

Submitted by litgeek on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 18:08
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  1. We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl / Year after year ("Wish You Were Here (Encore)," Pink Floyd)
  2. They don't give a damn about any trumpet-playing band / It ain't what they call rock and roll ("Sultans of Swing," Dire Straits)
  3. Oh, the movie never ends / It goes on and on and on ("Don't Stop Believing," Journey)
  4. 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 ("The Teacher," Big Country)
  5. 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 ("Veronica," Elvis Costello)
  6. Men go crazy in congregations / They only get better one by one ("All this Time," Sting)
  7. It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and major lift / The baffled king composing hallelujah ("Hallelujah," Rufus Wainright)
  8. Everybody’s trusting in their heart / Like their heart don’t lie ("All I Need," Matchbox Twenty)
  9. How can you sleep at a time like this? / Unless the dreamer is the real you ("Make It Mine," Jason Mraz)
  10. I can see you, your brown skin shining in the sun / You've got that hair swept back and those Wayfarers on, baby ("Boys of Summer," Don Henley)
  11. The evil genius hugs his wife ("Angle Park," Big Country)
  12. Eviscerate your memory / Here’s the scene: / You’re in the back seat laying down ("You Are the Everything," R.E.M.)
  13. September's coming soon / Pining for the moon / But what if there were two / Side by side in orbit / Around the fairer sun? ("Nightswimming," R.E.M.)
  14. 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 ("Now Comes the Night," Rob Thomas)
  15. We were drawn from the weeds / We were brave like soldiers / Falling down under the pale moonlight ("Ever the Same," Rob Thomas)
  16. 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 ("Sugar, We're Goin' Down," Fallout Boy)
  17. And though time goes by / I will always be / In a club with you / In 1973 ("1973," James Blunt)
  18. If you take me away / All the pain will change into a memory / Of when we were amazing ("Casey," Darren Hayes)
  19. 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 ("The Tuning of Violins," Darren Hayes)
  20. I will turn your face to alabaster / When you find your servant is your master ("Wrapped Around Your Finger," The Police)
  21. There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out / There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt ("King of Pain," The Police)
  22. In a big country, dreams stay with you / Like a lover's voice / Across the mountainside ("In a Big Country," Big Country)
  23. We save no souls / We break no promises ("Lost Patrol," Big Country)
  24. You can tell the sun / In his jealous sky / How we walked in fields of gold ("Fields of Gold," Sting)
  25. In between the moon and you, angels get a better view / Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right ("Round Here," Counting Crows)
  26. 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 ("Murder of One," Counting Crows)
  27. I feel summer creeping in / And I'm tired of this town again ("Mary Jane's Last Dance," Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
  28. Baby's in Reno with the vitamin d / Got a couple of couches, sleep on the loveseat ("Loser," Beck)
  29. I will find a place to live / Give you all I got to give / (When we dance / Angels will run and hide their wings) ("When We Dance," Sting)
  30. The angel closes her eyes / And confusion returns ("Lightning Crashes," Live)
  31. 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 ("High Hopes," Pink Floyd)
  32. She fills up every corner like she's born in black and white ("Suddenly I See," KT Tunstall)
  33. Sunrise, sunrise / Looks like morning in your eyes / But the clocks held 9:15 for hours ("Sunrise," Norah Jones)
  34. To me you are the sea: / Fast as you can be, / Deepest shade of blue ("What Am I To You," Norah Jones)
  35. They don’t see the good inside you / They don’t lie with you in bed / And join you when you’re dreaming ("Void," Darren Hayes)
  36. 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 ("Read My Mind," The Killers)
  37. I can still hear the trains out my window / From Hobar Street to here in Nashville / I can still smell the pomegranates grove ("Nothing Left to Lose," Mat Kearney)
  38. Your head is on my stomach / And no / We're not goin to sleep ("18th Floor Balcony," Blue October)
  39. Wish I was much more masculine / Maybe then I could learn to swim / Like fifteen miles away ("Into the Ocean," Blue October)
  40. Laughing with your pretty mouth / Laughing with your broken eyes ("When the Stars Go Blue," The Corrs feat. Bono)
  41. Life seems pretty easy / When it's from my easy chair ("Burnin' Up," The Goo Goo Dolls)
  42. See, I'd love to be you / At least then I'd see you ("Ain't That Unusual," The Goo Goo Dolls)
  43. When I was three feet tall / I loved the mall / And lived life for myself ("Impersonality," The Goo Goo Dolls)
  44. 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 ("Only One," The Goo Goo Dolls)
  45. Swedish summer nights are hot / And the trees can talk. / We laid on the grass ("Whispers in Blindness," Ace of Base)
  46. 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 ("Lemon Tree," Fool's Garden)
  47. You were always brilliant in the morning, smoking your cigarettes and talking over coffee ("Foolish Games," Jewel)
  48. As I listen through the cemetery trees // I seen the sun coming up at the funeral at dawn ("One Headlight," The Wallflowers)
  49. He smokes his cigarette, he stays outside till it's gone / If anybody ever had a heart, well, he wouldn't be alone ("Hang," Matchbox 20)
  50. I was wasted in the afternoon / Waiting on a train ("Goodnight Elizabeth," Counting Crows)
