2007-10-01T14:15:00.000-04:00

"Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face?"
-- The Flaming Lips

"You and I have lived through many things.
I'll hold on to your heart."
-- "Cry," James Blunt

"I thought in spite of dreams,
you'd be sitting here with me."
-- Pet Shop Boys

"I've never come close in all of these years
You are the only one to stop my tears."
-- "A Different Corner," Wham!

"Be my somebody tonight,
Be the one who'll hold me tight,
Honey, please, please,
'Cause I've been so all alone,
And no one will pick up the phone,
So honey, please stay,
Honey, please stay,
Honey, please stay."
-- Norah Jones

"I'm having a hard time.
I'm walking a fine line between hope and despair."
-- "I Can't Live Without You," Queen

"I know you must have loved me sometime...
But now I'm just a toy."
-- Barenaked Ladies

"I see you, I hear you, I feel you, I love you."
-- Erasure

"Bring me something to take this pain away."
-- "Washing of the Water," Peter Gabriel

"Here by your side,
I'm gonna stay."
-- "It Ain't Enough," Corey Hart

"I wish you were by my side."
-- INXS

"I've got a certain kind of hurtin' since you've gone.
I've got a pain I can't explain, and it keeps on hanging on.
You were gone at morning and I held on tight;
But I went all to pieces later on that night"
-- Johnny Cash

"All I want is you.
And it was hard.
So hard to take.
There's no escape without a scrape."
-- "You Might Think," the Cars

"A little dose of home-fire got him all smoothed out.
Melancholy wine-soaked tenderness;
She hated it here and she couldn't care less."
-- "The Luxury," The Tragically Hip

"Hold me now, hold me now
Till this hour has gone around"
-- "Van Diemen's Land," U2

"I just don't know what to do with myself
Don't know just what to do with myself
I'm so used to doing everything with you
Planning everything for two
And now that we're through

I just don't know what to do with my time
I'm so lonesome for you it's a crime
Going to a movie only makes me sad
Parties make me feel as bad
When I'm not with you
I just don't know what to do

Like a summer rose
Needs the sun and rain
I need your sweet love
To beat all the pain

I just don't know what to do with myself
I just don't know what to do with myself
Baby if your new love ever turns you down
Come back I will be around
Just waiting for you
I don't know what else to do

Like a summer rose
It needs the sun and rain
I need your sweet love
To beat all the pain

I don't know just what to do with myself
I don't know just what to do with myself
Baby if your new love ever turns you down
Come on back I will be around
Just waiting for you
I don't know what else to do

No, no, no, I don't know what else to do
I'm still so crazy for you

No no no no, I don't know what else to do... no no no..."
-- Dusty Springfield

"I am a poor and a wretched boy."
-- "The Chimbley Sweep," the Decemberists

"You don't seem to know,
Seem to care,
What your heart is for."
-- "Torn," Natalie Imbruglia

"Certainly not the average girl

...

Understands me when I'm fallin'...

Fallin' down...
Fallin' down..."
-- the Velvet Underground

"I miss my baby so.
I can't make it by myself.
I love you so."
-- "Shore Leave," Tom Waits

"I gotta know tonight
If you're alone tonight.
Can't stop this feeling.
Can't stop this fire."
-- "Hysteria," Def Leppard

"To her, I will be true.
I'll buy her furs and pretty things.
I'll even buy a wedding ring.
Until then, I'll settle down.
I'll be your man."
-- David Bowie

"I can't stop thinking about you."
-- "What Do I Know?" Saga

"From our first communication,
It was clear
Any thought of moderation
Would soon disappear."
-- "Nothing At All," Heart

"Everything I have, I bought with you.
But that's alright, too.
It's just everything I do,
We did together.
And there's a little piece of you
In whatever I've got.
Everything I need.
I've got petrol in the car,
I've got some money with me.
There's just one problem:

You're the only one I want.
You're the only one I want.
You're the only one I want.
You're the only one I want."
-- "You're the One," Kate Bush

"I wish to God you'd stay.
Life's so different than it is in your dreams."
-- "Please Call Me Baby," Tom Waits

"Many times I've tried to tell you;
Many times I've cried alone.
Always I'm surprised how well you
Cut my feelings to the bone.

...

Whatever we deny or embrace --
For worse or for better --
We Belong.
We Belong.
We Belong together.

...

Close your eyes and try to sleep now.
Close your eyes and try to dream.
Clear your mind and do your best
To try and wash the palette clean.
We can't begin to know it,
How much we really care;
I hear your voice inside me,
I see your face everywhere."
-- Pat Benatar

"I'm so hot for her.
I'm so hot for her.
I'm so hot for her,
And she's so cold."
-- the Rolling Stones

"When I'm lonely, well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you.
And when I'm dreaming, well I know I'm gonna dream
I'm gonna dream about the time when I'm with you."
-- "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," the Proclaimers

"Well, life's a drag without you.
I found out a little bit too late, oh, yes, I did now.

I want you and all of your time.
I found out a little bit too late, oh, yes, I did now.

