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1. Van Morrison
And everything looks so complete
When you're walkin' out on the street
And the wind catches your feet
And sends you flyin', cryin' - Wild Night

Standin' in the sunlight laughin'
Hidin' 'hind a rainbow's wall
Slippin' and a-slidin'
All along the waterfall
With you, my brown eyed girl - Brown Eyed Girl

And I shall drive my chariot
Down your streets and cry
"Hey, it's me, I'm dynamite
And I don't know why"
And you shall take me strongly
In your arms again - Sweet Thing

Meet them halfway with love, peace and persuasion
And expect them to rise for the occasion
Don't it gratify when you see it materialize
Right in front of your eyes
That surprise - Glad Tidings

There and then all my dreams will come true, dear
There and then I will make you my own
And every time I touch you, you just tremble inside
And I know how much you want me that you can't hide - Moondance


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2. Iron and Wine
Girl with a bird she found in the snow
That flew up her gown and that's how she knows
If God made her eyes for crying at birth
Then left the ground to circle the Earth - Boy With a Coin

You'll ask me to pray for rain
With ash in your mouth
You'll ask it to burn again - Cinder and Smoke

With his gun the pagan angel rose to say
"My love is one made to break every bended knee" - Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car

Said the plain clothes cop to the beauty queen
"I've seen nothing but a spoke in a wheel"
So she gave up her crown to a kid with a crutch
And they both felt cheated after closing the deal - White Tooth Man

From your changing contentments
What will you choose for to share?
Someday drawing you different,
May I be weaved in your hair? - Love and Some Verses


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3. Nick Drake
Betty said she prayed today
For the sky to blow away
Or maybe stay
She wasn't sure

For when she thought of summer rain
Calling for her mind again
She lost the pain
And stayed for more - River Man

Been a long time that I've wandered through the people I have known.
Oh, if you would and you could straighten my new mind's eye - Northern Sky

Look through time and find your rhyme
Tell us what you find
We will wait at your gate
Hoping like the blind - Way to Blue

While the earth sinks to its grave
You sail to the sky
On the crest of a wave - Cello Song

A day once dawned from the ground
Then the night she fell
And the air was beautiful
The night she fell all around - From the Morning


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4. Tom Waits
I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past
So send me off to bed forevermore - Tango 'till They're Sore

Don't say goodbye to me
Describe the sky to me
And if the sky falls mark
My words - we'll catch mocking birds - Green Grass

The large print giveth and the small print taketh away - Step Right Up

How does the ocean rock the boat?
How did the razor find my throat?
The only strings that hold me here
Are tangled up around the pier - Alice

Sometimes I kill myself a jackal
Suck out all the blood
Steal myself a station wagon
Driving through the mud - Whistlin' Past the Graveyard


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Average listal rating (138 ratings) 6  
5. Counting Crows
Every night these silhouettes appear above my head
Little angels of the silences that climb into my bed and whisper
Every time I fall asleep, every time I dream
"Did you come? Would you lie?
Why'd you leave us 'till we're only good for
Waiting for you" - Angels of the Silences

Every race night is shot through with sunlight - Another Horsedreamers' Blues

We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this moat of stars
We stand up in the palace like it's the last of the great pioneer town bars
We shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars
You can see a million miles tonight but you can't get very far - Mrs. Potter's Lullaby

Hey Mr., if you're gonna walk on water
You know you're only gonna walk all over me - Omaha

Don't you wonder what she looks like in the light?
She says "I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight" - She Don't Want Nobody Near


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6. Beth Orton
What went before is not no more
It's the embers of
People always catching names too late - Absinthe

May there never be a time that you don't live through
Be a star, be an altar, and I will hang it on you - Mount Washington

Some of these thoughts
Only seem to take me out of here - Thinking About Tomorrow

Stepping through brilliant shades
Of the color you bring
But this time, this time, this time
Is whatever I want it to mean - Central Reservation

We're burning a new sunrise into
Yesterday's skies
An ashen fingerprint
Melts into the sea - Daybreaker


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Average listal rating (38 ratings) 8.6  
7. Bon Iver
"Ain't it just like the present
To be showing up like this" - Blood Bank

Sky is womb and she's the moon - Flume

There's a black crow sitting across from me; his wiry legs are crossed
And he's dangling my keys, he even fakes a toss
Whatever could it be
That has brought me to this loss? - Re: Stacks

