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Average listal rating (150 ratings) 6.9  
1. Bright Eyes
"I dreamt of a fever, one that would cure me of this cold, winter set heart, with heat to melt these frozen tears, burned with reasons as to carry on. Into these twisted months, I plunge without a light to follow. But I swear that I would follow anything just get me out of here." - If Winter Ends

"This TV is old, the color is fucked, do you see the difference in the shades? But the green is still close to green, my love. And I believe we are the same." - The Difference In The Shades

"But, as for me, I'm coming to my final failure. I've killed myself with changes, trying to make things better, but I ended up becoming something other than what I had planned to be. Now, I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and layed entwined together on a bed of clover, and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness." - A Perfect Sonnet

"I want to taste life behind your eyes." - Emily, Sing Something Sweet

"'Cause we all get tired. I mean, eventually, there is nothing left to do but sleep.
But spring came bearing sunlight, those persuasive rays, so I gave myself a few more days. My salvation it came, quite suddenly, when Justin spoke very plainly. He said: 'Of course it's your decision, but just so you know, if you decide to leave, soon I will follow.'" - No Lies, Just Love

"Sunrises, sunsets. You're hopeful, then you regret. The circle never breaks." - Sunrise, Sunset

"Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt." - Lover I Don't Have To Love

"And I know you have a heavy heart; I can feel it when we kiss." - Lua

Average listal rating (379 ratings) 7.8  
2. The Smiths
"See, the life I've had can make a good man bad." - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

"In my life, why do I give valuable time to people who don't care if I live or die?" - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

"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." - How Soon is Now

"I wear black on the outside, 'cause black is how I feel on the inside. And, if I seem a little strange, well, that's because I am." - Unlovable

Average listal rating (28 ratings) 6  
3. Stars
"I'll take her home after midnight, and, if she likes, I'll tell her lies how we'll be in love by the morning. I don't think she knows that I'm saying goodbye." - Elevator Love Letter

"There's one thing I want to say, so I'll be brave: you were what I wanted, I gave what I gave, I'm not sorry I met you, I'm not sorry it's over, I'm not sorry there's nothing to save." - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead

"Uptown it's dead now but, out here, no one seems to care at all. Sick girls and sick boys and each one lining up to take it home. They hold tight their coin and pray no one has to see the fall. I'm there, I serve them, the one with the empty looking eyes. Come closer, you'll see me: the face that is used to telling lies." - Take Me To The Riot

Average listal rating (556 ratings) 8  
4. Johnny Cash
"I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real. (...) What have I become, my sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end." - Hurt

Average listal rating (683 ratings) 7.8  
5. Bob Dylan
"Well, my sense of humanity is going down the drain. Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain." - Not Dark Yet

"My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet. I have no one to meet, and the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming." Mr. Tambourine Man

"When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose." - Like A Rolling Stone

"You lose yourself, you reappear. You suddenly find you got nothing to fear; alone, you stand with nobody near. When a trembling distant voice, unclear, startles your sleeping ears to hear that somebody thinks they really found you, a question in your nerves is lit. Yet, you know, there is no answer fit to satisfy. Insure, you not to quit, to keep it in your mind and not fergit that it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to." - It's Alright, Ma. (I'm Only Bleeding)

"There's beauty in the silver, singin' river, there's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, but none of these and nothing else can touch the beauty that I remember in my true love's eyes." - Tomorrow Is A Long Time

Average listal rating (18 ratings) 8.1  
6. Iron and Wine
"And I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes, like puzzle pieces from the clay. And, true, it may seem like a stretch, but it's thoughts like this that catch my troubled head when you're away, when I am missing you to death..." - Such great heights

Average listal rating (395 ratings) 7.3  
7. Placebo
"Every sky is blue, but not for me and you." - Come Home

"Since I was born, I started to decay." - Teenage Angst

"I was never faithful, and I was never one to trust. Borderline bipolar, forever biting on your nuts. I was never grateful, that's why I spend my days alone. I'm forever black-eyed, a product of a broken home." - Black Eyed