Come back baby, come back.
Come back baby, come back.
Come back baby, come back.
Come back into my arms.

Well, I want you in my arms.
I found out a little bit too late, oh, yes, I did now.

Yeah, I want you and all of your time.
I found out a little bit too late, oh, yes, I did now.

I want you to kiss goodnight (you gotta come back).
I want you to hold big time (come back, yeah) (You gotta come back)"
-- "Come Back Baby," Ramones

"Here I stand, all alone,
Trying to fight the pain from a broken heart.
Why she left me? I don't know.
It really doesn't matter anymore.
I thought our love could last forever,
But here I stand, lost and all alone."
-- White Lion

"You and me are floating on a tidal wave...
Together
You and me are drifting into outer space...
And singing"
-- "X & Y," Coldplay

"i remember your red dress
like a field full o' poppy
you were making me dreamy
stunned by a love"
-- "lovely day," the pixies

"I don't want to know emptiness
Take me down to the water
Wanna be baptized in your love
Far away from the loneliness
Take my heart and wash away the fear
Let me be baptized in your love"
-- "Baptized," Lenny Kravitz

"I'm somewhere in between
My love and my agony.
You see, I'm somewhere in between.
My life is falling to pieces:
Somebody put me together."
-- Faith No More

"It's coming on Christmas.

...

I'm so hard to handle.
I'm selfish and I'm sad.
Now I've gone and lost the best baby
That I ever had.

...

I made my baby say goodbye."
-- "River," Joni Mitchell

"Last Christmas, I gave you my heart;
but the very next day, you gave it away."
-- Wham!

"You say you can't break away
But I'm here with my hands on my heart

...

I'll shout out my love to the stars
So wait for the stone on your window, your window
Wait by the car and we'll go, we'll go
When first we laid eyes
I swore to no compromise
'Til I felt my caress on your skin"
-- "O Valencia," The Decemberists

"If only I could get past all this pain."
-- "As Always," Jessica Rhaye

"Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am home again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am whole again

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am young again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am fun again

However far away I will always love you
However long I stay I will always love you
Whatever words I say you know I will always love you
I will always love you

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am free again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am clean again

However far away I will always love you
However long I stay I will always love you
Whatever words I say you know I will always love you
I will always love you"
-- "Love Song," The Cure

"Come on, love. Stay with me."
-- "White Shadows," Coldplay

"When I first fell in love
Is when I felt your touch
But there's so much more I want to say
We need to keep it real
Sharing what we feel
Together we can face tomorrow
If we ever get up at seven o'clock it's too soon
It's better to stay in bed 'till half past noon
Cause we're two fine lovers
So much to discover
Two fine lovers
Living under cover
When I look into your eyes
I came to realize
That you were so much more than my best friend
I'll be there 'till the end
I'm a one woman man
Cause baby you are all I'll ever need
If we ever get up at seven o'clock it's too soon
It's better to stay in bed 'till half past noon
Cause we're two fine lovers
So much to discover
Two fine lovers
Living under cover
We're two fine lovers"
-- Sean Lennon

"I'll drown my beliefs
To have you be in peace.

...

Just don't leave.
Don't leave."
-- "True Love Waits," Radiohead

"Days pass, and this emptiness fills my heart."
-- "In Your Eyes," Peter Gabriel

"Was there something more I could have done?
Or was I not meant to be the one?
Where's the life I thought we would share?"
-- "Why Should I Care?" Diana Krall

"Like a desert needs rain
Like a town needs a name
I need your love

Like a drifter needs a room...

...

I need your love
I need your love

Like a rhythm unbroken
Like drums in the night
Like sweet soul music
Like sunlight
I need your love
I need your love

Like coming home and you don't know where you've been
Like black coffee
Like nicotine
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love

When the night has no end and the day yet to begin
As the room spins around
I need your love
I need your love

Like a Phoenix rising needs a holy tree
Like the sweet revenge of a bitter enemy
I need your love
I need your love

Like the heat needs the sun
Like honey on her tongue
Like the muzzle of a gun
Like oxygen
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love

When the night has no end and the day yet to begin
As the room spins around
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love

Like thunder needs rain
Like the preacher needs pain
Like tongues of flame
Like a soup stain
Like a needle needs a vein
Like someone to blame
Like a thought unchained
Like a runaway train
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love

Like faith needs a doubt
Heat of love in the heart of it
Like a freeway out
Heat of love in the heart of it
I need your love

Heat of love in the heart of it
Like powder needs a spark
Heat of love in the heart of it
Like lies need the dark
Heat of love in the heart of it
I need your love

Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love in the heart of it
Heat of love."
-- "Hawkmoon 269," U2

"You were my lesson I had to learn,
I was your fortress you had to burn."
-- "The Power of Goodbye," Madonna

"His heart beat like thunder,
As they moved cross the floor.
When the music was over,
She slipped out of his arms, and out the door."
-- "So Close," Hall & Oates

"Once, as my heart remember,
All the stars were fallen embers.
Once, when night seemed forever
I was with you.

Once, in the care of morning,
In the air was all belonging.
Once, when that day was dawning,
I was with you.

