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And because you not always can keep your eyes shut there comes the real trouble--the heart pain--the world pain. I tell you, my friend, it is not good for you to find you cannot make your dream come true, for the reason that you not strong enough are, or not clever enough. . . . Ja! . . . And all the time you are such a fine fellow too! Wie? Was? Gott im Himmel! How can that be? Ha! ha! ha!"’The shadow prowling amongst the graves of butterflies laughed boisterously.
— Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Before I can say anything, It dissolves in my throat And turns into tears.
— Mika Yamamori, ひるなかの流星 12 [Hirunaka no Ryuusei 12]
I hoped with every ounce of my being that he would have the pleasure of knowing love and heartache in the way that I did. It might sound strange me wanting my five-year-old son to experience heartache, but without it I wouldn't have met his mother - a wonderful woman who taught me just how uncomplicated falling in love can be when it is with the right person, as well as highlighting the notion that timing is everything. If I had met her earlier in life I've no doubt that I'd have made a complete mess of the whole thing. I wouldn't have been ready to receive her love or to give the love I'd spent year accumulating.
— Giovanna Fletcher, You're the One That I Want
The weather is nice outside, but it's cloudy in my heart.
— Mika Yamamori, ひるなかの流星 4 [Hirunaka no Ryuusei 4]
His words back thenstill press down my throat with happiness and sorrow.
— Mika Yamamori, ひるなかの流星 3 [Hirunaka no Ryuusei 3]
I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!
— Thomas Hardy, Chosen Poems of Thomas Hardy
Raw love, like raw heart-ache, could blindside you.
— Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
I always knew there was no one who is going to accept my flaws and understand my brokenness.And i knew it very well that nobody would hold my hand when the wind of darkness overcome my life so i just pushed them,i pushed them all away.
— Carl W. Bazil
I can hear our hearts breaking."A tear wets my fingertips, his tears, and his other hand encases my face, the way mine does him. His lips nearly skim mine. "I’ll shield your ears from the sound of heartbreak.
— Krista Ritchie, Fuel the Fire
Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtful thoughts and foolish wishes from your mind, and turn to your own duty, and the dull blank life that lies before you. You might have known such happiness was not for you.
— Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
He felt himself now, as he had often fancied other people, adrift on the stream, and far removed from control of it, a man with no grasp upon circumstances any longer. Old battered man loafing at the doors of public-houses now seemed to be his fellows, and he felt, as he supposed them to feel, a mingling of envy and hatred towards those who passed quickly and certainly to a goal of their own. They, too, saw things very thin and shadowy, and were wafted about by the lightest breath of wind. For the substantial world, with its prospect of avenues leading on and on to the invisible distance, had slipped from him.
— Virginia Woolf
The world's supply of heartache is secure. There's love and hate and mayhem everywhere.
— Thomas Lynch
He stood there a moment, listened to the creek, and let the mountain air blow against his face. Even with all this heartache, it was beautiful here.
— Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
I find I'm unable to speak, unable to move, snared in his serious gaze like some kind of frightened rabbit
— J.S. Eades, Promises and Other Broken Things
You don't get to choose," Lincoln said. "It's just happening.
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Have you ever loved someone so much, you felt like your heart was going to just beat right out of your chest?
— Crissi Langwell, The Road to Hope
This was crazy. He ate humans for breakfast. Not tomention he was older than Father Time. So why was Ifalling for him, falling for him when I couldn’t help butpush everyone else away? It frightened me to feel thisway, yet I couldn’t stop this and didn’t want to.
— Laura Thalassa, The Unearthly
TIL KINGDOM COME you'll be the one. FOR YOU theres NO MORE KEEPING MY FEET ON THE GROUND. My head is in the clouds NOW MY FEET WONT TOUCH THE GROUND. LIFE IS FOR LIVING and i cant live until i have stolen a spot in your heart. HURTS LIKE HEAVEN and feels like hell to know your in ANOTHERS ARMS. This is no PARADISE. DONT LET IT BREAK YOU HEART i tell my self. Your BEAUTIFUL WORDS always IN MY HEAD i cant stop my self. THINGS I DONT UNDERSTAND would be you and me. LOST in your X&Y. I feel like i was SWALLOWED IN THE SEA, LOST and unseen, not a WISPER or a weep. I cry in my sleep, EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL. Should have seen the WARNING SIGNS, they were always there like a WISPER in my ear. Every time you say hello were back at SQUARE ONE, a smile my face. SUCH A RUSH i get when i talk to you. My heart beats as fast as a HIGH SPEED race. Every second i wait for your reply like CLOCK ticking by. DAYLIGHT nears as the SLEEPING SUN is UP IN FLAMES. What if its US AGAINST THE WORLD? What if HOW YOU SEE THE WORLD is how i see it too? WHAT IF?
