A Litany of Lyrics

On friends:
"It's not where but who you're with that really matters"
-Best of What's Around, DMB

On heartbreak:
"Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures"
-Nothing Better, The Postal Service

On surviving:
"It was me and a gun, and a man on my back. But I haven't seen Barbados, so I must get out of this."
-Me and a Gun, Tori Amos

On the foreboding:
"Under a blackened sky far beyond the glaring streetlight, sleeping on empty dreams, the vultures lie in wait"
-Wait, Sarah MacLachlan

On sleeping puppies:
"Sweetness enveloping me, tangible serenity and calmness even as the world tries to invade me"
-Sienna, yours truly, All Aglow

On ambivalence:
"How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies, perhaps we don't fulfill each others' fantasies.
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives with our respective similarities, it's either sadness or euphoria."
-Summer, Highland Falls, Billy Joel

On discovering "Aida":
"The souls of men and women, impassioned all. Their voices rise and fall. Battle trumpets call. I fill the bath and climb inside, singing."
-Verdi Cries, 10000 Maniacs

On automatons:
"Never had a point of view cause my mind was always someone else's mind."
-Breath of Life, Erasure

On being consumed:
"You are in my blood like holy wine. You taste so bitter...and so sweet. I can drink a case of you and still be on my feet."
-Case of You, Joni Mitchell

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