I met you at JC Penney
I think your nametag said "Jenny"
I coldstep to you with a fresh pack of gum
Somehow I knew you were lookin' for some
Like a fruit that's ripe for the pickin'
I wouldn't do you like that, Zankou Chicken
'Cos only you've got a thing
That I just got to get with
I just got to get, get with you
And you know what we're gonna do

I wanna get with you
Oh girl, and your sister
I think her name's Debra

Girl, I only wanna be there with you
Cause you got something that I just to get with

I pick you up late at night after work
I said "Lady, step inside my Hyundai"
I'm gonna take you up to Glendale, yeah
Gonna take you for a real good meal

'Cos when our eyes did meet
Girl you know I was packin' heat
Ain't no use in wastin' no time gettin' to know each other, you know the deal
'Cos only you got a thing
That I just got to get with, got to get with
I just got to get with you girl

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Labels: Alternative, Beck, Show All

It's been a while since I've seen you smile
But now you've come back again
Came into the room and you saw my girl
And you asked her how long it's been
"A year" she said and you shook your head
Said "I'm surprised it's gone on that long"

Baby, Baby, Baby Bitch
For words I am at a loss
Baby, Baby, Baby Bitch
I'm better now please fuck off

What else you gonna say when while you're back
on your stay
Maybe something, maybe nothing, we'll see
It's just too bad, you're beautiful I guess
I wasn't for you and you weren't for me

Baby, Baby, Baby Bitch
Please slip back into yourself
Baby, Baby, Baby Bitch
Go conquer someone else

People say, "How beautiful, how sweet, how kind"
You're perfect, you've got nothing to hide
But I, for one, have seen the sun
And the bitch that you've locked up inside

Got fat, got angry, started hating myself
Wrote "Birthday Boy" for you babe
Now I'm skinny and sick and paranoid
Without a cent to my name

Baby, Baby, Baby Bitch
Fuck you, you stinkin' ass ho
Most beauty I've seen
you come from a dream
But I can't close my eyes anymore
No, I can't close my eyes anymore


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Labels: Alternative, Show All, Ween

but I fear I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
here in this lonely place
...
there's nothing I'd like
better than to fall
but I fear I have nothing to give

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Labels: Alternative, Sarah McLachlan, Show All

I was staring at the sky
Just looking for a star
To pray on or wish on
Or something like that
I was having a sweet fix
Of a daydream of a boy
Whose reality, I knew,
Was a hopeless to be had
But then the dove of hope
Began its downward slope
And I believed for a moment that
My chances were
Approaching to be grabbed
But as it came down near,
So did a weary tear
I thought it was a bird,
But it was just a paper bag

Hunger hurts,
And I want him so bad, oh it kills
'Cause I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up
I got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold
Hunger hurts but starvin' works
When it costs too much to love

And I went crazy again today
Looking for a strand to climb
Looking for a little hope
Baby said he couldn't stay
Wouldn't put his lips to mine
A fail to kiss is a fail to cope
I said, "Honey, I don't feel so good,
Don't feel justified.
Come on put a little love here in my void"
He said "It's all in your head"
And I said "So's everything"
But he didn't get it
I thought he was a man
But he was just a little boy

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Labels: Alternative, Fiona Apple, Show All

The devil that you know is better than the one you don't
And so it goes.
Like lonely ghosts at a roadside cross
We stay because we don't know where else to go.

The places our old haunts
Will miss us when we're gone
We can never move on
So like lonely ghosts at a roadside cross
We stay

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Labels: Alternative, O+S, Show All

Speak to me, why are you building this thick brick wall to defend me when your silence is my greatest fear?

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Labels: 10000 Maniacs, Alternative, Show All

Thank God it's fatal. Thank God it's fatal.

