For my quarter-life, I give you 25 of my all-time favorite lyrics. They are my favorite because they’re sweet, insightful, hilarious, or eerily true.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Your best friend always stickin\u2019 up for you<\/strong>, even when I know you\u2019re wrong.
\n(Drops of Jupiter, Train)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nBut someday we’ll all be old
\nAnd I’ll be so damn beautiful
\n<\/strong>(Paper Bag, Anna Nalick)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWell I hate to be a bother,
\nBut it’s you and there’s no other, I do believe<\/strong>
\nYou can call me naive but…
\n(Carbon Leaf, Life Less Ordinary)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nShe love to keep you in suspense, but you know she just wants to dance
\n<\/strong>Give a little heart and soul
\nLet her body lose control
\nGive a little oh oh ooh
\n<\/strong>(Give a Little, Hanson)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>I remember the stupid things, the mood rings, the bracelets and the beads
\n<\/strong>Nickels and dimes, yours and mine, did you cash in all your dreams
\nYou don’t dream for me, no (goodbye, goodbye) you don’t dream for me, no
\nBut I still feel you pulse like sonar from the days in the waves
\nThat girl is like a sunburn
\nI would like to say
\nThe girl is like a sunburn
\nI would like to say
\n<\/strong>She’s like a sunburn
\n<\/strong>She’s like a sunburn
\n(Never Let You Go, Third Eye Blind)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>It’s a sad, sad story<\/strong> when a mother will teach her
\nDaughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger<\/strong>
\n(Not Ready to Make Nice, Dixie Chicks)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>I believe in the sand beneath my toes
\nThe beach gives a feeling
\nAn earthy feeling
\nI believe in the faith that grows
\nAnd the four right chords can make me cry<\/strong>
\nWhen I’m with you I feel like I could die<\/strong>
\n(Semi-charmed Life, Third Eye Blind)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI would dig a hole all the way to China
\nunless of course I was there
\nand I’d dig my way home.
\nIf by digging I could steal<\/strong>
\nThe wind from the sails of the greedy men who ruled the world.<\/strong>
\n(Dreamgirl, Dave Matthews Band)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Feeling alive all over again,
\nAs deep as the sky, under my skin
\nLike being in love, she says<\/strong>
\nFor the first time<\/strong>
\n(First Time, Lifehouse)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nLeave a hush fall on the movie crowd
\nBoy turns to girl and says I love you so (well, you know)<\/strong>
\nWhat I hear in here is violins
\nStrike up the music, lay on the music
\nLet the music be there too
\n(Music, James Taylor)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>I took ya drivin’ down to Big Sur, down the coast of California
\nYou had your head out of the window
\nand you stared out at the ocean<\/strong>
\nYou never heard<\/strong>
\nthe albums Graceland or Blue<\/strong>
\nI play them both for you<\/strong>
\nThe songs of my youth
\nAnd make you cry love, cry out loving
\nDance drunken to your heart’s beat
\nAnd kiss ya in the moonlight in the middle of the street
\nI know that we’ve both been here before<\/strong>
\nIn another lifetime maybe more<\/strong>
\n(Make You fall In Love With Me, Brett Dennen)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>What you doing for the rest of your life?<\/strong>
\nCause you don’t want don’t wanna go
\nSinging hey mama don’t want no drama<\/strong>
\nJust a kiss before I leave<\/strong>
\nHey lady don’t say maybe
\nYou’re the one that I can believe
\n(Hey Mama, Mat Kearney)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>We were ring-around-the-rosy children
\nThey were circles around the sun
\nNever give up, never slow down
\nNever grow old, never ever die young<\/strong>
\n(Never Die Young, James Taylor)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>You always tell me that is impossible
\nTo be respected and be a girl
\nWhy’s it gotta be so complicated?
\nWhy you gotta tell me if I’m hated?
