"The radio's playing the bands we like, not Seems like they've banned 'em all except for those who keep telling us about our meaningless lives RIGHT!"

"Your truth isn't the truth, but sure ain't ours We cannot believe what you want us to"

"I'm searching for the truth in your scary lies"

"We used to have this thing called love, unconditional. Meant all I said, meant all I did"

"Now I won't accept your control on my life, don't want it, oh I don't want it."

"Now I won't accept your control on my life express your individuality"

"Today I'm stronger than I was yesterday and confident enough too, Tomorrow, I'll be even stronger cause I'll be who I want to.""

"I’m not a victim of the GI Joe or Scoobiedoo-generation, I don’t fight with no delirious grin. I don’t go out with no manic look in my eyesbro, I’m just a victim, nothing more than a crank victim"

"You're out of your head, swearing you won't bend, You're out of control, they say"

"Don’t think you’re powerless, don’t have to dress or act just like them cause. First you’re a part of them, then they’ll become a part of yourself. So, don’t have to be like them,"

"You’ve lost your fight to persist so you tagged along pretended you care be sure to complement the badger they wear"

"My biggest fear, to lose the strength, to rise again while the marks still burn I know they’ll heal cause I believe in you"

"Summer's gone, praid the sun that the days never end."

"I'm the one who...won't pee in your shower or beat you up when I come home, unfeasibly drunk."

"I'm old enough to dress myself. Dazed and abused, by these passed teenage years."

"Omaha Somewhere in middle America Getting right to the heart of matters It's the heart that matters more I think you better turn your ticket in And get your money back at the door"

"Have you seen the little pieces of the people we have been? Little pieces blowing’ gently on the wind."

"If you think you need to go, If you wanted to be free, There's just one thing you need to know. And that's that you can't count on me."

"And I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bed I see God upon the ceiling, I see angels overhead. And he seems so close as he reaches out his hand, But we are never quite as close as we are led to understand."

"Now I live in the shadows where light is electric And time is a number that rests on a wall. And nobody knows me, My friends and my family, Are as far from this city as Washington Square."

"You open windows And you wait for someone warm to come inside. And then you freeze to death alone.This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time This dizzy life is just a hanging tree For me."

"Oh, where do we disappear? Into the silence that surrounds us And then drowns us in the end. Where all these people who impersonate our friends Say, “Come again, come again, come again…”"

"How much longer will it take to cure this? Just to cure it 'cause I can't ignore it if it's love (love) Makes me wanna turn around and face me, But I don't know nothing 'bout love, ohCome on, come on, Turn a little faster. Come on, come on, The world will follow after. Come on, come on, Because everybody's after love."

"And all the king's men reappear For an eggman, falling, falling The world begins to disappear The worst things come from inside here And all the king's men reappear For an eggman, fallin' off the wall Will never be together again No never be together again No no never never never again, uh huh What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway"

"Albert's always sincere, he's a sensitive type His intentions are clear, he wanna be well-liked If everything is nothing, then are we anything? Is it better to be better than to be anything?"

"They left the television screaming that the radio's on"

"Got no place to go But there's a girl waiting for me down in Mexico She's got a bottle of tequila A bottle of gin And if I bring a little music I could fit right in"

"Fix your hair just right and put your jeans on tight wear a dress so I can get it off real easy cause I been thinkin' I'd like to see your eyes open up real wide the minute that you see me"

"I got a friend at the New Frontier. And Galen, she said: "This is not America. You need a girl with electrical hair, And the word you wanted was 'Aluminum'."

"Take some time before you go Think of Mondays coming down for the people that you knew and the one's that aren't around"

"It was cold when I awoke and the day was halfway done nearly spring in San Francisco and I still can't feel the sun"

"The gentleman caller in the blue suede shoes He don't know what to do He just wants to look good for you So he rushes in to tell you what he did today but he can't think of what to say I think you listen anyway. He wants to have a good time just like everybody He doesn't want to fall apart You watch him as he stutters over what to say It's just a little game you play"

"American girls, all weather & noise Playing the changes for all of the boys Holding a candle right up to my hand Making me feel so incredible If I made you cry, please tell me why Cause I'll try again if you let me try American girls all feathers & cream Come into bed so edible"

"You put your girl up on a pedestal Then you wait for her to fall I put my summers back in a letter And I hide it from the world All the regrets you can't forget Are somehow pressed upon a picture In the face of such an ordinary girl And when you sleep you find your mother in the night"

"On certain Sundays in November When the weather bothers me I empty drawers of other summers Where my shadows used to be And she is standing by the water As her smile begins to curl In this or any other summer She is something all together different Never just an ordinary girl"

"For all the things you're losing You might as well resign yourself to try and make a change I'm going down to Hollywood They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find crawling round my brain"

"I am covered in skin; No one gets to come in. Pull me out from inside. I am folded and unfolded and unfolding, I am colorblind. Coffee black and egg white. Pull me out from inside. I am ready, I am fine."

"And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings."