"The kingdom of sack is the tundra?" "...Simba must never go there!" April 30, 2013

Song #119: Nothing's That Great- Julia Nunes

From the album Settle Down, released June 11, 2011

"Have you ever gone back/ to the things you used to love/ old shoes/ old friends/ old bands/ old trends/ it hurts when you discover that/ nothing's that great/ you had bad taste/ it's much too late/ to get back the time you wasted/ teenage boys out having fun/ trying to pass for 21/ I sit back and wonder what it's like/ 'cause everyone I know is broken/ or broke/ or both/ and I'm sick of seeing things not turn out right...

/and the who's who of the fun years sit out saying when I was young/ I thought I had grown/ become more mature/ but now I am sure/ that I'm as dumb as I ever was"

"You have my divine protection, Michael. It's okay the demons no get you." April 29, 2013

Song #118: Slow Cheetah- Red Hot Chili Peppers

From the album Stadium Arcadium, released May 5, 2006

"Waking up dead inside of my head would never never do there is no med/ no medicine to take/ I've had a chance to be insane/ asylum from the falling rain/ I've had a chance to break...

/Everyone has so much to say they talk talk talk their lives away/ don't even hesitate/ walking on down to the burial ground it's a very old dance with a merry old sound/ looks like it's on today"

"I'm a sad panda." April 28, 2013

Song #117: Tamborine N' Thyme- Nana Grizol

From the album Love It Love It, released May 13, 2008

"And a song well sung is a sung well song so sing/ if nothing else you must remember that  you're still breathing/ so we ignore those body parts/ that get so wet and get so hard/ and focus on our beating hearts/ your arm to hold me here to guard me/ I can sleep alone tonight/ I feel weird but that's alright/ I'm learning not to think too much/ I turn my lights out and sleep tight/ and if I make a big mistake/ if anything then it won't take forever just to find myself again/ in a subjective sense we've seen a lot/ yeah we make the best of what we've got/ all we are is everything/ and everyone we've ever been so tell me not to fall in love with you/ and frankly my friend I think that's the sweetest thing you do/ summer in my town is nice/ my front porch is my paradise / and I can sit here every night yes I can watch the world go by/ and I know that I'm motion to/ occasionally think of you/ I just hope that you realize that when you sit here by my side/ whatever that implies will be just fine/ my heart beats like a tambourine/ that plays along in time"

"Tetanus for the win!" April 27, 2013

Song #116: Resounding- Say Anything

From the album Baseball, released 2001

"You sit alone in your room and rust/ you give your trust to those/ who don't deserve your trust/ you put yourself through hell/ as you sweat pound for pound/ but as the drama fades/ tell me what will resound"

"Combat psychiatry!" "Nazi Germany?" "That's not where you get cake." "Sawdust cake!" April 26, 2013

Song #115: Mr. Brightside- The Killers

From the album Hot Fuss, released June 7, 2004

"I'm coming out of my cage/ and I've been doing just fine/ gotta gotta be down/ because I want it all...

/he's having a smoke/ and she's taking a drag...

/but that's just the price I pay/ destiny is calling me/ open up my eager eyes/ 'cause I'm Mr. Brightside"

"I wish I could grow a beard." April 25, 2013

Song #114: This Is Fucking Ecstasy- Say Anything

From the album In Defense of the Genre, released October 23, 2007

"I'm sprinting yet I stride/ my satchel filled with files/ the secrets of the tribe/ the cameras follow me for miles/ born a slave in 1984/ discovered that my life is just a record they performed/ a maze where I was placed...

/they strapped me to the roof/ and cut right through me/ diggin' through my wounds/ I watched them hopelessly and shook/ where are my pills/ where is my former lover/ I've been betrayed by everyone I know"

"What's a hint... like scientifically?" "It's metric so I dunno" April 24, 2013

Song #113: Cardboard Castles- George Watsky

From the album Cardboard Castles, released March 12, 2013

"On the curb again/ I've come to learn it's hard and firm out on the curb again/ I'm in my room making cardboard castles/ with shoestring rope/ soup spoon drawbridge/ tinfoil moat/ I'm still dreaming after all these years...

/because if we don't build it/ who will"

"There's probably a dead body." "If there's not, there will be soon" April 23, 2013

Song #112: Hey, Asshole- George Watsky

From the album Cardboard Castles, released March 12, 2013

"Hey asshole/ see the sun is shining/ but you're not smiling/ but I don't know why...

/I know I'm often told/ that there's a pot of gold/ but I don't see a fucking rainbow and my coffee's cold/ I know I should be greatful/ I know I'm good and able/ but I don't have the strength to get up from the kitchen table/ this kind of shot comes once/ another opportunity/ of a lifetime just slipped away/ and that's the fifth this month/ but when you take a punch/ don't you ever forget/ why you get up and put one foot in front of the next...