How far we are from morning.
How far are we.
And the stars shining through the darkness,
Falling in the air.

Once, as the night was leaving
Into us our dreams were weaving.
Once, all dreams were worth keeping.
I was with you.

Once, when our hearts were singing,
I was with you."
-- "Fallen Embers," Enya

"One more night, all alone:
Sittin' here by the telephone."
-- "Destination Heartbreak," Loverboy

"Now I'm ready to close my eyes
And now I'm ready to close my mind
And now I'm ready to feel your hand
And lose my heart on the burning sands"
-- "I Wanna Be Your Dog," Iggy Pop

"Sweet sweet, lover lover.
Never, never, never find another."
-- "Sugar On My Tongue," Talking Heads

"I know I seem careless.
My moods: they change like the weather.
So I ask your forgiveness
While I pull myself together.
In the meantime
I live.
I work.
I wait.
I hope.
I still have faith
That what was mine can still be mine."
-- "Apology," the Go-Go's

"I think I used to have a purpose.
Then again, that might have been a dream.
I think I used to have a voice;
Now, I never make a sound."
-- "Every Day Is Exactly the Same," Nine Inch Nails

"She was everything to me,
Oh yeah, she was everything to me,
But how I ever ever let her go
I'll never know.

She was everything to me:
The sun, the earth, the moon.
My baby, still how I ever let her go
I'll never know."
-- "Don't Go," Ramones

"You know I still love you."
-- Five Long Years," Colin James

"The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile."
-- "Miracle Drug," U2

"For your love, for your love,
I would give the stars above.
For your love, for your love,
I would give you all I could.
For your love.
For your love.
For your love.
I'd give the moon if it were mine to give.
For your love.
I'd give the stars and the sun 'fore I live.
For your love."
-- The Yardbirds

"I want you.
I want you so bad.
I want you.
I want you so bad.
It's driving me mad.
It's driving me mad.

I want you.
I want you so bad, babe.
I want you.
I want you so bad.
It's driving me mad.
It's driving me mad.

I want you.
I want you so bad, babe.
I want you.
I want you so bad.
It's driving me mad.
It's driving me mad.

I want you.
I want you so bad.
I want you.
I want you so bad.
It's driving me mad.
It's driving me mad."
-- the Beatles

"All I want is to be with you."
-- "Forever," Cracker

"All I want is you."
-- U2

"I want you, you, you.
All I want is you, you, you.
All I want is you."
-- Tom Waits

"I want you."
-- Elvis Costello

"Without you, girl, my life is bitter like a lemon.
I want you, I want you."
-- LL Cool J

"Ooh, I want you."
-- Savage Garden

"All I´m gonna give you is
Nothing but the bare and naked truth:
Baby, I want you.
Baby, I want you."
-- Faith Hill

"I want you and I can't get enough."
-- Third Eye Blind

"I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you."
-- Bob Dylan

"I want you the right way."
-- Marvin Gaye

"I want you."
-- Fat Joe

"It’s just the way I want you baby.
So bad, every night and every day."
-- Mariah Carey

"I really want you
I really want you
I really want you now
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
I want you
Now."
-- James Blunt

"I can't stop the way I feel.
Things you do, don't seem real.
Tell me what you've got in mind'
Cause we're runnin' out of time.
Won't you ever set me free?
This waiting round is killing me"
-- "She Drives Me Crazy," Fine Young Cannibals

"Any day, any week, any month any year,
I'll never forget what we shared.
Comes a day there's a knock on my door,
I hope that you'll be standing there."
-- "Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere," the Monkees

"Take a little picture in a photobooth,
Keep it in a locket and I think of you."
-- "Think I'm In Love," Beck

"She
May be the reason I survive;
The why and wherefore I'm alive,
The one I'll care for through the rough in ready years.
Me,
I'll take her laughter and her tears,
And make them all my souvenirs.
For where she goes, I've got to be;
The meaning of my life is
She,
She, oh she."
-- Elvis Costello

"If I could be... who you wanted.
If I could be... who you wanted..."
-- "Fake Plastic Trees," Radiohead

"Now, I'm back to what I knew before you.
Somehow, the city doesn't look the same.
I'd give my life for one more night
Of having you here to hold me tight.
Oh please, take me there again.

I remember how you loved me.
Time was all we had, until the day we said goodbye.
I remember every moment.

...

Do you remember all the nights we spent in silence?
Every single breath you took was mine.
We can have it all again:
Say that you'll be with me when the sun brings your heart to mine."
-- "Endless Summer Nights," Richard Marx
posted by Jaybird at 6:46 AM

"I loved you for a long, long time.
I know this love is real.
It don't matter how it all went wrong,
That don't change the way I feel.
And I can't believe that time's
Gonna heal this wound I'm speaking of.

...

I'm aching for you, baby.
I can't pretend I'm not.

...

I see you in the subway,
And I see you on the bus.
I see you lying down with me,
I see you waking up.
I see your hand, I see your hair,
Your bracelets and your brush.
And I call to you, I call to you,
But I don't call soft enough."
-- "Ain't No Cure For Love," Leonard Cohen

"It's been a long year
Since you've been gone.
I've been alone here...