— Rhyan Roads
I've come to realize that you can fight a lot of things in life, but you can't help who you love. You can't change who your heart chooses. I'm afraid that very fact will be the greatest tragedy of my life.
— Sarah Jio, The Last Camellia
The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Styxx
A strange cold fear gripped him as he looked down at that angelic face resting against his shoulder. Her thick dark lashes lay heavy against her perfect olive skin like two perfect dark crescent moons concealing those glorious starry green eyes burdened with anguish much too raw and intense for a teenager to bear. She was frail and tiny and much too beautiful, light as a feather in his arms, like a pure white dove. Things were only going to get worse before they were going to get better but that was okay because Logan was determined to be there for Sienna every step of the way.
— Ali Harper, Beautiful Bedlam
It’s hard to find words to explain why you love someone, they don’t make words with that much passion. And even if they did, there isn’t a perfect combination of syllables and sounds to create a word strong enough to explain love. Love is just a filler word, a useless word that tries to do a job that no word can.
— Kandi Steiner, Song Chaser
I like interesting myself in the lives of others. God put these people in my life for a reason. Maybe for my learning. Hopefully to help them. I like it when I can help. My heart aches for those who suffer and walk a difficult path.
— Kirn Hans, Behind My Mask
I didn't know what to say. It kind of hurt just to look at her, in a way i'd forgotten. Sort of like a splinter - not when you first get it under your skin, but the slow ache after it has been taken out.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie
Heartache makesfor good poetry,heartburnnot so much.
— S. Tarr, Love, Adventure and Other Noble Quests
I thought all I had to do to get you back was kill off your so-called mother and that little girl. No, I also pondered eating you alive. I imagined drinking all your blood and swallowing you whole many times. A thousand times...no, a million times over the past few days! I couldn't even tell apart my dreams from reality. Why are you so obsessed with your piece of shit family? They abandoned you! Why must you only desire the things I can't give you, huh?! If you have any love left to go around, then don't give it to those worthless people. Give it to me! Give me everything. I want it all, even the last speck of dust lying at the bottom of your heart! Give me everything before I lose my mind! Before I really do drink your blood and eat your flesh! Before I swallow you whole!
— Hajin Yoo, Totally Captivated Side Story: Totally Peeking Under the Sheets Volume 2
The beating of my heart stops when your gone, my heart herts when your voise is not speaking. This proves my love for you so never leave me.
— jordanblue1101
Desperately and immediately, he wanted them to be happy. May they be deeply in love, forever and ever, ex cetera, amen. At least if it was true love then the choking feeling in Axton's throat wouldn't be in vain. He could lose out to a grand and staggering love. His pain would be worth it if their love was the kind that time itself would stand still for, the type that made angels weep.
— S.P. Wayne, Winter Wolf
This isn't goodbye, okay. There are no goodbyes... not between us.
— S.C. Stephens, Effortless
She's your once in a lifetime girl.
— Dennis McKay, A Boy From Bethesda
Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.
— Abbi Glines, Ceaseless
But now its too late,And I am so broken,I don't want to carry the weight,Of the words unspoken...
— Rida Altaf
I was wounded by a blow of love.
— Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters
I couldn’t make myself move from the bed. To reach for you. I’d known this moment was coming, and now that it had arrived I found I had no strength in my limbs.Only my voice. Only words.Asking you to stay.
— Julio Alexi Genao, When You Were Pixels
I didn't simply want children - I probably could have found someone who would have been willing to do the baby thing - I wanted them with her. I longed to see the sparkle of her eyes in the eyes of a child; to have that infectious laugh of hers coming out of a baby's mouth as I tickled them; I wanted to hold a child in my arms and look at it and see her and me, our genes combined to make another human being. When it came to me that that would never happen, I put my fist through the back door. All these little things kept coming to me, all the "I'll nevers", but that was the worst one. I grieved for the children we'd never have almost as much as I'd grieved for her.
— Dorothy Koomson, The Woman He Loved Before
I grabbed at my chest, instinctively, and he grabbed at his. We were both trying to stop the pain, which was the result of his thoughts of ending his pursuit of me.
— Mayandree Michel, Sacrifice
As I spoke of another's love and looked into the wide, blue windows of her soul, a rich, insistent yearning flooded my senses.--"Tango
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most.
— Katherine Allred, The Sweet Gum Tree
I hate feeling so weak and vulnerable.I hate that I miss him.I hate that I am alone, and I always was.I hate that I made him into a superhero, he was not.I hate that he doesn't want to kiss me.I hate that every time I cry over one boy it's like crying over all of them again.
— Bill Shapiro, Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See
There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment.
— Dieter F. Uchdorf
You may have to break this heart before you can use it. You may have to take it apart and start all over with me. I know it hurts to change, but I don't want to stay the same. Take me. Break me. Do whatever it takes to make me what you need me to be
— Willow Aster, True Love Story
Don't live life hiding behind your past. Live for the moment. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day, a year or fifty years
— Nicole  Williams
The only time you ever really lose love is when you choose to let it go.
