“Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free”— Leonard Cohen, youtube.com
“You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress”— Arctic Monkeys, youtube.com
“Things that I buy and things that I think Haven't made this a better place to be Drugs that I try and drinks that I drink Haven't made this a better place to be It's still just a room with the drums in the middle A couch along the wall that works as my bed I still have a phone that rings all day I s…”— Mason Jennings, open.spotify.com
“As I lay here tonight I keep thinking How long ago for you I was crazy And this night moves right along my mind and much my situation, And I'm feeling mighty cold and unhappy. And the songs I hear, they don't seem like they're changing And my time spent leaving far exceeds the times that I stayed An…”— Brenda Weiler, open.spotify.com
“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it. Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music…”— Bob Dylan, open.spotify.com
“She lit a burner on the stove And offered me a pipe 'I thought you'd never say hello,' she said 'You look like the silent type.' Then she opened up a book of poems And handed it to me Written by an Italian poet From the thirteenth century. And everyone of them words rang true And glowed like burnin'…”— Bob Dylan, open.spotify.com
“You remind Anna, if she asks why That a thief stole my heart while she was making up her mind I heard she lives in Brooklyn with the cool And goes crazy over that New York scene on 7th Avenue. But I used to wait at the diner a million nights without her Praying she won't cancel again tonight And the…”— Gaslight Anthem, open.spotify.com
“I down-shifted as I pulled into the driveway The motor screaming out, stuck in second gear The scene ends badly, as you might imagine In a cavalcade of anger and fear There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year”— The Mountain Goats, open.spotify.com
“He was born in the Bitterroot Valley in the early morning rain Wild geese over the water heading north and home again Bringing a warm wind from the south Bringing the first taste of the spring His mother took him to her breast and softly she did sing”— John Denver, open.spotify.com
“But nobody never gonna tell you the way You gotta figure it out, boys, and suffer the rain And the fools in the night and the heat of the day When all you ever really wanted was for someone to understand”— Gaslight Anthem, open.spotify.com