17 November 2009
I want a light of some kind
-Ani DiFranco, "Light of Some Kind"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/lightofsomekind.txt

12 November 2009
Who would know better than you?
A hundred love letters and none of them true
-Patty Griffin, "Christina"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/christina.txt

7 November 2009
When every line speaks the language of love
It never held the meaning I was thinking of
And I lost the line between right or wrong
I just want to find the place where I belong
-Beth Orton, "Stolen Car"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/stolencar.txt

5 November 2009
I guess you finally stopped believing
That any hope would ever find you
I knew that story, I was sitting right behind you
-Patty Griffin, "Tony"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/tony.txt

1 November 2009
Beautiful but boring he visited me yesterday
He noticed my fingers
And he asked me if I would play
I didn't really care a lot
But I couldn't think of a reason why not
I said if you don't come any closer
I don't mind if you stay
My thighs have been involved
In many accidents
And now I can't get insured
And I don't need to be lured by you
My cunt is built
Like a wound that won't heal
Now you don't have to ask
Because you know how I feel
-Ani DiFranco, "Out of Habit"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/outofhabit.txt

27 October 2009
Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
-Joss Whedon/Sonny Rhodes, "Ballad of Serenity"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/balladofserenity.txt

23 October 2009
In a strange strange place, I'm lying on the edge of a star
In these violent days, I only wanna be where you are
Even fools, they say, can find a way out of the dark
Of the dark
Help me out of the dark
-Matt Hires, "Out of the Dark"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/outofthedark.txt

23 October 2009
I've never felt alone
Till I met you
I'm alright on my own
And then I met you
And I'd know what to do if I just knew what's coming
-Third Eye Blind, "Deep Inside of You"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/deep_inside.txt

21 October 2009
I know my heart and it will never change
-Vanessa Carlton, "Hands On Me"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/handsonme.txt

18 October 2009
We were all in love and we all got hurt
-Vanessa Carlton, "White Houses"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/whitehouses.txt

15 October 2009
I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart
Questions of science, science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart
-Coldplay, "The Scientist"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/thescientist.txt

15 October 2009
He's lost the will he can't decide
He doesn't know who's right or wrong
But there's one thing that he's sure of:
This has been going on too long
-Lily Allen, "Him"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/him.txt

11 October 2009
It's sad but it's true how society says her life is already over
There's nothing to do and there's nothing to say
Til the man of her dreams comes along 
Picks her up and puts her over his shoulder
It seems so unlikely in this day and age
-Lily Allen, "22"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/22.txt

11 October 2009
I don't know what's right and what's real anymore
And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear
'Cause I'm being taken over by the fear
-Lily Allen, "The Fear"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/thefear.txt

10 October 2009
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
-Death Cab for Cutie, "I Will Follow You Into the Dark"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/iwillfollowyouintothedark.txt

8 October 2009
I been one poor correspondent, and I been too, too hard to find
But it doesn't mean you ain't been on my mind
-America, "Sister Golden Hair"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/sistergoldenhair.txt

27 September 2009
I might not be the right one
It might not be the right time
But there's something about us I've got to do
Some kind of secret I will share with you
I need you more than anything in my life
I want you more than anything in my life
I'll miss you more than anyone in my life
I love you more than anyone in my life
-Daft Punk, "Something About Us"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/somethingaboutus.txt

27 September 2009
Open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find that the sky is yours
So please don't please don't please don't
There's no need to complicate
'Cause our time is short
This oh this oh this is our fate, I'm yours
-Jason Mraz, "I'm Yours"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/imyours.txt

2 July 2009
At first, wait, won't get it on a plate
You're gonna have to work for it
Harder and harder
And I know 'cause I've been there before
Knocking on the doors with rejection
And you'll see 'cause if it's meant to be
Nothing can compare to deserving your dream
-Jem, "It's Amazing"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/itsamazing.txt

2 July 2009
Tell your boyfriend if he says he's got beef,
That I'm a vegetarian and I ain't ****ing scared of him
-3Oh!3, "Don't Trust Me"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/donttrustme.txt

1 July 2009
Counter my harmony
Layer your charm on me
You are my everyday prize
-Sing-Sing, "Lover"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/lover.txt

14 May 2009
The earth that is the space between,
I'd banish it from under me, to get to you
-Sarah Bareilles, "One Sweet Love"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/onesweetlove.txt

14 May 2009
I know that she knows that I'm not fond of asking
True or false it may be
She's still out to get me
-The Kooks, "Naive"

23 April 2009
Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation
-Billy Joel, "Only the Good Die Young"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/onlythegooddieyoung.txt

7 March 2009
Can I graduate?
-Third Eye Blind, "Graduate"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/graduate.txt

7 March 2009
Do me a favor
Don't go with a guy who would make you choose
-Dar Williams, "The Babysitter's Here"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/thebabysittershere.txt

9 February 2009
I got love for the game but, ay,
I'm not in love with all of it
-T.I., "Life Your Life"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/liveyourlife.txt

8 February 2009
Tell me you love me
Come back and haunt me
-Coldplay, "The Scientist"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/thescientist.txt

6 February 2009
I tried my best to be guarded;
I'm an open book instead.
-Lifehouse, "Broken"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/broken.txt

5 February 2009
There's more than one answer to these questions 
Pointing me in a crooked line
-Indigo Girls, "Closer to Fine"

2 February 2009
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 shores
-Indigo Girls, "Closer to Fine"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/closertofine.txt

21 December 2008
On the subject of you being gone forever
I still can't believe it, I can't see it
I should just stop counting days
On the subject of the future
Wouldn't it be nice to leave it open-ended
And pretend it could go either way?
-Aly & AJ, "If I Could Have You Back"

16 December 2008
Hey Mona Lisa come home
You know you can't Rome without Caesar
-Kanye West, "Flashing Lights"

15 December 2008
Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex
'Cause you don't want that late text, 
That "I think I'm late" text
So wrap it up
-Lil Wayne, "Lollipop (Remix)"

14 December 2008
But uh oh, I love her because
She moves in her own way
But uh oh, she came to my show
Just to hear about my day
-The Kooks, "She Moves in Her Own Way"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/shemovesinherownway.txt

13 December 2008
Why can't it be the way it was?
You were my homie, lover and friend
-Akon, "Right Now"

13 December 2008
You're like Jordans on Saturday
-Chris Brown, "With You"

11 December 2008
I don't under cause I overstand
-Young Jeezy, "Go Getta"

6 December 2008
On the right track
But I was on the wrong train
-Fort Minor, "Believe Me"

1 December 2008
I'm trippin' I'm caught up in the moment, right?
-Kanye West, "Stronger"

1 December 2008
Love is in the water 
Love is in the air 
Show me where to look 
Tell me, will love be there?
Will love be there?
Teach me how to speak 
Teach me how to share 
Teach me where to go 
Tell me, will love be there?
Will love be there?
-Collective Soul, "Shine"

19 November 2008
This is how I feel
This is where I stand
This is what I can do
And this is who I am
Now I see my face
Like it was the first time
I don't know what's changed
But now it feels like mine
'Cause I've drawn
'Cause I've drawn
A line in the sand
I couldn't cross it now I can
-Zox, "Line in the Sand"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/lineinthesand.txt

19 November 2008
Every time I catch your eye in the streetlight
Late at night when I walk you home
I hate to think that you're not mine
So then I'll try to make you feel I don't want you
I don't want to go down that road we always get in a big fight
It happens all the time
So I say that I'm just your friend and I'm willing to try
But no I won't carry on pretending, it's all a lie
'Cause I smile when you're there but I cry when I'm all alone
But it's far too hard to say to you, don't go
Don't go.....
-The Rifles, "When I'm Alone"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/whenimalone.txt

19 November 2008
If we on the same page we can read each other
-Fabolous, "Baby Don't Go"

9 November 2008
Can't you see the sky is not the limit no more?
I can see the elevator crashed the floor
I can still see yesterday sailing away
Seven billion people who got nothing to say
Are you coming on to me?
-The Strokes, "Red Light"

9 November 2008
And everywhere I go,
There's always something to remind me
Of another place and time
Where love that travelled far had found me
-Royksopp, "Remind Me"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/remindme.txt

5 November 2008
The time that I've taken
I pray is not wasted
Have I already tasted
My piece of one sweet love?
Ready and waiting
For a heart worth the breaking
But I'd settle for an honest mistake in the name of
One sweet love
-Sarah Bareilles, "One Sweet Love"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/onesweetlove.txt

4 November 2008
Yes we can.
-Will.i.am, "Yes We Can"

22 October 2008
You're not climbing up my ivory tower
So I'm comin' down for you
-Natasha Bedingfield, "How Do You Do"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/howdoyoudo.txt

16 October 2008
I ain't talkin' fast; it's just you listenin' slow
-Lloyd (feat. Lil Wayne), "You"

15 October 2008
And as the summer's ending
The cold air will rush your hard heart away
You were so condescending
And this is all that's left
Scraping paper to document
I've packed a change of clothes and it's time to move on
-Death Cab for Cutie, "Photobooth"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/photobooth.txt

15 October 2008
I slept in the sun the other day
I thought I was fine
Everything seemed perfect
'Til I had you on my mind
I tried to love you
I did all that I could
I wish that the bad now
Had finally turned into good
-Moby, "Where You End"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/whereyouend.txt

11 October 2008
Well you done done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill but you're so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks
And now I'm trying to get back
Before the cool done run out
I'll be giving it my bestest
Nothing's going to stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it's again my turn to win some or learn some
-Jason Mraz, "I'm Yours"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/imyours.txt

11 October 2008
Rock and roll, baby
Don't you know that we're all alone now?
I need something to sing about
Rock and roll, hey
Don't you know, baby, we're all alone now?
I need something to sing about
Rock and roll, hey
Don't you know, baby, we're all alone now?
Give me something to sing about
-Paramore, "Crushcrushcrush"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/crushcrushcrush.txt

11 October 2008
I got a lot to say to you
Yeah, I got a lot to say
I noticed your eyes are always glued to me
Keeping them here
And it makes no sense at all
-Paramore, "Crushcrushcrush"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/crushcrushcrush.txt

30 September 2008
Oh, your gaze is dangerous
And you fill your space so sweet
If I let you get too close
You'll set your spell on me
So darlin' I just wanna say
Just in case I don't come through
I was on to every play
I just wanted you
-Fiona Apple, "Shadowboxer"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/shadowboxer.txt

28 September 2008
If I'm alone in this
I don't think I can face
The consequences of falling
-k.d. lang, "The Consequences of Falling"

22 September 2008
He was a 6 foot stallion said a storybook thug
He was the kind that made you wonder how he put down the love
He had a hickey in his pocket, a phat rock in his ear
He made my heart start palpitating everytime he came near
-Toya, "I Do!!"

22 September 2008
Shorty I'm sure you heard that I rarely ever come out
Unless I'm in the M6 doing tricks freeway burnt out
Got a passenger side that's empty wanting it to be your spot
But you on my billboard we can act like the charts
I can end up on top 
-T-Pain, "Bartender"

22 September 2008
It's me and you, now
I've been waiting
Think I wanna make that move, now
Baby, tell me how you like it
-Cassie, "Me & U"

22 September 2008
You know you give good brain like you graduated from a good school
-Lloyd, "You"

22 September 2008
Like Barack Obama said, yeah, it's time for a change
-Three 6 Mafia, "Lolli Lolli (Pop That Body)"

15 September 2008
Your car's a dump and you're broke
But that's all right
I never liked them fancy guys
You don't even look good
God it ain't right
But you're starry-eyed and out of sight
-Robyn, "Bum Like You"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/bumlikeyou.txt

14 September 2008
How many times can I break till I shatter?
Over the line can't define what I'm after
I always turn the car around
Give me a break let me make my own pattern
All that it takes is some time but I'm shattered
I always turn the car around
-O.A.R., "Shattered"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/shattered.txt

4 September 2008
I'm happy when he smiles
If only for a while
It's hard to just ignore a face like that
I wish he was everywhere
I wish his hand was in my hair
I would have been less lonely for a while
-Sally Shapiro, "He Keeps Me Alive"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/hekeepsmealive.txt

4 September 2008
My new favorite thing to do
Is wasting my time with a bum like you
-Robyn, "Bum Like You"

1 September 2008
I'm all, I'm all, I'm alright 
It's a beautiful day not a cloud in sight 
So I guess I'm doin' alright 
Oh, oh, oh, oh, I'm alright 
Got a good old friend here with me tonight 
And I guess I'm doin' alright
-Jo Dee Messina, "I'm Alright"

29 August 2008
I'm looking for attention
Not another question
Should you stay or should you go?
Well, if you don't have the answer
Why you still standing here?
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Just walk away
-Kelly Clarkson, "Walk Away"

25 August 2008
I believed in your confusion
So completely torn
It must have been that yesterday
Was the day that I was born
-Duncan Sheik, "Barely Breathing"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/barelybreathing.txt

22 August 2008
Well I don't mind, if you don't mind
'Cause I don't shine if you don't shine
Before you go
Tell me what you find
When you read my mind
-The Killers, "Read My Mind"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/readmymind.txt

22 August 2008
I need an easy friend
I do with an ear to lend
I do think you fit this shoe
I do, but you have a clue
I'll take advantage while
You hear me, I can try
But, I can't see you every night
No, I can't see you every night
Free
-Nirvana, "About a Girl"

28 July 2008
I don't know if you got a man or not,
If you made plans or not
If God put me in the plans or not
I'm trippin,' this drink got me sayin' a lot
-Kanye West, "Stronger"

24 July 2008
I do, I wonder if you feel the same way I do
I can see it in your eyes, I entice you
So come on shorty if you think you can roll
wit an iced out playah ballin' out of control
'Cause I do
-Toya, "I Do!!"

