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my top ninety songs ever

here's one hundred and twenty (!!!) of the greatest songs ever recorded (in my opinion).  i'll add snipets of lyrics if i feel like it.  you can check out the full lyrics at a great site called song meanings.  www.songmeanings.net  (currently shutdown, for a while)
i suggest these songs to download or buy, if you already have them, good for you, you're awesome.  most of these songs mean alot to me,  but some of them are just because of the catchy lyrics or fun tune. 

these are the songs in no special order...

  1. when the stars go blue - ryan adams. "where do you go when you're lonely, where do you go when your blue? where do you go when you're lonely, i'll follow you. when the stars go blue."
  2. extreme ways - moby. "extreme songs that told me, they helped me down every night. i didn't have much to say. i didn't get above the light. i closed my eyes and closed myself and closed my world and never opened up to anything that could get me along."
  3. poses - rufus wainwright. "once you've fallen from classical virtue you won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you."
  4. let it be - the beatles. "and in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me speaking words of wisdom, let it be."
  5. vincent - don mclean. "now I understand what you tried to say to me and how you suffered for your sanity and how you tried to set them free."
  6. i know him by heart - vonda shepard. "though weve never been together, weve never been apart. no we havent met. havent found him yet, but i know him by heart."
  7. is this it? - the strokes. "oh dear cant you see? its them, its not me. were not enemies; we just disagree."
  8. space oddity - david bowie. "major tom to ground control, im stepping through the door and im floating in a most peculiar way and the stars look very different today."
  9. proof - iffy. "if you feel like a man then you know why from the truth you never shy and your dreams dont need a mountain high to touch the sky."
  10. side - travis. "we all live under the same sky, we all will live. we all will die."
  11. east river - jeffrey lewis. "when i become the scum, its my job to drown the pathetic hopes and failures of the next unloved clown. maybe itd be a girl and we could become scum together. decompose as the river flows become one scum together, become one forever."
  12. shout - tears for fears. "shout, shout, let it all out, these are the things i can do without come on, i'm talking to you, come on."
  13. bad - u2. "if i could through myself set your spirit free. i'd lead your heart away. see you break, break away into the light and to the day."
  14. paradise - bodeans. "paradise, no it ain't faraway. here in my head its just another day."
  15. hernando's hideaway - johnston brothers. "all you see are silhouettes, and all you hear are cassinets. no one cares how late it gets. not at hernandos hideaway. ole!"
  16. someday we'll know - the new radicals. "someday we'll know if love can move a mountain. someday we'll know why the sky is blue. someday we'll know why i wasn't meant for you."
  17. may it be - enya. "when the night is overcome you may rise to find the sun."
  18. stealin beats - kid galahad. "fat cats in fat slacks. king kong silverbacks. cuban silk cigars. stretched decanter cars. menial monkey boys make the gold dust noise."
  19. do what you have to do - sarah mclachlan. "what ravages of spirit conjured this temptuous rage? created you a monster broken by the rules of love. and fate has lead you through it."
  20. miss sarajevo - the passengers. "is there a time for keeping a distance, a time to turn your eyes away? is there a time for keeping your head down for getting on with your day?"
  21. polyester bride - liz phair. "i was sitting, not two days ago, feeling lonely 'cause I'm just feeling low and i asked Henry, my bartending friend, why it is that there are those kind of men."
  22. american pie - don mclean. "and in the streets the children screamed, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed, but not a word was spoken, the church bells all were broken."
  23. outside - staind. "'cause inside youre ugly. youre ugly like me. i can see through you, see to the real you."
  24. pretty - the cranberries. "la, la, you got to say it if you want to, but you won't change me."
  25. heroes - david bowie. "though nothing, nothing will keep us together. we can beat them, forever and ever oh we can be heroes, just for one day."
  26. walk on - u2. "and if your glass heart should crack and for a second you turn back, oh no, be strong."
  27. its all understood - jack johnson. "i read somewhere that youve got to beware. you cant believe anything you read. the good book is good and thats well understood, so dont even question if you know what i mean."
  28. ghost story - sting. "i did not miss you much. i did not suffer. what did not kill me, just made me tougher."
  29. she says - howie day. "and when she breaks down and lets you down, i hope you know that she doesn't mean you."
  30. murray - pete yorn. "and he wont follow these lines hes drawn for him, and he dont want to try, seeing is believing, lord knows what he sees here every night."