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Labels: Alternative, Andrew Bird, Show All

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

I am the wisest woman you've ever met
I am the kindest soul with whom you've connected
I have the bravest heart that you've ever seen and you've never met anyone
Who is as positive as I am sometimes

You see everything you see every part
You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I'm ashamed
There's not anything to which you can't relate
And you're still here

I blame everyone else, not my own partaking
My passive aggressiveness can be devastating
I'm terrified and mistrusting and you've never met anyone
Who is as closed down as I am sometimes

You see everything you see every part
You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I'm ashamed
There's not anything to which you can't relate
And you're still here

What I resist persists and speaks louder than I know
What I resist you, love, no matter how low or high I go

I am the funniest woman that you've ever known
I am the dullest woman that you've ever known
I'm the most gorgeous woman that you've ever known and you've never met anyone
Who is as everything as I am sometimes

You see everything you see every part
You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I'm ashamed
There's not anything to which you can't relate
And you're still here

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Labels: Alanis Morissette, Alternative, Show All

Nothing's so loud
As hearing when we lie
The truth is not kind
And you've said neither am I

And the air outside, so soft
Is saying everything.
Everything.

All I want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All I want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, I feel it say.

Nothing's so cold
As closing the heart when all we need
Is to free the soul
But we wouldn't be that brave I know

And the air outside, so soft
Confessing everything.
Everything.

All I want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All I want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, I feel it say

And it won't matter now
Whatever happens will be
Though the air speaks
Of all we'll never be
It won't trouble me

All I want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All I want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, I feel it say

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Labels: Alternative, Show All, Toad the Wet Sprocket

Mama, mama, mama, why am I so alone?
I can't go outside
I'm scared I might not make it home
I'm alive, I'm alive
but I'm sinking in
If there's anyone at home at your place darlin'
Why don't you invite me in?
Don't try to bleed me
I've been there before and I deserve a little more

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Labels: Alternative, Counting Crows, Show All

There's no one left to finger
There's no one here to blame
There's no one left to talk to, honey
And there ain't no one to buy our innocence

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Labels: Alternative, Sarah McLachlan, Show All

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept?
What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?
What with this distance it seems so obvious?

Just make sure you don't tell on me
Especially to members of your family
We best keep this to ourselves
And not tell any members of our inner posse
...

Ooh this could be messy
Ooh I don't seem to mind
Ooh don't go telling everybody
And overlook this supposed crime

We'll fast-forward to a few years later
No one knows except the both of us
And I have honored your request for silence
And you've washed your hands clean of this

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Labels: Alanis Morissette, Alternative, Show All

Does she talk
The way I do
Is her voice reminding you
Of the promises
The little white lies too
Sometimes, tell me
While she's touching you
Just by mistake
Accidentally do you say my name?

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Labels: Alternative, Natalie Merchant, Show All

I lie in an early bed, thinking late thoughts
Waiting for the black to replace my blue
I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught
But daddy longlegs, I feel that I'm finally growing weary
Of waiting to be consumed by you

Give me the first taste, let it begin heaven cannot wait
Forever
Darling, just start the chase - I'll let you win but you must
Make the endeavor

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Labels: Alternative, Fiona Apple, Show All

What ravages of spirit
Conjured this tempestuous rage
Created you a monster
Broken by the rules of love
...
And I have the sense to recognize that
I don't know how to let you go

Every moment marked
With apparitions of your soul
I'm ever swiftly moving
Trying to escape this desire
The yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
...
Deep within I'm shaken by the violence
Of existing for only you
I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do

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Labels: Alternative, Sarah McLachlan, Show All

Love tears me up like a demon
Opens the wounds and then fills them with lead.
And I'm having some trouble just breathing.
If we weren't such good friends, I think that I'd hate you.
If we weren't such good friends, I'd wish you were dead

Skillet on the stove; it's such a temptation
Maybe I'll be the special one that doesn't get burned.
What the fuck was I thinking?

But it's so embarrassing
I'm in this awkward and uncomfortable thing,
and I'm running out of places to hide in

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Labels: Alternative, Jenny Owen Youngs, Show All

Lie still, little bottle, and shake my shaky hand
Black coffee's not enough for me, I need a better friend
One pill at the bottom is singing my favorite song
I know I must investigate
I hope that I can sing along

There's no time for metaphors cried the little pill to me
He said, "Life is a placebo masquerading as a simile"*
Well, I knew that pill was lying
Too gregarious, too nice
But as he walked I had to sing this twice

Lie still, little bottle
Don't twist, it ain't twistin' time
With every move you make you just disintegrate my ever-troubled mind

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Labels: Alternative, Show All, They Might Be Giants

The photograph on the dashboard
Taken years ago
Turned around backwards so the windshield shows
Every street light reveals a picture in reverse
Still its so much clearer
...
You I thought I knew you
You I can not judge
You I thought you knew me
This one laughing quietly
Underneath my breath

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Labels: Alternative, R.E.M., REM, Show All

...