24 July 2008
I love it when they try to get intimate
Even though they know I really ain't into it
(You're not into it?) I'm not into it
I already know the game and I've been through it
See I buy my own bags, my boots, my jeans
Wear La Rok with my Rebel Yell underneath
You wanna step to me?
Said you gotta long way 2 go
-Cassie, "Long Way 2 Go"

24 July 2008
She made us drinks, to drink
We drunk 'em, got drunk
-T-Pain, "Bartender"

24 July 2008
Baby girl, I know it's rough but come wit me
We can take a trip to the hood
It's no problem girl, it's my city
I could take you there
-Sean Kingston, "Take You There"

20 July 2008
Best believe she got that good thang
She my little hood thang
Ask around they know us
-Plies, "Bust It Baby Pt. 2"

17 July 2008
If I was the last man on Earth
I would only take that girl, end of search
-Kardinal Offishall, "Dangerous"

6 July 2008
All those guys wanna come treat ya right
'Cause you're sweeter than apple pie
Everything that you want you got
Girl you know that you need to stop
Most beautiful thing in sight
Always takin' on the spotlight
Always in the club lookin' hot
Girl you know that you need to stop
-Colby O'Donis, "What You Got"

4 July 2008
She shuts the room down, the way she walks and causes a fuss
The baddest in town, she's flawless like some uncut ice
Well, I hope she's going home with me tonight
All she wants is to dance, that's why you find her on the floor
But you don't have a chance, unless you move the way she likes
That's why she's going home with me tonight
-Justin Timberlake, "Lovestoned"

3 July 2008
Her favorite colours be platinum and gold
She only loves in stereo, she only loves in stereo
I should know cuz I've seen it before
I think I gotta let her go
She only loves her stereo
-John Legend, "Stereo"

3 July 2008
Nevermind an SMS
What you need is a sweet caress
Everybody wanna talk too much
But what you need is a special touch
Ooh girl wouldn't that feel right?
A little dinner with a candlelight
And really when it comes down to it--
A man that's down to fight
-Chromeo, "Bonafied Lovin'"

1 July 2008
You got a reaction
You got a reaction, didn't you?
You took a white orchid
You took a white orchid and turned it blue
-The White Stripes, "Blue Orchid"

24 June 2008
Down in the shadows of your deepest secrets
I sleep next to the precepts you hold most dear
Your heart is in my province hour upon hour
I shiver when you feel the cold
Everything you say I hear
Like a bomb and its fuse
We bring bright light
But I could be a devil to you
I could bite like a tarantula
Right through the skin
And leave my poison in
-Faithless, "Tarantula"

23 June 2008
That boy is on the move
That boy is on the run
That boy is on the guest list
That boy is all about, all about fun
That boy is on a roll
That boy is number one
That boy is out on the town
That boy is all about, all about fun
-Freezepop, "That Boy is All About Fun"

23 June 2008
Good God, you're coming up with reasons
Good God, you're dragging it out
-Seether, "Fake It"

16 June 2008
Can we bring yesterday back around?
'Cause I know how I feel about you now
-Sugababes, "About You Now"

16 June 2008
Falling out, falling out
Have you ever wondered
If this was ever more than a crazy idea?
Falling out, falling out
Have you ever wondered
What we could've been if you'd only let me in?
-Natalie Imbruglia, "Wrong Impression"

16 June 2008
I'm not saying it was your fault
Although you could have done more
Oh you're so naive
-The Kooks, "Naive"

6 June 2008
I wish my life was a little less seedy
Why am I always so greedy?
Wish I looked just like Cheryl Tweedy
I know I never will
I know I never will
I wish my life was not so boring
Every weekend four-to-the-flooring
Don't get me started on Monday morning
It would be overkill
It would be overkill
-Lily Allen, "Cheryl Tweedy"

6 June 2008
I know
You gonna want me
But when you want me
It might be a different story
-Tiga, "You Gonna Want Me"

3 June 2008
On the corner of main street
Just tryin' to keep it in line
You say you wanna move on and
You say I'm falling behind
Can you read my mind?
Can you read my mind?
I never really gave up on
Breakin' out of this two-star town
I got the green light
I got a little fight
I'm gonna turn this thing around
Can you read my mind?
Can you read my mind?
-The Killers, "Read My Mind"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/readmymind.txt

31 May 2008
Anticipation has a habit to set you up
For disappointment in evening entertainment but
Tonight there'll be some love
Tonight there'll be a ruckus yeah, regardless of what's gone before
-Arctic Monkeys, "The View from the Afternoon"

30 May 2008
It might not be the right time
I might not be the right one
But there's something about us I want to say
'Cause there's something between us anyway
-Daft Punk, "Something About Us"

29 May 2008
The last time I freaked out
I just kept lookin' down
I st-st-stuttered when
You asked me what I'm thinkin' 'bout
Felt like I couldn't breathe
You asked what's wrong with me
My best friend Leslie said
"Oh, she's just bein' Miley"
The next time we hang out
I will redeem myself
My heart can't rest 'til then
Whoa, whoa, I
I can't wait
To see you again
-Miley Cyrus, "See You Again"

28 May 2008
Don't talk
Keep your eyes on me, don't talk
Hush, hush, baby, don't talk
If you like what I'm doin', don't talk
Whatever you're doin', don't talk
-Estelle, "Don't Talk"

28 May 2008
Well, I don't know, but I've been told
You never slow down, you never grow old
I'm tired of screwing up, tired of going down
Tired of myself, tired of this town.
Oh, my, my
Oh, hell, yes
Honey, put on that party dress
Buy me a drink, sing me a song
Take me as I come because I can't stay long
-Tom Petty, "Mary Jane's Last Dance"

27 May 2008
This is my church
This is where I heal my hurts
For tonight
God is a DJ
-Faithless, "God is a DJ"

25 May 2008
Some people
It's a pity
They go all their lives and never know
How to love or to let love go
-Rob Thomas, "Streetcorner Symphony"

19 May 2008
I could slip, I could fall
In that mean and awful hall
With the other jealous b****es
And the bitter grumbling men
I could sneer, I could glare
Say that life is so unfair
And the one who made it, made it
'Cause her breasts were really big
Well I don't wanna get bitter
I don't wanna turn cruel
I don't wanna get old before I have to
-Jill Sobule, "Bitter"

10 May 2008
Some days the line I walk
Turns out to be straight
Other days the line tends to... deviate
I've got no criteria for sex or race
I just want to hear your voice
I just want to see your face
-Ani DiFranco, "In or Out"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/inorout.txt

9 May 2008
Music is my beach house
Music is my hometown
Music is my kingsize bed
Music's where I meet my friends
Music is my hot hot bath
Music is my hot hot sex
Music is my back-rub
My music is where I'd like you to touch
-CSS, "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex"

9 May 2008
Sexy, everything about you so sexy
You don't even know what you got
You really hit my spot
Oh yeah, yeah
And you're so innocent
Please don't take this wrong 'cause it's a compliment
I just wanna get with your flow
You've gotta learn to let go
-Liberty X, "Just a Little"

8 May 2008
You represent what's true
I drain the colour from the sky
And turn blue
Without you
-Faithless, "We Come One"

8 May 2008
Calling out, calling out
Haven't you wondered
Why I'm always alone when you're in my dreams?
Calling out, calling out
Haven't you wondered
Why you're finding it hard just looking at me?
-Natalie Imbruglia, "Wrong Impression"

8 May 2008
Droppin' hints can only get me so far
When you don't know that I'm alive
-Natasha Bedingfield, "How Do You Do?"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/howdoyoudo.txt

7 May 2008
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
It's not warm when she's away
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And she's always gone too long
Any time she goes away
-Bill Withers, "Ain't No Sunshine"

7 May 2008
Everything that I said was true
As the flashes blinded us in the photobooth
I lost track and then those words were said
You took the wheel and you steered us into my bed
Soon we woke and I walked you home
And it was pretty clear that it was hardly love
-Death Cab for Cutie, "Photobooth"

6 May 2008
You seem a little bit nervous
You sound a little uptight
You look a little bit jumpy
You sure you're feeling all right?
-Dave Liang/The Shanghai Restoration Project, "Jade Buddha Temple"

5 May 2008
Once I knew it all
Once I had control
Once I held the cross
Never let it go
Once I had taste
Once I crossed the line
Once it overflowed, I
Lost my mind
The smell of you is sex
The thought of you is cream
The taste of you, it makes me scream
The smell of you is sex
The thought of you is cream
The taste of you, I want to scream
-Berlin, "Scream"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/scream.txt

2 May 2008
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys
She calls friends
-The Eagles, "Hotel California"

1 May 2008
Anything is possible
Anything is possible
Anything is possible tonight
-Dave Liang/The Shanghai Restoration Project, "Lu Xun (Watch Me Dance)"

1 May 2008
Sometimes I think what I need is a you intervention
-Madonna, "4 Minutes"

24 April 2008
It don't matter to me
'Cause all I wanted to be
Was a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar
-Kaiser Chiefs, "Oh My God"

13 April 2008
When it's late, and it's hot
And an hour in the shower is the best that you've got
Don't give out, don't give up
One of these nights you might find someone to love
And you're not the only one who's lonely
-Fountains of Wayne, "Someone to Love"

3 April 2008
I know that it's your soul but could you bottle it up?
-Sara Bareilles, "Bottle it Up"

2 April 2008
It feels all right
-Lusciuos Jackson, "Naked Eye"

2 April 2008
Don't need to be on somebody's arm to look good
(I like who I am)
I'm not saying I don't wanna fall in love, 'cause I would
I'm not gonna get hooked up just 'cause you say I should
(Can't romance on demand)
I'm gonna wait so I'm sorry if you misunderstood
-Natasha Bedingfield, "Single"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/single.txt

29 March 2008
We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine
-Men Without Hats, "Safety Dance"

28 March 2008
Do you know what you started?
I just came here to party
But now we're rockin' on the dancefloor
Acting naughty
Your hands around my waist
Just let the music play
We're hand in hand
Chest to chest
And now we're face to face
-Rihanna, "Don't Stop the Music"

27 March 2008
My heart is aching and I've never felt this bad
I pinch myself to check that all of this is real
Keep thinking I'm not letting on, I feel this sad
And then you've got the cheek to ask me how I feel
And I say...
Absolutely nothing
I'm absolutely fine
Absolutely nothing you can say to change my mind
-Lily Allen, "Absolutely Nothing"

17 March 2008
I wanna glide down over Mulholland
I wanna write her name in the sky
I wanna free fall out into nothin'
Gonna leave this world for awhile
-Tom Petty, "Free Fallin'"

15 March 2008
Let's pretend you're mine
We could just pretend, we could just pretend, yeah yeah
You got what I like
You got what I like
I got what you like
Oh come on
Just one taste and you'll want more
So tell me what you're waiting for
-The Veronicas, "4Ever"

15 March 2008
Mama tells me I shouldn't bother
that I ought to stick to another man
a man that surely deserves me
but I think you do
-The Cardigans, "Love Fool"

15 March 2008
I don't know what it is
That makes me feel like this
I don't know who you are
But you must be some kind of superstar
'Cause you got all eyes on you no matter where you are
-Jamelia, "Superstar"

15 March 2008
So listen up
The sun hasn't set
(I refuse to believe that it's only me feeling)
Just hear me out
I'm not over you yet
-Frou Frou, "Hear Me Out"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/hearmeout.txt

12 March 2008
Well this is how it works
you peer inside yourself
you take the things you like
and try to love the things you took
and then you take that love you make
and stick it into some, someone else's heart
pumping someone else's blood
and walk in arm in arm
you hope it don't get harmed
but even if if does you'd just do it all again
-Regina Spektor, "On the Radio"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/ontheradio.txt

11 March 2008
I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit but my gosh don't you know it
-The Streets, "Fit But You Know It"

9 March 2008
We'd cross the deepest oceans
Cargo across the sea
And if you don't believe me
Just put your hands on me
And all the constellations
Shine down for us to see
And if you don't believe me
Just put your hands on me
-Vanessa Carlton, "Hands On Me"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/handsonme.txt

8 March 2008
I'm still imagining
A dark lit place
Or your place or my place
-Finger Eleven, "Paralyzer"

4 March 2008
It's an itch we know we are gonna scratch,
Gonna take a while for this egg to hatch,
But wouldn't it be beautiful?
-Liz Phair, "Why Can't I?"