  31. video - india arie. "i'm not the average girl from your video and i ain't built like a supermodel but, i learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen."
  32. man on the moon - rem. "hey, baby. are we losing touch? if you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon. if you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool."
  33. 3x5 - john mayer. "you should have seen that sunrise with your own eyes it brought me back to life."
  34. ruby tuesday - the rolling stones. "goodbye ruby tuesday, who could hang a name on you? when you change with every new day still I'm gonna miss you."
  35. signs of love - moby. "if i was beautiful if i had the time you would flock to me and bathe me in the wine."
  36. do you realize - the flaming lips. "it's hard to make the good things last. you realize the sun doesn't go down. it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round."
  37. hey, jude - the beatles. "take a sad song and make it better."
  38. golden brown - the stranglers. "takes both my hands, never a frown with golden brown."
  39. across the universe - written by the beatles, preformed by rufus wainwright. "jai guru de va om. nothins gonna change my world."
  40. meet me in the river - jon buller. "i know the lord forgives them, that he lives in you today, so-"
  41. joy to the world - three dog night. "jeremiah was a bullfrog was a good friend of mine. i never understood a single word he said, but i helped him drink his wine."
  42. selfish man - flogging molly. "all i heard was an unearthly silence. apart from the violence explode in my head. where all at once was this moment of beauty. no more since it slew me, no never again."
  43. when the world is running down, you make the best of whats still around - the police. "when i feel lonely here don't waste my time with tears. "
  44. inaudible melodies - jack johnson. "dust off your thinking caps. solar powered plastic plants. pretty pictures of things we ate. we are only what we hate."
  45. what its like - everlast. "I've seen a rich man beg, i've seen a good man sin, i've seen a tough man cry, ive seen a loser win, and a sad man grin, i heard an honest man lie."
  46. fragile - sting. "perhaps this final act was meant to clinch a lifetime's argument that nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could."
  47. entertaining angels - newsboys. "entertaining angels while the night becomes history host of heaven, sing over me."
  48. leaving on a jet plane - john denver. "so kiss me and smile for me; tell me that you'll wait for me. hold me like you'll never let me go."
  49. lullaby - shawn mullins. "she can't let go and she can't relax and just before she hangs her head to cry i sing to her a lullaby, i sing. "
  50. porcelain - moby. "in my dreams i'm dying all the time as i wake its kaleidoscopic mind i never meant to hurt you i never meant to lie so this is goodbye this is goodbye."
  51. renegades of funk - rage against the machine. "from a different solar system many, many galaxies away we are the force of another creation a new musical revelation."
  52. fight for your right - beastie boys. "your mom busted in and said, what's that noise? aw, mom youre just jealous - it's the beastie boys!"
  53. 1979 - smashing pumpkins. "faster than the speed of sound faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope."
  54. shiny happy people - rem. "there's no time to cry happy happy put it in your heart where tomorrow shines."
  55. wonderwall - oasis. "i don't believe that anybody feels the way i do about you now."
  56. things that should not be - elf power. "nothing can fill the spaces. its just an emptiness forever in my way."
  57. about a boy - badly drawn boy. "no sign of life pulsing through these ancient veins. i bet at your age thats easier for you to say."
  58. champagne supernova - oasis. "wake up the dawn and ask her why a dreamer dreams, she never dies wipe that tear away now from your eye."
  59. tonight - smashing pumpkins. "the more you change the less you feel believe, believe in me, believe."
  60. it's all been done - barenaked ladies. "you go your way ill go mine but i'll see you next time."
  61. where's your head at? - basement jaxx. "you have found yourself trapped in this incomprehensible maze."
  62. they dance alone - sting. "another woman on the torture table what else can they do."
  63. sunday bloody sunday - u2. "i cant believe the news today. oh, i cant close my eyes and make it go away."
  64. what i got - sublime. "it all comes back to you you're bound to get what you deserve."
  65. don't mug yourself - the streets. "
  66. mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm - crash test dummies. "he couldn't quite explain it they'd always just gone there."
  67. runaway train - soul asylum. "so tired that i couldn't even sleep so many secrets i couldn't keep."
  68. parrallel universe - hot chili peppers. "A nervous breakthrough that makes it the same."
  69. get your freak on (remix) - missy elliot ft/ nelly furtado. "cause my fire spin your head 'round like Missy."
  70. hideaway - bodeans. "
  71. school of hard knocks - p.o.d. "turned my whole wide world into metaphors you kept me straight, when times got hard."