...

I keep a journal of memories.
I'm feeling lonely, I can't breathe."
-- "Fall To Pieces," Velvet Revolver

"Missing you since you went away,
Sing the blues most everyday,
Counting the nights and longing for you.

I'm in the mood to let you know
I never knew I loved you so.
Please tell me that you love me too.

For when I get that feeling,
I'm in ecstasy."
-- "Squeeze Me," Diana Krall

"Girl, I want to be with you all of the time.
The only time I feel alright is by your side."
-- "All Day and All of the Night," the Kinks

"Don't go.
There's so much left to tell you.
You just don't know how I need you.
I never said how I cared,
Until now that you're leaving.
I can't hide what I'm feeling.
Please wait, there's so much left to tell you.
I never said how I loved you.
Oh, can't you stay one more day?
And I'll try to show all of the love
That I used to keep from you.
Words alone can't make you love me,
But how else am I to say to you
That I know I will always want you?
Help me, I can't stop myself crying.
Help me, 'cause I feel like I'm dying.
Please, can't you stay with me?
'Cause I can't live without you, my love.
Words alone can't make you love me.
But how else am I to say to you
That I know I will always want you?
So help me, I can't stop myself crying.
Help me, 'cause I feel like I'm dying.
Please: can't you stay with me?
'Cause I can't live without you, my love."
-- Dusty Springfield

"Another night slowly closes in,
And I feel so lonely.
Touching heat freezing on my skin,
I pretend you still hold me.
I'm going crazy, I'm losing sleep.

...

I can't believe you're gone.

...

Wherever you go, I'll be with you.
Whatever you want, I'll give it to you.
Whenever you need someone to lay your heart and head upon.
-- "The Flame," Cheap Trick

"I will fall to my knees like a fool,
If it's the only way of getting through."
-- "Missing You," Chris DeBurgh

"Before the clocks kept time, before the world was made
From the cruel sun you were my shelter
You were my shelter and my shade."
-- "Wild Honey," U2

"Must I dream and always see your face?
Why can't we overcome this wall?"
-- "Last Goodbye," Jeff Buckley

"When she does that thing,
I want to breathe her in.
Throw away my world
If I could see that pearl."
-- "Shine," INXS

"When I reach out, there's nothing to find.
When I sleep, I break down and cry."
-- "Fading Like A Flower," Roxette

"Did I love you wrong? I'm such a mess.
Was my love too strong? Then I'll love you less.
I'll do almost anything to get you back,
And I'll take whoever tries to plug your jack.
But that's not easy when you're not here.
I wish I could flick a switch and you would appear.
'Cause I'd like to gain some of your sympathy.
The only thing I've won is the pain you're causing me.

So now what am I gonna do?
I loom about, still missing you.
Can't seem to find nowhere to go.
Can't seem to learn what I want to know.
Though I shouldn't let it get to me,
It bothers me that you went away.
Was I too thin? Was I too fat?
Now you're gone. And how will I cope with that?"
-- the Hives

"In the storm, you are my destination.
In the port, you are my storm.
But I would weather you, my love, if you would be my guide;
If you would be my stars in the sky tonight.
I search for you with every crest I ride,
In every trough I travel through;
I search for you in every trough I travel through."
-- "Mariner's Song," Cowboy Junkies

"Every day in total darkness, every day is hell.
Every day is black as night, no one left to tell.
Disappear: I'm just a ghost left over from another day.
Lost in thoughts of a lonely girl."
-- Screaming Trees

"Where does the heart reside,
If not where I lay my head?"
-- "Home," Barenaked Ladies

"And when the day is done
I will follow you into the sun
And after all my love
I will follow you into the sun
All the tears you cry
Will one day be dry
And like birds we'll fly
Up into the sky
Our love will survive
And when the day is done
I will follow you into the sun
And after all my love
I will follow you into the sun
All these days gone by
Just like waves roll by
I can't wait to hold
You inside my arms
Our love will survive
And when the day is done
I will follow you into the sun
And after all my love
I will follow you into the sun."
-- Sean Lennon

"Stranded on a plane
That was circling round,
I carry my heart
Like a soldier with a hand grenade."
-- "Movie Theme," Beck

"You're awful bright. You're awful smart.
I must admit: you broke my heart.

...

While lovers laugh, and music plays,
I stumble by, and I hide my pain."
-- "Streets of Love," the Rolling Stones

"Too much emotion, a hole in my heart.
Feeling alone since we've been apart.
And if I had the chance,
I'd never let you go.
Just want you to know.

...

How many times spent thinking this through.
So many nights spent here by the phone,
Wonderin' if you felt just as alone.

...

Just remember the way I held you:
You're always in my heart."
-- "Lay Down Burden," Brian Wilson

"Well, I love my baby;
My baby don't love me."
-- "Kindhearted Woman Blues," Keb' Mo'

"I disappeared in you.
You disappeared from me.
I gave you everything you ever wanted;
It wasn't what you wanted."
-- "So Cruel," U2

"Nothing but memories of what never was

...

There's nothing left to do
There's nothing left to feel

...

To make yourself feel better
You make it so you'll never
Give in to your forevers
And live for always
And forever, forever, you're forever to be
Forever, forever, you're forever to me."
-- "Jellybelly," Smashing Pumpkins

"I don't think you realize the effect you have over me."
-- "Near You Always," Jewel

"Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin.
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in.
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove."
-- "Dance Me To the End of Love," Leonard Cohen

"In a land, there's a town.
And in that town, there's a house.
And in that house, there's a woman.
And in that woman, there's a heart that I love."
-- "Take It With Me," Tom Waits

"Stay with me 'til time turns over"
-- "If I Could," phish

"I think more than I want to think,
Do things I never should do.
I drink much more than I ought to drink
Because it brings me back you."
-- "Lilac Wine," Nina Simone

"There's no reason,
There's no rhyme,
Without you."
-- "Par Avion," Mike & the Mechanics

"Since my true love walked out the door,
Tears I never had before...

Rain is falling on the meadow
Where once my love and I did lie.
Now she is gone from the meadow;
My love, goodbye.

...

Oh, how I wish your heart could see
How mine just aches and breaks all day.
Come on home, and take away
This ribbon of darkness over me."
-- Gordon Lightfoot

"You loved me then, but you don't anymore."
--"The Day You Walked Away," Joel Plaskett Emergency

"Inside my skin, there is this space.
It twists and turns.
It bleeds and aches.

Inside my heart, there's an empty room.
It's waiting for lightning.
It's waiting for you."
-- "Absence of Fear," Jewel

"Alone with my thoughts this evening,
I walked on the banks of Tyne.
I wondered how I could win you,
Or if I could make you mine.

The wind it was so insistent
With tales of a stormy south,
But when I spied two birds in a sycamore tree
There came a dryness in my mouth.

For then without rhyme or reason,
The two birds did rise up to fly.
And where the two birds were flying,
I swear I saw you and I.

I walked out this morning.
It was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes.
For the first time, I saw the work of heaven
In the line where the hills had been married to the sky.

And all around me,
Every blade of singing grass
Was calling out your name,
And that our love would always last.

And inside every turning leaf
Is the pattern of an older tree.
The shape of our future,
The shape of all our history."
-- "I Was Brought To My Senses," Sting

"I’d walk through blazing fire, baby,
If I knew you was on the other side.

Oh, I miss you... and my happiness is o’er.
Winter’s gone, the river’s on the rise.
I loved you then and ever shall,
But there’s no one left here to tell;
The world has gone black before my eyes."
-- "Nettie Moore," Bob Dylan

"I can't laugh,
And I can't sing.
I'm finding it hard
To do anything.

...

If you only knew
What I'm going through;
I just can't smile without you.

You came along
Just like a song
And brightened my day."
-- "I Can't Smile Without You," Barry Manilow

"There's a hole in my heart that can only be filled by you."
-- Extreme

"I'll go anywhere with you:
Just wrap me up in chains.
But if you try to go alone, don't think I'll understand.

Stay with me.

Stay with me."
-- Shakespear's Sister

"Promises are carved out of lust,
With a fire in the heart that burns without regret.
I vow to play the part in this meeting of the soul."
-- "Soul Mistake," INXS

"These are her mountains and skies and she radiates
And through history's rivers of blood she regenerates
And like the sun disappears only to reappear
She's eternally here."
-- Rage Against the Machine

"There's a universe between us now,
But I want to reach out and tell you how much you mean to me."
-- "Families," Neil Young

"Everytime I think of you, I always catch my breath.
And I'm still standing here, and you're miles away.
And I'm wonderin' why you left.
And there's a storm that's raging through my frozen heart tonight.

I hear your name in certain circles, and it always makes me smile.
I spend my time thinkin' about you, and it's almost driving me wild.
And there's a heart that's breaking down this long distance line tonight...

...

You don't know how desperate I've become,
And it looks like I'm losing this fight.

...

There's a message that I'm sending out, like a telegraph to your soul.
And if I can't bridge this distance, stop this heartbreak overload."
-- "Missing You," John Waite

"The only thing you feel is vicious.
I don't want to say 'I want you',
Even though I want you so much."
-- "Message To My Girl," Split Enz

"I can see for myself that the sun is sinking.
How I wish you were here to see.
Tell me now, am I wrong in thinking that you have forgotten me?"
-- "Workingman's Blues #2," Bob Dylan

"Secret moments, shared in the heat of the afternoon.
Out of the stillness... soft spoken words.
You've got the most unbelievable blue eyes I've ever seen.
You've got me almost melting away.
As we lay there, under a blue sky with pure white shining stars...
Exotic sweetness... a magical time..."
-- "I Love You Always Forever," Donna Lewis

"Suddenly I've found
How wonderful a sound can be."
-- West Side Story soundtrack

"There'll never be a time you'll ever feel the same,
And I know it's only words,
But if you change your mind, you know that I'll be here."
--"One More Night," Phil Collins

"You know that I love you right from my heart,
And you know I've always loved you, darling.