— Jessica Fortunato, Steam
There are heartaches in life, painful things that happen and disappointments that steal away dreams.
— Jennifer St. Giles, The Mistress of Trevelyan
I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed
— Francesca Marciano, Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
I'm not some possession." I pushed at his chest once more. "No, you're not." His mouth returned to mine. "You are my wife." I continued to struggle with the mass of him. He pulled his head back. "You're the only woman I've loved since I lost my mother and sister." His eyes intent on mine. Torn by my anger and his admission, I stopped protesting. His mouth moved against my neck and his body pressed into mine. "I have loved you for so long.
— Saewod Tice, Amongst the Ruins
I finally found him sitting on his balcony. He was leaning back against the wall with his eyes closed. Soft music played, and a cool ocean breeze blew back my hair as I stepped on to the balcony and inhaled the scent of the sea."May I join you?" I asked softly.He didn’t bother opening his eyes. "If you like."The moon in the dark sky looked like a giant white plate dipping its edge into the ocean. We sat quietly for a while. I closed my eyes too and listened to him hum along in harmony with the music."You haven’t played your guitar in a long time. I miss it," I said when the song was finished.Ren turned away. "I fear there is no music left in me.
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Destiny
Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.
— Stephen King, Dreamcatcher
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.
— Orhan Pamuk, Snow
The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.
— Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
Every heart, it have its own ache.
— Lynn Cullen, The Creation of Eve
Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke from first to last of Martin.
— Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart
—  of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl,From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl,I’d love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girl,But I’m never warm enough for my lovely summer girl,It’s summer when she smiles, I’m laughing like a child,It’s the summer of our lives; we’ll contain it for a whileShe holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her handI’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
There is a place where the sidewalk endsAnd before the street begins,And there the grass grows soft and white,And there the sun burns crimson bright,And there the moon-bird rests from his flightTo cool in the peppermint wind.Let us leave this place where the smoke blows blackAnd the dark street winds and bends.Past the pits where the asphalt flowers growWe shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,And watch where the chalk-white arrows goTo the place where the sidewalk ends.Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,For the children, they mark, and the children, they knowThe place where the sidewalk ends.
— Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
— Poe
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
— Hilary Duff
It's so easy to laughIt's so easy to hateIt takes guts to be gentle and kind
— Morrissey
We are small but we are manyWe are many we are smallWe were here before you roseWe will be here when you fall
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Say my name and his in the same breath. I dare you to say they taste the same.
— Fall Out Boy, Fall Out Boy: Folie a Deux
Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.
— Joni Mitchell
I'm just a notch on your bedpost but you're just a line in a song.
— Fall Out Boy, Fall Out Boy: From Under the Cork Tree
I am the sea and nobody owns me
— Pippi Longstocking
The worst things in life come free to us
— Ed Sheeran, Ed Sheeran: +
(It starts with)One thing, I don’t know whyIt doesn’t even matter how hard you tryKeep that in mind, I designed this rhymeTo explain in due timeAll I knowtime is a valuable thingWatch it fly by as the pendulum swingsWatch it count down to the end of the dayThe clock ticks life awayIt’s so unrealDidn’t look out belowWatch the time go right out the windowTrying to hold on but didn’t even knowWasted it all just toWatch you goI kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apartWhat it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hardAnd got so farBut in the endIt doesn't even matterI had to fallTo lose it allBut in the endIt doesn't even matter
— Linkin Park
Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah.
— Leonard Cohen
I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?
— Frank Zappa
Love me - that's all I ask of you.
— Charles  Hart, The Phantom of the Opera: Piano/Vocal
Say you'll love me every waking moment.
— Charles  Hart, The Phantom of the Opera: Piano/Vocal
It's always times like these when I think of you and I wonder if you ever think of me.
— Vanessa Carlton
I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.
— Fiona Apple
Only love can last.
— Madonna
We have eyes and we have nervesesWe have tails we have teethYou'll all get what you deservesesWhen we rise from underneath.
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Cause I am strong and I can prove itAnd I got my dreams to see me throughIt's just a mountain, I can move itAnd with faith enough there's nothing I can't doAnd I can see the light of a clear blue morningAnd I can see the light of brand new dayI can see the light of a clear blue morningAnd everything's gonna be all rightIt's gonna be okay [lyrics from "Light of a Clear Blue Morning"]
— Dolly Parton
We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Nature will survive us, we've been wrong after all. We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song? (Sky is Over)
— Serj Tankian
I’ll be there someday, I can go the distance.I will find my way, if I can be strong.I know every mile, will be worth my while,When I go the distance, I’ll be right where I belong. - Hercules
— Walt Disney Company, Hercules
If I could be anywhere, where would I be?
