“Harness your hopes
On just one person
Because you know a harness
Was only made for one
Don’t telegraph your passes
You’ll end up with molasses
Cauterized with syrup
And syrup and molasses
And I’m checking out the asses
The assets that attract us
To anything that moves
We’re deep inside the grooves
And it’s time to shake the rations
‘Cause someone’s gonna cash in
The plot it turns again
The reference starts at ten”

Harness your Hopes - Pavement

“The wrong time, the wrong place
Your talent scouts my lonely face
Of all the things i can’t escape. Yea…
Well i’m alright, although i know you lied
I don’t mind
If my life flashed before my eyes
Do you think I’d mind? No…
And now, you don’t need mine
You let us down
You watched us die
Now, I hang around
With people i don’t even know”

My Life Flashed before my Eyes - Cribs

“I’m alone and I’m cold
Just another number on another road
And I never knew my name
I’d disappear for hours
Over the smallest things, yeah
I’d disappear for hours”

Another Number - Cribs

“Open up ‘cause here I come
With a gift for everyone
And I’m sure you’re not aware
Closed your mind but you don’t care
Waking up to kingdom come
With my gift for everyone
I am the last of the natural ones
Let yourself go and have some fun”

Servo - Brian Jonestown Massacre

“You know that I try
try to tell you the truth
oh baby don’t make me lie
you should be picking me up
instead you’re dragging me down
now i’m missing you more
cause baby you’re not around
now that you’re not around
I want to know how it feels cause
I only play it for real”

Anemone - Brian Jonestown Massacre

“I feel like letting you know
how much I love you today
I feel like letting it show
showing you rightly now
and never going away
I know you’re feeling real low
calling on all my
I want to make it ok
I want to show you I know
and it will be all fine”

Open Heart Surgery - Brian Jonestown Massacre

“True love will find you in the end
You’ll find out just who was your friend
Don’t be sad, I know you will,
But don’t give up until
True love finds you in the end.
This is a promise with a catch
Only if you’re looking will it find you
‘Cause true love is searching too
But how can it recognize you
Unless you step out into the light?
But don’t give up until
True love finds you in the end.”

True Love will Find you in the End - Daniel Johnston

“When I was out in San Marcos a year ago today
They probably would’ve put me in a home
But I threw all my belongings into a garbage bag
And out into the worldness I did roam
My hopes lay shattered like a mirror on the floor
I see myself and I look really scattered
But I lived my broken dreams
The wildest summer that I ever knew
I had a flat tire down memory lane
But I came back after 5 months and a half
And now I’m just trying to explain”

I Live My Broken Dreams - Daniel Johnston

“Maybe someone’s going to save me
My heart is made of gravy
And the laps I swim
From lunatics don’t count
Open up your stockings
Pull out the things you never wanted
From room service calls
Room service calls
Open up your hands
And let me see the things you keep in there
I don’t want to split up fifty/fifty
That’s the way we do it in this gross town
I’ve got all the glory in the world
I hope it does it for you before you go”

AT&T - Pavement

“Darlin’ don’t you go and cut your hair
Do you think it’s gonna make him change?
“I’m just a boy with a new haircut”
And that’s a pretty nice haircut
Charge it like a puzzle, 
Hit me wearin’ muzzles
Hesitate to die, look around, around, 
The second drummer’s drowned
His telephone is found”

Cut Your Hair - Pavement

“So drunk in the August sun
And you’re the kind of girl I like
Because you’re empty and I’m empty
And you can never quarantine the past
Did you remember in December 
That I won’t eat you when I’m gone
And if I go there, I won’t stay there
Because I’m sitting here too long
I’ve been sitting here too long
And I’ve been wasted”

Gold Soundz - Pavement

“I am the only one
Searching for you
And if I get caught
Then the search is through
And the stories you hear
You know they never add up
I hear the natives fussin’ at the data chart
Be quiet, the weather’s on the night news
Painted homes, plastic combs
Stolen rims are they alloy or chrome
Well I’ve got style, miles and miles
So much style that it’s wasting”

Frontwards - Pavement

“Hey, you gotta pay your dues 
Before you pay the rent
Over the turnstile turn out in the traffic
There’s ways of living 
It’s the way I’m living
Right or wrong, 
It’s all that I can do,
And I wouldn’t want to let you be
I want a range life, 
If I could settle down”
Range Life - Pavement

“Loneliness is getting hard to perceive
Seems that it never comes or it never leaves
Every day we step into some deceit
This should bring the ill-defined to their feet
It’s forgiven, it’s for you
All your problems will come true
Said it once I’ll say it once again
This won’t make you happy
All I want is you to make up your mind
Come on down and linger here for a while
All I know is what I wanted to say
Disappeared and has yet to be replaced
It’s forgiven, it’s for you
All your problems will come true
It’s already done, it’s already done
It’s already done”

Done - Built to Spill