...

You know I love you baby, and I don't care where you might be.
-- "Keep Your Hand On Your Heart", Big Bill Broonzy

"(My baby left.)
(My baby left.)
(Gone. Gone.)
(Gone. Gone.)

...

Think of all the things that I could
Wish that i had told her...

I fly so high
Then fall so low.

...

I would hold you in my arms until we both are home.
I would hold you in my arms until we both are old.
-- "Signs of Love," Moby

"The streets are getting hotter.
There is no water to put out the fire.

...

Then I looked up in the sky,
Hoping of days of paradise.

...

You know you're my lover.
When the wind blows, I can feel you.
Through the weather, and even when we're apart,
It feels like we're together."
-- Carlos Santana

"I never thought you'd hurt me.
I guess you live and learn,
That when you're playin' with fire you're bound to get burned.
I've been mistreated, I've been used before,
I get kicked in the face. Still, I come back for more.

But I won't cry no more, 'cause the tears are all in vain.
We can pick up the pieces and start it all again.
Let's just get back to the way it was before;
Oh girl, I can't take anymore.

Baby, don't treat me bad.
Well, this could be the best thing that you'll ever have.
Baby, don't treat me bad.
(Well) you can do anything, but baby, don't treat me bad.
Oh, don't treat me bad.

I gave it everything, but you threw it all away.
I can't take anymore of these games that you play.
I've been through heartache, and I've been through pain,
And it's hard to believe you still treat me this way.

Well I won't cry no more, 'cause the tears are all in vain.
We can pick up the pieces and start it all again.
Let's just get back to the way it was before;
Oh girl, I can't take anymore.

Baby, don't treat me bad.
Well, this could be the best thing that you'll ever have.
Baby, don't treat me bad.
(Well) you can do anything, but baby, don't treat me bad.
Oh, don't treat me bad."
-- Firehouse

"I choke in the air and it catches and burns my eyes.
Cue those tears in my eyes.

'I'll be with you again', words without credence, oh.

Call me your lover but I made the first move.
Say that I'm special but when do you prove it to me?

'I'll be with you again', words without credence, oh.

Those statements are empty and hollow
and they don't feed the hunger inside.
See those tears in my eyes."
-- "This Means Anything," Paul Young

"She moves like she don't care.
Smooth as silk, cool as air.
Ooh, it makes you wanna cry.
She doesn't know your name.
And your heart beats like a subway train.
Ooh, it makes you wanna die.

...

I've seen this thing before.
In my best friend, and the boy next door.
Fool for love and fool on fire
Won't come in from the rain
She's oceans running down the drain
Blue as ice and desire

...

You've gotta see her.
Go insane and out of your mind...

...

A million and one candle lights."
-- Blondie

"Sometimes the solution is worse than the problem.
Let's stay together."
-- "Twentieth Century," Pet Shop Boys

"Listen to the girl
As she takes on half the world
Moving up and so alive

...

I'll be your plastic toy."
-- "Just Like Honey," the Jesus and Mary Chain

"i don’t know why i feel so tongue-tied
don’t know why i feel so skinned alive
my thoughts are misguided and a little naive
i twitch and i salivate like with myxomatosis
you should put me in a home or you should put me down"
-- radiohead

"I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams."
-- "Here I Go Again," Whitesnake

"It's times like this I feel you've always been close to me"
-- R. B. Greaves

"The wine beneath the bed
The things we've done and said
And all the mem'ries
That come glancing back to me
In my loneliness

...

Consciousness has found me sometimes wondering
Where you're at.

...

I'm wondering if you'll take me back again.
Take me back one more time.

...

The rising of the water;
The winter winds of days gone by...
I often ask myself and wonder why
It's gone."
-- "Spanish Rose," Van Morrison

"Even though it's been so long,
My love for you keeps going strong.
I remember the things that we used to do:
A kiss in the rain 'til the sun shined through.

...

I'm still in love with you.
I miss you like crazy.
I miss you like crazy.
Ever since you went away, every hour of every day.
I miss you like crazy.
I miss you like crazy.
No matter what I say or do, there's just no getting over you...

...

Hold me and tell me it's not too late.
We're so good together...

...

When a feeling gets this strong,
You know the real thing came along.
And I miss you.
I miss you like crazy baby.
Only your sweet love can save me.
I miss you like crazy.
A love like ours will never end;
Just touch me and we're there again.
Miss you like crazy.
I miss you like crazy."
-- Natalie Cole

"Feeling stupid, feeling small.

...

One of us is lonely
One of us is only
Waiting for a call."
-- "One of Us," ABBA

"Don't let my glad expression
Give you the wrong impression.
'Cos really I'm sad.
Oh, I'm sadder than sad.
Well, I'm hurt and I want you so bad;
Like a clown I appear to be glad..."
-- "Tears of a Clown," Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

"If nothing's what you want,
You'll get nothing more from me."
-- "A Penny More," Skydiggers

"I tend to dream you when I'm not sleeping.

...