Come on, skinny love, just last the year
Pour a little salt, we were never here - Skinny Love

Can't you find a clue when your eyes are all painted Sinatra blue - The Wolves (Act I and II)


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8. Andrew Bird
She says I like long walks and sci-fi movies
If you're six foot tall and East Coast bred
Some lonely night we can get together
And I'm gonna tie your wrists with leather
And drill a tiny hole into your head - Fake Palindromes

Although pratfalls can be fun
Encores can be fatal
And then I hear you say
Thank God it's fatal - Heretics

We'll fight, we'll fight
We'll fight for your music halls and dying cities
They'll fight, they'll fight
They'll fight for your neural walls and plasticities
And precious territory - Plasticities

You promise spring
Still my lover won't return to me
Wild parsnips scald my lungs
And thistles are burning my feet - Souverian

Tenuousness less seven comes to three
Them you us plus eleven
Comes just shy of infinity
And that's for those who live and die for numerology - Tenuousness


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Average listal rating (6 ratings) 7.7  
9. Vienna Teng
Sweet reflection knife into me
For I see what I destroy - My Medea

Though rain pounds harshly against the glass
Like an unwanted stranger, there is no danger
I am here tonight - Lullaby for a Stormy Night

My lover sits, the silent eye
In a hurricane of warmth and word - Passage

I need not to need
I've always been the tower
But now I feel like I'm the flower
Trying to bloom in snow - The Tower

It's the season of bowing our heads in the wind
And knowing we are not alone in fear
Not alone in the dark - The Atheist Christmas Carol


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10. Joni Mitchell
All I really, really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you
I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you
I want to renew you again and again
Applause, applause: Life is our cause - All I Want

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got until it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot - Big Yellow Taxi

Oh it gets so lonely
When your walking
And the streets are full of strangers - California

I hope you got your heat turned on, baby
I hope they finally fixed your automobile
I hope it's better when we meet again, baby - This Flight Tonight

I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly - River


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11. Bad Religion
I feel sorry for the Earth's population
'Cause so few live in the U.S.A.
At least the foreigners can copy our morality
They can visit but they cannot stay
Only precious few can garner our prosperity
It makes us walk with renewed confidence
We got a place to go when we die
And the Architect resides right here - American Jesus

To live a life of hostility
Never asking what it means
When Mother Nation
Blood and religion
Sanction killing upon the Fields of Mars - Fields of Mars

A grizzly scene on my electron beam
Told a story about human rights
So all the King's horses
And all the King's men
Had a riot
For two days and nights - Don't Pray on Me

History and future are the comforts of our curiosity but here we are
Rooted in the present day, rooted in the present day
Questions that besiege us in life are testament of our helplessness - No Control

It's progress 'til there's nothing left to gain
As the dearth of new ideas makes us wallow in our shame
So before you go contribute more
To the destruction of this world you adore
Remember life on Earth is but a flash of dawn
We're all part of it as the day rolls on - Progress


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Average listal rating (51 ratings) 7.3  
12. Cocteau Twins
When you come to me, you come to me broke - Lorelai

Should I be sung and unbroken by not saying
Still being cried and laughed at from behind me, from gains
Hugged and tugged down through this tiger's masque for key - Cherry-Coloured Funk

All of the time I improvise by making sure - Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires

Steal more treasures, steal more gifts
This'll size creative lies
Until we grow up - Summerhead

I make up hundreds so I know how to make love
There, you can have my youth - Blue Bell Knoll


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13. Elliott Smith
I could make you satisfied in everything you do
All your secret wishes could right now be coming true
And be forever with my poison arms around you - Angeles

I don't want to walk around
I don't even want to breathe
I live in a southern town
Where all you can do is grit your teeth - Southern Belle

High on amphetamines
The moon is a light bulb breaking
It'll go around with anyone
But it won't come down for anyone - St. Ides Heaven

Don't be cross, it's sick what I want - Christian Brothers

The people you've been before that you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still - Between the Bars


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You hear laughter
Cracking through the walls
It sends you spinning
You have no choice - Spellbound

Your former glories and all the stories
Dragged and washed with eager hands
But, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend - Cities In Dust

My chest was full of eels
Pushing through my usual skin
I opened up new wounds
Pouting, shouting - Cascade

Commit your crime in your deadly time - Face to Face

Hold the whirlwind, don't let it blow
I seemed to know the ghost in you - The Ghost In You