"You are one of God's mistakes, you crying, tragic waste of skin. I'm well aware of how it aches, and you, still, won't let me in." - Song To Say Goodbye

Average listal rating (338 ratings) 7.3  
8. The Strokes
"Promises? They break before they're made sometimes, sometimes." - Someday

"Leave me alone, I'm in control, and girls lie too much, and boys act too tough. Enough is enough!" - Take It Or Leave It

"I don't want to change your mind, I don't want to change the world. I just want to watch it go by. We were young, darling, we don't have no control." - Under Control

"I hate them all, I hate them all... I hate myself for hating them. So, I'll drink some more, I'll love them all. I'll drink even more, I'll hate them even more than I did before." - On The Other Side

"I wish two drinks where always in me, I'd pretend I had the perfect day." - Electricityscape

"Two can be complete without the rest of the world." - Red Ligh

Average listal rating (58 ratings) 6.8  
9. Patrick Wolf
"There's no name for us, still we sing." - Magpie

"And now come the tears, heavy and hot. It becomes clear, this is all we got, as I hold you to my bed like a cancer, or a curse. Be my loving nurse, as we fall back into the impossible dream." - Augustine

"I have learnt how it goes: what you wait for never shows, and what you least wanted holds you down like a stone - just like a stone." - Pigeon Song

Average listal rating (97 ratings) 6.9  
10. The Libertines
"You say your heart still sings when your with me. Oh, darling, please, forgive me, but I no longer hear the music.. And all the memories of the pubs, and the clubs, and the drugs, and the tubs we shared together will stay with me forever... But all the highs and the lows and the to's and the fro's they left me dizzy. Oh won't you, please, forgive me, but I no longer hear the music, oh no." - Music When The Lights Go Out

"She said: 'I'll show you a picture, a picture of tomorrow, there's nothing changing, it's all sorrow.'
'Oh no, please, don't show me. I'm a swine, you don't wanna know me.'" - Horrorshow

"You're walking like you never seen the light, you're walking like it every night. But I've never seen you laugh, and I've never seen you cry. One of those things that, darling, you must try. It's all so rudimentary." - Boys In The Band

"Even now, there's something to be proud about: you come up the hard way." - Tell The King

"You know I've tried so hard to keep myself from falling back into my bad old ways. And it chars my heart to always hear you calling, calling for the good old days, because there were no good old days. These are the good old days." - The Good Old Days

Average listal rating (22 ratings) 6.2  
11. Bide ou Balde
"Ele vai mudar, escolher um jeito novo de dizer 'alô'. Vai ter medo de que um dia ela vá mudar, que aprenda a esquecer sua velha paixão, mas evita ir até o telefone para conversar, pois é muito tarde pra ligar. Tem pensado nela, estava com saudade, mesmo sem ter esquecido que é sempre amor, mesmo que acabe. Com ele, aonde quer que esteja, é sempre amor, mesmo que mude.
É sempre amor, mesmo que alguém esqueça o que passou." - Mesmo Que Mude


Average listal rating (113 ratings) 6.4  
12. Kaiser Chiefs

Average listal rating (135 ratings) 7.7  
13. Los Hermanos
"Se a gente já não sabe mais rir um do outro, meu bem, então o que resta é chorar, e, talvez, se tem que durar, vem renascido o amor bento de lágrimas." - O Vento

"Moça, olha só o que eu te escrevi. É preciso força pra sonhar e perceber que a estrada vai além do que se vê. Sei que a tua solidão me dói, e que é difícil ser feliz mais do que somos todos nós. Você supõe o céu. Sei que o vento que entortou a flor passou também por nosso lar, e foi você quem desviou com golpes de pincel." - Além Do Que Se Vê

