The best way to fill time is to waste it.-Maguerite Duras
Know too many people unhappy in a life from which they'd love to flee. Watching others get everything offered they're wanton for discovery.-Sarah McLachlan
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.-Erica Jong
Nothing means anything anymore, but somehow it all matters so much.-Me
They like to tell you "Stay inside the lines" but something's better on the other side.-John Mayer
Wouldn't it be great, if the band just never ended. We could stay out late and we would never hear last call.We wouldn't need to worry about approval or permission, we could slip off the edge and never worry about the fall -Great Big Sea
I been hangin around this town on the corner I been bummin' around this old town so long. I been hangin around this town on the corner I been bummin' around this old town for way too long. -Counting Crows
So why not give it one more try? Just cause things aren't what they seem it doesn't mean you shouldn't dream. Just don't get your hopes to high. Cause when things don't turn out right your world comes crashing down. -The Ataris
This place is changing, so am I. I've got to leave it all behind,-G Love & Special Sauce
I'm never home but I've stopped searching.-John Mayer
I wanted a change, knowing all I could do was try.-Sarah McLachlan
And its been a long December, and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last. I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass. -Counting Crows
Do you remember all the things we did? And what it's like to be a kid. Being young and skipping school, I guess we must have broken every rule! I never thought those times would last forever, but now that they're gone I'm pretty sure we grew up too fast. I've had my wishes on a star. I hope that yours came true. Now all I've got is a memory of you.-The Ataris
Each road that I walk down reminds me of you. This whole town is haunted, there'll never be anything new. -Melissa Etheridge
Why do we always seem to want what we can't have? Lessons learned. But then I listen to my heart and it says still run back for more. -The Ataris
I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been. -Dave Matthews Band
We're never where we wanna be. That's ok with me. It's just the way it is it seems. It feels like make believe.-John Mayer
Want to lay back and close my eyes. Dream of things I could not find. Just lay back and close my eyes.-Unwritten Law
All my friends and lovers leave me alone. I try to have a little fun one way or another. I just wish I had known to go out walking in the sun and find out if you were the one.-Counting Crows
Remember the good times that we had. We let them slip away from us when things got bad. -Sarah McLachlan
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmare were there a danger of them coming true.-Logan Pearsall Smith
MYSELF:
Everything I do is judged and they mostly get it wrong but oh well.-Ani DiFranco
Why is it my fault? So maybe I try too hard. It's just because of this desire. I just wanna be like, just wanna be funny. Well looks like the jokes on me.-John Mayer
I show only the parts I think that people will approve of.-Me
It's the things I might have said that fester.-Clemence Dane
Sometimes it seems you just don't understand, the way I think and who I am. When I'm told what I'm supposed to be, you think you know what's best for me-Unwritten Law
Dear diary, what is wrong with me? 'Cos i'm fine between the lines. -Travis
Spend all your time waiting for that second chance. For a break that would make it okay. There's always some reason to feel not good enough and it's hard at the end of the day. -Sarah McLachlan
I never meant to become who I am. I never wanted this. I fucked up somewhere long ago. Now there’s no turning back.-Me
Why does a man take it forgranted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss he when 9 times out of 10 she only wants him to *want* to kiss her.-Helen Rowland
So many differant faces depending on the differant phases. My personality changes. I'm a chameleon. There's more than one dimension. I can fool you and attract attention, camoflauge my nature.-No Doubt
I'm not gonna change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know, I'm one of those people.-John Lennon
I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. I want you to notice when I'm not around.-Radiohead
Can you help me remember how to smile? Make it somehow all seem worthwhile.-Soul Asylum
Some people would say I'm depressed or angry, others say I'm perky and happy. I hear contradictions at my every turn; sullen, sweet, quiet, talkative, insecure, overconfident, flirty, shy, nice, bitchy. I am all of these, a walking contradiction. I appologize right now in case I cross the line, in case I mix this up. I am trying to be who you want me to be, while I try and remember who I am.-Me