The night is my companion, and solitude my guide
Would I spend forever here and not be satisfied?

...

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Labels: Alternative, Sarah McLachlan, Show All

It's alright to make mistakes
You're only human
Inside everybody's hiding something

Staring at the same four walls
Have you tried to help yourself?
The rings around your eyes, they don't hide
That you need to get some rest

It's alright to make mistakes
You're only human
Inside everybody's hiding something

Take time to catch your breath and choose your moment

Don't slide

Even at a time like this
When the morning seems so far
Think that pain belongs to you
But it's happened to us all


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Labels: Alternative, Dido, Show All

You're future bright
Beyond compare
It's rags to riches
Over there

San Andreas Fault
Moved it's fingers
Through the ground
Earth divided
Plates collided
Such an awful sound
...
Terra cotta shattered
And the walls came
Tumbling down

Oh promised land
Oh wicked ground
Build a dream
Tear it down


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Labels: Alternative, Natalie Merchant, Show All

Do you want to flap your wings and fly away from here?

Princess, do you really wanna flap your wings and fly?
'Cause you've got time.
He keeps telling me, you've got time.
But I don't believe him, you've got time.
I keep on pushing harder,
I keep on pushing farther away.
But he keeps tellin' me, baby
He says baby, yeah.

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Labels: Alternative, Liz Phair, Rock, Show All

I may know the word but not say it
This may be the time but I might waste it
...
I recognize the walls inside I recognize them all
I've paced between them chasing demons down until they fall
In fitful sleep enough to keep their strength enough to crawl
Into my head with tangled threads they riddle me to solve again and again


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Labels: Alternative, Natalie Merchant, Show All

These are days that you'll remember
When May is rushing over you
With desire to be part of the miracles
You see in every hour
You'll know it's true
That you are blessed and lucky
...
These are days
These are the days you might fill
With laughter until you break
These days you might feel
A shaft of light
Make its way across your face
And when you do
Then you'll know how it was meant to be
See the signs and know their meaning
It's true
Then you'll know how it was meant to be
Hear the signs and know they're speaking
To you, to you.

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Labels: 10000 Maniacs, Alternative, Pop, Show All

And I'm sorry every day
I won't always love these selfish things
I won't always live...

I won't always love what I'll never have
I won't always live in my regrets

You'll sit alone forever
If you wait for the right time
What are you hoping for?

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Labels: Alternative, Jimmy Eat World, Show All

Well I think I see another side
Maybe just another light that shines
And I look over now through the door
And I still belong to no one else
Maybe I hold you to blame for all the reasons that you left.

Surely don't stay long
I'm missing you now.
It's like I told you
I'm over you somehow
Before I close the door
I need to hear you say goodbye.
Baby won't you change your mind?

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Labels: Alternative, Mazzy Star, Show All

[high part:]
Everytime I see your face I get all wet between my legs
Everytime you pass me by, I heave a sigh of pain

[low part:]
Everytime I see your face
I think of things unpure, unchaste
I want to fuck you like a dog
I'll take you home and make you like it

Everything you ever wanted
Everything you ever thought of
Is everything I'll do to you
I'll fuck you and your minions, too

Your face reminds me of a flower
Kind of like you're underwater
Hair's too long and in your eyes
Your lips a perfect "suck me" size
You act like you're fourteen years old
Everything you say is so
Obnoxious, funny, true and mean
I want to be your blowjob queen

You're probably shy and introspective
That's not part of my objective
I just want your fresh, young jimmy
Turning, slamming, ramming in me

Everytime I see your face
I think of things unpure, unchaste
I want to fuck you like a dog
I'll take you home and make you like it

Everything you ever wanted
Everything you ever thought of
Is everything I'll do to you
I'll fuck you till your dick is blue

Everytime

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Labels: Alternative, Liz Phair, Rock, Show All

You think that you are complicated, deep mystery to all
Well it's taken me a while to see, you're not so special.
All energy, no meaning, with a lot of words
So paper thin that one real feeling, could knock you down

So see me when your 40, lost and all alone
Being comforted by strangers you'll never need to know.
Not sad because you lost me,
But sad because you thought it was cool to be sad.