2 March 2008
Quiet, still, you feel there's nothing going on
Until you realize the space behind your eyes
Is filling up with something like peace
As your thoughts cease and
Pleasure grows in your soul
I ain't a Christian,
Sometimes I feel like dissing em, but listen
I'm just trying to tell ya what I know
If you would once relax, chill to the max
These words on wax will cause sweet bells
To ring in your soul
-Faithless, "Reverence"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/reverence.txt

25 February 2008
I'm acting as if
this blue sky's never gonna rain down on me
I'm telling myself
This true love's never gonna leave me lonely
-Sara Evans, "As If"

25 February 2008
I only told you, you got it all mapped out
It's too much too soon
Let's dance just for tonight
-The Departure, "All Mapped Out"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/allmappedout.txt

24 February 2008
I ain't asking for much
-ZZ Top, "Tush"

9 February 2008
Something sweet or something strong
Seems like love no longer can turn me on
-The Sounds, "Rock 'N' Roll"

1 February 2008
Is it wrong to be the instigator?
Is it bad to be the move maker?
Guess I gotta be the first to say-a, to say-a, to say-a
How do you do?
If you won't say it I will
How do you do?
I'm really pleased to meet you
How do you do?
Gotta say it how I feel it
Say it or I will
-Natasha Bedingfield, "How Do You Do?"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/howdoyoudo.txt

1 February 2008
Oh well I guess I mustn't grumble
I suppose that's just the way the cookie crumbles
-Lily Allen, "Everything's Just Wonderful"

23 January 2008
Truth be told I've tried my best
But somewhere along the way
I got caught up in all there was to offer
And the cost was so much more than I could bear
Though I've tried, I've fallen
I have sunk so low
I messed up
Better I should know
So don't come around here
And tell me I told you so
-Sarah McLachlan, "Fallen"

23 January 2008
I don't wanna be the one who turns the whole thing over
I don't wanna be somewhere where I just don't belong
Where it's not enough just be sorry
Don't you know I feel the darkness closing in
Tried to be more than me
And I gave until it all went away
And we've only surrendered
To the worst part of these winters that we've made
But I would not sleep in this bed of lies
So toss me out and turn in
And there'll be no rest for these tired eyes
I'm marking it down to learning
I'm marking it down to learning
-Matchbox 20, "Bed of Lies"

19 January 2008
So write my name and carry my picture
There's nothing wrong.
I'm willing, I'm willing, I will lead you on
-The Connells, "Carry My Picture"

15 January 2008
What was she thinking?
It was going to be easy
But she knows there's a light in the sky that'll shine her name
-Pauline Taylor, "Piece of the Pie"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/pieceofthepie.txt

14 January 2008
Come on baby we ain't gonna live forever
Let me show you all the things that we could do
You know you wanna be together
And I wanna spend the night with you
-The Veronicas, "4Ever"

13 January 2008
Hush, boy,
You shouldn't worry 'cause I like you
We should have some fun
-Basement Jaxx, "Hush Boy"

12 January 2008
I'm waking up at the start of the end of the world,
But it's feeling just like every other morning before,
Now I wonder what my life is gonna mean if it's gone,
The cars are moving like a half a mile an hour and I
Started staring at the passengers who're waving goodbye
Can you tell me what was ever really special about me all this time?
-Matchbox Twenty, "How Far We've Come"

12 January 2008
I know I won't be leaving here with you
-Franz Ferdinand, "Take Me Out"

12 January 2008
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn't that be something
-Finger Eleven, "One Thing"

6 January 2008
I'm not in love
I just want to be touched
I just want your kiss, boy
-Kate Nash, "Pumpkin Soup"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/pumpkinsoup.txt

4 January 2008
Your body ain't Pamela Anderson,
It's a struggle just to get you in the caravan,
But listen baby girl,
Before I let you lose a pound I'll buy a bigger car,
So listen baby girl,
I love you just the way you are, the way you are
-Timbaland, "The Way I Are"

4 January 2008
Can't help it
The girl can't help it
-Fergie, "Clumsy"

4 January 2008
Can you hear me thinking? I should stop...
-The Faint, "Desperate Guys"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/desperateguys.txt

29 December 2007
I think that possibly, maybe I'm falling for you
Yes, there's a chance that I've fallen quite hard over you
-Landon Pigg, "Coffeeshop"

22 December 2007
Now that don't kill me
Can only make me stronger
I need you to hurry up now
'Cause I can't wait much longer
I know I got to be right now
'Cause I can't get much wronger
Man I've been waitin' all night now
That's how long I've been on ya
-Kanye West, "Stronger"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/stronger.txt

17 December 2007
Can't you see
Your love addicted me
Just a little taste
Shook my life
And hit me like a drum
-Helena Paparizou, "Mambo"

9 December 2007
Seven colors curve across the sky
And I remember my first rainbow
Seems like a thousand years ago, I ask,
"Mama, what's a rainbow for?"
She said, "After the rain, after the rain,
After the rain comes the sun"
-Lost Witness, "7 Colours"

3 December 2007
Well, I'm not paralyzed, but
I seem to be struck by you
I want to make you move
Because you're standing still
If your body matches
What your eyes can do
You'll probably move
Right through me
On my way to you
-Finger Eleven, "Paralyzer"

5 November 2007
She is the prom queen I'm in the marching band
She is a cheerleader I'm sitting in the stands
She gets the top bunk I'm sleeping on the floor
She's Miss America and I'm just the girl next door
-Saving Jane, "Girl Next Door"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/girlnextdoor.txt

5 November 2007
No one there when she gets home
So many messages on the phone
And they all want a piece of the pie
-Pauline Taylor, "Piece of the Pie"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/pieceofthepie.txt

5 November 2007
Hey there, Delilah
What's it like in New York City?
I'm a thousand miles away
But girl, tonight you look so pretty
Yes you do
Times Square can't shine as bright as you
I swear it's true
-Plain White T's, "Hey There Delilah"

8 September 2007
One step ahead of you
Always someone makes it hard to move
He says, Girl I want you to stay
But I save it all for another day
If I stop I could lose my head
But I'm ready for romance
Either way I'm confused
You slow me down, what can I do?
It's hard to stay one step ahead of you
-Amiel (covering Split Enz), "One Step Ahead"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/onestepahead.txt

17 August 2007
I don't mind
You're someone that ain't mine
But someone that I'll get
And you don't know how
Hard I've tried
To convince myself that I
Can easily forget
-Shiny Toy Guns, "Rainy Monday"

3 August 2007
I crossed my fingers, but I didn't beg,
'Cause I knew you knew,
'Cause I knew you knew I liked you.
-The Faint, "Desperate Guys"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/desperateguys.txt

3 August 2007
You're my favourite moment
You're my Saturday
-Goldfrapp, "Number 1"

29 July 2007
I just want to move ahead
I just want to free myself - but it's a struggle
I just want to stay in bed
I just want to be myself - but it's a struggle
-Ringside, "Struggle"

29 July 2007
I got your name and number
You seem kinda surprised.
Maybe it's 'cause I can be
You know, like cold as ice.
In crowded situations
I always want to go.
And if I see you leaving,
I beat you to the door.
I'm gonna tell you something
You're better than fake-wild.
I see the future: in it, 
They try to kill your style, 
Your manner, and your motives.
I've seen the way it goes.
So memorize my number;
That's why I got a phone.
-Le Tigre, "After Dark"

29 July 2007
She hasn't left you yet but she will
By airplane ticket or kill-me pills
Sewn into her dress, she can't refuse
(careful what you love, what you abuse)
She knows violence, she knows please
Her hands for cuffing
And she says nothing
And hooks her hands behind her knees
You **** her flag and feel it unfurl
But you can't get the Belfast out of the girl.
-The Golden Palominos, "Belfast"

25 July 2007
Oh yeah, you stand for every known abuse
That I've ever seen my way through
Don't I wish I knew better by now?
Well I think I'm starting to
-Beth Orton, "Stolen Car"

17 July 2007
I don't believe in magic
But I know just who you are
-David Guetta, "Stay"

16 July 2007
Loaded up the TV in the back of my car
Have fun watching the VCR
-SheDaisy, "Little Goodbyes"

16 July 2007
Ooh, ooh, ooh, life's so sweet right here in the passenger seat.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah, life's so sweet.
-SheDaisy, "Passenger Seat"

20 June 2007
Our lips can touch
And our cheeks can brush
-Hellogoodbye, "Here (In Your Arms)"

15 June 2007
Won't disrespect him, but
Our style's ****in' Posh like Dave Beckham
-Fatboy Slim, "Wonderful Night"

11 June 2007
Well, thank god one of the guys, he got to me.
Said, get your butt here A.S.A.P.
Looked me in the eyes,
Shook his head,
Pulled up a chair and then he said,
Hey ya might just wanna
Sit down when I tell ya this honey,
I know you've been dumped and all that ****
But your attitude sucks, you gotta admit
Get yourself together, I know you,
You write another love song and I'll kill you
One more he said,
And you're as good as dead.
-Alice in Radioland, "Radiosong"

5 June 2007
This is how it works
you're young until you're not
you love until you don't
you try until you can't
you laugh until you cry
you cry until you laugh
and everyone must breathe
until their dying breath
-Regina Spektor, "On the Radio"

1 June 2007
She's like, so whatever
-Avril Lavigne, "Girlfriend"

31 May 2007
Oh, bitte gib mir nur ein, Oh
Bitte gib mir nur ein, Oh
Bitte gib mir nur ein,
Bitte bitte gib mir nur ein, Oh
Bitte gib mir nur ein, Oh
Bitte gib mir nur ein, Oh
Bitte gib mir nur ein,
Bitte bitte gib mir nur ein Wort
-Wir Sind Helden, "Nur ein Wort"

31 May 2007
It's getting so lonely inside this bed
Don't know if I should lick my wounds or say woe is me instead
And there's an aching inside my head
It's telling me you're better off alone
But after midnight morning will come
And the day will see if you will get some
-Nelly Furtado, "Turn Off the Light"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/turnoffthelight.txt

22 May 2007
I'm open, you're closed
Where I'll follow you'll go
I worry I won't see your face
Light up again
-Howie Day, "Collide"

22 May 2007
I love you, is that okay?
-Natasha Bedingfield, "These Words"

22 May 2007
This is just my heart laid bare
For anyone who might care
-Tracey Thorn, "It's All True"

19 May 2007
When there's sunshine, we'll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
Said I'll always be a friend
Took an oath I'ma stick it out till the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we'll still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella
-Rihanna, "Umbrella"

18 May 2007
Why should I cry for you?
Why would you want me to?
What would it mean to say,
I loved you in my fashion?
-Sting, "Why Should I Cry For You"

18 May 2007
And you, maybe you'll remember me
What I gave is yours to keep
-Vanessa Carlton, "White Houses"

4 May 2007
I bet that you look good on the dance floor
I don't know if you're looking for romance or
I don't know what you're looking for
-Arctic Monkeys, "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor"

