we like certain songs for varied reasons. but normally, it's because we can relate to its message. sometimes, when i listen to some of my favorite songs, i feel so moved by them, it's as if i was the one who wrote them... maybe in some parallel universe, i did. haha. or i wish i did.

certain songs affect us depending on our mood for the moment. here are just some of the songs that i can totally relate to right now. they're mostly old songs... i guess none of the new ones has touched me in the same way as these songs do.

some are the whole song. for the others, i lifted the part of the lyrics that just hit me everytime...

01. I'm Still Here by Vertical Horizon

I found the pieces in my hand
They were always there
It just took some time for me to understand
You gave me words I just can't say
So if nothing else
I'll just hold on while you drift away
Cause everything you wanted me to hide
Is everything that makes me feel alive

The cities grow
The rivers flow
Where you are, I'll never know
But I'm still here
If you were right and I was wrong
Why are you the one who's gone
And I'm still here
Still here

You've seen the ashes in my heart
You smile the widest
When I cry inside and my insides blow apart
I tried to wear another face
Just to make you proud
Just to make you put me in my place
But everything you wanted from me
Is everything that I could never be

Maybe tonight
It's gonna be alright
I will get better
Maybe today
It's gonna be okay
I will remember

I held the pieces of my soul
I was shattered and I wanted you to come and make me whole
Then I saw you yesterday
But you didn't notice
And you just walked away
Cause everything you wanted me to hide
Is everything that makes me feel alive

The cities grow
The rivers flow
Where you are, I'll never know
But I'm still here
If you were right and I was wrong
Why are you the one who's gone
And I'm still here

The lights go out, the bridges burn
Once you're gone, you can't return
But I'm still here
Remember how you used to say
I'd be the one to run away
But I'm still here

02. Please Don't Ask by Popsicle.

I look into the mirror
See an empty space that used to be your face
I know it's trivial
But why am I still dwelling on it?

03. The World Has Turned And Left Me Here by Weezer

The world has turned and left me here
Just where I was before you appeared
And in your place an empty space
Has filled the void behind my face
You remain, turned away
Turning further every day

04. 747 by Kent

Silence, why won't you listen
Maybe it's just me
But sometimes it's impossible to breathe
A violent whisper
Maybe this time it won't heal
Maybe this time it will bleed until I'm free

05. Blurry by Puddle of Mudd

Everything's so blurry
and everyone's so fake
and everybody's empty
and everything is so messed up
pre-occupied without you
I cannot live at all
My whole world surrounds you
I stumble then I crawl

Can you take it all away
can you take it all away
well ya shoved it in my face
this pain you gave to me
Can you take it all away
can you take it all away
well ya shoved it my face
this pain you gave to me

06. Today by Smashing Pumpkins

I wanted more
Than life could ever grant me
Bored by the chore
Of saving face

07. What I Didn't Know by Athanaeum

I complain
When nothing's even wrong
That's when I said I'll need
More than you can offer me

Cause what I didn't know
Is I was killing you
I said a lot of things that I didn't mean to
But I am older now
And I am sorry too

08. Sick of Myself by Matthew Sweet

You don't know how you move me
Deconstruct me
And consume me
I'm all used up
I'm out of luck
I am starstruck

By something in your eyes
That is keeping my hope alive
But I'm sick of myself when I look at you
Something is beautiful and true
In a world that's ugly and a lie
It's hard to even want to try
And I'm beginning to think baby you don't know

09. Stranger Than Fiction by Bad Religion

life is the crummiest book I ever read
there isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots,
pictures to shock and characters an amateur would never dream up

sometimes truth is stranger than fiction

10. Just Looking by Stereophonics

there's things i want
there's things i think i want
there's things i've had
there's things i wanna have

you said that life is what you make of it
yet most of us just fake it

11. Falls Apart by Sugar Ray

She falls apart by herself
No one's there to talk or understand
Feels the sting, dries her eyes
Finds herself opens the door and sighs
People see right through you
Everyone who knew you well
Falls apart, might as well
Day is long and nothing is wasted

You walk along by yourself
There's no sound, nothing's changing
They've gone away, left you there
Emptiness is nothing you can share
All those words that hurt you
More than you will let it show
Comes apart by yourself
All is well and everything's wasted

12. Things Will Go My Way by The Calling

For all the lies I've tasted
Just looking for the truth
For all the dreams I'm chasing
Well what am I to do
When everything's against me
The answers are all wrong
I'm hoping that I'll find out
It was worth it all along

Maybe someday
In time
Things will go my way

13. Basketcase by Green Day

Do you have the time to listen to me whine
About nothing and everything all at once
I am one of those melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone no doubt about it

Sometimes i give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
Or I'm just stoned?

14. Chump by Green Day

Maybe it's just jealousy
Mixed up with a violent mind
A circumstance that doesn't make much sense
Or maybe I'm just dumb

15. Miserable by Lit

You make me come...
You make me complete...
You make me completely miserable

16. You Know You're Right by Nirvana

I will never bother you
I will never promise to
I will never follow you
I will never bother you

Never speak a word again
I will crawl away for good

No thought was put into this
Always knew it would come to this
Things have never been so swell
I have never failed to fail

17. Everytime I Look For You by Blink 182

One more point of contention,
I need some intervention
Approaching failing tensions,
Betray my short attention span
The distance, bridge the border
Beg forgiveness, round the corner

Everytime I look for you the sun goes down
And I stumble when this whole thing runs aground
I left another message, you are never around
But everytime I look for you the sun goes down once more
Will the last one out, please shut the door

18. Unnoticed by Athenaeum

It takes a lot of power
To change your point of view
And I worry every hour
That I'm away from you
It makes me feel unnoticed
Like I was never there
But I'd give all my life savings
To know you ever cared

19. Broken by Seether

'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone (away)


so there.

'nuff said.