"Eu quis ter os pés no chão, tanto eu abri mão que hoje eu entendi: sonho não se dá, é botão de flor. O sabor de fel é de cortar. Eu sei, é um doce te amar. O amargo é querer-te pra mim." - Condicional

"É bom, às vezes, se perder sem ter porque, sem ter razão. É um dom saber envaidecer por si, saber mudar de tom. Quero não saber de cor também, pra que minha vida siga adiante." - Adeus Você

"Vou levando assim, que o acaso é amigo do meu coração." - O Velho e O Moço

"Será, Morena? Sobre estar só, eu sei." - Dois Barcos

"Olha as flores que eu trouxe pra você, amor. São pra comemorar aquele dia que passei a viver do teu lado. Eu me lembro, entre nós não havia quase nada, e agora é só você que me faz cantar..." - Bom Dia

"Se existe Deus em agonia, manda essa cavalaria que hoje a fé me abandonou." - O Pouco que Sobrou

"Não faz disso esse drama, essa dor. É que a sorte é preciso tirar pra ter, perigo é eu me esconder em você." - Primeiro Andar

Average listal rating (276 ratings) 7.9  
14. Adele
"Who wants to be right as rain? It’s better when something is wrong." - Right As Rain

"When the evening shadows and the stars appear, and there is no one there to dry your tears, I could hold you for a million years to make you feel my love." - Make You Feel My Love

Average listal rating (88 ratings) 6  
15. The Used
"The cup is not half empty as pessimists say. As far as he's sees, nothing's left in the cup." - Poetic Tragedy


Average listal rating (1224 ratings) 8.4  
16. The Beatles
"I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping." - While my guitar gently weeps

"Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise." - Blackbird

"You never wear a stitch of lace, paint powder's never on your face. You're always wearing jeans, except on Sundays. But, please, don't ever change... No, don't you ever change. I kind of like you just the way you are." - Don't Ever Change

"Although I laugh and I act like a clown, beneath this mask I am wearing a frown, my tears are falling like rain from the sky. Is it for her or myself that I cry?" - I'm a loser

"And it's hard for me to stay. I'm going down to be by myself." - April Skies

"I can see that you and me live our lives in the pouring rain, and the raindrops beat out of time to our refrain. And you and me will win, you'll see. People die in their living rooms, but they do not need this God almighty gloom. There's something warm about the rain..." - About You

"And we tried so hard, and we looked so good, and we lived our lives in black, but something about you felt like pain." - Happy When It Rains

"Everybody is a star, no matter who or what they are." - 'Till it Shines

Average listal rating (441 ratings) 6.8  
18. Franz Ferdinand

Average listal rating (258 ratings) 6.7  
19. Snow Patrol
"On my knees, I think clearer." - Chocolate

"Is it too late to remind you how we were? But not our last days of silence, screaming, blur... Most of what I remember makes me sure: I should have stopped you from walking out the door. You could be happy. I hope you are. You made me happier than I'd been by far." - You Could Be Happy

"We need to feel breathless with love, and not collapse under its weight." - It's Beginning To Get To Me

"I'm miles from where you are, I lay down on the cold ground, I... I pray that something picks me up and sets me down in your warm arms." - Set The Fire To The Third Bar

"I feel like I am watching everything from space." - The Finish Line

"The last girl and the last reason to make this last for as long as I could... The first kiss and the first time that I felt connected to anything. The weight of water, the way you told me to look past everything I had ever learned. The final word in the final sentence you ever uttered to me was love." - Make This Go On Forever

Average listal rating (575 ratings) 6.7  
20. Oasis
"I don't mind not going to heaven, as long as they've got cigarettes, as long as they've got cigarettes in hell." - (As Long As They've Got) Cigarettes In Hell

"It's funny how your dreams change as you're growing old... You don't wanna be no spaceman, you just want the gold. All the dream stealers are lying in wait, but if you wanna be a spaceman it's still not too late. Well, it's alright, and it's alright. Who are you and me to say what's wrong and what's right? " - D'yer Wanna Be a Spaceman