— Tom Felton
[ELIZA]You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
When I’m home alone I just dance by myselfAnd you pull my head so close volume goes with the truthSigning off 'I’m alright in bed but I’m better with a pen'The kid was alright but it went to his head
— Fall Out Boy, Fall Out Boy: Infinity on High
I never thought that you would be the one to hold my heart
— Christina Perri
Can't fight the moment of truth in your lies.
— Goo Goo Dolls
Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.
— Bob Dylan
When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.
— Tom Waits
I find it kind of funny. I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.
— Tears For Fears
We have teeth and we have tailsWe have tails we have eyesWe were here before you fellWe will be here when you rise.
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls’ pants - use it to get into their heads.
— Scroobius Pip
He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.
— Tori Amos, Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk
I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine.I Am Mine
— Eddie Vedder
Why don't you show me the little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress?
— Fall Out Boy
Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.
— Mick Jagger
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid
— Bob Dylan
Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.
— Bob Dylan
I haven't changed, but I know I ain't the same.
— Jakob Dylan
They can rip you bring you down, down to their size, but they will never get to the heart you hold inside.
— Little Mix
a lesson must be livedin order to be learnedand the clarity to see and stop this nowthat is what i've earned
— Ani DiFranco
Walk this way
— Aerosmith, The Best of Aerosmith
Pretty's just a pretty word.
— Little Mix
All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
— Aimee Mann
God bless us everyoneWe're a broken people living under loaded gunAnd it can't be outfoghtIt can't be outdoneIt can't out matchedIt can't be outrunNo
— Linkin Park
I'd like to hold you in the mountains, like to kiss you by the sea. Take you far, far from here to a place where you feel free. Cause we are safe, we are true, we are going to make it through. Crashing worlds, falling stars, breaking all of who we are- I want infinity with you.
— Courtney C. Stevens, Faking Normal
Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty? 
— Lou Reed
I traced the cord back to the wall, no wonder it was never plugged in at all.
— Blink-182
I believe the stars are the headlights of angels driving from heaven to save usto save us...Won't you look at the sky?They're driving from heaven into our eyes. And though final words are so hard to devise, I promise that I'll always remember your pretty eyes.
— David Berman
There's a time I can recallFour years old and three feet tallTrying to touch the stars and the cookie jarAnd both were out of reach
— Hilary Weeks, IF I ONLY HAD TODAY
Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
— Aimee Mann
I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Should've put 'em, should've put 'em on againso I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.
— Fiona Apple
Just throw it all and live like there's no tomorrow.
— The Offspring
Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.
— Aimee Mann
The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor.
— Fiona Apple
Daylight fades away as I watch you.Darkness claims the sky and I wish you knewthat nothing you can do can keep me from you.But I stay out of sight and only whisper to you.Words I can’t say. Words you don’t need to hear.Words I can’t keep from tangling my way.Now, I can’t stand alone.Now, I am under your influence.You’ve taken over me and Now, I can’t ignore what I’ve been shown.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care who knows.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care if it shows.I’m weakened and I’m strengthened in your arms.You’ve claimed me and I need to feel you close.”“You stand wanting more than you could ever understand. I stand helpless needing to give in to your every command.Wanting to see you smile has consumed me and tied both my hands.Nothing I offer could ever be worthy of your love.It’s a miracle that you saw me and never ran.I will spend my whole life trying to be the man you think I am. Now, I can’t stand alone. Now, I am under your influence.You’ve taken over me and Now, I can’t ignore what I’ve been shown.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care who knows.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care if it shows.I’m weakened and I’m strengthened in your arms.You’ve claimed me and I need to feel you close.”“You hold fire within your gaze. It mesmerizes everyone you allow into your maze.I know nothing of your thoughtsbut I need to bask within the warmth of your rays.Nothing you do could ever be wrong.You’re forever perfect in every way. Now, I can’t stand alone. Now, I am under your influence.You’ve taken over me and Now, I can’t ignore what I’ve been shown.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care who knows.You’ve claimed me and I don’t care if it shows.I’m weakened and I’m strengthened in your arms.You’ve claimed me and I need to feel you close.” 	 ~ Dank
— Abbi Glines, Predestined
And it only hurts when I'm breathing My heart only breaks when it's beating My dreams only die when I'm dreaming So, I hold my breath--to forget
— Shania Twain, Shania Twain - Up!
Oh, there ain't no love, no Montagues or CapuletsJust banging tunes and DJ setsAnd dirty dancefloors and dreams of naughtinessI Bet that You Look Good on the Dancefloor
— Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm
They can take tomorrow and the plans we made They can take the music that we'll never play All the broken dreams, take everything Just take it away but they can never have yesterday They can take the future that we'll never know They can take the places that we said we would go All the broken dreams, take everything Just take it away but they can never have yesterday
— Leona Lewis, Leona Lewis: Spirit
I suppose I should be happy to be misread
—  better be that than some of the other things I have become.