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15. The National
Turn the light out, say goodnight
No thinking for a little while
Let's not try to figure out everything at once - Fake Empire

You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
When you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery citibank lights
Arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under - Mistaken for Strangers

I carry the dollhouse, safe on my shoulders
Through the black city, night lights are on in the corners
And everyone's sleeping upstairs - All the Wine

I had a secret meeting in the basement of my brain
It went the dull and wicked ordinary way - Secret Meeting

Build a room for your love
Take your time when you tell her
How she lives in your blood - Val Jester


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Average listal rating (95 ratings) 6.6  
16. Wilco
No loves as random
As God's love
I can't stand it - Can't Stand It

Our love is all of God's money
Everyone is a burning sun - Jesus, Etc.

If the whole world's singing your songs
And all you're paintings have been hung
Just remember what was yours is everyone's from now on - What Light

You have to learn how to die
If you wanna be alive - War On War

God is with us everyday
That illiterate light
Is with us every night - Theologians


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Average listal rating (120 ratings) 7.6  
17. Damien Rice
There's no need for me
With a girl that does yoga
When we come over - Dogs

I remember it well
There was wet in your hair
I was stood in the stair
And time stopped moving - I Remember

Killers reinvent and believe
And this leans on me - Rootless Tree

You give me miles and miles of mountains
And I ask for the sea - Volcano

I give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that all right?
Is that all right with you? - 9 Crimes


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18. Kate Bush
They've got the stars for the gallant hearts
I'm the replacement for your part
But all I want to do is forget you, friend - Hammer Horror

I can't be left to my imagination
Let me be weak, let me sleep and dream of sheep - And Dream of Sheep

I found a fox caught by dogs
He let me take him in my hands
His little heart, it beat so fast
And I'm ashamed of running away - Hounds of Love

Didn't we cry at that old mythology he'd read
I will come home again, but not until
The sun and the moon meet on yon hill - The Kick Inside

These prints of our feet
Lead right up to the sea - Nocturn


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Average listal rating (378 ratings) 7.8  
19. The Smiths
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes in to us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

Do you know how animals die? - Meat is Murder

It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes strength to be gentle and kind - I Know It's Over

I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular - How Soon Is Now

Nature is a language, can't you read? - Ask


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Average listal rating (680 ratings) 7.8  
20. Bob Dylan
Three bodies lying there does Patty see
And another man named Bello, moving around mysteriously
"I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his hands,
"I was only robbing the register, I hope you understand" - Hurricane

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late" - All Along the Watchtower

Early one morning the sun was shining,
I was laying in bed
Wondering if she'd changed at all - Tangled Up In Blue

Girl by the whirlpool looking for a new fool
Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters - Subterranean Homesick Blues

The drunken politician leaps
Upon the street where mothers weep
And the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you - I Want You


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21. The Pixies
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it
Your head will collapse
When there's nothing in it - Where Is My Mind?

Must be a devil between us
Or whores in my head - Hey

Got hips like Cinderella
Must be having a good shame
Talking sweet about nothing - Tame

He took his sister from his head
And then painted her on the sheets - The Holiday Song

Drive my car into the ocean
You'll think I'm dead, but I sail away - Wave of Mutilation


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Average listal rating (78 ratings) 6.3  
22. Ryan Adams
I wanted to give you a letter,
Maybe take you down to the coast,
But everyone has something special
I guess I just wanted a ghost - Ghost

Let me sing a song for you that alters your beliefs - This Is It

She's inside me like a secret and I've got no one to tell
Wandering like a fool through the halls of a blue hotel - Blue Hotel

I wanna see you tonight
Dancing in the endless moonlight
In the parking lot, in the headlights of cars - Let It Ride

Most of the time I got nothing to say
When I do it's nothing and nobody's there to listen anyway
I know I'm probably better off this way - I Taught Myself How to Grow Old


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Average listal rating (344 ratings) 6.5  
23. Tori Amos
So you can make me cum, that doesn't make you Jesus - Precious Things

What you stole, I would have given freely - Code Red

So I got me some horses
To ride on, to ride on
As longs as your army
Keeps perfectly still - Horses

And I found out where my edge is
And it bleeds into where you resist
And my only way out is to go
So far in
Billowing out to somewhere - Spring Haze

Is there trouble ahead for you, the acrobat
I won't push you unless you have a net - Sleeps with Butterflies