I wanted to let him comfort me, scoop me into his arms and keep everything away. But I couldn't say it; I didn't even know how to begin.-Margo Rabb
All meanings we know depend on the key of interpretation-George Eliot
What other people wish for oozes from my every pore.-The Odds
Lost the game long ago, got the scars to prove it. Sometimes wished I had the balls to push down just a bit harder. Now I stopped the cutting, and I still have the scars, long after the blood has dried. I sometimes wished I never lived to see the cuts heal over.-Me
I hate what I have become to escape what I hated being.-Marilyn Manson
Standing on the edge of something much too deep. It’s funny how we feel so much but cannot say a word. We are screaming inside but we can't be heard.-Sarah McLachlan
She's trying to be a good girl and give 'em what they want.-Counting Crows
I am not who I thought I would be.-Me
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.-Eric Hoffer
Happiness is such a sad thing to pretend.-Author Unknown
I wonder what you see when you look at me, if you look at me. Do you see the smile I'm hiding as I giggle or the tears that I quickly brush away? Do you notice when I forget who I am? Do you even care anymore? Do I?-Me
Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch the eyes. I know 'cos I'm like that a lot.-Ani DiFranco
She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own-Tori Amos
Katey wants to be superman. Or Wonder Woman I guess. She tries to save us from all the monsters. She wants to be Mother Teresa. She wants to cure all disease and feed all the little kids. Katey wants save the world. I just hope someday she sees that although she can't save everyone, she saved me. I hope it's an alright consolation prize.-Tyler Lincoln
You think you know me, you have no idea. I am more innocent than you think, but more mature than you give me credit for. I am more insecure than you realize but better looking than what I let you see. I am smarter than you notice but learning about so much. I am not the girl who stands before you. I am merely who you want me to be.-Me
I would not have been so self-deprecating, I wouldn't have cowered for fear of having my eyes scratched out. I wouldn't have cut my comfort off. I wouldn't have feigned needlessness. I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted. -Alanis Morissette
He said you're really an ugly girl but I like the way you play. And I died but I thanked him. Can you believe that? Sick. Holding on to his picture. Dressing up every day. I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys. So you can make me cum. That doesn't make you Jesus -Tori Amos
I feel like a quote out of context. Withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see. I got the gesture and sounds. Got the timing down. It's uncanny, yeah, you think it was me. -Ben Folds Five
She looks in the mirror to make sure she's here. She keeps disappearing and dreaming of movie stars- weddings and nothing is happening. He tries not to notice. She thinks he doesn't care. -Counting Crows
You fascinate me. Interpret as you will - You have an interesting personality & there's definitely more there than what's presented. So yeah. You're cool.-Katie Allen
I never tell anyone just how terrible I really am. I just assume they’ll figure it out eventually and leave me. That’s if they wait around that long.-Me
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
Such a cute girl. I'm so jealous. I wish I looked exactly like her. What's it like to have that body? I'm gawking while I wonder.-No Doubt
I can feel so unsexy for someone so beautiful. So unloved for someone so fine. I can feel so boring for someone so interesting. So ignorant for someone of sound mind. Oh these little protections how they fail to serve me. One forgotten phone call and I'm deflated. Oh these little defenses how they fail to comfort me. Your hand pulling away and I'm devastated. -Alanis Morissette
I'm not alone, I wish I was. `Cause than I'd know, I'm down because, I couldn't find, a friend around to love me like, they do right now.-John Mayer
I'm not a punk. How can I be? Show me the way to conformity. Try to be different but it's always the same. End up playin' someone else's game.-Descendents
People think I’m so secure. Oh shit, if they only knew. I hate who I am and all that I show. And I hate what I’m not and all I keep hidden.-Me
I wish I didn't have this nervous laugh. I wish I didn't say half the stuff I say. I wish I could just learn to cover my tracks. I guess I'm not concerned about getting away. -Ani DiFranco
And all I feel is black and white and I'm wound up small and tight and I don't know who I am.-Sarah McLachlan