The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
— Aimee Mann
But I can't confront the doubts I have.I can't admit that maybe the past was bad,and so, for the sake of momentumI'm condemning the future to deathso it can match the past.
— Aimee Mann
I'll fake it through the day somehow with Johnny Walker Red.
— Elliot Smith
[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.
— John Marshall Harlan
Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.
— Aimee Mann
There comes a time when you swim or sink so I jumped in the drink 'cause I couldn't make myself clear. Maybe I wrote in invisible ink, oh I've tried to think how I could've made it appear. 
— Aimee Mann
Say you were split, you were split in fragments and none of the pieces would talk to you. Wouldn't you want to be who you had been? Well, maybe I'd want that too.
— Aimee Mann
Don't bother asking for explanation, she'll just tell you that she came, in the year of the cat.
— Al Stewart
You used to get it in your fishnetsNow you only get it in your nightdressDiscarded all the naughty nights for niceness......Remeber when the boys were all electric?
— Arctic Monkeys, Favourite Worst Nightmare: (Guitar Tab
You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not.
— Yusuf Islam
Chaos isn't good for your health.
— India.Arie
He'd like you to join the club that likes to saythere's no such thing as love ...
— Patty Griffin
You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame
— Aimee Mann
All in all. You have been. Redeemer. Pain Steeler. My best friend. Please hold my hand.
— Courtney C. Stevens, Faking Normal
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong...For What It’s Worth
— Stephen Stills
They've got organizations for people like me with stupid preoccupations.
— Vic Chesnutt
I'll be so quiet for you. Look like a child for you. Be like a shadow of a shadow Of a shadow for you.
— Mike Hadreas
and just forget about my envy, Lord and give me what I need
— dramarama
For mankind you've made your wintry bed.A shipwreck of your own mortality
— Marie Symeou
We're all trying to keep up in this stupid raceBut that won't be much funWhen we're floating in space.
— John Symeou
And where colours likeA rainbow dance alive, asWisdom’s arrows rain downAnd ages come to pass.
— Marie Symeou
You wrote my thoughtsFor all the world to seePainted the skyWith immortal words
— Marie Symeou
Sometimes I ask myself how autumn smells? My answer: it's the smell of the autumn leaves firework and red wine.
— Bryanna Reid
It won't give up, it wants me deadGoddamn this noise inside my head
— Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails Lyrics
Am I the only onewishing life away?Never caught up in the momentbusy begging the past to stayMemories painted with much brighter ink;they tell me I loved, teach me how to think.
— Dodie Clark
I wish I knew what it was like, to find a place where I belong.
— Three Days Grace
JAMIE'S SONG 'UN-BROKE':Un-broke and,All is well.I did not expect that.Unspoken,All I felt.I should not have done that.But now that is all behind me.Something else, something more defines me.I could be scattered all over the world again,And I would still be me.Find my way back here again.Though I don’t think that could happen, I feel so unbreakable,Now that I am un-broke.Like the wind,I floated. I could not change one thing.Like the trees,I stood there.Branches swayed bare in Spring.My darkest days are behind me.Blinding sun and stars always find me.I could be shattered into the abyss again,But I would still be free.Climb out of the hole again.I’ll see the skies that never darken. I know I’m unbreakable, Now that I am un-broke.
— Neha Yazmin, Chasing Pavements
Tonight we flyOver the mountainsThe beach and the seaOver the friends that we've knownAnd those that we now knowAnd those who we've yet to meetAnd when we dieOh, will we beThat disappointedOr sadIf heaven doesn't existWhat will we have missedThis life is the best we've ever had
— Neil Hannon, The Divine Comedy: a Secret History
JAMIE'S SONG 'HEAVEN':You hold me so tight that I can’t breathe,You make me feel light that I can’t sleep.Float from our bed, fly away,Soaring like angels through the heavens and seas.I wish that we hadn’t taken so long,To realise this is where we belong.This is the life, that you and IHave been dying for.If heaven is this,This place in your arms,I’m not afraid of dying,I want to die tonight.If heaven is this,Your lips when we kiss,I’m not afraid of dying,Let them kill me tonight.And I know I’ll go to heaven, Because I made you smile.Yes, I know I’ll go to heaven,Because you loved our life.But if they banish me to hell,You will pull me out again.You belong in heaven, And I belong with you.
— Neha Yazmin, Make You Feel My Love
So you write to our congressmenWith bleeding pensOf the sorrow withinAnd in return they just sendTickets to the latest Tom Hanks show
— Jewel
Why do you write like you're running out of time?
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
You make my heart shake bend and break
— Troye Sivan
We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man.
— Stephen King
And my hopes they are high I must keep them small
— Troye Sivan
Which one of us, went and fucked up?