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Standing on a corner
Suitcase in my hand
Jack's in his corset, Jane is in her vest
And me, I'm in a Rock 'n' Roll band - Sweet Jane

Candy says I've come to hate my body
And all that it requires in this world
Candy says I'd like to know completely
What others so discreetly talk about - Candy Says

Just look into her false colored eyes
She builds you up to just put you down - Femme Fatale

I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset
The light on your door to show that you're home - I'll Be Your Mirror

Thought of you as my mountain top
Thought of you as my peak
Thought of you as everything - Pale Blue Eyes


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25. Silver Jews
Pain works on a sliding scale
So does pleasure in a candy jail - The Candy Jail

Do you believe in MGM endings
Everybody's coming back to Christmas for Texas
Folks who've watched their mother kill an animal know
That their home is surrounded by places to go - Like Like the the the Death

Suffering jukebox such a sad machine
Your filled up with what other people need - Suffering Jukebox

Punk rock died when the first kid said
"Punk's not dead, punk's not dead"
You know Louisville is death, we've got to up and move
Because the dead do not improve - Tennessee

"Romance is the douche of the bourgeoisie"
Was the very first thing she imparted to me
We had sarcastic hair, we used lewd pseudonyms
We got a lot of stares on the street back then - San Francisco B.C.


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26. Sonic Youth
I feel like I'm disappearing
Getting smaller every day
But when I open my mouth to sing
I'm bigger in every way - Tunic

I wanted to know the exact dimension of hell
Does this sound simple?
Fuck you. Are you for sale?
Does 'Fuck you' sound simple enough? - The Sprawl

My future is static
It's already had it
I could tuck you in
And we can talk about it - Schizophrenia

I hope it's not too late for me
It's too good on the sea
Where the light is green - Jams Run Free

Gotta change my mind before it burns out - Candle


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27. Ray LaMontagne
I was just walking in the sand
I was just walking with my shoes in my hands
Didn't have no plans - You Should Belong To Me

It's hard to believe it
Even as my eyes do see it
The very things that make you live are killing you - Shelter

Now you're clawing at my throat
And you're crying all is lost
But your tears they felt so hot upon my shirt - Lesson Learned

There's nothing I want more than to wake up on your floor - Can I Stay

When all your faith is gone
Feels like you can't go home - Let It Be Me


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Average listal rating (349 ratings) 7.7  
28. The Clash
If Adolf Hitler flew in today
They'd send a limousine anyway - (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais

We will teach our twisted speech
To the young believers
We will train our blue-eyed men
To be young believers - Clampdown

What a relief
I feel like a soldier
Look like a thief - Jimmy Jazz

Now first you must cure your temper
Then you find a job in the paper
You need someone for a savior
Oh, Rudie can't fail - Rudie Can't Fail

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
Because London is drowning and I, I live by the river - London Calling


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29. Bright Eyes
But I believe that lovers should be tied together
And thrown into the ocean in the worst of weather
And left there to drown - A Perfect Sonnet

If you're ever gonna grow
When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself
It's best to compose a poem
An honest verse of longing
Or a simple song of hope - Bowl of Oranges

Until we see the moon
We're invisible - Down in a Rabbit Hole

They fit together like a puzzle
I love their love, and I am thankful
That someone actually receives the prize that was promised - Waste of Paint

With all these wishes I make, I should buy something real
At least a telephone to call home - Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to Be Loved)


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30. Loreena McKennitt
Standing on the bridge that crosses
The river that goes out to the sea
The wind is full of a thousand voices
They pass by the bridge and me - All Soul's Night

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me - Dante's Prayer

The poets of drumming
Keep heartbeats suspended - Marrakesh Night Market

What is that quest that pulls me onward
My heart is full when you are by my side - Caravanserai

And as I listened, your voice seemed so clear
So calmly you were calling your god - Full Circle


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31. Chris Whitley
On a bed of roses in the big sky country
Spread out to love you, love you in your second skin - Big Sky Country

In the hours after washing
I do my dreaming with a gun - Living with the Law

I'll live anywhere you think you're from
Far as it is in you - To Joy (Revolution of the Innocents)

Statesmen and salesmen bend to kiss the ground
Lawyers and losers hold hands and hang around - Accordingly

Well the mist shall be your blanket
While the moss shall ease your head
As the future is soon forgotten
As the dirt shall be your bed - Dirt Floor