\nSo please be careful with me, I’m sensitive<\/strong>
\nAnd I’d like to stay that way.<\/strong>
\n(I’m Sensitive, Jewel)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Take your life
\nPlot it out in black and white
\nWell I never lived the dreams of the prom kings
\nAnd the drama queens
\nI’d like to think the best of me<\/strong>
\nIs still hiding<\/strong>
\nUp my sleeve<\/strong>
\n(No Such Thing, John Mayer)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>She said she didn’t believe
\nIt could happen to me
\nI guess we’re all one phone call from our knees<\/strong>
\nWe’re gonna get there soon
\n(Closer to Love, Mat Kearney)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>’cause every bit of land is a holy land
\nand every drop of water is a holy water<\/strong>
\nand every single child is a son or a daughter<\/strong>
\nof the one earth mama and the one earth papa<\/strong>, so
\ndon\u2019t tell a man that he can\u2019t come here ’cause he got brown eyes and a wavy kind of hair,
\nAnd don\u2019t tell a woman that she can\u2019t go there
\nbecause she prays a little different to a God up there
\n(Hello Bonjour, Michael Franti & Spearhead)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nIt happened fast in a flash just this evening
\nI hit the gas, horn blast, brakes screaming
\nCar crash, broken glass, broke my dreaming
\nI hit the dash so fast my ears are ringing
\nMy sister’s on the right side just slightly leaning
\nI grabbed her hand hard until she started breathing
\nMy brothers in the back jaw cracked from the beating
\nThe breath in my chest has slipped and I’m sinking
\nBlinking through diamond spider webs of cracked glass<\/strong>
\nI’m trying to remember all the words you said in the past<\/strong>
\nThrough the ash, siren screams and red beams
\nI hear you sing softly to me
\n(Renaissance, Mat Kearney)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood.
\nMiss ‘No way, it’s all good’, it didn’t slow me down.
\nMistaken, always second guessing, underestimated.
\nLook, I’m still around.
\nPretty, pretty please, don’t you ever, ever feel<\/strong>
\nLike you’re less than f*****’ perfect.<\/strong>
\nPretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel like you’re nothing,
\nYou’re f*****’ perfect to me <\/strong>
\n(F****** Perfect, Pink)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>You\u2019ve got opinions, man
\nWe\u2019re all entitled to \u2018em, but I never asked
\nSo let me thank you for your time, and try not to waste anymore of mine
\nAnd get out of here fast
\nI hate to break it to you babe, but I\u2019m not drowning
\n<\/strong>There\u2019s no one here to save
\n<\/strong>(King of Anything, Sara Bareilles)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>I’ll be like your medicine, you’ll take every dose of me
\nIt’s going down on aisle 3. I’ll bag you like some groceries<\/strong>
\nAnd every time you think about it you gon’ want some more of me
\n(Love in this Club, Usher (feat. Young Jeezy))<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>So your standing on a ledge,
\nIt looks like you might fall.
\nSo far down,
\nOr maybe you were thinking about jumping.
\nNow you could have it all,
\nIf you learned a little patience
\nFor though I cannot fly,
\nI’m not content to crawl
\nSo give me a little credit,<\/strong>
\nHave in me a little faith<\/strong>
\nI want to be with you forever,<\/strong>
\nBut tomorrow’s not too late<\/strong>
\n(I Am, Nine Days)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>You don’t have to believe me
\nand i continue on
\nyou’ve still got the potential
\nthat you’ve had all along
\nyou don’t have to believe me when<\/strong>
\nyou’re shaking what you got<\/strong>
\nbut you sure better believe me when<\/strong>
\ni tell you your mind’s what’s hot.<\/strong>
\n(You Don\u2019t Have to Believe Me, Eric Hutchinson)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Closer than this life
\nCloser finally
\nLiving for the only thing
\nYou ever made complete
\nOh, for the one thing<\/strong>
\nThat you both did perfectly<\/strong>
\n(Closer, Better Than Ezra)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>I welcome the sun,
\nthe clouds and rain,
\nthe wind that sweeps the sky clean
\nand lets the sun shine again.
\nthis is the most magnificent life has ever been.<\/strong>
\nhere is heaven and earth<\/strong>
\nand the brilliant sky in between.<\/strong>
\n(Blessed, Brett Dennen)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"