— Troye Sivan
Chance is your godThough you're falling free you will land hard
— Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
This particular song’s just something that’s been floating around inside me for a long time,” Tate went on. “Is she the one who got away? Yeah. She is. But it’s because she got away that I—that we,” he clarified, “are all here now.” “How do you mean?” the interviewer asked. Tate was silent for several heartbeats, then said, “When I met her, I was playing ball. She knew I wasn’t that good. But she also saw a talent in me I didn’t even know I had. She’s the one who encouraged my music. I lost her after that summer, but it’s because I lost her that Kendrick was even formed. So yeah, she is ‘Everything.’ She’s everything I have and everything I’m missing.” “Would it be safe to assume you work as hard as you do because you’re trying to prove to her what she’s missing?” the interviewer asked. “No,” Tate answered. “Not really.” “That’s a load of crap,” someone muttered in the background. “Okay,” Tate said louder. “Maybe it’s a little true. Did I hope she’d one day hear one of these songs about her and call me up? Sure. I think that’s the whole point of tracks like this. That there’s hope. I mean, that’s what life’s really about, right? Without hope, what the hell does a person have?”“A lot of”—BEEP—“ing fun,” Jace interjected.
— Elisabeth Naughton, All He Wants for Christmas
If there's a new way,I'll be the first in line.But, it better work this time.
— Megadeath, Peace Sells
It's under my skin but out of my hands (Tears for Fears - Womain in Chains, 1992)
— Roland Orzabal
✵ When I first met you there was a garden growing from a black hole in my mind. ✵
— Halsey ♥
It's a long way to the top, If you wanna rock n' roll
— AC/DC
I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air,So there.
— Lorde, Lorde - Pure Heroine Songbook
Coincidence makes sense only with you.
— Björk
Ask yourselfWill i burn in Hell?Then write it downand cast it in the wellThere they areThe mob it cries for bloodTo twist the taleInto fore woodFan the flamesWith a little lieThen turn your cheekUntil the fire diesThe skin it peelsLike the truth, awayWhat it wasI will never say...
— Joshua Homme
I know your story.Got one of my own.Yeah, I know lonely and alone.Happen in a crowd, happen in a kiss.But I know how to change all this.
— Courtney C. Stevens, Faking Normal
I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.
— Bob Dylan
My heart is broke but I have some glue.
— Kurt Cobain
We gladiate, but I guess we're really fighting ourselves.
— Lorde, Lorde - Pure Heroine Songbook
I'm a wanderessI'm a one night standDon't belong to no cityDon't belong to no man(Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)
— Halsey
Are we just dreamingIn the city that never sleeps?Cause I can't be seeingWhat my eyes tell me.
— Bring Me The Horizon
We are nothing but shadows Fading away Trying to hold on to This bittersweet life That we call our own...
— Ricky Mears
It might feel like the end of the world--but it's the beginning of your art.
— David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
you're the storm that I've been needingand all this peace has been deceivingI like the sweet life and the silencebut it's the storm that I believe in
— Fucking Google it.
You must know life to see decay.
— Mumford and Sons
I cried tears you'll never see. So fuck you, you can go cry me a ocean and leave me be
— Fall Out Boy, Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
You are what you love, not who loves you.
— Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V.And you think you're so clever and classless and freeBut you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
— John Lennon
Give me your heart and your hand and we can run
— Pierce the Veil
Someday we'll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me
— Jim Henson
Hey moon, please forget to fall down
— Panic! At the Disco
I bet all I had on a thing called love
—  guess in the end it wasn't enough. And it's hard to watch you leave right now
How strange it is to be anything at all.
— Neutral Milk Hotel
I Remember Years Ago, Someone Told Me I Should Take Caution When it Comes to Love, I DidSo Tell Them All I Know NowShout it From the RooftopsWrite it On the Sky LineAll We Had Is Gone NowTell Them I Was Happyand My Heart is BrokenAll My Scars Are OpenTell Them What I Hoped Would BeImpossible
— Shontelle
I'd rather have fun, being young and being dumb, than be saved a spot in heaven
— The Cab
You choke my throatWith words of wonderYou make it hard to breatheYour love's so coldJust like an arrowPierced through my skin I bleed
— Charli XCX
Besides, taking a chance on romance is a dance in tight pants. It's risky but frisky. But make the right move and your in the groove.
— Lisi Harrison, Alphas
Then his voice resonates over the speakers again. 'A good friend helped me find these lyrics again, and I told her if she ever fell, I'd be there to catch her. She told me if I ever sang this song like I just did, it'd be a success. Well, I'm keeping up my end of the deal.
— P.K. Hrezo, Butterman (Time) Travel, Inc.
