“And if something’s lost in the translation, I know I shouldn’t take it so personally.”  Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

“Whatever floats your boat or finds your lost remote.”  Outkast

“Now I need a change of scenery.  Just listen to me.  I won’t pretend to understand the movement of the wind or the waves out in the ocean.  Or how like the hours I change softly, slowly, plainly, blindly, oh me, oh my!”  Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

“I’m passing sleeping cities, fading by degrees, not believing all I see to be so.  I’m flying over backyards, country homes, and ranches, watching life between the branches below.  And it’s hard to say, who you are these days, but you run on anyway.  Don’t you baby?”  Tom Petty

“Some people say you gotta fight for a love that’s true, climb every mountain, see every trial and tribulation and I’m here to tell you that’s only have the lesson.  Now if you want a girl to come to you, you gotta leave a little room for guessing.”  Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings

“You’re flirting with time baby.  Flirting with time but maybe, time baby, is catching up with you.”  Tom Petty

“And maybe out on the road you could be with me.  You know that I’d never let you not be free.”  Fruit Bats

“If only to learn what you’ve never been told.  There’s a real world.  Somewhere a good girl lives and breathes.”  Broken Bells

“My present situation is no longer inspiration.  My precious generation is killing their time and behind their backs, I’m slipping through the cracks.”  Brendan Benson

“Darling did you hate the way I made you travel all pain and scrapes?  Scrapes and safety hazards.  We only only roll so far.”  Thao with the Get Down Stay Down

“Get your cannons ready, light the wick.  It will take more than an argument to change my mind.  So why keep trying?  Keep trying and you will never talk me out of it.”  Youth Lagoon

“She’d be in the kitchen, I would start the fire.  Those days are gone but you know I can’t give up.  Give up.”  The Strokes

“And if I told you I felt ageless, would you tell me I’m not old?  As I go on wondering if I’ve got a soul and counting down the hours ‘till it goes.”  Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

“We two are makers just made this mess.  Two broken hearts don’t beat any less.”  She & Him

“I’ve got no deeds to do, no promises to keep.  I’m dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep.  Let the morning time drop all it’s petals on me.”  Simon and Garfukel