I don't look at faces, I look at my feet. I'm all alone when I walk down my street. I'm in the kitchen 'cause I can't take the heat. I wanna leave but I stay in my seat. 'Cause I'm ugly with a capital U. And I don't need a mirror to see that it's true.-Juliana Hatfield
You better hold on cause it's Saturday night. And your friends are all out. And you feel like shit cause they never call you.-Travis
And when I look in the mirror all I see is wrong. Name a body part. I’ll tell you what I hate about it. Call it a gift.-Me
I can't put my finger on what's keeping me down. Something's missing, and I don't know how to fix it. Something's missing, and I don't know what it is, no I don't know what it is now.-John Mayer
Everybody loves you when you're easy. Everybody hates when you're a bore. Everyone is waiting for your entrance so don't disappoint them. Everybody loves you when you're easy so don't disappoint them.-Sarah McLachlan
OTHER STUFF:
I don’t know where to begin Since I lost yo love. But then again your love was strictly for the drugs .-Ja Rule
Losing hope is easy when your only friend is gone. And every time you look around, well it all, it all, just seems to change. Hanging on is easy when you've got a friend to call. When nothing's making sense at all. You're not the only one who's afraid of change.-Jack Johnson
I heard about your regrets. I heard that you were feeling sorry. I heard from someone that you wish you could set things right between us. Well, I guess I should have heard of that from you. -Dashboard Confessional
Punk ain't no religious cult. Punk means thinking for yourself. You ain't hardcore `coz you spike your hair when a jock still lives inside your head.-Dead Kennedys
I never would have opened up but you seemed so real to me. After all the bullshit I've heard it's refreshing to see I don't have to pretend. She doesn't expect it from me. -Sarah McLachlan
LOVE:
When somebody loved me everything was beautiful. Every hour we spent together lives within my heart.-Sarah McLachlan
And yeah I still get crushes. And sometimes it’s not you I’m dreaming of. Yeah, sometimes it might not look it, but, boy, it’s you who’s got my heart.-Me
I have as much rage as you have. I have as much pain as you do. I've lived as much hell as you have. And I've kept mine bubbling under for you. -Alanis Morissette
If you're gonna get your heart broke, you better do it just right.-Dar Williams
I’m gonna fuck this up. I just thought I’d let you know, just to be fair. You won’t live up to what I see you to be. I won’t want to keep trying. This won’t be easy, it’ll hurt like hell. But, boy, it’ll be a wild ride while it lasts.-Me
I loved him because I wanted to save him, and because I could not.-Elizabeth McCracken
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
There are no strings attached. You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give you owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving it. It’s my privilege to give and you owe me nothing in return.-Alanis Morrisette
I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.-Elizabeth Wurtzel
You're so beautiful with an edge and charm. But so careful when I'm in your arms.-Sarah McLachlan
Our love was comfortable and so broken in. -John Mayer
I keep thinking someday I will make this all up to you. And maybe someday I will. 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. -Ani DiFranco
I know you say you love me. If what you say is true. So show me something that's not decieving. 'Cause I wouldn't lie to you. -Sarah McLachlan
I can't help that I like to be kissed. And I wouldn't mind if my name changed to Mrs.-No Doubt
But will I hold you again? These fickle, fuddled words confuse me. Like 'Will it rain today?' We waste the hours with talking, talking. These twisted games we're playing. -Dave Matthews Band
I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind. I want somebody who has a tortured soul some of the time. I want somebody who will either put out for me or put me out of misery or maybe just put it all to words and make me say, you know I never heard it put that way. Make me say, what did you just say? I want somebody who can hold my interest. Hold it and never let it fall. Someone who can flatten me with a kiss that hits like a fist or a sentence, that stops me like a brick wall... I want somebody who can make me scream until it's funny. Give me a run for my money. I want someone who can twist me up in knots... I want someone who's not afraid of me or anyone else. In other words I want someone who's not afraid of themself. Do you think I'm asking too much? -Ani DiFranco
Through the years I've grown to love you. Though your commitment to most would offend. But I stuck by you holding on with my foolish pride. Waiting for you to give in. You never really tried, or so it seems. I've had more than myself to blame. I've had enough of trying everything. And this time it is the end.-Sarah McLachlan