  51. 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 ("Have You Seen Me Lately?" Counting Crows)
  52. Seconds ticking killed us all / A million years before the fall ("Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand," Primitive Radio Gods)
  53. I only taste the saline when I kiss away your tears ("Barely Breathing," Duncan Sheik)
  54. In my head I heard a sound like / Fifteen strangers dancing ("Busted," Matchbox 20)
  55. Doesn't anybody ever know / That the world's a subway ("Superman's Dead," Our Lady Peace)
  56. You know that time will be the thief / And your fallen king will end up alone ("Promises," Savage Garden)
  57. If there's a way to infiltrate you / Sway your mind and complicate you ("Violet," Savage Garden)
  58. Fingertips have memories / Mine can't forget the curves of your body ("Flagpole Sitta," Harvey Danger)
  59. You are so serene / Careening through the universe, your axis on a tilt ("Motorcycle Driveby," Third Eye Blind)
  60. The Mad Hatter / He waits for Alice / To come to tea again / He waits / Forever ("Sherry Fraiser (I Saw Stars)," Marcy Playground)
  61. This is the good ship lifestyle, I fly my very own flag / TV dinners for one at the captain's table ("Good Ship Lifestyle," Chumbawamba)
  62. Hold on / Dream away / You're my sweet charade ("Hate This Place," The Goo Goo Dolls)
  63. I saw the world spin beneath you / And scatter like ice from the spoon ("Black Balloon," The Goo Goo Dolls)
  64. Make believe in magic, make-believe in dreams / Make-believe impossible, nothing as it seems ("More Than This," The Cure)
  65. The days are bright and filled with pain / Enclose me with your gentle rain ("Crystal Ship," The Doors)
  66. 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 ("Flower Man," Tonic)
  67. Take two people romantic, smoky nightclub situation / Your cigarette traces a ladder / Here's looking at you, kid ("2HB," Venus in Furs)
  68. There's nothing in my veins but some ugly memories / But kiss me like the ocean breeze ("Gimme Danger," Ewan McGregor)
  69. And as I stared I counted / Webs from all the spiders catching things / And eating their insides / Like indecision to call you ("I Miss You," blink-182)
  70. But right now / Everything you want is wrong / And right now / All your dreams are waking up ("Honey and the Moon," Joseph Arthur)
  71. 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 ("Good Man," Third Eye Blind)
  72. I kept your sweater / Till the scent was gone / Wrapped up in my hands when the day were long / But I'm still sniffing ("Palm Reader," Third Eye Blind)
  73. 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?
  74. "Misfits," Third Eye Blind: Tick, tick / Tell me where the time goes / All night, / You know it moves much too slow ("Crystal Baller," Third Eye Blind)
  75. Light / Like the flutter of wings / Feel your hollow bones rushing / Into me ("Silver and Cold," AFI)
  76. As the bells in the trees up above swung and rang softly / You said you rang them for me ("Birdcage," The Wallflowers)
  77. When all my colors fade and my wings, they turn to leather / I wanna know the reasons why God let me get older (Hidden Track, The Wallflowers)
  78. Cupid, don’t draw back your bow: / Sam Cooke didn’t know what I know. ("Sleepwalker," The Wallflowers)
  79. Keep one eye open when / Whenever you kiss ("Witness," The Wallflowers)
  80. 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 ("I've Been Delivered," The Wallflowers)
  81. I'll follow you wherever when you lead me by my nose / On another big adventure, I suppose ("Beautiful Thing," Sister Hazel)
  82. The light was shining from the radio / I could barely see her face ("Rest Stop," Matchbox Twenty)
  83. Seven days of Monday morning / Oh / In this two-story town ("Two Story Town," Bon Jovi)
  84. 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 ("St. Robinson and his Cadillac Dream," Counting Crows)
  85. If dreams are like movies, / Then memories are films about ghosts ("Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," Counting Crows)
  86. Keep moving way up high / You see the light / It shines forever / Sail through the crimson skies ("You Can Still Be Free," Savage Garden)
  87. As I console myself that Hallmark cards are true ("Gunning Down Romance," Savage Garden)
  88. Born is a human with a kung-fu spine / Equipped with a detector of what's on your mind ("Defeat You," Smash Mouth)
  89. Bring wine for the knights in crying armor / As time beats away / And wiling in an acid bath of hours ("Rebel Sodville," Marcy Playground)
  90. If poison came in liquid / She was naked all the time and no one could explain it / It was all between the lines ("Echo," Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
  91. The attorney grins / The witness is drug in / With his face half hid / In shadow ("Accused of Love," Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
  92. Jackie-O with the top down, open / A king’s horse for what’s been broken ("Anything," Third Eye Blind)
  93. 'cause I'm a vampire, y'all, and we toast the blood of our enemies ("1000 Julys," Third Eye Blind)
  94. Like the sun on the icecaps / My only friend in the prison ("Meltdown," Live)
  95. The way you're bathed in light / Reminds me of that night / God led me down into your rose garden of trust ("The Dolphin's Cry," Live)
  96. Oh, desert, speak to my heart / O woman of the earth ("Run to the Water," Live)
  97. Marry me, girl, be my fairy to the world / Be my very own constellation ("Californication," Red Hot Chili Peppers)
  98. Why does summer go so quickly-- / Was it something that you said? ("Windmills of Your Mind," Sting)
  99. When you make love, do you look in a mirror? / Who do you think of? Does he look like me? ("Love Bites," Def Leppard)
  100. Some moments are more real / Than the books I've read ("Monotov's Private Opera," Third Eye Blind)