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"and did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"
(pink floyd)
"life is a b movie, it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story and the dialogue is lame, but in the
he said she said sometimes there's some poetry if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally"
(ani difranco)
"and so it is, just like you said it would be. life goes easy on me most of the time. and so it is, the shorter
story, no love, no glory, no hero in the sky, i can't take my eyes off of you"
(damien rice)
"gravel and grass on the bottom of my feet, i bruised my heels on the swollen street, we were girls in bars, boys
on the town, bumping like a pinball off the careless crowd"
(indigo girls)
"how can i go home with nothing to say, when i know you're going to look at me that way. saying: what did you do
out there? what did you decide? you said you needed time, and you had time."
(ani difranco)
"there must be a thousand things you would die for, i can hardly think of two"
(indigo girls)
"ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, and it's hard to get by, just upon a smile"
(cat stevens)
"may you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung and may you stay forver young"
(bob dylan)
"i got my feet on the ground and i don't go to sleep to dream, you got your head in the clouds and you're not at
all what you seem"
(fiona apple)
"sometimes the beauty is easy, sometimes you don't have to try at all, sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a
handshake, sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall."
(ani difranco)
"there's a thin line between pleasing yourself and pleasing somebody else"
(indigo girls)
"i teeter between tired, and really, really tired, i'm wiped and i'm wired but i guess it's just as well."
(ani difranco)
"it's been a long december and there's a 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)
"there's more than one answer to all these questions pointing me in a crooked line, the less i seek my source for
some definitive, the closer i am to fine"
(indigo girls)
"the truth was obscure, too profound and too pure, to live it you had to explore"
(bob dylan)
"and win or lose just that you chose this little war is what kills you, and either or it's that this war is maybe
also what thrills you"
(ani difranco)
"i find sometimes it's easy to be myself. sometimes i find it's better to be somebody else."
(dave matthews band)
"we get a little further from perfection each year on the road, i guess that's what they call character, i guess
that's just the way it goes, better to be polished than dusted like some store window manequin, why don't you touch me where
i'm rusty, let me stain your hands"
(ani difranco)
"there i am in younger days, star gazing, painting picture perfect maps of how my life would be, not counting the
unmarked paths of misdirection, my compass, faith in loves perfection"
(indigo girls)
"we don't say everything that we could, so that we could say later oh we misunderstood, i hold my cards up close
to my chest, i say what i have to and i hold back the rest"
(ani difranco)
"i'd make such a good statistic, somebody should study me now, somebody's gotta be interested in how i feel, just
because i'm here, and i'm real"
(ani difranco)
"as the bombshells of my daily fears explode, i try to trace them to my youth"
(indigo girls)
"we are made to bleed, and scab and heal and bleed again, and turn every scar into a joke. we are made to fight,
and fuck and talk and fight again, and sit around and laugh until we choke, sit around and laugh until we choke"
(ani difranco)
"and as for the truth, it seems like we just pick a theory, the one that justifies our daily lives"
(indigo girls)
"when i look in the mirror i see my days to come, and my face is just a trace of where i'm coming from"
(ani difranco)
"how long till my soul gets it right, can any human being ever reach that kind of light?"
(indigo girls)
"she taught me how to wage a cold war with quiet charm but i just wanna walk through my life unarmed. to accept
and just get by is what my father learned to do, but without all the acceptance and getting by that got my father through"
(ani difranco)
"i am driving up 85 in the kind of morning that lasts all afternoon, just stuck inside the gloom, 4 more exits to
my apartment but i am tempted to keep the car in drive, and leave it all behind."
(john mayer)
"in the end the world comes down to just a few people, but for you it comes down to me. but no one ever asked if
i thought i could be everything to someone, there's a crowd of people harbored in every person, there are so many roles that
we play, and you've decided to love me for eternity, i'm still deciding who i want to be today"
(ani difranco)
"i just found out there's no such thing as the real world, just a lie you've got to rise above"
(john mayer)
"and it's bad that i took that second look, i guess i'm an open book, you know i really didn't intend to embrace
you that long, but then again, i noticed i wasn't the only one hanging on."
(ani difranco)
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