/gotta take a bitter pill/ gotta pay for what I did to my head and my heart'll foot the bill/ got a foot in my mouth and because I'm kicking myself I developed a habit of knocking out my front tooth/ looking uncouth/ want to hear the truth/ give it to me straight 151 proof/ telling myself it'll happen when I'm happy but I'm climbing a ladder that has got no end...

/spent a half an hour/ sitting at the bottom of my shower/ letting the water run over my body and damnit I wanted to get up but I didn't have the power"

"They're straightedge birds" April 22, 2013

Song #111: When You Were Young- The Killers

From the album Sam's Town, released October 2, 2006

"And sometimes you close your eyes and see the place where you used to live/ when you/ were young/ you say the devil's water it ain't so sweet/ you don't have to drink right now/ but you can dip your feet in/ every once in a/ little while"

"I would have sex with iron if I could" April 21, 2013

Song #110: Circles 'Round the Moon- Nana Grizol

From the album Love It Love It, released May 13, 2008

"Circles 'round the moon is this why city lights feel so awful/ it should be unlawful/ to live where you can't see the stars...

/circles 'round the block is this how all my time gets wasted/ I don't think so but we tasted/ the night air and now we just want more"

"Double ding dong" April 20, 2013

Song #109: The Sound of Settling- Death Cab For Cutie

From the album Transatlanticism, released October 7, 2003

"I've got a hunger/ twisting my stomach into knots/ that my tongue has tied off/ and my brain's repeating/ if you've got an impulse let it out/ but they never make it past my mouth/ baa bah/ this is the sound of settling/ baa bah/ baa bah/ baa bah/ our youth is fleeting/ old age is just around the bend/ and I can't wait to go gray/ and I'll sit and wonder/ of every love that could've been/ if I'd only thought of something charming to say"

"Do you have fifty cents?" "Who do you think I am, Bill Gates? Of course I don't have fifty cents." April 19, 2013

Song #108: Colorblind- Say Anything

From the album Baseball, released 2001

"Here comes the sadness that I miss so much/ that lonely aching comes from every touch/ I've grown accustomed to the grays and blacks/ 'cause they're always coming back/ sit down for supper won't you dine with me/ or can't you handle seeing all I see/ I've grown too colorblind to cease my bitchin'/ and I've grown to love the pain/ and I move too slow/ and I think too fast...

/here comes a view I've seen a million times/ and here comes a boring song with thoughtless rhymes/ I know you're sick of me so tell me here/ because you could have been the one to make it all disappear/ but I move too slow/ and I think too fast"

"What is happening in my ears?" April 18, 2013

Song #107: Fences- Paramore

From the album Riot!, released June 12, 2007

"If you let me I could/ I'd show you how to build your fences/ set restrictions/ separate from the world/ that constant battle that you hate to fight/ just blame the limelight/ don't look up just let them think there's no place else you'd rather be/ and now you can't turn back/ because this road is all that you'll ever have/ and it's obvious that you're dying/ dying...

/yeah yeah well you're just a mess/ you do all this big talking/ now let's see you walk it"

"Produce, store, deliver" April 17, 2013

Song #106: Chia-Like, I Shall Grow- Say Anything
From the album ...Is A Real Boy, released August 3, 2004
"I've watched you all succeed/ with the highest marks in greed...
/I am hate everlasting/ with each sickly spell I'm casting...
/I discard all feelings/ the stars still scar my ceiling...
we give up/ we give up/ we give up on all those like you"

"I don't think he lifts" April 16, 2013

Song #105: The Phoenix- Fall Out Boy

From the album Save Rock and Roll, released April 12, 2013

"Put on your war paint...

/get hitched/ make a career out of robbing banks/ because the world is just a teller/ and we're not wearing black masks/ 'you broke our spirit' is the note we pass/ so we can take the world back from a heart attack/ one maniac at time we will take it back/ you know time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start/ so dance alone to the beat of your heart"

"Kwaski win win" April 15, 2013

Song #104: Miracle- Paramore

From the album Riot!, released June 12, 2007

"I've gone/ for too long/ living like I'm not alive/ so I'm going to start over tonight...

/we've learned to run from/ anything uncomfortable/ we've tied our pain below/ and no one ever has to know/ that inside we're broken/ I try to patch things up again/ to count my tears and kill these fears"

"Those look like some tree tracks" April 14, 2013

Song #103: Flood Waters- Defiance Ohio

From the album Midwestern Minutes, released July 6, 2010

"I was wading through the flood waters/ you were waiting out a drought/ do I have that kind of love/ is that what it would take to see this out/ hold your empty disemboweled gas tanks up high/ turn them into a bong or a still/ looting through the gas stations/ tilling up our backyards"

"I'm listening to the talk radio on Grand Theft Auto, it's pretty good." April 13, 2013

Song #102: Road Trippin'- Red Hot Chili Peppers

From the album Californication, released June 8, 1999

"It's time to get lost/ it's time to steal away/ let's go get lost anywhere in the USA"

"Crap Christ" April 12, 2013

Song #101: All My Friends- Say Anything

From the album Baseball, released 2001

"My friends are/ just neighbors/ that steal from me when I'm not home/ I am/ so damn trusting/ I did not see their malice/ in this blackened wonderland/ I am the darkened Alice/ sometimes I can't fathom/ why everyone's so two-faced/ so I'll just/ backstab them/ to get them back in their place...