Is it my turn to totally understand,
To watch you walk out of my life and not do a damn thing...
Oh, I apologize for all the things I've done.
But now I'm underwater and I'm drowning...
Is it my turn to be the one to cry?
Isn't it amazing how some things just completely turn around...
So take every little piece of my heart...
So take every little piece of my soul..."
-- "I'd Die Without You," P.M. Dawn

"Please don't take my heart away.
Promise me just one more night."
--"If You Leave," OMD

"When I recall what we had,
I feel lost.
I feel sad.
With nothing but the memory of yester love."
-- "Yesterme Yesteryou Yesterday," Stevie Wonder

"Tell the truth: you never wanted me."
-- "Porcelain," Moby

"I am as ugly as I seem:
Worse than all your dreams could ever make me."
-- the White Stripes

"Every time I look into your eyes, I'm helplessly aware
That the someone I've been searching for is right there."
-- "Hold On To the Nights," Richard Marx

"Love: it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed."
-- "The Rose," Bette Midler

"I'm sorry if my heart breaking ruined your day."
-- "Sometimes It Be That Way," Jewel

"Everybody's telling me
'You'll be over her eventually',
But how am I supposed to feel so secure?

...

The letter started with "Goodbye".
I've read it half a million times.
Tell me this is just a dream...
When I wake up she'll be here next to me.
Tell me it will be just the way it was..."
-- "Who's Holding Donna Now," DeBarge

"Everyone knows that a man ain't supposed to cry;
I gotta cry, 'cause cryin' eases the pain.
People, this hurt I feel inside --
Words can never explain.

...

Day in, day out,
My tear-stained face is pressed against the window pane.
I search the skies desperately for rain,
'Cause raindrops will hide my teardrops,
And no one will ever know that I'm cryin', cryin' when I go outside.
To the world outside, my tears I refuse to explain
Oh, I wish it would rain.

Let it rain, let it rain.
I need rain to disguise the tears in my eyes..."
-- the Temptations

"I got the call today, I didn't wanna hear
But I knew that it would come.
-- "The Heart of the Matter," Don Henley

"I will never leave you

...

I swear to God I need you."
-- "No One's Gonna Hurt You," James Iha

"Nothing said could change the fact:
My trust was blind, you broke the pact."
-- "As Heaven Is Wide," Garbage

"Of all these friends and lovers,
There is no one compares with you.
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new.
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before,
I know I'll often stop and think about them.
In my life, I love you more.
-- the Beatles

"I walk along the city streets
You used to walk along with me
And every step I take recalls
How much in love we used to be

...

I'll never love another, baby
I never will forget you, baby
You'll always be a part of me."
-- "Always Something There To Remind Me," Naked Eyes

"I remember all the times I tried so hard
And you laughed in my face 'cause you held all the cards."
-- "I Don't Care Anymore," Phil Collins

"No more common dress or elliptical caress...
Don't look into your eyes cause I'm desperately in love.

In love.

When you walk in the room, everything disappears.
When you walk in the room, it's a terrible mess.
When you walk in the room, I start to melt.
When you walk in the room, I follow you round.

Like a dog, I'm a dog. I'm a dog. I'm a lapdog.
I'm your lapdog."
-- "Skip Divided," Thom Yorke

"As I walk alone,
I wonder what went wrong with our love;
A love that was so strong.
And as I still walk on,
I think of the things we've done together while our hearts were young.

I'm walking in the rain.
Tears are falling, and I feel the pain.
Wishing you were here by me to end this misery."
-- "Runaway," Del Shannon

"And the years have proven to offer nothing since you moved.
You're long gone, but I can't move on.
And I miss you like the deserts miss the rain."
-- "Missing," Everything But the Girl

"I used to feel your fire, but now it's cold inside."
-- "What It Takes," Aerosmith

"Please don't leave me all by myself.
I've got this burning, burning, yearning
Feelin' inside me, deep inside me.
And it hurts so bad.
You came into my heart so tenderly,
With a burning love that stings like a bee
Now that I surrender, so help me sweet
You now wanna leave

...

Don't you want me no more?"
-- "Where Did Our Love Go," the Supremes

"I come from a place that hurts,
God knows how I've cried.

...

I've come too close to happiness,
To have it swept away
Don't think I can take the pain

...

And my heart is in your hands

...

Hold me
Don't ever let me go
Say it just one time
Say you love me."
-- "Again," Janet Jackson

"Sound asleep in my bed.
I hope I'm in your dreams; you're in mine.

...

While the river's rolling, mountains climb,
I will always be by your side.
I will always love you, 'till the day I die."
-- Modabo

"Love.
Like a road that never ends.
How it leads me back again to heartache, I'll never understand."
-- "Next Time I Fall," Peter Cetera and Amy Grant

"It seems colder lately at night,
And I try to sleep with the lights on.
Every time when the phone rings,
I pray to God it's you."
-- "I Miss You," Klymaxx

"Please, return the love you took from me."
-- "Somebody's Cryin'," Chris Isaak

"Losing love is like a window in your heart.
Everybody sees you're blown apart."
-- "Graceland," Paul Simon

"Thought I'd drop a line to say
That I wish this happy day
Would find me beside you.

