To think of my task is chilling
To know I was carefully building the mask I was wearing
For two years swearing I'd tear it off
I've sat in the dark explaining to myself that I'm straining
Too hard for feelings I ought to find easily
--Jezebel

Clear the dust from smiles in boxes
--Tension

Alanis Morissette

I can be an asshole of the grandest kind
I can withhold like it’s going out of style
I can be the moodiest baby and you’ve never met anyone
who is as negative as I am sometimes
--Everything

You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I'm ashamed
--Everything

I'm sorry to myself
For treating me worse than I would anybody else
--Sorry to Myself

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
--So Unsexy

Every time you speak her name
Does she know how you told me you'd hold me
Until you died, till you died
But you're still alive
--You Oughta Know

I am thirty-two flavors and then some
And I'm beyond your peripheral vision
So you might want to turn your head
--32 Flavors

Won't it be dull when we rid ourselves
Of all these demons haunting us to keep us company
Won't it be odd to be happy like we
Always thought we're supposed to feel but never seem to be
--War on Drugs

I won't look out the window
Might make me homesick for humanity
--Celebrity

I think it's getting to the point
Where I can be myself again
I think it's getting to the point
Where we have almost made amends
I think it's the getting to the point
That is the hardest part
And if you call, I will answer
And if you fall, I'll pick you up
And if you court this disaster
I'll point you home
--Call and Answer

She's like a baby, I'm like a cat
When we are happy, we both get fat
--Life in a Nutshell

Old at being young
Young at being old
--Alternative Girlfriend

In the car
We were looking for ourselves
But found each other
In the car
We groped for excuses
Not to be alone anymore
In the car
We were waiting for our lives
To start their endings
--In the Car

This name is the hairshirt I wear
And this hairshirt is woven from your brown hair
--What a Good Boy

I wake up scared, I wake up strange
I wake up wondering if anything in my life is ever going to change
I wake up scared, I wake up strange
And everything around me stays the same
--What a Good Boy

Call it impulsive, call it compulsive, call it insane
But when I'm surrounded I just can't stop
--Brian Wilson

And you're so much like me
I'm sorry
--Still Fighting It

I know that you went straight to someone else
While I worked through all this shit here by myself
And I think that you should spend some time alone
But if you won't
Then you won't
--Gone

I'm pissed off but I'm too polite
When people break in the McDonald's line
Mom and Dad you made me so uptight
I'm gonna cuss on the mic tonight
I don't know how much I can take
Girl, give me something I can break
--Rockin' the Suburbs

And I don't believe in god
So I can't be saved
All alone as I've learned to be
In this mess I have made
--Mess

So you wanted
To take a break
Slow it down some and
Have some space
Well fuck you too
--Song For The Dumped

I see that there is evil
And I know that there is good
And the in-betweens I never understood
--Philosophy

I was never cool in school
I'm sure you don't remember me
And now it's been 10 years
I'm still wondering who to be
--Underground

I feel like a quote out of context
Withholding the rest
So I can be free, what you want to see
--Best Imitation of Myself

Money talks, I hate to listen,
But lately it's been screaming in my ear
--Emaline

Give me real, don't give me fake
--Politik

Questions of science
Science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart
--The Scientist

So I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war
If you can tell me something worth fighting for
--A Rush of Blood to the Head

I really love the red haired girls
--Good Time

I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her
And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
--A Long December

Gray is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic yesterday
--Mr. Jones

But I'm sure there's something in a shade of gray
or something in between
--Anna Begins

She can't stop shaking and I can’t stop touching her
And this time when kindness falls like rain
It washes her away and Anna begins to change her mind
"These seconds when I'm shaking leave me
Shuddering for days" she says.
And I'm not ready for this sort of thing
--Anna Begins

Gonna get me a little oblivion, baby
Try to keep myself away from me
--Perfect Blue Buildings

Don't try to bleed me
I've been there before
And I deserve a little more
--Rain King

There's a bird that nests inside you
Sleeping underneath your skin
When you open up your wings to speak
I wish you'd let me in
--Murder of One

The space between what’s wrong and right
Is where you’ll find me hiding, waiting for you
--The Space Between

Don't want your hand this time, I'll save myself
--Going Under

And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
Because your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
--My Immortal

Pouring crimson regret and betrayal
--Tourniquet

I don't wanna be the bad guy
I don't wanna do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just wanna feel some sunshine
I just wanna find some place to be alone
--Santa Monica

You'll say you understand
You'll never understand
I'll say I'll never wake up
Knowing how or why
I don't know what to believe in
You won't know who I am
--Never is a promise

I am extraordinary, if you'd ever get to know me
I am extraordinary, I am just your ordinary
Average every day sane psycho
Supergoddess
--Extraordinary

I've been treated so wrong,
I've been treated so long
As if I'm becoming untouchable
--My Skin

Lately it's occurred to me exactly what went wrong
I realized I compromised, I sacrificed far too much for far too long
--Not in This Life

I'm a train wreck waiting to happen
Waiting for someone to come pick me up off the tracks
--Train Wreck

I don't have to pretend
She doesn't expect it from me
Don't tell me I haven't been good to you
Don't tell me I have never been there for you
Don't tell me why nothing is good enough
--Good Enough

But I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose here in this lonely place
Tangled up in your embrace
There's there's nothing I'd like better than to fall
--Fear

Through the years I've grown to love you
Though your commitment to most would offend
--The Path of Thorns

It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got
--Soak Up the Sun

I believe in peace, bitch
--The Waitress

She's been everybody else's girl
Maybe one day she'll be her own
--Girl

Got enough guilt to start
my own religion
--Crucify