4 May 2007
Nothing's changed
I still love you, oh, I still love you
Only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my love
-Mark Ronson, "Stop Me"

3 May 2007
And the ones that can know you so well
Are the ones that can swallow you whole
-Dar Williams, "The Ocean"

3 May 2007
Oh, I'm just a mirror of a mirror of myself
All the things that I do
And the next time I fall, I'm gonna have to recall
It isn't love, it's only something new
-Indigo Girls, "Least Complicated"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/leastcomplicated.txt

3 May 2007
Just wait and see,
It's not a release, not a reward, it's the blessings,
It's the gift of what you notice more
-Dar Williams, "The Blessings"

3 May 2007
I woke up from a nightmare that I could not stand to see,
You were a-wandering out on the hills of Iowa 
And you were not thinking of me
-Dar Williams, "Iowa"

30 April 2007
Why'd you cry
For the guy
Said goodbye
Run away
Why'd you cry
For the guy
Said goodbye
I said OK
-Sugababes, "Hole in the Head"

30 April 2007
Seven days in sunny June
Were long enough to bloom
The flowers on the summer dress you wore in spring
-Jamiroquai, "Seven Days in Sunny June"

30 April 2007
Better wake up little sleepy-head
Big old world will pass us by
So many things we could do instead 
Get what you want with your lucky eyes
-Paul Oakenfold (feat. Brittany Murphy), "Faster Kill Pussycat"

27 April 2007
You said you needed time
You had time
-Ani DiFranco, "You Had Time"

26 April 2007
I never tried to give my life meaning
by demeaning you
And I would like to state for the record
I did everything that I could do
I'm not saying that I am a saint
I just don't want to live that way
No, I will never be a saint
But I will always say
Squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and your ambition
I am a poster girl with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
And I'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
'Cause someday you might find you are starving
and eating all of the words you just said
-Ani DiFranco, "Thirty-Two Flavors"

3 Feburary 2007
Being good isn't always easy
No matter how hard I try
-Dina Carroll, "Son of a Preacher Man"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/sonofapreacherman.txt

21 January 2007
Baby, I don't need a hand if it only wants to grab one thing.
-The Pussycat Dolls, "I Don't Need a Man"

3 January 2007
What makes you turn around and do it all again?
Your highs and lows, they are both one and the same
There is no difference in your pleasure and your pain
It's time to face the music
-Conjure One, "Face the Music"

7 November 2006
Is it too much to ask?
I want a comfortable bed that won't hurt my back
Food to fill me up
And warm clothes and all that stuff
Shouldn't I have this
Shouldn't I have this
Shouldn't I have all of this, and
Passionate kisses
Passionate kisses, whoa ohh oh
Passionate kisses from you
-Lucinda Williams, "Passionate Kisses"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/passionatekisses.txt

2 November 2006
Sometimes I feel I've got to
Run away, I've got to, get away
From the pain you drive into the heart of me
The love we share
Seems to go nowhere
And I've lost my light
For I toss and turn 
I can't sleep at night
-Soft Cell, "Tainted Love"

19 October 2006
Sometimes you look so small, need some shelter
Just runnin' round and round, helter skelter
And I've leaned on you for years
Now you can lean on me
And that's more than love, that's the way it should be
Now I can't change the way you feel
But I can put my arms around you
That's just part of the deal
That's the way I feel
I'll put my arms around you
-Massive Attack, "Protection"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/protection.txt

14 September 2006
If you want you can get to know me, well
We get along so we shouldn't argue
And I don't know, said I don't know
All these feelings, cloud up my reasoning
Cloud up my reasoning
-Matchbox Twenty, "Argue"

9 September 2006
Tell me not to lie, tell me not to wait
Tell me that you want the same things as me
Tell me that it's fate driving me insane
Tell me it's the real thing
-Bi Bice, "The Real Thing"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/therealthing.txt

3 September 2006
And if I shed a tear I won't cage it
I won't fear love
And if I feel a rage I won't deny it
I won't fear love
-Sarah McLachlan, "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy"

2 September 2006
This girl I know needs some shelter
She don't believe anyone can help her
She's doing so much harm, doing so much damage
But you don't want to get involved
You tell her she can manage
And you can't change the way she feels
But you could put your arms around her
-Massive Attack, "Protection"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/protection.txt

27 August 2006
Hey, show some love 
You ain't so tough
Come fill my little world right up, right up
-The Feeling, "Fill My Little World"

25 August 2006
At first when I see you cry,
yeah it makes me smile, yeah it makes my smile
At worst I feel bad for a while,
but then I just smile, I go ahead and smile
-Lily Allen, "Smile"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/smile.txt

19 August 2006
Blood runs through your veins
That's where our similarity ends
-Editors, "Blood"

19 August 2006
No sleep
No sleep until I'm done with finding the answer
-The Rasmus, "In the Shadows"

19 August 2006
Smile like you mean it
-The Killers, "Smile Like You Mean It"

5 July 2006
I'm just steppin' in the room like,
waiting for the tune like,
checkin' for the boom right there,
I'm just steppin' in the room like,
waiting for the bassline,
speakers that can dry my hair,
I'm just lookin' in your eyes like,
ready when the time's right,
poppin' like we pop this here,
I'm just banging on a beat like,
checkin' out ya feet like,
tip it like you just don't care,
dance like you never did dance before,
got love for the beat but hate for the floor
watchu waiting for?
-Verbalicious, "Don't Play Nice"

20 June 2006
And suddenly I become a part of your past
I'm becoming the part that don't last
-The Fray, "Over My Head"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/overmyhead.txt

16 June 2006
you can doubt anything
if you think about it long enough
cuz what happened always adjusts to fit
what happened after that
and it's hard to feel like you are free
when all you seem to do is referee
remember when it was just you and me
steppin' up to bat?
-Ani DiFranco, "Reckoning"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/reckoning.txt

16 June 2006
The boy and girl are holding hands on the street
And I don't want to, but I think: you just wait --
It's more than just eye to eye
Learn the things I could never apply
I remember the time when I came so close with you
I let everything go it seemed the only truth
And I bought you that ring it seemed the thing to do
What makes me think I could start clean slated?
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
So what makes me think I can start clean slated?
The hardest to learn was the least complicated
-Indigo Girls, "Least Complicated"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/leastcomplicated.txt

16 June 2006
Where are we? What the hell is going on?
The dust has only just begun to fall,
Crop circles in the carpet, sinking, feeling.
Spin me round again and rub my eyes.
This can't be happening.
When busy streets a mess with people
would stop to hold their heads heavy.
-Imogen Heap, "Hide and Seek"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/hideandseek.txt

11 June 2006
Why waste your time?
You know you're gonna be mine.
-Bizarre Inc., "I'm Gonna Get You"

9 June 2006
Let's rearrange
I wish you were a stranger I could disengage
Just say that we agree and then never change
Soften a bit until we all just get along
But that's disregard
Find another friend and you discard
As you lose the argument in a cable car
Hanging above as the canyon comes between
-The Fray, "Over My Head"

28 May 2006
I feel thunder in my heart that I just can't control
I feel thunder in my heart
Should I walk away, or follow my soul?
-Leo Sayer, "Thunder In My Heart"

22 May 2006
Tell me what we got
Tell me it's a lot
Tell me it's the real thing
Tell me not to change
And always be the same
Tell me that's a good thing
It's a good thing
-Bo Bice, "The Real Thing"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/therealthing.txt

9 May 2006
I tell you how I feel, but you don't care
I say tell me the truth, but you don't dare
You say love is a hell you cannot bear
And I say give me mine back and then go there, for all I care
-Fiona Apple, "Sleep to Dream"

9 May 2006
I'm two quarters and a heart down
And I don't want to forget how your voice sounds
-Fall Out Boy, "Dance, Dance"

8 May 2006
I don't use words like love
'cuz words like that don't matter
but don't look so offended
you know, you should be flattered
-Ani DiFranco, "Dilate"
http://www.danah.org/Ani/Dilate/Dilate.html

8 May 2006
And you think you're a guest, you're a tourist at best
Peering into the corners of my dark life
-Elvis Costello, "My Dark Life"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/mydarklife.txt

23 April 2006
and I don't know you that well
but it don't take much to tell
either you don't have the balls
or you don't feel the same
-Ani DiFranco, "Overlap"

21 April 2006
Every time I turn around
I'm looking up, you're looking down
-Sheryl Crow, "Soak Up the Sun"

13 April 2006
It's not meant to be like this
Not what I planned at all
-Imogen Heap, "The Walk"

10 April 2006
We're a different pair, just something out of step,
Throw a stranger an unexpected smile.
With big intention, still posted at your station
Always on about the day it should have flown.
You say too late to start, got your heart in a headlock,
I don't believe any of it.
You say too late to start, with your heart in a headlock,
You know you're better than this.
-Imogen Heap, "Headlock"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/headlock.txt

7 April 2006
'Cause I'm cooler than the red dress 
I'd rather catch a guy on my own 
'Cause what you see the man gets 
And if he don't I'm better off here alone 
-Sugababes, "Red Dress"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/reddress.txt

31 March 2006
Boy, if you don't love me 
Then I've got nothing to lose 
-Sugababes, "Red Dress"

28 March 2006
Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky
You can see the stars and still not see the light
-The Eagles, "Already Gone"

21 March 2006
I'm walking on sunshine
-Katrina and the Waves, "Walking on Sunshine"

7 March 2006
the sound of them strong
stalking talking about their prey
like the way hammer meets nail
pounding, they say
pounding out the rhythms of attraction
like a woman was a drum like a body was a weapon
like there was something more they wanted
than the journey
like it was owed to them
steel-toed they walk
and I'm wondering why this fear of men?
-Ani DiFranco, "The Slant"

7 March 2006
There's no reply at all.
-Genesis, "No Reply at All"

6 March 2006
Sometimes it hard sometimes it's strange
But the truth of the heart is people can change
-Melissa Etheridge, "Truth of the Heart"

5 March 2006
Why d'ya have to be so cute?
It's impossible to ignore you
Must you make me laugh so much?
It's bad enough we get along so well
-Imogen Heap, "Goodnight and Go"

3 March 2006
I don't need a support system
Lifting me into prop-position
What I need is a man of action, I need my attraction to you
-Liz Phair, "Support System"

1 March 2006
I promise not to try not to **** with your mind
I promise not to mind if you go your way and I go mine
I promise not to lie if I'm looking you straight in the eye
I promise not to try and not to let you down
-Eve 6, "Promise"

28 February 2006
You'll never get to heaven
If you're scared of getting high
-Kylie Minogue, "Red Blooded Woman"

27 February 2006
we thought we left possession behind
but truth is I was yours and you weren't mine
-Ani DiFranco, "Reckoning"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/reckoning.txt

26 February 2006
You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals 
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
-Bloodhound Gang, "Bad Touch"

24 February 2006
I know there is strength
In the differences between us
And I know there is comfort
Where we overlap
-Ani DiFranco, "Overlap"

20 February 2006
Truth is I love you
more than I wanted to
there's no point in trying to pretend
-Genesis, "That's All"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/thatsall.txt

20 February 2006
The fear I've known
That I might reap the praise of strangers
And end up on my own
-Indigo Girls, "Language or the Kiss"

18 February 2006
I only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me
-Fall Out Boy, "Dance, Dance"

16 February 2006
I am everything you want
I am everything you need
I am everything inside of you
That you wish you could be
I say all the right things
At exactly the right time
But I mean nothing to you and I don't know why
-Vertical Horizon, "Everything You Want"

16 February 2006
When I fight authority, authority always wins
-John Mellencamp, "Authority Song"

16 February 2006
And she said losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow
-Paul Simon, "Graceland"

14 February 2006
I saw this thing on ITV the other week,
Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen
She's playin' with her hair, well regularly,
So I reckon I could well be in.
-The Streets, "Could Well Be In"

12 February 2006
Everything you thought you had
Has gone from worse to bad
-Powderfinger, "My Kind of Scene"

11 February 2006
You think that I'm teasin, but I ain't got no reason
-Beyonce Knowles, "Check On It"

10 February 2006
I got a siren on my tail
And that ain't the fine I'm looking for
-Poe, "Hey Pretty"

9 February 2006
I know my hidden looks can be deceiving
But how obvious should a girl be?
-Sugababes, "Push the Button"

9 February 2006
It isn't love it's only something new
-Indigo Girls, "Least Complicated"

4 February 2006
Let's keep it friendly
You have to play fair
See I don't care
But I know she ain't gonna wanna share
-Pussycat Dolls, "Don't Cha"