...

Seems like years ago we met
On a day I can't forget.
'Cause that's when we fell in love
Do you remember the names we had for each other
You were my pretty, I was your baby
How could we say goodbye?"
-- "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby," Ronnie Milsap

"... Tell you, I'm sorry.
You don't know how lovely you are.

...

Oh, it's such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy.
No one ever said that it would be this hard.

...

Tell me you love me, come back and haunt me."
-- "The Scientist," Coldplay

"I love you, baby, and I always will.
I love you, baby, and I always will.
I love you, baby, and I always will.
Ever since I put your picture in a frame.
I love you, baby, and I always will.
Ever since I put your picture in a frame.
Ever since I put your picture in a frame.
Ever since I put your picture in a frame."
-- Tom Waits

"Girl, I can't sleep at night without holding you tight
... Each time I try I just break down and cry"
-- "End of the Road," Boyz II Men

"I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you."
-- "The Luckiest," Ben Folds

"I tried my best.
I gave my all.
Sometimes my best wasn't good enough for you."
-- "Pardon Me," Weezer

"I could be so content, hearing the sound of your breath."
-- "Cold," Annie Lennox

"A human being's made of more than air
With all that bulk, you're bound to see him there
Unless that human bein' next to you
Is unimpressive, undistinguished, You know who..."
-- "Mister Cellophane," Chicago soundtrack

"Nothing really matters when you're gone.
If you think that you feel nothing at all...
If you don't, then you don't.
If you won't, then you won't.
And I will consider you gone."
-- Ben Folds

"You know I love you, I always will. My mind's made up by the way that I feel."
-- "Love Is All Around," the Troggs

"I never see the light. Still, I follow you."
-- "Everything In My Heart," Corey Hart

"Feel like my soul has turned into steel.
I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.

...

Well my sense of humanity has gone down the drain.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain.
She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind;
She put down in writing what was in her mind.

...

Sometimes my burden seems more than I can bear."
-- "Not Dark Yet," Bob Dylan

"I save your messages just to hear your voice."
-- "At My Most Beautiful," R.E.M.

"So f*** it all, 'cause I don't care.
So what? somehow, somewhere, we dared to try.

...

I'd die just to feel.
Why do the same old things keep on happening?"
-- "Tales of a Scorched Earth," Smashing Pumpkins

"My love for you will always burn."
-- "Candle on the Water," Helen Reddy

"I'll do anything for you.
I can't do anything except be in love with you.
And all I do is miss you, and the way we used to be."
-- "Romeo and Juliet," Dire Straits

"You act as if you just don't care

...

And I can only play that part
And sit and nurse my broken heart

So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.

....

In this theatre that I call my soul
I always play the starring role

So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
So lonely.
I feel lonely.
I'm so lonely.
I feel so low.
I feel lonely.
I'm so lonely.
I feel so low."
-- the Police

"I'm the one that you want to trample in the dust."
-- "I Am In Love," Crowded House

"I am here for you, if you'd only care.
You touched my heart, you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.

...

Love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.
I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.

...

I'd spend a lifetime with you.
I know your fears and you know mine.

...

And I love you, I swear that's true.
I cannot live without you.

...

You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

...

I'm so hollow."
-- "Goodbye My Lover," James Blunt

"Tell me... tell me that your sweet love hasn't died.
Give me... give me one more chance to keep you satisfied."
-- "Always On My Mind," Willie Nelson

"It's like someone took a knife, baby edgy and dull, and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul."
-- "I'm On Fire," Bruce Springsteen

"Call me. Call me, baby."
-- "Baby Don't Cry," INXS

"I'm feeling low, and there's no place to go. And I'm on my knees, falling back down on the floor. And I've had enough, and the situation's tough, and I'm hanging on by my nails; holding on, hoping I won't fail. This is what reality is made of?"
-- "Bitter Pill," Annie Lennox

"You say that you're leaving. Well, that comes as no surprise."
-- "Hasn't Hit Me Yet," Blue Rodeo

"Do you ever feel lonely sitting in a crowded room?"
-- "Have You Got The Blues," Matt Andersen

"If you ever had any kind of love for me, you kept it all so well hid."
-- "Don't Ask Me Why," Eurythmics

"Where are you when I need you around... and I all ask you is for another chance."
-- "Crestfallen," Smashing Pumpkins

"I can't believe this pain. It's driving me insane. Without your touch, life will be lonely."
-- "Hands to Heaven," Breathe

"It doesn't take a talent to be mean. Your words can crash things that are unseen. So, please be careful with me; I'm sensitive and I'd like to stay that way."
-- Jewel

"A weakling on its knees is all you want to hear and all you want to see romantically..."
-- "Falls to Climb," R.E.M.

"Just say you'll wait... you'll wait for me."
-- "'Til Kingdom Come," Coldplay

"The purpose of loving is the pounding it takes."
-- "You Don't Make It Easy Babe," Josh Ritter

Life is but the means, but love's the end.