You're rarer than a can of Dandelion & BurdockAnd those other girls are just post-mix lemonade
— Arctic Monkeys
It's been the longest timeSince I've been in this place,Where I spend my whole dayHoping I'll see your face.Then I script things to say,And maybe what you'd say back.You don't know it yet,But, girl, it's a factThat I can see us Staying up late,Talking all night,But I guess I'll have to wait.'Cause it's brand-new,Yeah, I know we just met. I want to be there with you, But not just yet.Girl, you've got that look,Like you're hard to impress.So I'm bumbling with words,'Cause my mind is a mess.You were out of the blueAnd you caught me by surprise,With a slight smile, that long stare,And a challenge in your eyesI could feel all thisIn that single look,Like you could see my soul.You could read me like a book,And I think it's something.Though I know we just met,I'm gonna get there with you.You just don't know it ... yet.
— Emery Lord, Open Road Summer
Cause I don't appreciatePeople whoDon't appreciate
— Fiona Apple
But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the music is about what the words say, literally, and nothing more. If done poorly, they can destroy the pleasant ambiguity that constitutes much of the reason we love music. That ambiguity allows listeners to psychologically tailor a song to suit their needs, sensibilities, and situations, but words can limit that, too. There are plenty of beautiful tracks that I can’t listen to because they’ve been “ruined” by bad words — my own and others. In Beyonce's song "Irreplaceable," she rhymes "minute" with "minute," and I cringe every time I hear it (partly because by that point I'm singing along). On my own song "Astronaut," I wrap up with the line "feel like I'm an astronaut," which seems like the dumbest metaphor for alienation ever. Ugh.
— David Byrne, How Music Works
You pull the trigger just for fun, forgetting I'm a loaded gun. So hate me for the things I've done, and not for what I've now become.
— Motionless in White
Fuck the past and everyone that dragged you here.
— Real Friends
And as I touch your shoulder tonight this room has become the centre of the entire universe.
— Jarvis Cocker
She once said her songs were "mostly about myths, spirits, that kind of thing. Not fairies, stronger than that." Not fairies. Stronger than that: there's a fine phrase to bear in mind. Her lyrics are about the things that drive, or repulse, or empower the human spirit. Not escapism, in fact, but its exact opposite.
— Graeme Thomson, Under the Ivy: The Life & Music of Kate Bush
I am the sun... And the air...
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
she said, these dead petals, honey, brought me here
— Tori Amos
That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy. We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. We were tinpan alleycats, but the gift of music had been withheld. We could not sing along, though we always knew the words. Still, defiantly, we roared our tuneless roars, we fell off the high notes and were trampled by the low ones. And if bitter ices were the consequence, well, there were worse fates in the world than that.
— Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
If we climb this high I swear we'll never die.
— John Steinbeck
Sometimes I get tired of pins and needlesFacades are fire on the skinAnd I'm growing find of broken people As I see that I'm one of them
— Mutemath
Unhappiness where's when I was young, And we didn't give a damn, 'Cause we were raised, To see life as fun and take it if we can.
— Dolores O'Riordan
Let's Shout It Out and Speak As One. Mind Rock On, The Gemini One.
— Gemini Rising Rockin' Machine, The, Book One: Who Am I?
These spider webs are my home now
— Beck
Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics.
— Kandi Steiner, Song Chaser
I walked when I should have runI ran when I should have walkedAnd don't I know it, don't I know it
— Jamie Woon
Well I'm finding it harderto be a gentleman every dayAll the manners that I've been taughthave slowly died awayBut if I held the door open for youIt wouldn't make your day.
— The White Stripes
In the land of Gods and MonstersI was an AngelLiving in the garden of evilScrewed up, scared, doing anything that I neededShining like a fiery beaconYou got that medicine I needFame, Liquor, Love give it to me slowlyPut your hands on my waist, do it softlyMe and God, we don't get along so now I singNo one's gonna take my soul awayI'm living like Jim MorrisonHeaded towards a fucked up holidayMotel sprees sprees and I'm singing'Fuck yeah give it to me this is heaven, what I trulyWant'It's innocence lostInnocence lostIn the land of Gods and MonstersI was an AngelLooking to get fucked hardLike a groupie incognito posing as a real singerLife imitates artYou got that medicine I needDope, shoot it up, straight to the heart pleaseI don't really wanna know what's good for meGod's dead, I said 'baby that's alright with me'No one's gonna take my soul awayI'm living like Jim MorrisonHeaded towards a fucked up holidayMotel sprees sprees and I'm singing'Fuck yeah give it to me this is heaven, what I trulyWant'It's innocence lostInnocence lostWhen you talk it's like a movie and you're making meCrazy -Cause life imitates artIf I get a little prettier can I be your baby?You tell me, "life isn't that hard"No one's gonna take my soul awayI'm living like Jim MorrisonHeaded towards a fucked up holidayMotel sprees sprees and I'm singing'Fuck yeah give it to me this is heaven, what I trulyWant'It's innocence lostInnocence lost
— Lana Del Rey
Why be a king,when you can be a god?
— Eminem
Just want to be a footnote in someone else's happiness.