I don’t know what all the people say or what they think is love. But I know what it means to me. I fall in love so easily and its hard to let your guard down, something you never you want to do. I give you my love and you turn it away. I guess I’d be screwed. I’m a hopeless romantic.-Bouncing Souls
What kind of love is this that keeps me hanging on despite everything it's doing to me. What is this love that keeps me coming back for more when it will only end in misery. -Sarah McLachlan
I've always wanted for you what you've wanted for yourself and yet I wanted to save us high water or hell. And I kept on ignoring the ambivalence you felt and in the meantime I lost myself. -Alanis Morissette
And you'll never know, dear just how much I loved you. You'll probably think this was just my big excuse but I stand committed to a love that came before you. And the fact that I adore you is but one of my truths.-Ani DiFranco
So why do we choose the boys that are naughty? I don't fit in so why do you want me? And I know I can't tame you... but I just keep trying.-No Doubt
And I forgot to tell you I love you. And night's too long. And cold here without you. I grieve in my condition. For I cannot find the words to say. I need you so. -Sarah McLachlan
CRUSHES:
I found myself turning every crumb he threw my way into a veritable smorgasbord, as if the simple fact that I had all these incredibly strong feelings for him meant that he just had to reciprocate every last one of them.-Tara McCarthy
You hurt me more than I ever would have imagined. You made my world stand still. And in that stillness there was a freedom I never felt before. -Sarah McLachlan
You know more about a person who deeply interests you more than can be told. A look, a gesture, an act which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.-Henry David Thoreau
And you are so lame, you always disappoint me. It's kinda like our running joke but it's really not funny. I just want you to live up to the image of you I create. I see you and I'm so unsatisfied.-Ani DiFranco
Oh, your gaze is dangerous and you fill your space so sweet. If 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
I don't know who I'm kidding, imagining you care.-Duncan Sheik
Yeah, I’ve got a crush on you. And yeah I’d do whatever you asked. Just remember who gave you this power over me. And remember who can take it back.-Me
I ask you to hold me but you don't want to hold me. It don't work like that. I want you to love me but you don't wanna love me.-Natalie ImbrugliaBut every time I'm close to you there's too much I can't say. And you just walk away. -Sarah McLachlan
And it goes around in circle: one night is lovely, the next is brutal. And you and I are in way over our heads with this one. -Liz Phair
Feels a little awkward sometimes. You won't talk but we're not fighting. You hold on to your secrets and I'm not privy to what is on your mind and I can't help but feel tired. -Dashboard Confessional
You confuse me and you frustrate me. I can’t tell what you’re hiding behind those quiet green eyes. And I guess that’s why I love you. Cause I don’t know you well enough to hate you yet. -Me
I build each one of my days out of hope and I give that hope your name. 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
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. And now it's amazing what you did to make me stay. But truth is just like time, it catches up and it just keeps going.-Dar Williams
I fell in love with a dream that I built of you.-John Mayer
You looked so beautiful I almost had to go. And when I got outside I thought of you again. I think you should be framed in some fine art gallery. I know you'd disagree with me. But I love you anyways.-Travis
Falling for you was the easy thing to do. If only somehow I could make you hang around. -The Ataris
I could just pretend that you love me. The night would lose all sense of fear. But why do I need you to love me when you can't hold what I hold dear. -Tori Amos
Was I a fool to think? The way you looked at me I swear you did. But you looked away too quick. Was I a fool, was I a fool to think that you would take me home. As if I was yours. Was I fool to think it all? I've grown tired of love. You are the trouble with me. I watch you walk right by I smile, you do not notice me. Treat me recklessly. -Dave Matthews Band
Someday some way somehow you and me. You said we can't, we could never be. And I would if you would just put your arm around me. And I try so hard you don't know how much it kills me. I feel that nothing is over that's why I chase after you. So what if there's nothing in common I'm still gonna chase after you.-Jank 1000