4 February 2006
I wanna rap, I wanna rhyme
Heard it in a song, now I'm into gun crime
-Goldie Lookin' Chain, "Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do"

3 February 2006
Ooh boy you looking like you like what you see
Won't you come over check up on it
-Beyonce Knowles, "Check On It"

2 February 2006
And I think it's gonna be all right
Yeah, the worst is over now
The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball
-The Cyrkle, "Red Rubber Ball"

1 February 2006
All I need is your caress
To be close 
To be close 
To be close to your heart
-DJ Flavours, "Your Caress"

26 January 2006
Now think of all the years you tried to
Find someone to satisfy you
I might be as crazy as you say
If I'm crazy then it's true
That it's all because of you
And you wouldn't want me any other way
You may be right
I may be crazy
But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for
It's too late to fight
It's too late to change me
You may be wrong for all I know
But you may be right 
-Billy Joel, "You May Be Right"

26 January 2006
Haven't your lips longed for my touch?
Don't say how much, show me!
-Eliza Doolittle, "Show Me"

26 January 2006
It's so complicated.
-Carolyn Dawn Johnson, "Complicated"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/complicated.txt

26 January 2006
If this is gonna run
round
in my head
I might as well be dreaming
-Nickel Creek, "Out of the Woods"

25 January 2006
How can this love be a good thing
When I know what I'm going through?
-3 Doors Down, "Let Me Go"

23 January 2006
Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
Closer to where I started
Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm living for the only thing I know 
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
-Lifehouse, "Hanging by a Moment"

17 January 2006
I will take you as you are
Please accept me as I am
-Badly Drawn Boy, "Above You, Below Me"

16 January 2006
Healing comes so painfully
And it chills to the bone
Will anyone get close to me?
I'm damaged, as I'm sure you know
I'm scared and I'm alone
I'm ashamed
And I need for you to know
I didn't say all the things that I wanted to say
And you can't take back what you have taken away
'Cause I feel you, I feel you near me
-Plummet, "Damaged"

16 January 2006
I don't want the world, I want you
-Jamiroquai, "Love Foolosophy"

15 January 2006
This is it now
Everybody get down
This is all I can take
This is how a heart breaks
You take a hit now you feel it break down
Make you stay wide awake
This is how a heart breaks
-Rob Thomas, "This Is How a Heart Breaks"

15 January 2006
I need you now, do you think you can cope?
You figured me out that I'm lost and I'm hopeless.
I'm bleeding and broken, though I've never spoken;
I come undone... in this mad season.
-Matchbox 20, "Mad Season"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/madseason.txt

14 January 2006
She's been here too few years
To feel this old
-Matchbox 20, "Hang"

14 January 2006
You're waiting for someone
To put you together
You're waiting for someone to push you away
There's always another wound to discover
There's always something more you wish he'd say 
-Vertical Horizon, "Everything You Want"

13 January 2006
Sometimes I feel it burning
That deep & primal yearning
I feel it burn, burn, burning
I try to live without it
But then I think about those fingertips,
Those fingertips, those fingertips
Anyone will do, anyone will do
Anyone will do, anyone will do
Could be you
-Poe, "Fingertips"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/fingertips.txt

13 January 2006
It makes sense that it should happen this way
That the sky should break
And the earth should shake
As if to say:
Sure it all matters but in such an unimportant way
-Poe, "Fly Away"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/flyaway.txt

13 January 2006
This is such a sweet collaboration
You've got the power, I got the shame
Funny thing is we both want somebody to blame
-Poe, "Junkie"

13 January 2006
I can do it to you gently
I can do it with an animal's grace
I can do it with precision
I can do it with gourmet taste
But either way
Either
Oh, either way
I wanna kill you
I wanna blow you ... away
-Poe, "Angry Johnny"

12 January 2006
He was no more 
Than a baby then
Well, he seemed broken hearted
Somethin' within him
But the moment 
That I first laid
Eyes on him 
All alone on the edge of seventeen
-Stevie Nicks, "Edge of Seventeen"

11 January 2006
Good vibes, so right
Thank you for the dance tonight
Feel free, baby
Keep looking 'cos you can't have me
- Mis-teeq, "One Night Stand"

11 January 2006
'Honey, you're so cool'
'Yeah, God made me cool'
-Paffendorf, "Be Cool"

10 January 2006
I'm a little past Little Rock
But a long way from over you
-Lee Ann Womack, "A Little Past Little Rock"

1 January 2006
So if it's all the same, honey, I can't take the blame, baby,
I can't play your game, honey, what's true is true.
And if, in the end, the temptation wears you thin, honey,
I'll, I'll just pretend that I'll leave it up to you.
-Alison Krauss, "Restless"

30 December 2005
I hate the one thing I need
I just don't trust you now, baby
-Ambulance LTD, "Ophelia"

26 December 2005
Feel sick without you and I can't let you go 
I told you I don't want to but you don't let me say no 
I drop a wire to your mom and your dad 
And say, 'Relax, don't think about the way I treat you'
-Ambulance LTD, "Primitive"

26 December 2005
Maybe I can do it if I put my back into it
I could leave you if I wanted
but there's nowhere else that I can go
Maybe I won't suffer if I find a way to love her
I'd be lying to myself
but there is no way out that I can see
-Snow Patrol, "Ways & Means"

20 December 2005
The world is on fire
It's more than I can handle
-Sarah McLachlan, "World on Fire"

19 December 2005
He turns and says, "Are you alright?"
Oh, I must be fine cause my heart's still beating
-Joss Stone, "Fell in Love with a Boy"

18 December 2005
Imagine what it feels like, imagine how it sounds
Imagine life is perfect and everything works out
-X-Press, "Lazy"

17 December 2005
Fell in love with a boy
I fell in love once and almost completely
He's in love with the world
And sometimes these feelings can be so misleading
-Joss Stone, "Fell in Love with a Boy"
(cover of The White Stripes' "Fell in Love with a Girl")

7 December 2005
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it all right, but not right now
I know you're wondering when
-Nickelback, "Someday"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/someday.txt

4 December 2005
Mmm, what you say?
Mm, that you only meant well?  Well, of course you did.
Mmm, what you say?
Mm, that it's all for the best?  Of course it is.
Mmm, what you say?
Mm, that it's just what we need?  And you decided this.
Mmm what you say?
What did she say?
-Imogen Heap, "Hide and Seek"

23 November 2005
there's nothing
I can do to be cool
I don't sleep til I've had my fuel
it frustrates if I am deprived
a hunger that grates
from deep inside
I feel like I'm doing time
imprisoned by dependence
on a rhythm sublime
in my mind I must overcome
the need to define
the solitary silence
of a faceless crime
standing by the stereo
I'm feeling so alone
my back against a speaker
and I'm moving on my own
surrounded by so many
and they're staring at my face
they're picking up my problem
I'm totally addicted to bass
-Puretone, "Addicted to Bass"

23 November 2005
Simply being loved loved loved
Simply being loved loved loved
Simply being loved loved loved
Is more than enough
-BT, "Somnambulist"

21 November 2005
You give me a contact high
-Leigh, "Contact High"

19 November 2005
My sexy ass has got him in a new dimension
-Sugababes, "Push the Button"

19 November 2005
You don't need to emerge from nothing
You don't need to tear away
-Fischerspooner, "Emerge"

17 November 2005
I say the right thing
But act the wrong way
I like it right here
But I cannot stay
-The Strokes, "Hard to Explain"

13 November 2005
I wonder if I take you home
Would you still be in love, baby?
-The Black Eyed Peas, "Don't Phunk with my Heart"

13 November 2005
She laughs at my dreams but I dream about her laughter
-Click Five, "Just the Girl"

12 November 2005
If you're ready for me boy
You'd better push the button and let me know
Before I get the wrong idea and go
You're gonna miss the freak that I control
-Sugababes, "Push the Button"

10 November 2005
Don't look at me that way
It was an honest mistake
-The Bravery, "An Honest Mistake"

6 November 2005
You're like an empty cup,
But I can't fill you up.
-Everything But the Girl, "Temperamental"

6 November 2005
We're never alone
You always have someone on your mind
-Artificial Funk, "Never Alone"

6 November 2005
I've still got sand in my shoes
And I can't shake the thought of you
I should get on, forget you
But why would I want to?
I know we said goodbye,
Anything else would have been confused
But I want to see you again
-Dido, "Sand in My Shoes"

5 November 2005
Feels like the raindrops on my skin
You reach me somewhere deep within
You make my body come alive
I whisper things you never knew
I can't believe that tonight I am here with you
You let my body come alive
-Stunt, "Raindrops"

5 November 2005
I'm the Mack and I know that
-US3, "Cantaloop"

4 November 2005
Will you meet me in the middle?
Will you meet me in the air?
will you love me just a little,
just enough to show you care?
-America, "Sister Golden Hair"

30 October 2005
From frustration first inclination
Is to become a monk and leave the situation
But every dark tunnel has a lighter hope
So don't hang yourself with a celibate rope
-Young MC, "Bust a Move"

27 October 2005
I'm not talking about movin' in 
And I don't want to change your life 
But there's a warm wind blowin' the stars around 
And I'd really love to see you tonight 
-England Dan and John Ford Coley, "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"

23 October 2005
Let the rain fall down
And wake my dreams
Let it wash away
My sanity
'Cause I wanna feel the thunder
I wanna scream
Let the rain fall down
I'm coming clean
-Hilary Duff, "Come Clean"

17 October 2005
Wanna put my tender
heart in a blender
watch it spin round
to a beautiful oblivion
-Eve 6, "Inside Out"

17 October 2005
I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks
-Nirvana, "Heart-Shaped Box"

17 October 2005
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
-Foo Fighters, "Best of You"

17 October 2005
Put on my PJs and hop into bed
I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead
I try and tell myself it'll be all right
I just shouldn't think anymore tonight
-Jewel, "You Were Meant For Me"

15 October 2005
Now here you go again
You say you want your freedom
Well, who am I to keep you down?
It's only right that you should
Play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound
Of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat, drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost
And what you had
And what you lost
Fleetwood Mac, "Dreams"

15 October 2005
Dreams last for so long
Even after you're gone
I know you love me
And soon you will see
You were meant for me
And I was meant for you
-Jewel, "You Were Meant For Me"

10 October 2005
You'll always need me much more
Than I need you
-David Gahan, "I Need You"

6 October 2005
Could you sympathize with my needs?
I know you think I need a lot
-Matchbox 20, "Bent"

6 October 2005
Where I come from isn't all that great
My automobile is a piece of [junk]
My fashion sense is a little whack
And my friends are just as screwy as me
I didn't go to boarding schools
Preppy girls never looked at me
Why should they I ain't nobody
Got nothing in my pocket
Beverly Hills - that's where I wanna be
-Weezer, "Beverly Hills"

19 September 2005
Shouldn't I have this
Shouldn't I have this
Shouldn't I have all of this, and
Passionate kisses
Passionate kisses
Passionate kisses from you
-Lucinda Williams, "Passionate Kisses"

18 September 2005
Well, you know me, I'm a nomad
I can't feel bad
About the way I am
I've been rolling around
My whole life
You're my candlebright in the window
You guide me back again
And I come when you shine
You are not my friend, no
But I am something of a dreamer
-Stevie Nicks, "Candlebright"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/candlebright.txt

16 September 2005
I didn't say all the things that I wanted to say
And you can't take back what you have taken away
'Cause I feel you, I feel you near me
-Plummet, "Damaged"

15 September 2005
And the more she ignores me, the more I adore her
What can I do - I'd do anything for her
'Cause she's bittersweet
She knocks me off of my feet
And I can't help myself
I don't want anyone else
She's a mystery
She's too much for me
But I keep coming back for more
She's just the girl I'm looking for
-Click Five, "Just the Girl"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/justthegirl.txt

14 September 2005
I'd like to watch you suffer ever so slightly 
-Rachel Stevens, "So Good"

13 September 2005
But after that the floodgates opened up
And I fell in love with everyone I saw
-Snow Patrol, "Spitting Games"

11 September 2005
I'm far too shy to speak to you at school
You leave me numb and I don't know why
-Snow Patrol, "Spitting Games"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/spittinggames.txt

29 August 2005
But my God it's so beautiful when the boy smiles
-Anna Nalick, "Breathe (2am)"

16 August 2005
You make me wanna leave the one I'm with
Start a new relationship with you
This is what you do
Think about a ring and all the things that come along with
You make me
You make me
-Usher, "You Make Me Wanna..."