  72. seconds - u2. "yes, they're doing the atomic bomb they want you to sing along."
  73. rapture - pedro the lion. "oh my sweet rapture i hear Jesus calling me home."
  74. pinch me - barenaked ladies. "when you try to see the world beyond your front door."
  75. sha sha - ben kweller. "so sue me its up to me if i decide to be what i think is right. ."
  76. change the world - eric clapton. "if i could change the world. i would be the sunlight in your universe. you would think my love was really something good. baby if i could."
  77. by the way - red hot chilli peppers. "standing in line to see the show tonight and theres a light on. heavy glow."
  78. hallelujah - rufus wainwright. "i heard there was a secret chord that david played and it pleased the lord, but you dont really care for music do you?"
  79. sylvia plath - ryan adams. "maybe shed take me to france or maybe to spain shed ask me to dance in a mansion on the top of a hill."
  80. the world aint slowin down - ellis paul. "i found you sitting on a suitcase crying. beneath my feet i feel the rumble of the subway train. i laugh out loud because its the one thing i hadnt tried yet."
  81. larva rae - iffy. "pointed a knife at my concern and asked, for what do you yearn? the smell of sweet hambone, a girl who wont leave me alone. some feathers and a license to fly. and one good reason to die."
  82. electrical storm - u2. "and if the sky can crack there must be some way back, for love and only love."
  83. in other words - ben kweller. "the butterflies, are passive aggressive and put their problems on the shelf but theyre beautiful."
  84. starman - david bowie. "theres a starman waiting in the sky, he told us not to blow it cause he knows its all worth while. he told me, let the children lose it, let the children use it, let all the children bogie!"
  85. grace of god go i - flogging molly. "down besides where river bed sleeps, is a man not know what he should feel."
  86. heavy metal drummer - wilco. "i sincerely miss those heavy metal bands i used to go see on the landing in the summer."
  87. hi life - iffy. "the worlds just one big jack-off stall. well you better get your mind and butt over the wall."
  88. i am not the only cowboy - josh joplin. "wake me up take me out calm me down when im in doubt and im in doubt everyday."
  89. you were right - badly drawn boy. "do the colours of the rainbow look the same to everyone?"
  90. jesus etc. - wilco. "
  91. bouncing around the room - phish. "we go bouncing around the room."
  92. fight test - the flaming lips. "
  93. alices restaurant - arlo guthrie. "
  94. underwater - tegan & sara. "
  95. miss usa - andy stochansky. "
  96. come pick me up - ryan adams. "come pick me up. take me out. fuck me up. steal my records. screw all my friends, theyre all full of shit. with a smile on your face and then do it again."
  97. tiny dancer - sir elton john. "
  98. she said - jon spencer blues explosion. "
  99. lessons learned from rocky I to rocky III - cornershop. "
  100. streets ahead - chris botti. *instrumental*
  101. rock and roll lifestyle - cake. "
  102. living room - tegan and sara. "and i spend the nights losing sleep, i spend the night and i loose my mind, i spend the night and i'd loose my mind."
  103. hallelujah - chris botti. *instrumental*
  104. pepper - butthole surfers. "
  105. sweet carolina - ryan adams. "
  106. we are going to friends - the white stripes. "
  107. walk around in circles - soul coughing. "
  108. running three - twyker, kilmek, heil. "
  109. numb - u2. "don't project, don't connect, protect. don't expect suggest.
  110. blister in the sun - violent femmes. "
  111. jehovha made this whole joint for you - new radicals. "
  112. exit - u2. "the dogs started crying like a brokenhearted man at the howling wind."
  113. drink the water - jack johnson. "if heaven was below, he'd know just where to go. dive in the ocean, man, and sink like a stone."
  114. may the living be dead in our wake - flogging molly. "So tell me why no one's listening, is there nothing at all left to say. in a world so unforgiving you, mean more to me each everyday."
  115. barely legal - the strokes. "i didn't take no short cuts. spent the money that i saved up. oh mama runnin' out of luck, and like my sister don't give a fuck."
  116. confetti - vonda shepard. "my words are like confetti and you never pick them up. as they fall on to the ground i need someone to lift me up."
  117. i was brought to my senses - sting. "
  118. hotel yorba - the white stripes. "and it's 1, 2, 3, 4, take the elevator at the hotel yorba i'll be glad to see ya later. all they got inside is vacancy."
  119. my funny friend and me - sting. "
  120. russians - sting. "