/I'm the ball/ they're battered/ they're climbing social ladders/ I'm left/ at the bottom"

"He shares my love of Tibetan throat singing" April 11, 2013

Song #100: Showdown At P-Town- Say Anything

From the album Baseball, released 2001

"Meet me where the city turns to trees/ and nothing comes for free/ let's see just how imposing you can be to me/ so far from road-marks or homecoming games/ go on drop your fucking names/ try to shift the blame/ watch me take a crowbar/ to your brand new car/ without the things your daddy bought you/ you won't get very far without your/ plastic friends/ and your odds and ends would you still be a star/ the idle rich cocooned away from Earth/ you're cynical from birth/ tell me what you think your pride is worth to me/ when all you can do is call me gay/ sorry I don't swing that way...

/do you think you can take me now/ your only weapon is your name anyhow/ and if you think that you can take me now/ you've got another thing coming/ you think/ think/ think/ do you think I'm scared to play your games/ battle is my middle name"

"Oh boy, so you can get hammered and make love to Justin on a picturesque beach at sunset, right?" April 10, 2013

Song #99: Califonincation- Red Hot Chili Peppers

From the album Californication, released June 8, 1999

"It's the edge of the world and all of western civilization/ the sun may rise in the east/ at least it settles in a final location/ it's understood that Hollywood sells californication"

"They aren't going to run away" April 9, 2013

Song #98: Laughing With- Regina Spektor
From the album Far, released June 22, 2009

"No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door and they say 'we got some bad news, sir'/ no one's laughing at God when there's a famine fire or flood/ but God could be funny/ at cocktail party with listening to a good god-themed joke/ or when the crazies say he hates us"

"It's free bus month." "Oh really? I didn't know that was a thing." "Oh well yeah, the bus is free this month." "I was wondering what 'free bus month' could possibly be." April 8, 2013

Song #98: Radioactive- Imagine Dragons

From the EP Continued Silence, released February 14, 2012

"I'm waking up/ to ash and dust/ I wipe my brow and sweat my rust/ I'm breathing in/ the chemicals...

/I raise my flags/ don my clothes/ it's a revolution I suppose/ we're painted red to fit right in"

"What the fuck is going on?" April 7, 2013

Song #97: By Tonight- Say Anything

From the EP Menorah/ Majora, released October, 2002

"By tonight/ the Earth burts open/ by tonight we shed this clothing/ by tonight/ you'll see me from the angle that you missed/ nothing exists but this"

"You're powered by nuclear fission and I'm powered by a cat" April 6, 2013

Song #96: I Am A Transylvanian- Say Anything

From the EP Menorah/ Majora, released October, 2002

"The path into this heart is littered with corpeses/ and strewn with body parts of those who came before/ so just give up/ the path into this heart is littered with courpses/ and strewn with body parts of stronger souls than you/ stronger souls than you"

"Some people are assholes, but they get over it." April 5, 2013

Song #95: The Cave- Mumford & Sons

From the album Sigh No More, released October 2, 2009

"It's empty in the valley of your heart/ the sun it rises slowly as you walk/ away from all the fears and all the faults you've left behind/ the harvest left no food for you to eat/ you meat eater/ you cannibal you see/ but I have seen the same/ I know the same in your defeat/ but I will hold on hope/ and I/ won't let you choke/ on the noose around your neck/ and I'll find strength in pain/ and I will change my ways/ I'll know my name as it's called again...

/now let me at the truth which will refresh my broken mind"

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"Have some red dye 40" April 4, 2013

Song #94: On Top Of The World- Imagine Dragons

From the EP Continued Silence, released February 14, 2012

"I've had the highest mountains/ I've had the deepest rivers/ you can have it all but life keeps moving/ I take it in but don't look down"

"Just don't pee on any girls. Or do I'm not telling you what to do" April 3, 2013

Song #93: Staying Together- Bribry

From the single Staying Together, released June 19, 2012

"Forget about the childish doubts/ my silence when we talk about you going somewhere/ without me"

"Deena, the lesbian duck from the south." April 2, 2013

Song #92: Cemetery- Say Anything

From the album Say Anything, released November 3, 2009

"There's a cemetery deep below the sea/ where the space is reserved for fools like me/ tried to kill myself at least a dozen times/ but nothing seems to turn out right" 

"So how was your day?" "I don't remember." April 1, 2013

Song #91: Love Love Love- Of Monsters and Men

From the album My Head is An Animal, released September 20, 2011

"And maybe I'm a bad/ bad bad bad/ person/ well baby I know"