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32. Lisa Hannigan
I feel you in the pocket of my overcoat
My fingers wrap around your words
And take the shape of games we play
I feed your words through my buttonholes
I pin them to my fingerless gloves
They're green and prone to fraying - An Ocean and a Rock

Seemly, we'd freely make a trade-off
A dry rot to take the weight off
Swap the boots for red shoes - Pistachio

And though we are like the sea and it's right we be so
We could chase tails all the years I've been given - Sea Song

Put me back in the bottle
Where the sea meets the sun
Where the bones and their rattle
Don't mean anything to no one - Teeth

I read the time in shadows on the wall
The shards of light through the slats on your window - Venn Diagram


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33. TSOL
In darkness I know you
The sunlight showers my rain
Your movements obscure me, your laughter so lurid - Darker My Love

I'm worse than death
I'm the late night air, exhilarating
I'm with you in the darkness, waiting - Silent Scream

I can hear the sounds of laughter
Could it be they're laughing at me
I can hear the roar of thunder - Sounds of Laughter

White horses dragged my lover from me
The clouds rushed in and drowned my sorrow with the rain - Wash Away

I creep on over to the mortuary
Lift up the casket and fiddle with the dead
Their cold blue flesh makes me turn red - Code Blue


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34. The Adicts
I am a masquerade
Just a man-parade
So I dance, I dance with you - Champs Elysees

Don't confide in my smile
‘Cause jokers are wild - Joker in the Pack

You can only stop and stare
When your life unfolds
And your soul is sold - Put Yourself in My Hand

I’m a dreamer, I’m a dream
I’m a fantasy addict
I’m a ghost in a ghost town - Smart Alex

Drink the wine from the rich man's cask
This revolution won't be the last - Viva La Revolution


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35. Mark Knopfler
It's cold on the tollgate
God knows what I could do with you
That's what it is - What It Is

Behind my back Lord
You made a fool of me
Don't do jack
And don't wait up for me - Hill Farmer Blues

The folks line up all down the street
And I'm seeing this girl devour her meat now
And then I get it--wham--as clear as day - Boom, Like That

They see her coming from a long, long way
They clap their hands together when they get her in their store
She's gonna wanna get more, more, more
Imelda baby, Imelda baby what to do?
All the poor people saying that they gotta quit paying for you - Imelda

I bend to the wood and I coax it to sing - Monteleone


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36. The Smashing Pumpkins
We'll crucify the insincere tonight
We'll make things right
We'll feel it all tonight - Tonight, Tonight

The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you - Disarm

Today is the greatest
Day I've ever known
Can't live for tomorrow - Today

Bullshit fakers, enchanted kingdoms
The fashion victims chew their charcoal teeth - Zero

In you I taste God
In you I feel so hungry
In you I crash cars
We must never be apart - Ava Adore


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37. Kathleen Edwards
This conversation, the alienation in your tone
I've got no fucking clue from your point of view and your time zone - National Steel

There are your good friends and I like them fine
These are your old streets and you know them well
This is not my town and it will never be - Copied Keys

I've got a long, long list of things
That no one needs to see - Good Things

Silence reminds me
I'm a secret to dirty to keep - What Are You Waiting For?

I won't paint a picture
Of what you want to see - Run


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38. Iggy & The Stooges
There's nothing in my dreams
Just some ugly memories
Kiss me like the ocean breeze - Gimme Danger

Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby penetrate my mind - Search and Destroy

I need a lover with an alibi
I wanna fall into a love so sweet - Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell

Now is the season for war with no reason - My Idea of Fun

Let's move on out of here
Raw power is sure to come
Running to you - Raw Power


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39. Joanna Newsom
How about them engine breaks?
And, if I should die before I wake,
Will you keep an eye on Baby Birch?
Because I'd hate to see her
Make the same mistakes - Baby Birch

And we were galloping manic
To the mouth of the source
We were swallowing panic
In the face of its force

And I am blue
I am blue and unwell
Made me bolt like a horse - Peach, Plum, Pear

I chew my lips and I scratch my nose
Feels so good to be a rose - Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie

And no amount of talking
Is going to soften the fall
But, like after the rain, step out
Of the overhang, that's all - Good Intentions Paving Company

That the meteorite is a source of the light
And the meteor's just what we see
And the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee

And the meteorite's just what causes the light
And the meteor's how it's perceived
And the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet in offering to thee - Emily