12 August 2005
I've made it on my own again 
I'll get back on my feet again 
I know I'm gonna feel so good 
And so good, and so good 
I'm gonna stand the test of time 
I'm gonna take back what is mine 
I know I'm gonna feel so good 
And so good, and so good  
-Rachel Stevens, "So Good"

12 August 2005
You look like a perfect fit
For a girl in need of a tourniquet
But can you save me
Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks
Of the freaks
Who suspect
They could never love anyone
-Aimee Mann, "Save Me"

1 August 2005
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me? 
-Pussycat Dolls, "Don't Cha"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/dontcha.txt

31 July 2005
Love without pain isn't really romance
-Röyksopp, "Only This Moment"

29 July 2005
A car this fine don't pass your way every day
Don't cha wanna ride, baby?
-Joss Stone, "Don't Cha Wanna Ride"

28 July 2005
Don't know that I will
But until I can find me
The girl who'll stay
And won't play games behind me
I'll be what I am
A solitary man
-Neil Diamond, "Solitary Man"

27 July 2005
In my head there's only you now
This world falls on me
In this world there's real and make believe
And this seems real to me
-3 Doors Down, "Let Me Go"

24 July 2005
I am not your autumn moon
I am the night
-Audioslave, "I am the Highway"

3 July 2005
I'm trying to remember who I am,
I'm an American in Amsterdam
-Wheatus, "American in Amsterdam"

25 June 2005
Dry your eyes, mate 
I know it's hard to take but her mind has been made up 
There's plenty more fish in the sea 
Dry your eyes, mate 
I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts 
But you've got to walk away now 
It's over 
-The Streets, "Dry Your Eyes"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/dryyoureyes.txt

24 June 2005
But it's not so bad
You're only the best I ever had
You don't want me back
You're just the best I ever had 
-Vertical Horizon, "Best I Ever Had"

24 June 2005
You want her, you need her
And yet you don't believe her when she says her love is dead
You think she needs you
And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years
-The Beatles, "For No One"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/fornoone.txt

24 June 2005
If you're gonna get your heart broke, you'd better do it just right, 
It's gotta be raining, and you gotta move your stuff that night,
And the only friend you can reach isn't a good friend at all,
and you know when he says "Now, who dumped who?"
that you never should have made that call.
-Dar Williams, "The Blessings"

24 June 2005
I miss those days, and I miss those ways
When I got lost in fantasies
In a cartoon land of mysteries
In a place you won't grow old
In a place you won't feel cold
(da da da da da da, da da da da da da)
Seems I'm lost in my reflection
(da da da da da da, da da da da da da)
Find a star for my direction
(da da da da da da, da da da da da da)
For the little girl inside, who won't just hide
Don't let me see mistakes and lies
Let me keep my faith and innocent eyes
-Delta Goodrem, "Innocent Eyes"

17 June 2005
Careful what it is you say
'Cause I can see right through you on a cloudy day
-Poe, "Not a Virgin"

30 May 2005
Everybody says that I'm looking for a home now,
Looking for a boy or I'm looking for a girl now,
I can still let it go, I can still learn to grow,
Into a child again.
Silence is easy, it just becomes me
-Starsailor, "Silence is Easy"

29 May 2005
Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker
on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said, "Don't
look back. You can never look back."
I thought I knew what love was,
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever
I should just let them go, but,
I can see you,
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got that top pulled down and that radio on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
after the boys of summer have gone
-Don Henley, "Boys of Summer"

25 May 2005
the fire fades away
most of every day
is full of tired excuses
but it's too hard to say
I wish it was simple
but we give up easily
you're close enough to see that
you're the other side of the world to me
can you help me
can you let me go
and can you still love me
when you can't see me anymore
-KT Tunstall, "Other Side of the World"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/othersideoftheworld.txt

23 May 2005
I say, don't you know?
You say you don't know
I say, take me out
-Franz Ferdinand, "Take Me Out"

22 May 2005
I'm in the basement
You're in the sky
I'm in the basement baby
Drop on by
-Placebo, "English Summer Rain"

20 May 2005
And I'm free
I'm free fallin'
-Tom Petty, "Free Fallin'"

1 May 2005
I don't wanna be lonely no more
I don't wanna have to pay for this
I don't want to know the lover at my door
Is just another heartache on my list
-Rob Thomas, "Lonely No More"

1 May 2005
I don't want you thinking I don't get asked to dinner
'Cause I'm here to say that I sometimes do
Even though I may soon feel the touch of love
I just don't think I'll ever get over you
If I lived till I was 102
I just don't think I'll ever get over you
-Colin Hay, "I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You"

28 April 2005
'cause i like you
but i know you don't know it
i like you so much, 
i talk to everyone but you
-Ani DiFranco, "Hell Yeah"
http://www.danah.org/Ani/OutOfRange/HellYeah.html

26 April 2005
I'm not waitin' around for a man to save me
(Cos I'm happy where I am)
Don't depend on a guy to validate me
(No no)
I don't need to be anyone's baby
(Is that so hard to understand?)
No I don't need another half to make me whole
Make your move if you want
doesn't mean I will or won't
I'm free to make my mind up
you either got it or you don't
This is my current single status
My declaration of independence
There's no way I'm trading places
Right now a star's in the ascendant
-Natasha Bedingfield, "Single"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/single.txt

23 April 2005
I can see you --
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got your hair combed back and your
sunglasses on, baby,
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone
-Don Henley, "Boys of Summer"

23 April 2005
The word's on the street
You've found someone new
If he looks nothing like me
I'm so happy for you
-Pulp, "Bad Cover Version"

21 April 2005
Would you be my enemy?
It's easier that way
-The Departure, "Be My Enemy"

17 April 2005
But I still love to wash in your old bathwater
Love to think that you couldn't love another
Share a toothbrush... you're my kind of man
-No Doubt, "Bathwater"

12 April 2005
I am vindicated
I am selfish
I am wrong
I am right
I swear I'm right
Swear I knew it all along
And I am flawed
But I am cleaning up so well
I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself
-Dashboard Confessional, "Vindicated"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/vindicated.txt

12 April 2005
Careful 
What you're feeling 
On the inside 
You should try to remember 
The good times and the high life 
Are you feeling alright? 
-Finger Eleven, "Good Times"

11 April 2005
I can be cruel
I don't know why
-Tori Amos, "Cruel"

9 April 2005
I know all about the little games you play
Shakin' your apple right in my face
Only when you know that I'm beggin' for a bite
Time on me is wasted time
-Kings of Leon, "Wasted Time"

9 April 2005
Relax
Don't think about the way I treat you
-Ambulance, "Primitive"

4 April 2005
Happiness   
More or less
It's just a change in me
Something in my liberty
-The Verve, "Lucky Man"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/luckyman.txt

1 April 2005
you are subtle as a windowpane
standing in my view
but I will wait for it to rain
so that I can see you
you call me up at night
when there's no light passing through
and you think that I don't understand
but I do
-Ani DiFranco, "Anticipate"

13 March 2005
I gave you the benefit
Of the doubt it's true
But keep in mind my darling
Not every saint is a fool
-Poe, "Control"

13 March 2005
Why do you look at me with such untrusting eyes
Afraid of all I say and do; my love is real
How can you question me?  I've never told you lies
I can't say the same for you; my love is real
-Terry Radigan, "My Love is Real"

10 March 2005
I wanna be in the Light
As you are in the Light
I wanna shine like the stars in the heavens
-DC Talk, "In the Light"

6 March 2005
I long to be connected
I long to be affected
The bright lights beckon me,
Beckon me to you
-Narcotic Thrust, "I Like It"

3 March 2005
You're a tramp, you're a treat,
you will shine to the death, you are shoddy. 
But you're flesh, you are meat,
you shall have every breath in my body.
-Evita soundtrack, "Buenos Aires"

26 February 2005
You're a god 
And I am not 
And I just thought 
I'd let you go
-Vertical Horizon, "You're a God"

25 February 2005
I don't want another pretty face
I don't want just anyone to hold
I don't want my love to go to waste 
I want you and your beautiful soul
-Jesse McCartney, "Beautiful Soul"

19 February 2005
tell you the truth i prefer the worst of you
too bad you had to have a better half
she's not really my type 
but i think you two are forever
and i hate to say it but you're perfect together
so ...
-Ani DiFranco, "Untouchable Face"
http://www.danah.org/Ani/Dilate/UntouchableFace.html

16 February 2005
Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride
Nobody's gonna slow me down, oh-no
I got to keep on movin'
Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride
I'm running and I won't touch ground
Oh-no, I got to keep on movin'
-Matthew Wilder, "Break My Stride"

14 February 2005
You're really sweet,
Mm, you're really nice
But didn't mama ever tell you not to play with fire?
-Madison Avenue, "Don't Call Me Baby"

14 February 2005
If you're lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you; I'll be waiting
Time after time
-Cyndi Lauper, "Time After Time"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/timeaftertime.txt

12 February 2005
Don't you know that when you touch me baby that it's torture
Brush up against me I get chills all down my spine
When you talk to me, it's painful
You don't know what you do to this heart of mine
-Amber, "Sexual (Li Da Di)"

9 February 2005
If lovin' you is wrong
I don't wanna be right
-Faithless, "If Lovin' You Is Wrong"

9 February 2005
How I long to fall just a little bit
To dance out of the lines and stray from the light
But I fear that to fall in love with you
Is to fall from a great and gruesome height
-Dar Williams, "Iowa"

8 February 2005
Don't think that I'm not strong
I'm the one to take you on
Don't underestimate me, boy
I'll make you sorry you were born
You don't know me
The way you really should
You sure misunderstood
Don't call me baby
-Madison Avenue, "Don't Call Me Baby"

8 February 2005
I gotta cover my butt 'cuz I covet 
another man's wife  
I've got to divide my emotions 
into wrong and right 
then I get to see how close I can get to it 
without giving in 
then I get to rub up against it 
till I break the skin 
-Ani DiFranco, "Shameless"

7 February 2005
I've never had a way with women
But the hills of Iowa make me wish that I could
-Dar Williams, "Iowa (Traveling III)"

2 February 2005
I confess I watch your mouth move baby when you're speaking
Study your whole body when you walk out of the room
You will see how much you value my friendship
But I want you addicted, to my perfume
-Amber, "Sexual (Li Da Di)"

1 February 2005
I ain't happy
I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine
In a bag
I'm useless
But not for long
The future
Is coming on
-Gorillaz, "Clint Eastwood"

30 January 2005
You don't need eyes to see,
You need vision
-Faithless, "Reverence"

27 January 2005
It can't just be intellectual
The way I feel is sexual
The way I feel is sexual
-Amber, "Sexual (Li Da Di)"

26 January 2005
She's a wild one with an angel's face.
She's a woman-child in a state of grace.
When she was three years old on her daddy's knee,
He said, "You can be anything you want to be."
She's a wild one runnin' free.
-Faith Hill, "Wild One"

26 January 2005
Life is like a shooting star
It don't matter who you are
If you only run for cover
-Live, "Dolphins Cry"

25 January 2005
Stick with me baby,
I'm the fella you came in with
-Frank Loesser, "Luck Be a Lady"

23 January 2005
Days go by
I can feel 'em flying like a hand out the window in the wind.
-Keith Urban, "Days Go By"

22 January 2005
Take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories I don't need 'em
Take your space and take your reasons
But you'll think of me
And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact, I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me
-Keith Urban, "You'll Think of Me"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/youllthink.txt

15 January 2005
All these squawking birds won't quit.
Building nothing, laying bricks.
-The Shins, "Caring is Creepy"

14 January 2005
i'm looking in on the good life
i might be doomed never to find
-The Shins, "New Slang"

14 January 2005
And I'll shout and I'll scream
But I'd rather not have seen
And I'll hide away for another day
-Zero7, "In the Waiting Line"

12 January 2005
They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now," they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now," but we'll stay
-Iron and Wine, "Such Great Heights"

10 January 2005
"In a sense," he said, "you're alone here,
so if you jump, you best jump far"
-Tori Amos, "Leather"

7 January 2005
Look, I'm standing naked before you
Don't you want more than my sex?
-Tori Amos, "Leather"

4 January 2005
Friends and liars don't wait for me
'Cause I'll get on all by myself
I put millions of miles
Under my heels
And still too close to you I feel
I am not your rolling wheels
I am the highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky
I am not your blowing wind
I am the lightening
I am not your autumn moon
I am the night
-Audioslave, "I am the Highway"

4 January 2005
And on I read
Until the day was gone
And I sat in regret
Of all the things I've done
For all that I've blessed
And all that I've wronged
In dreams until my death
I will wander on
-Audioslave, "I'll Wait For You There"

3 January 2005
just do me a favor 
it's the least that you can do
just don't treat me like i am
something that happened to you
-Ani DiFranco, "Adam and Eve"

31 December 2004
You can't start a fire
Sittin' 'round, crying over a broken heart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
-Bruce Springsteen, "Dancing in the Dark"

30 December 2004
reach down your hand in your pocket
pull out some hope for me
-Matchbox 20, "Long Day"

28 December 2004
Well I tried to make it Sunday
but I got so [darned] depressed
That I set my sights on Monday
and I got myself undressed
-America, "Sister Golden Hair"

28 December 2004
Doesn't seem to be anybody else who agrees with me
-Zero7, "In the Waiting Line"

23 December 2004
I know a drugstore cowgirl
so afraid of getting bored
she's always running from something
so many things ignored
I try to be not like this
but I thought it'd make a good song
there's nothing to see shows over
people just move along
-311, "Beautiful Disaster"

23 December 2004
My love is like a storybook story
But it's as real as the feelings I feel
-Willy DeVille, "Storybook Love" (from The Princess Bride soundtrack)

22 December 2004
All my life I've been searching for something
Something never comes never leads to nothing
Nothing satisfies but I'm getting closer
Closer to the prize at the end of the rope
All night long I dream of the day
When it comes around then it's taken away
Leaves me with the feeling that I feel the most
The feeling comes to life when I see your ghost
-Foo Fighters, "All My Life"

6 December 2004
I wish I was a little bit taller
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her
-Skee-Lo, "I Wish"

6 December 2004
And when you said I could not stay with you
That's not the way you would have wanted to be
Convince yourself that everything is all right
'Cos it already is
-Pete Yorn, "For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is)"

4 December 2004
I'll stay away
Don't have to face this
It's my mistake
And no one's business
I am trying not to want to hurt him
Trying not to start this up again
-Diana Anaid, "Last Thing"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/lastthing.txt

3 December 2004
take me home
take me home and leave me there
think I'm gonna cry, I don't know why
think I'm gonna sing myself a lullaby
feel free to listen, yeah
feel free to stare
-Ani DiFranco, "Cradle and All"

2 December 2004
i am not a pretty girl
that is not what i do
i ain't no damsel in distress
and i don't need to be rescued
so put me down punk
maybe you'd prefer a maiden fair
isn't there a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere
-Ani DiFranco, "Not A Pretty Girl"

1 December 2004
I gotta get through this
I gotta get through this
I gotta make, gotta make it, gotta make it through
Said I'm gonna get through this
I'm gonna get through this
I gotta take, gotta take my mind off of you
-Daniel Bedingfield, "Gotta Get Thru This"

1 December 2004
So, let go,let go
Jump in
Oh well, what you waiting for
It's all right
'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
-Frou Frou, "Let Go"

28 November 2004
i am a work in progress
dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding
offering me intricate patterns of questions
rhythms that never come clean
and strengths that you still haven't seen
-Ani DiFranco, "The Slant"

28 November 2004
I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm alright
I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home
I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life
Go ahead with your own life, leave me alone 
-Billy Joel, "My Life"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/mylife.txt

27 November 2004
take it slow but don't warn me
-The Strokes, "12:51"

27 November 2004
Hey, you know they're all the same.
You know you're doing better on your own, so don't buy in.
Live right now.
Yeah, just be yourself.
It doesn't matter if it's good enough for someone else.
It just takes some time, little girl you're in the middle of the ride.
Everything will be just fine, everything will be all right.
-Jimmy Eat World, "In the Middle"

27 November 2004
It seems to me that maybe
It pretty much always means no
So don't tell me you might just let it go
-Jack Johnson, "Flake"

26 November 2004
So hold me when I'm here
Right me when I'm wrong
Hold me when I'm scared
And love me when I'm gone
Everything I am
And everything in me
Wants to be the one
You wanted me to be
I'll never let you down
Even if I could 
I'd give up everything
If only for your good
So hold me when I'm here
Right me when I'm wrong
You can hold me when I'm scared
You won't always be there
So love me when I'm gone
-3 Doors Down, "When I'm Gone"

25 November 2004
If you want to
I can save you
I can take you away from here
So lonely inside
So busy out there
And all you wanted
Was somebody who cares
-Michelle Branch, "All You Wanted"

22 November 2004
Dance children, dance to the beat
Wanna be a hippy cause life is so sweet
Good morning hate
Dance children, dance to the beat
Wanna rock and roll up and down the street,
I've got a message
Love is a good thing
Love is a good, love is a good,
Love is a good thing
-Sheryl Crow, "Love is a Good Thing"

21 November 2004
Stars fading, but I linger on dear
Still craving your kiss
I'm longing to linger 'til dawn dear
Just saying this
Sweet dreams, 'til sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams, wherever they may be
Dream a little dream of me
-Mama Cass, "Dream a Little Dream of Me"

20 November 2004
The past is gone but something might be found to take its place
-Gin Blossoms, "Hey Jealousy"

17 November 2004
I begin not to love you
Turn around, see me running
I say I loved you years ago
Tell myself you never loved me, no
And did you say she was pretty?
And did you say that she loved you?
Baby I don't want to know
And can you tell me was it worth it?
Baby I don't want to know
Time cast a spell on you
But you won't forget me
I know I could have loved you
But you would not let me 
-Stevie Nicks, "Silver Springs"

17 November 2004
I see you, the only one who knew me
But now your eyes see through me
I guess I was wrong
-Deep Blue Something, "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

16 November 2004
I hate the world today
You're so good to me, I know but I can't change
Tried to tell you but you looked at me like maybe I'm an angel underneath
Innocent and Sweet
Yesterday I cried
You must have been relieved to see the softer side
I can understand how you'd be so confused
I don't envy you
I'm a little bit of everything, all rolled into one 
-Meredith Brooks, "B*"

16 November 2004
The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you get one more yard
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The waiting is the hardest part
-Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, "The Waiting"

15 November 2004
Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
-Elton John, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"

15 November 2004
All she wants to do is dance and make romance
She can't feel the heat comin' off the street
She wants to party, ooh, she wants to get down, ooh
All she wants to do is, all she wants to do is dance
-Don Henley, "All She Wants to Do is Dance"

12 November 2004
Oh, we're half way there 
O-oh, livin' on a prayer 
Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear 
O-oh, livin' on a prayer
-Jon Bon Jovi, "Livin' on a Prayer"

12 November 2004
we hurt each other and we do it again
-U2, "One"

11 November 2004
And I'm here to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It's not fair to deny me
Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know
-Alanis Morrisette, "You Oughta Know"

10 November 2004
You shut your mouth
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does
-The Smiths, "How Soon is Now?"

9 November 2004
Inside I was a child
That could not mend a broken wing
Outside I looked for a way
To teach my heart to sing
And I'll remember the love that you gave me
Now that I'm standing on my own
I'll remember the way that you changed me
I'll remember
-Madonna, "I'll Remember"

9 November 2004
I'm a big, big girl
In a big, big world
It's not a big, big thing
If you leave me
But I do, do feel
That I do, do will
Miss you much
-Emilia, "Big Big World"

9 November 2004
I thought I saw a man brought to life
He was warm, he came around and he was dignified
He showed me what it was to cry
Well you couldn't be that man I adored
You don't seem to know, don't seem to care what your heart is for
I don't know him anymore
There's nothing where he used to lie
The conversation has run dry
That's whats going on, nothing's fine I'm torn
-Natalie Imbruglia, "Torn"

9 November 2004
There'll be no strings to bind your hands
Not if my love can't bind your heart
There's no need to take a stand
For it was I who chose a start
I see no need to take me home
I'm old enough to face the dawn
Just call me angel of the morning angel
Just touch my cheek before you leave me baby
Just call me angel of the morning angel
Then slowly turn away from me
-The Pretenders, "Angel of the Morning"

9 November 2004
What a wicked game to play
To make me feel this way
What a wicked thing to do
To make me dream of you 
-Chris Isaak, "Wicked Game"

9 November 2004
I bet you're hard to get over
I bet the room just won't shine
I bet my hands I can stay here
I bet you need - more than you mind
And I think you're so mean - I think we should try
I think I could need - this in my life
I think I'm just scared - that I know too much
I can't relate and that's a problem I'm feeling
If you're gone - maybe it's time to come home
There's an awful lot of breathing room
But I can hardly move
-Matchbox 20, "If You're Gone"

9 November 2004
all the world just stopped now
so you say you don't wanna stay together anymore
let me take a deep breath babe
if you need me, me and neil'll be
hangin' out with the dream king
neil says hi by the way
i don't believe you're leaving cause
me and charles manson like the same ice cream
i think it's that girl
and i think there're pieces of me
you've never seen
maybe she's just pieces of me
you've never seen well
all the world is
all i am
the black of the blackest ocean
and that tear in your hand
all the world is danglin'...
danglin'... danglin' for me darlin'
you don't know the power that you have
with that tear in your hand
that tear in your hand
-Tori Amos, "Tear in Your Hand"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/tear.txt

8 November 2004
We all begin with good intent
When love was raw and young
We believe that we could change ourselves
That the past can be undone
But we carry on our back 
A burden, time always reveals
And the lonely light of morning
In the wound that would not heal
It's the bitter taste of losing everything
That I've held so dear
-Sarah McLachlan, "Fallen"

8 November 2004
Something's gone you withdraw
and I'm not strong like before
I was deep inside of you
I can go nowhere
I burn candles and stare at a ghost
Deep inside of you
And some great need in me
Starts to bleed
I've lost myself, there's nothing left, it's all gone
Deep inside of you
Deep inside of you
Deep inside of you
-Third Eye Blind, "Deep Inside of You"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/deep_inside.txt

8 November 2004
I don't know what you saw,
I want somebody who sees me
-Dar Williams, "As Cool As I Am"

8 November 2004
You tried to make me doubt, to make me guess,
tried to make me feel like a little less, 
Oh, I liked you when your soul was bared,
I thought you knew how to be scared
-Dar Williams, "As Cool As I Am"

8 November 2004
And there's a reason why I keep my distance
Don't think you're gonna understand
This is the last thing that I need right now
-Diana Anaid, "Last Thing"

7 November 2004
squint your eyes and look closer
i'm not between you and your ambition
i am a poster girl with no poster
i am thirty-two flavors and then some
and i'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
cause someday you are gonna get hungry
and eat most of the words you just said
-Ani di Franco, "Thirty-Two Flavors"

7 November 2004
all i need is my leather,
one t-shirt and two socks,
i'll keep my hands warm 
in your pockets 
you can use the engine block,
and we'll ride out to california
with my arms around your chest,
and i'll pretend that this is real
'cuz this is what i like best
-Ani di Franco, "Gravel"

7 November 2004
I don't think that I can take another empty moment
I don't think that I can fake another hollow smile
It's not enough just to be lonely
I don't think that I could take another talk about it
-Matchbox 20, "Bed of Lies"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/bed_of_lies.txt

6 November 2004
I don't wanna be the one who turns the whole thing over
I don't wanna be somewhere where I just don't belong
Where it's not enough just be sorry
Don't you know I feel the darkness closing in
 Tried to be more than me
 And I gave till it all went away
And we've only surrendered
To the worst part of these winters that we've made
But I would not sleep in this bed of lies
So toss me out and turn in
And there'll be no rest for these tired eyes
I'm marking it down to learning
I'm marking it down to learning
-Matchbox 20, "Bed of Lies"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/bed_of_lies.txt

6 November 2004
i wake up in the night
in some big hotel bed
my hands grope for the light
my hands grope for my head
the world is my oyster
the road is my home
and i know that i'm better 
off alone
-Ani di Franco, "Dilate"