— Fall Out Boy, Fall Out Boy: Folie a Deux
you knowI knowyou knowI'll remember youand I knowYou knowI knowyou'll remember me
— One Direction
You held me down, but I got upHey!Alrighty brushing off the dust You hear my voice You hear that soundLike thunder gonna shake the ground-Roar
— Katy Perry
And the Earth Becomes my ThroneI adapt to the UnknownUnder Wandering Stars I've grownI ask no one.
— Metallica, Metallica   The Complete Lyrics
This is how it works: you're young until you're not. You love until you don't, you try until you can't, you laugh until you cry, you cry until you laugh. And everyone must breathe until their dying breath. This is how it works: you peer inside yourself, you take the things you like and try to love the things you don't. And then you take that love you make and stick it into someone else's heart pumping someone else's blood.
— Regina Spektor
Heart beats fast Colors and promises How do be brave How can I love when I'm afraid To fall But watching you stand alone All of my doubt Suddenly goes away somehow One step closer I have died everyday waiting for you Darling, don't be afraid I have loved you for a Thousand years I'll love you for a Thousand more Time stands still Beauty in all she is I will be brave I will not let anything Take away What's standing in front of me Every breath, Every hour has come to this One step closer I have died everyday Waiting for you Darling, don't be afraid I have loved you for a Thousand years I'll. love you for a Thousand more
— Christina Perri, A Thousand Years
Threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back, A name in your recollection, down among a million same." - A Perfect Circle.
— Maynard James Keenan
Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.
— Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1
I feel something so right, doing the wrong thing.
— OneRepublic
There is no future,there is not past, I live this moment as my last,there's only this,forget regret, no other road, no other way,no day but today
— Jonathon Larson
I won't ever ask if you don't ever tell me.I know you well enough to know you never loved me
— Taking Back Sunday
Silence guides the mind...
— The Neighbourhood
And I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes, like puzzle pieces from the clay.
— The Postal Service
You made me feel less aloneYou made me feel not quite soDeformed, uninformed and hunchbackedAre you aware wherever you areThat you have just died?
— Morrissey
Oh the wonders of being married. Put a gun in one hand and a woman in the other, I'm never sure who's going to kill me first.
— Michael W. Grimard
Come on, make it easy, say I never mattered
— Fall Out Boy
I was nothing but a failure. A fucked-up, broken shame.I was nothing but this emptiness. A shell ruined by fame.Don’t be afraid to shatter, baby, if that will set you free.I’ll find you in the pieces and that will unbreak me.
— Lexi Ryan, Unbreak Me
Can we lose our minds, and call it love for the last time.
— Pierce the Veil
Seven deadly sins,seven ways to win,seven holy paths to hell,and your trip beginsSeven downward slopesseven bloodied hopesseven are your burning fires,seven your desires...
— Iron Maiden
I’ve been trying to stay real and true and proud of who I am,all those ideals of how to lookI’ve been trying not to care.But I’m still holding my breath, I ‘m still watching every step.I’m still tip-toeing away, when I’m getting to ashamed of myself. I don’t want to be your letdown,I’m scared like hell I’m not enough.I don’t wanna beyour failure anymore.— The Glass Child, Letdown
— Charlotte Eriksson
But it's easier to say 'I love you',than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.
— Elvis Costello
We don't want to give people straight answers. We'd rather they question things for themselves.
— Deborah Curtis, Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition leaving all these opportunities behind. Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line. Reaching out to embrace the random. Reaching out to embrace whatever may come. I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human. With my feet upon the ground I lose myself between the sounds and open wide to suck it in. I feel it move across my skin. I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me. And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been. We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been. Spiral out. Keep going...
— Tool
There's a girl in this dress,there's always a girl in distress.
— Elvis Costello
She acts like summer and walks like rain.
— Train, Train - Drops of Jupiter
I change by not changing at all.
— Pearl Jam
Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.
— Brian Eno
You know you've done enoughWhen every bone is sore,You know you've prayed enoughWhen you don't ask any more,You know you're coming to some kind of understandingWhen every dream you've dreamed has passedAnd your still standing.
— Patty Griffin
Cause when I hear your name I can not stop cheesing I love you so much that my heart stops beating when you're leaving And I'm grieving and my heart starts bleeding Life without you has no goddamn meaning
— Various
Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
— Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
The sun is up, the sky is blueIt's beautiful, and so are you
— John Lennon, Beatles Lyrics
Then I heard your voice as clear as day, And you told me I should concentrate, It was all so strange, And so surreal, That a ghost should be so practical. Only if for a night And the only solution was to stand and fight, And my body was bruised and I was set alight, But you came over me like some holy rite, And although I was burning, You're the only light Only if for a night
— Florence Welch
Manage me, I'm a mess Turn a page, I'm a book Half unread
— All Time Low
Yet the only girl who'd love him is his mother...' - A Girl Worth Fighting For (song)
— David Zippel
Right from the start, you were a thief, you stole my heart.
— P!nk