I neglected to add many old favorites in the first attempt at this list of brilliant lyrics, and have since discovered many more lines to love! Fear not, I'm sure there will be more to include not too far down the road...!
“The soles of my feet, a history. The back of my knees, a mystery.”
Mathie: Proven
“What if the trees were really holding the sky up?”
Ellis: How Would It Be?
“I held so many people in my suitcase heart that I had to let the whole thing go. It was taken by the wind and snow…”
“I’ve begun to trust the view here.”
Weepies: Slow Pony Home
“The meek had a meeting of minds. Consistent hypocrisy—hey, that’s all right!”
The Thrills: You Can't Fool Old Friends With Limousines
“I’m the hero of the story. Don’t need to be saved.”
Regina Spektor: Hero
“Alabama, Arkansas! I do love my ma and pa. Not the way that I do love you…”
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: Home
“In the softness of her laugh, I could almost make my bed.”
Copeland: I’m a Sucker for a Kind Word
“Any man who knows a thing knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.”
K’Naan: Take a Minute
“Until someone loves you, I’ll keep you safe.”
The Hush Sound: That’s Okay
“I’ll never say I’ll never love…but I don’t say a lot of things…”
Ingrid Michaelson: The Chain
“You’re dumbstruck, baby. Now you know.”
The National: Racing Like a Pro
“Everything looks better from far away.”
The Postal Service: Such Great Heights
“Lost in fog and love and faithless fear, I’ve had kisses that make Judas seem sincere.”
The Hold Steady: Citrus
“Love is a dress that you made long to hide your knees.”
Iron & Wine: Love and Some Verses
“Like a river of tangled string, you are unraveling.”
Deb Talan: Unraveling
“Lovin’ is fine as long as it’s not in your mind.”
Damien Rice: The Professor
“When you showed me myself…I became someone else.”
Joseph Arthur: In the Sun
“A remedy to agony…”
Lissie: Here Before
“Is she outside-in or inside-out?”
Freelance Whales: Hannah
“So you quote love unquote me.”
“You tell me I’m not not cute.”
The Magnetic Fields: I Don’t Believe You
“Some say they saw in me innocent poetry.”
Iron & Wine: History of Lovers
“You can’t go round just saying stuff because it’s pretty. And I no longer drink enough to think you’re witty.”
The Magnetic Fields: You Must Be Out of Your Mind
“We’ve got a minefield of crippled affection.”
Broken Social Scene: World Sick
“Two drifters: off to see the world. There’s such a lot of world to see...”
Josh Ritter: Moon River (cover)
“It’s okay to do what you know in your heart to be right.”
Terror Pigeon Revolt!: IOTDWYKIYHTBR
“Your head caught in a waking dream…”
Fleet Foxes: Your Protector
“I am losing myself dreaming of you.”
Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps:
“The smoke of memories in my eyes—the real misleading kind.”
A Fine Frenzy: Winter White
“You’re making love to the past.”
Free Energy: Dark Trance
“Have you fallen from where glory sprouts?”
Nathaniel Rateliff: Early Spring Till
“The path of least resistance is catching up with me again today…”
Brandi Carlile: Again Today
“She’s got jumper cable lips, sunset on her breath now. I inhale just a little bit and I got no fear of death now…!”
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: 40 Day Dream
“The gold-soaked afternoon comes slow.”
“The static’s where you’ll find me.”
Jack’s Mannequin: Into the Airwaves
“This is nothing new—just another phase of finding.”
“You give miles and miles of mountains and I’ll ask for the sea.”
Damien Rice: Volcano
“You painted me in pastel; colors that don’t tell of any boldness.”
The Hush Sound: The Artist
“I am what I am—you ain’t gotta love me.”
Brother Ali: Forest Whitaker
“I tried to hold your hand, but you’d rather hold your grudge.”
Relient K: Which to Bury; Us or the Hatchet
“As simple as it sounds, I think I’ve found the perfect way to grow old.”
QuietDrive: Both Ways
“Living in a dream, walking between sunrise and sunset.”
The Weepies: Living in Twilight
“All my mistakes have become masterpieces.”
Teitur (feat. Tarira): All My Mistakes
“But I sure loved the way the way that you lingered here.”
Nathaniel Rateliff: Once in a Great While
“I think we’ll either sink or swim ’cause we could do either on a whim.”
Bell X1: Eve, The Apple of My Eye
“You see stars that clear have been dead for years, but the idea just lives on…”
Bright Eyes: We Are Nowhere and It’s Now
“You just want to fix yourself so you can break again.”
Copeland: The Last time He Saw Dorie
“Never put her roots down...”
Neil Young: Unknown Legend (esp. when sung by Sydney in Rachel Getting Married)
“Shut me up with your long tube socks—they don’t scream, “Hey, let’s just be friends!”
Freelance Whales: Starring
“Can you lie next to her and confess your love as well as your folly?”
“You desired my attention, but denied my affections.”
Mumford & Sons: White Blank Page
“Rusting far below me, battered hulls and broken hardships.”
Josh Ritter: Change of Time
“But our intentions were intangible and sweet, sick with simple math and shy discoveries, piled up against our impending defeat.”
The Weakerthans: Benediction
“Thought of you as my mountain top, thought of you as my peak.”
The Velvet Underground: Pale Blue Eyes
“Strolling, so vagrant, so shaken, so grown, so—god—so mistaken, so broke, so, so complacent, so worn out…so worn out…so worn out…”
P.O.S.: P.O.S. Is Ruining My Life