6 November 2004
tell me what did you like about me
and don't say my strength and daring
'cuz now i think i'm at your mercy
and it's my first time for this kind of thing
i used to be a superhero
i would swoop down and save me
from myself
but you are like a phone booth
that i somehow stumbled into
and now look at me
i am just like everybody else
-Ani di Franco, "Superhero"
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kmack/superhero.txt

6 November 2004
y'know, i don't look forward
to seeing you again
you'll look like a photograph of yourself
taken from far far away 
and i won't know what to do
and i won't know what to say
except f* you
and your untouchable face
f* you
for existing in the first place
and who am i 
that i should be vying for your touch
who am i 
bet you can't even tell me that much
Ani di Franco, "Untouchable Face"

6 November 2004
i'm sorry i didn't sound more excited on the phone
i'm sorry that after all these years
i've left you feeling unrequited and alone, brought you to tears
i guess i never loved you quite as well as the way you loved me
i guess i'll never really be able to tell you how sorry
i am
and i don't know what it is about you
i just know it's not what it was
i don't know why red fades before blue it just does
and i don't know what it is about me
that i just can't keep still
i keep thinking someday i will make this all up to you
and maybe someday i will
-Ani di Franco, "Sorry I Am"

24 October 2004
All day
Staring at the ceiling making
friends with shadows on my wall
all night
I'm hearing voices telling me
That I should get some sleep
Because tomorrow might be good
For something
Hold on
I'm feeling like I'm heading for a
Breakdown
And I don't know why
I'm not crazy I'm just a little unwell
I know right now you can't tell
But stay awhile and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me
I'm not crazy I'm just a little impaired
I know right now you don't care
But soon enough you're gonna think of me
And how I used to be
-Matchbox 20, "Unwell"

23 October 2004
I'm sorry bout the attitude
I need to give when I'm with you
But no one else would take this s... from me
And I'm so terrified of no one else but me
I'm here all the time
I won't go away
It's me, yeah well I can't get myself to go away
It's me, and I can't get myself to go away
Oh God I shouldn't feel this way now
-Matchbox 20, "Long Day"

23 October 2004
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
Jai guru de va om
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.
-The Beatles, "Across the Universe"

19 October 2004
It's me, yeah well I can't get myself to go away
Well it's me, yeah well I can't get myself to go away
Oh God I shouldn't feel this way now
Reach down your hand in your pocket
Pull out some hope for me
It's been a long day
Always
-Matchbox 20, "Long Day"

18 October 2004
And the ones that can know you so well
are the ones that can swallow you whole.
I have a good and I have an evil,
I thought the ocean, the ocean thought nothing,
You are a welcoming back from the ocean.
-Dar Williams, "The Ocean"

11 October 2004
how could you do nothing 
and say, i'm doing my best
how could you take almost everything
and then come back for the rest
how could you beg me to stay
reach out your hands and plead
and then pack up your eyes and run away
as soon as i agreed
-Ani di Franco, "Done Wrong"

8 October 2004
I take a look at the world behind these eyes,
Every nook, every cranny reorganize,
Realize my face don't fit the way I feel.
What's real?
I need a mirror to check my face is in place,
In case of upheaval, fundamental movement below,
What's really going on I wanna know,
But yo, we don't show on the outside, so slide.
Just below my skin I'm screaming.
-Faithless, "Salva Mea"

4 October 2004
tonight you can't put me
up on any shelf
'cause i came here alone
i'm gonna leave by myself
-Ani di Franco, "In or Out"

23 September 2004
sleep walking through the all-nite drug store
baptized in fluorescent light
i found religion in the greeting card aisle
now i know hallmark was right
and every pop song on the radio
is suddenly speaking to me
art may imitate life
but life imitates t.v.
-Ani di Franco, "Superhero"

22 September 2004
Feels so good to be alive
-Marcy Playground, "Paper Dolls"

14 September 2004
Keeping my eyes open
I cannot afford to sleep
Giving away promises
I know that I can't keep
Nothing fills the blackness
That has seeped into my chest
I need you in my blood
I am forsaking all the rest
Just to reach you
Just to reach you
Oh, to reach you
-Melissa Etheridge, "Come to My Window"

7 September 2004
when I look around
I think this, this is good enough
and I try to laugh
at whatever life brings
when I look down
I just miss all the good stuff
when I look up
I just trip over things
-Ani di Franco, "As Is"

6 September 2004
what bugs me
is that you believe what you're saying
what bothers me
is that you don't know how you feel
what scares me
is that while you're telling me stories
you actually
believe that they are real
-Ani di Franco, "As Is"

5 September 2004
Now I'm on Zoloft
because you told me I was crazy
-Veruca Salt, "Disconnected"

4 September 2004
If you call, I will answer
and if you fall, I'll pick you up
and if you court this disaster
I'll point you home
-Barenaked Ladies, "Call and Answer"

4 September 2004
I can't even make sense of this
-Meredith Brooks, "What Would Happen"

3 September 2004
Do you wanna be a polyester bride?
Do you wanna hang your head and die?
Do you wanna find alligator cowboy boots they just put on sale?
Do you wanna flap your wings and fly away from here?
-Liz Phair, "Polyester Bride"

3 September 2004
Everyone here
knows everyone here is thinking about somebody else
-Matchbox 20, "Back 2 Good"

1 September 2004
I just wanna sing a song with you
-Cary Brothers, "Blue Eyes"

1 September 2004
Everyone's sayin' different things to me
different things to me
-Zero 7, "In the Waiting Line"

1 September 2004
Life is too short so love the one you got
'Cause you might get run over or you might get shot
-Sublime, "What I Got"

1 September 2004
So what if you catch me,
Where would we land?
-Remy Zero, "Fair"

31 August 2004
I don't want you thinking I'm unhappy
What is closer to the truth
That if I lived till I was 102
I just don't think I'll ever get over you
-Colin Hay, "I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You"

31 August 2004
So you sailed away
Into a grey sky morning
Now I'm here to stay
Love can be so boring.
-Vertical Horizon, "Best I Ever Had"

31 August 2004
If I couldn't sleep could you sleep?
-Matchbox 20, "Bent"

30 August 2004
in the end the whole world comes down to just a few people
for you it comes down to one
but nobody ever asked me if i thought i could be 
everything to someone
there's a crowd of people harbored in every person
there are so many roles that we play
and you've decided to love me for eternity
i'm still deciding who i want to be today
-Ani di Franco, "Light of Some Kind"

28 August 2004
I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel
I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor
Illusion never changed into something real
I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn
You're a little late, I'm already torn
-Natalie Imbruglia, "Torn"

27 August 2004
And I hate myself
Just enough to want him
But I hate him just enough to get off
-Poe, "Trigger Happy Jack"

26 August 2004
The past is gone but something might be found
to take its place
-Gin Blossoms, "Hey Jealousy"

23 August 2004
Keep in mind
We're under the same sky
And the night's
As empty for me as for you
If you feel
You can't wait till morning
Kiss the rain
-Billie Myers, "Kiss the Rain"

22 August 2004
I am walking
out in the rain
and I am listening to the low moan
of the dial tone again
and I am getting
nowhere with you
and I can't let it go
and I can't get through
-Ani di Franco, "Both Hands"

20 August 2004
I'll look for you in old Honolulu,
San Francisco, Ashtabula,
You're gonna have to leave me now, I know.
But I'll see you in the sky above,
In the tall grass, in the ones I love,
You're gonna make me lonesome when you go.
-Bob Dylan, "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go"

20 August 2004
I may be a teenage rebel
I live life on bass and treble
But I know that these years
They won't come again
-Marcy Playground, "Rock and Roll Heroes"

18 August 2004
Too bad we
Never got
A chance to believe
Too bad you
Never got
Easy to leave 
-Patty Larkin, "Too Bad"

16 August 2004
Joni left for South Africa a few years ago
And then Beth took a job all the way over on the west coast
And me I'm still trying to live half a life on the road
Seems I'm heavier by the year
And heavier by the load
Why do we hurtle 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
-Indigo Girls, "Get Out the Map"

10 August 2004
It wasn't very long ago
When you yourself was just a hay-seed plowboy
Who didn't have a row to hoe
-Trisha Yearwood, "She's in Love with the Boy"

15 June 2004
You got me lifted shifted higher than the ceiling 
And ooh wee it's the ultimate feeling 
You got me lifted feeling so gifted 
Suga how you get so fly? 
-Baby Bash, "Suga Suga"

8 June 2004
so i walk like i'm on a mission
cuz that's the way i groove
i got more and more to do
i got less and less to prove
it took me too long to realize
that i don't take good pictures
cuz i have the kind of beauty
that moves
-Ani di Franco, "Evolve"

29 May 2004
I hate the world today
You're so good to me
I know but I can't change
Tried to tell you
But you look at me like maybe
I'm an angel underneath
Innocent and sweet
-Meredith Brooks, "B..."

28 May 2004
tonight you can't put me
up on any shelf
'cause I came here alone
and I'm gonna leave by myself
-Ani di Franco, "In or Out"

28 May 2004
You know if I leave you now
it doesn't mean that I love you any less
it's just the state I'm in
I can't be good to anyone else like this
-Sarah McLachlan, "Wait"

24 May 2004
I'm the kind of person who endorses a deep commitment
Getting comfy getting perfect is what I live for
-Savage Garden, "I Want You"


19 May 2004
Hear me now, o thou bleak and unbearable world
Thou art base and debauched as can be
And a knight, with his banners all bravely unfurled
Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee!
I am I, Don Quixote, the Lord of La Mancha
My destiny calls and I go!
And the wild winds of fortune shall carry me onward
Oh whither so ever they blow
Whither so ever they blow,
Onward to glory I go!
-From the "Man of La Mancha" soundtrack

18 May 2004
baby i've only got a minute
before i have to go
a minute is all my life
will ever allow
let's grow old
and die together
let's do it now
-Ani di Franco, "The Waiting Song"

16 May 2004
I can tell
You know what it's like
The long farewell
Of the hunger strike
But can you save me
Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
-Aimee Mann, "Save Me"

16 May 2004
Day after day I'm more confused
So I look for the light in the pouring rain
You know that's a game that I hate to lose
I'm feelin' the strain, ain't it a shame
Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
-Dobie Gray, "Drift Away"

13 May 2004
I don't care what
The world has to say
You should know that
I love you, I love you
I love you today
-Squeeze, "Heaven Knows"

11 May 2004
Oo, baby, do you know what that's worth
Oo, heaven is a place on Earth
They say in heaven, love comes first
We'll make heaven a place on Earth
Oo, heaven is a place on Earth
-Belinda Carlisle, "Heaven is a Place on Earth"

3 May 2004
And I know life is getting shorter
I can't bring myself to set the scene
Even when it's approaching torture
I've got my routine
But I can't confront the doubts I have
I can't admit that maybe the past was bad
And so for the sake of momentum
I'm condemning the future to death
So it can match the past
-Aimee Mann, "Momentum"

27 April 2004
and I try to draw the line
but it ends up running
down the middle of me
most of the time
-Ani di Franco, "Out of Range"

27 April 2004
the bathroom mirror has not budged
and the woman who lives there can tell
the truth from the stuff that they say
she looks me in the eye
and says would you prefer the easy way
no well ok then don't cry
-Ani di Franco, "Joyful Girl"

27 April 2004
you know i don't look forward
to seeing you again
you'll look like a photograph of yourself
taken from far far away
i won't know what to do
i won't know what to say
-Ani di Franco, "Untouchable Face"

26 April 2004
Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start
-Coldplay, "The Scientist"

24 April 2004
Everybody is just a stranger but
That's the danger in going my own way
-John Mayer, "Why Georgia Why"

23 April 2004
we don't say everything that we could
so that we can say later
oh, you misunderstood
-Ani di Franco, "Anticipate"

22 April 2004
There's where I come from
and where I'm going
And I am lost in between
-Ani di Franco, "Shy"

21 April 2004
And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
And sooner or later it's over
I just don't wanna miss you tonight
And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
-Goo Goo Dolls, "Iris"

20 April 2004
Are you strong enough to be my man?
-Sheryl Crow, "Strong Enough"

18 April 2004
I don't want to be your other half
I believe that 1 and 1 make 2
-Alanis Morissette, "Not the Doctor"

16 April 2004
I know I haven't been sleeping
and when I do
I just dream of you
-Ani di Franco, "The Diner"