"If you're leaving, will you take me with you? I'm tired of talking on my phone... But there is one thing I can never give you: my heart will never be your home." - Stand By Me


Average listal rating (8 ratings) 6.5  
21. Cartel
"They said we're wasting our lives. Oh, at least we know that, if we die, we lived with passion. They said we'd burn so bright." - Burn This City

Average listal rating (116 ratings) 6.8  
22. Travis
"If I told you a secret you won't tell a soul, will you hold it and keep it alive? 'Cause it's burning a hole, and I can't get to sleep, and I can't live alone in this life." - Love Will Come Through

"There is no reason to feel bad, but there are many seasons to feel glad, sad, mad. It's just a bunch of feelings that we have to hold, but I am here to help you with the load." - Flowers In The Window

"Nobody really knows where they're supposed to go." - Follow The Light

"Everyday I wake up alone. I'm not like all the other boys, and, ever since I was young, I had no choice." - As You Are

"Deep in my heart, I'm afraid of dying. I'd be lying if I said I'm not." - My Eyes

Average listal rating (196 ratings) 7.4  
23. Interpol
"I want your silent parts, the parts the birds love. I know there's such a place." - Say Hello To The Angels

"If you don't trust yourself for at least one minute each day, well, you should trust in this, girl, 'cause loving is coming our way. If you can fix me up, we'll go a long way." - Obstacle 2

"I had seven faces, thought I new which one to wear, but I'm sick of spending these lonely nights training myself not to care." - NYC

"Girl, I know you try, you fly straight into my heart. You fly straight into my heart... but here comes the fall." - Pioneer To The Falls

"I live my life in cocaine, just a rage and three kinds of yes. And I've made stairways, such scenes for things that I regret. Oh, those days in the sun, they bring a tear to my eye... Tonight I'm gonna rest my chemistry. But you're so young, you're so young, you look in my eyes... You're so young. So sweet. So surprised." - Rest My Chemistry

"Let it come.
'Cause I've got a chance for a sweet sane life, I said I've got a dance and you'll do just fine. Well, I've got a plan with forward in my eyes." - Heinrich Maneuver

"Now, the windows are open, the moon is so bright... There's no one can tell us what love brings, you and I." - No I In Threesome

Average listal rating (64 ratings) 6.8  
24. Rise Against

"And I don't think you see the places inside me that I find you." - Roadside

"Wake me up inside, tell me there's a reason to take another step, to get up off my knees and follow this path of most resistance, and wherever it takes us, whatever it faces and wherever it leads... So wake me when it's through, I don't want to feel the things that you do." - Under The Knife

"I won't cross these streets until you hold my hand." - Swing Life Away

Average listal rating (32 ratings) 7.1  
25. Jack's Mannequin
"I'm gonna send a little rain to pour down on you. Rain that makes the flowers bloom, rain to leave you all alone, that keeps eyelashes falling and wishes washed away." - Kill The Messenger

"Say you'll miss me one last time, I'll be strong. But, whatever you do, please don't get me rescued... 'Cause I'm feeling like I might need to be near you, and I feel alright, so, please, don't get me rescued." - Rescued

"There's a lot that I don't know, there's a lot that I'm still learning. When I think I'm letting go, I find my body it's still burning. And you hold me down, and you got me living in the past." - The Resolution

Average listal rating (797 ratings) 8.2  
26. Pink Floyd
"So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell? Blue skies from pain? Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?" - Wish You Were Here

"Did you see the frightened ones? Did you hear the falling bombs? The flames are all long gone, but the pain lingers on." - Goodbye Blue Sky



Average listal rating (0 ratings) 0  
27. Patrick Park
"We've given new names to our hopes and our pain but love just gets harder to find." - Here We Are

"And I'll offer you nothing, nothing worth saving, and I'll ask for nothing in return. Just for you to stay with me tomorrow if this world still turns." - Stay With Me Tomorrow




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