You think misery will make you stand apart from the crowd.
Well if you had walked past me today, I wouldn't have picked you out.

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Labels: Alternative, Dido, Pop, Show All

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table.
No one can find the rewind button, boys,
So cradle your head in your hands,
And breathe... just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe

There's a light at each end of this tunnel,
You shout 'cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
And these mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around.

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Labels: Alternative, Anna Nalick, Pop, Show All

Is something wrong, she said
Well of course there is
You're still alive, she said
Oh, and do I deserve to be
Is that the question
And if so...if so...who answers...who answers...

I, oh, I'm still alive

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Labels: Alternative, Grunge, Pearl Jam, Show All

The grabbing hands
Grab all they can
All for themselves
After all

Its a competitive world
Everything counts in large amounts

The graph
On the wall
Tells the story
Of it all
Picture it now
See just how
The lies and deceit
Gained a little more power

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Labels: Alternative, Depeche Mode, Show All

This wasn't supposed to happen
I was happy by myself
Accidentally you seduced me
I'm in love again

I lie in my bed, totally still
My eyes wide open, I'm in rapture
I don't believe this, I'm in love again!

This wasn't supposed to happen
Ive been hit with your charm
How could you do this to me?
I'm in love again

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Labels: Alternative, Show All, Sugarcubes

I'm quite contented to take my chances
Against the guildensterns & rosencrantses
It's a matter of cain & abel
And I can feel your knee underneath the table

He doesn't dangle by the seraphim
He only wants a pretty face by him so
How could you want him when you know you could have me?

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Labels: Alternative, Show All, Spin Doctors

And what is so wrong
with voicing a doubt when I'm on my own
It's perfectly fine to sleep in a chair
From Monday til Saturday
And what is so wrong
with talking out loud when I'm all alone

You're not the only one that I know
And I'm too proud to talk to you anyway
You're, youre not the only one that I know
But I'm far too proud to talk to you any day

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Labels: Alternative, Show All, Sundays

"These seconds when I'm shaking leave me shuddering for days," she says

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Labels: Alternative, Counting Crows, Show All

I should be crying, but I just cant let it show.
I should be hoping, but I cant stop thinking

Of all the things I should've said,
That I never said.
All the things we should've done,
That we never did.
All the things I should've given,
But I didn't.

Oh, darling, make it go,
Make it go away.

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Labels: Alternative, Kate Bush, Pop, Show All

The winter here's cold, and bitter
It's chilled us to the bone
We haven't seen the sun for weeks
To long too far from home
I feel just like I'm sinking
And I claw for solid ground
I'm pulled down by the undertow
I never thought I could feel so low
Oh darkness I feel like letting go
If all of the strength and all of the courage
Come and lift me from this place
I know I could love you much better than this
Full of grace

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Labels: Alternative, Sarah McLachlan, Show All

I'm powerless to change your world
I'm powerless to stop the hurt

But I'll give you my heart
Give you my shoulder
I give you my heart
Give you my shoulder
Over and over

Wanna run for you
Would it do any good?
If I flew for you
You would still be standing

And it's hard watching
cause I'm part of you
And its hard not to
Not to know what I can do

I'm powerless to change your world
I'm powerless to stop the hurt

I'm trying hard to be your tower of strength
I'm trying hard to bring you back to joy

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Labels: Alternative, Heather Nova, Show All

How to keep people at arm's length and never get too close
How to mistrust the ones you supposedly love the most
How to pretend you're fine and don't need help from anyone
How to feel worthless unless you're serving or helping someone

I'll teach you all this in eight easy steps
A course of a lifetime you'll never forget
I'll show you how to in eight easy steps
I'll show you how leadership looks when taught by the best

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Labels: Alanis Morissette, Alternative, Show All