Please tell me your just feeling tired ‘cos if it’s more than that I feel that I might break out of touch, out of time. Please send me anything but signals that are mixed ‘cos I can’t read your rolling eyes. Out of touch. are we out of time. I’ll wait until tomorrow. Maybe you’ll be better then. Maybe we’ll be better then. So what’s another day. When I can’t bear these nights or thoughts of going on without you. This mood of yours is temporary. It seems worth the wait to see you smile again. Out of the corner of my eye will be only way you’re looking at me then. So quiet. Another wasted night.-Dashboard Confessional
Could you pencil me in when you can. Though we both know that the worst part about it is that I would be free when you wanted me, if you wanted me. -John Mayer
I looked into your eyes they told me plenty I already knew. You never felt a thing. So soon forgotten. All that you do. In more than words I tried to tell you. The more I tried I failed.-Sarah McLachlan
You will never live up to who I want you to be. And that’s okay, boy, I’ll love you anyways. -Me
Do you not hear me anymore. I know it's not your thing to care. I know it's cool to be so bored. It sucks me in when you're aloof. It sucks me in, it sucks it works.-Ben Fold Five
I need you. I miss you. And now I wonder if I could fall into the sky do you think time would pass me by because you know I would walk a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight. It’s always times like these that I think of you and I wonder if you ever think of me and everything’s so wrong and I don’t belonging to live in your precious memory.-Vanessa Carlton
She thinks, we look at each other wondering what the other is thinking. But we never say a thing. These crimes between us grow deeper. -Dave Matthews Band
Oh you probably won't remember me. It's probably ancient history. I'm one of the chosen few who went ahead and fell for you.-Jann Arden
My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me. So won't you kill me, so I die happy. -Dashboard Confessional
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
She's all that he wants, she's all that he needs. She's everything he just won't believe. Take away his doubt, turn him inside out. Then she can see what he's been dying to say. But things don't always turn out that way. And he must confess all the impure thoughts of his beautiful temptress. Although he keeps it all bottled up inside. Although he keeps it all safe within his mind.-The Calling
If I wrote you you would know me and you would not write me again... And I'm so happy, I had to tell you. And I love you, and you will not write me again.-Dar Williams
And there could be no other way ‘cos you’re so, you’re so lame your tired words are all, all the same. And if were to walk you know I would surely walk away if I wasn’t such a sucker for you. -John Mayer
It’s times like these that I can’t figure out why I fell in love with you. And times like these where I think I can fall out again.-Me
I'm starting to fashion an idea in my head where I would impress you with every single word I said would come out insightful, or brave, or smooth, or charming. And you'd want to call me and I would be there every time you need me, I'd be there every time. But for now, I'll look so longingly. Waiting for you to want me, for you to need me, For you to notice me. -Dashboard Confessional
And when I fall asleep you're all that I see. You're in my thoughts and all of my prayers. I wish I could be all that you mean to me.-Unwritten Law
Know it's early and you hardly even know me but I want your love so bad. So bad I'm bout to fuck it up. Could you tell me what to say?-John Mayer
I know I can't be with you. I do what I have to do. And I have sense to recognize but I don't know how to let you go.-Sarah McLachlan
And I don't wanna work anymore cause sometimes I just can't ignore the way I feel when I see you smile. -The Ataris
And you are so lame, you always disappoint me. It's kinda like our running joke but it's really not funny. I just want you to live up to the image of you I create. I see you and I'm so unsatisfied.-Ani DiFranco
Through this world I've stumbled. So many times betrayed. Trying to find an honest word to find the truth enslaved. Oh you speak to me in riddles and you speak to me in rhymes. My body aches to breathe your breath. Your words keep me alive. -Sarah McLachlan
But it's OK to lead me on. I must admit it's not much fun to be led on by such a one as you are.-TravisYou lead me on with your smile. Your quiet ways and soft looks. Then your tear me down with your words. I wish you’d follow the script. The script of how I want us to be.-Me
Know it's early and you hardly even know me but I want your love so bad. So bad I'm bout to fuck it up. Could you tell me what to say?-John Mayer
And I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let it go and I can't get through.-Ani DiFranco
