1/ what good is it to live with nothing left to give, forget but not forgive, not loving all you see? 2/ give me the suffering, give me the bleeding, i’ll take the pain and turn it into ecstasy. i have to face the fear that i may die here, die never really having lived for anything. 3/ try to understand there’s an old mistake that fools will make, and i’m the king of them, pushing everything that’s good away. 4/ if this is how i feel, then nothing now is true. nothing now can ever be taken away from you. 5/ keep on, keep on, wait for the sun, wait for the sun. when the game is done, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. 6/ say you’ll miss me one last time, and i’ll be strong. 7/ she’s the one who stumbles when she talks about it, so maybe we shouldn’t talk about it. 8/ and that’s the nature of the chase, you fall so far behind, you end in first place. pass the torch, this time we’re running to each’s own regret, there’s no harm in playing hard to get. if boundlessness deceives me, then baby you may turn the corner yet. 9/ and if they would ever laugh, not here. they would ever laugh, blame it on my style once again. don’t take me for a ride in the rain. 10/ and he’ll realize, the only thing that’s real are the kids that kid themselves and the demise of the beautiful. what is beautiful? 11/ your mother worries, but no one worries quite like you. and when you start, you must rely on your own heart ’cause nothing works the same or takes the blame or wins the game with your head in your hands in the pouring rain. i wanna see you as you are, like a lonely star. 12/ my old man always swore that hell would have no flame — just a front row seat to watch your true love pack her things and drive away. 13/ time’s a twisted little dancer, you can’t tell her what to do. are you the problem or the answer, tell me who are you? 14/ i sheltered in the news for a while, that paragraph had space to fill my days, but it never worked — just feeling anti-climaxed, common, and cliche. and you touch your skin, and now it’s feeling older. 15/ she won’t risk it all again by falling for another man. she knows how it’s gonna be, because everyone she ever loved chose to leave. 16/ i remember feeling like i’d never see the daylight again, knowing that we’re just a part of the world that we’re in. i hear you calling, i know it doesn’t happen a lot. for the sake of this girl, i’m gonna give it a shot. 17/ yeah, we were two rocks when you strike them together. i told her i would like nothing better. 18/ and i finally found that everybody loves to love you when you’re far away. 19/ oh my god, i know too well, being sweet just never sells if you’ve got better things to do. am i hiding again? am i hiding again? tell me how to live my life. well, the sun is shining down. 20/ i’d a danced like the queen of the eyesores, and the rest of our lives would’ve fared well.
1/ coldplay SWALLOWED IN THE SEA
2/ cavalier king THE UNPROTECTED
3/ dashboard confessional BEND AND NOT BREAK
4/ ryan adams SO ALIVE
5/ a roman holiday DODGING SEAGULLS
6/ jack’s mannequin RESCUED
7/ jack johnson FORTUNATE FOOL
8/ scissor sisters LAND OF A THOUSAND WORDS
9/ travis SOME SAD SONG
10/ ben kweller IN OTHER WORDS
11/ ben kweller DIFFERENT BUT THE SAME
12/ pedro the lion THE POISON
13/ world party WHO ARE YOU
14/ pompeii TEN HUNDRED LIGHTS
15/ the sleeping planes ISABEL
16/ eric james DAYLIGHT
17/ devin davis TURTLE AND THE FLIGHTLESS BIRD
18/ better than ezra AT THE STARS
19/ jet SHINY MAGAZINE
20/ the shins NEW SLANG
