Great Lyrics/Delivery
no particular order |
| 1 |  | Modest Mouse
The Moon & Antarctica
Song: A Different City
"I'm gonna remember to remember to forget you forgot me" |
| 2 |  | Defeater
Lost Ground
Song: The Red White and Blues
"A short walk through the cemetery to pay respects before I leave/1901 - 1943/I run my fingers through her
name in the effigy/The sun is up It's all I see" |
| 3 |  | Streetlight Manifesto
Somewhere in the Between
Song: The Receiving End of it All
"These sour grapes will turn to wine it's all just vinegar and time and oh" |
| 4 |  | Slowdive
Souvlaki
Song: Dagger
"The sunshine girl is sleeping/She falls and dreams alone/And me I am her dagger/Too numb to feel her
pain" |
| 5 | | Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
Year Of the Rabbit 7
Song: Year of the Rabbit
"Don't say goodnight/It's not enough/To get me through this night" |
| 6 |  | The Republic of Wolves
His Old Branches
Song: The Clouds
"It seems your heart needed a break/from pumping the blood through your veins/and keeping the oxygen
O.K./I still see your face" |
| 7 |  | Elliott Smith
Either/Or
Song: Angeles
"And be forever with my broken arms around you" |
| 8 |  | Brand New
The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Song: Not the Sun
"Say you're my friend but why won't you be my family" |
| 9 |  | Modest Mouse
The Lonesome Crowded West
Song: Polar Opposites
"I'm Tryin'/I'm Tryin'/To drink away the part of the day that I cannot sleep away" |
| 10 |  | The Weakerthans
Reconstruction Site
Song: Reconstruction Site
"Buy me a shiny new machine that runs on lies and gasoline/
And all those batteries we stole from smoke alarms/
And disassembles my despair/
It never took me anywhere/
It never once bought me a drink" |
| 11 | | Modest Mouse
The Moon & Antarctica
Song: Lives
"Well you were the dull sound of sharp math when you were alive/no ones gonna play the harp when you
die/and if I had a nickel for every damn dime
I'd have half the time/do you mind" |
| 12 |  | Eminem
Infinite
Song: Infinite
"My a cappella releases classic masterpieces through telekinesis
And eases you mentally, gently, sentimentally, instrumentally
With entity, dementedly meant to be Infinite" |
| 13 |  | Matthew Good Band
Beautiful Midnight
Song: Jenni's Song
"We're not sick we just need it for the weekends/On mondays it's gone/I used to think i was invisible beside
you I'd crumble/You wait for it, you wait for it, you wait for it and it's gone and you wake up and nobody
knows that I loved you" |
| 14 |  | Brand New
Daisy
Song: Sink
"How darkly the dark hand met his end He was withered and bony exposed for a phony/But we heed the last
words that he penned Haste to disgrace the traitor. Do not wait til later/I don't think that you've got to
pretend I see God in birds and Satan in long words/But I know what you need in a friend So now when I leave
you, I hope I won't see you" |
| 15 |  | Thrice
The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
Song: Daedalus
"Oh, Gods!
Why is this happening to me?
All I wanted was a new life for my son to grow up free
And now you took the only thing that meant anything to me
I will never fly again, I will hang up my wings
Oh, Gods!" |
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