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✖ BROKEN ARROW  THE ALBUM LEAF ( instrumental ) ✖ THE GIANT OF ILLINOIS  ANDREW BIRD delirious with pain, his bedroom walls began to glow | and he felt himself soaring up through falling snow | and the sky was a woman's arms ✖ ALL MY GREAT DESIGNS  THE WALKMEN it will haunt you | night after night | haunt you night after night | and i've been seeing things | lights are shining through my eyelids | all my great designs | never make out of my sleep ✖ MISSING  BECK i prayed | heaven today | would bring its hammer down on me | and pound you | out of my head | i can't think with you in it | i dragged | all that I owned | down a dirt road to find you | and my shoes | worn out and used | they can't take me much further | something always | takes the place of | missing pieces you can take | and put together | even though you know there's something missing ✖ 10 MILE STEREO  BEACH HOUSE the heart is a stone and this is a stone that we throw | put your hand on this stone, it's the stone of a home you know | they say we'll go far, but they don't know how far we'll go | with our legs on the edge and our feet on the horizon ✖ IN THE MARGINS  ANI DiFRANCO such an intent stare | one eye at a time | your talons like fish hooks | you are a rare bird | the kind I wouldn't even mind | writing in the margins of my books | sometimes I see myself | through the eyes of a stray dog | from an alley across the street | and my whole mission just seems so finite | my whole saga just seems so cheap | i mean I know that now is all there is | and love'll just makes you cry | so I live for the sight of a rare bird | suddenly flying by ✖ LONGTIME  YPPAH ( instrumental ) ✖ THE EIGHTH STATION OF THE CROSS KEBAB HOUSE  BELLE & SEBASTIAN i just took a walk through the checkpoint | past columns of poor Arab sons | they queue through the day for a chance to make pay | for something to put in their mouths | he can't sleep at night without gunfire | the lullaby puts him to sleep ✖ CHICAGO (ACOUSTIC VERSION)  SUFJAN STEVENS i was in love with the place | in my mind, in my mind | i made a lot of mistakes | in my mind, in my mind | if I was crying | in the van, with my friend | it was for freedom | from myself and from the land | i made a lot of mistakes

✖ WATERSHED  VIENNA TENG while you were building your empires | i was still sleeping | i was still sleeping | while you were setting your woods afire | i was still dreaming | i was still dreaming | now I will unsettle the ground beneath you | send my waters ashore | creep into your bed | find you in every corner ✖ THE PRAYER  BLOC PARTY is it so wrong, to crave recognition | second best, runner up | is it so wrong, to want rewarding? | to want more, than is given to you | tonight make me unstoppable | and I will charm, I will slice, I will dazzle them with my wit | tonight make me unstoppable | and I will charm, I will slice, I will dazzle | i will outshine them all ✖ BAMIDELE  ASA binu e ba dun (whether you are happy) | a binu e o ba dun (whether you are sad) | on lati bamidele (you must follow me home) | bi o ba fe (whether you like it) | abi o ba ko ye (or not) ✖ TU FAIS PARTIE DU PASSE  ZOUZOU mon ami, je crois que tu t'es trompé | je ne suis pas la fille dont tu parlais | une vie c'est bien trop court | pour ne pas en profiter | comment as-tu pu t'imaginer | que je pourrais vivre les yeux baissés | il ya tout autour de moi trop de choses à regarder ✖ FUNERAL  BAND OF HORSES i'm coming up only to hold you under | i'm coming up only to show you wrong | and to know you is hard and we wonder | to know you all wrong, we were | really too late to call, so we wait for | morning to wake you; it's all we got | to know me as hardly golden | is to know me all wrong, they were ✖ TORNADO  JONSI you grow, you roar | although disguised | i know you | you'll learn to know | you grow, you grow like tornado | you grow from the inside | destroy everything through | destroy from the inside ✖ PARIS IS BURNING  ST. VINCENT enclosed in this letter there's a picture | black and white for your refrigerator | sticks and stones have made me smarter | it's words that cut me under my armor they say | I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is | come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear | we are waiting on a telegram to give us news of the fall | i am sorry to report dear Paris is burning after all | we have taken to the streets in open rejoice revolting | we are dancing a black waltz fair paris is burning after all ✖ SLEEPING LESSONS  THE SHINS jump from the hook | you're not obliged to swallow anything you despise | see, those unrepenting buzzards want your life | and they got no right | as sure as you have eyes | they got no right. ✖ YOUR HAND IN MINE  EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY ( instrumental )