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40. Mason Jennings
You made me yours
With your lovely cures - Butterfly

Since you were a child
We've built our lives around you
How am I supposed to live
In this world we made without you - The Field

Godless burning underneath the sun
Don't sleep in the light
(Let 'em come, let 'em come) - Godless

I went in to the liquor store looking for a bottle
Of my favorite Bombay gin, the answer to my problems
But to my delight, the bottles were all taken
Ah yeah, another hero's night - Ulysses

Where's my golden crown
That you took and passed around
There's no telling what a man might do
With a life like this when it all falls through - Crown


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Average listal rating (141 ratings) 6.2  
41. AFI
Words were as mystical as purring animals
The circle of rage, the ghosts on the stage appeared
The time was so tangible, I'll never let it go
Ghost stories handed down reached secret tunnels below
No one could see me - Days of the Phoenix

I can't stand my laughter as they cry
My soul brings tears to angelic eyes
And miles away my mother cries
Omnipotence, nurturing malevolence - God Called In Sick Today

As waves of plastic fame go out of fashion
You're going out, going out forever unknown - Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings)

Once felt so warm, now I'm fucking freezing
I am the once embraced abandoned one
I raised my eyes up to the light in hopes of finding healing
No relief was mine, I was burnt by the sun - A Single Second

Once there was boy who had vibrant glow
But as it goes, someone took it from him - The Boy Who Destroyed the World

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Average listal rating (3 ratings) 8.3  
42. Propagandhi
I hear this year’s Vans Warped Tour is “going green”
I guess they heard that money grows on trees
Hope they ship those shitty bands overseas
Like they did the factories - Rock for Sustainable Capitalism

Ribbons, plaques and soft-soap are the ephemeral rewards
Paid to the slaves whose selfless acts accord
A higher value to their masters
While parting gifts (bolt pistols)
Console the rest - Purina Hall of Fame

Everyone's hands cause natural disasters - Natural Disasters

No needle-dick is gonna silence me - Ladies Night In Loserville

Meat is still murder, dairy is still rape
And I am still as stupid as anyone, but I know my mistakes
I have recognized one form of oppression, now I recognize the rest
Life's too short to make another's shorter - Nailing Descartes to the Wall/(Liquid) Meat is Still Murder


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Average listal rating (194 ratings) 6.5  
43. Sarah McLachlan
You live in a church
Where you sleep with voodoo dolls
And you won't give up the search
For the Ghost in the halls - Building a Mystery

I pull you from your tower
I take away your pain
And show you all the beauty you possess
If you'd only let yourself believe that - Adia

Heaven bend to take my hand
I've nowhere left to turn - Fallen

I believe
This is heaven to no one else but me
And I'll defend it as long as I can be
Left here to linger in silence - Elsewhere

Heaven holds a sense of wonder
And I wanted to believe
That I'd get caught up
When the rage in me subsides

In this white wave
I am sinking
In this silence
In this white wave
In this silence
I believe - Silence



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Strange we children grow
Days will come and nights will go
But we get loud when the eastside meets the west coast crowd - Interstate

If the one you care for gives out, stay
And even though you know there's no God, pray
Lift her up and out the door
Give her something sound
My name - Troublemaker

Time's gonna show this ain't trash
It's one for the ages
Spending our waking hours and minimum wages
Trying to make just one, one for the ages - One for the Ages

Life fades 'tween sky and sea
Miles away the hours of heartbreak
In dark they’re coming to get me - Tricks On Me

"It's me, your baby"
Drink slips from her hand
"Don't call me crazy..."
Hear shattering glass
"Cause you made me" - Bad Son





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Comments

Posted: 1 year, 3 months ago at Feb 4 14:13
Thanks for introducing me to Iron & Wine. Currently listening to his work and I like it. Andrew Bird is a musician I've always admired. Melancholic tunes paired with good lyrics is what I dig in folk music. I think in this instance, Leonard Cohen has it down to a tee.
Posted: 1 year, 3 months ago at Feb 4 16:41
Bob Dylan is the greatest songwriter so far, and he does have something to say. Even his music is awesome. Guy is a pure genius.
- Great list, pal.
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Posted: 1 year, 2 months ago at Mar 19 14:06
i heard you say, "you know i hate myself
but i love everybody else"
and did you say, "i can't escape myself"
and then you did, now that there's noone else

junkie's promise - sonic youth

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