174 | James Murphy

You wanted the truth

And then you said you want proof

I guess you're used to liars

Saying what they want

Artist: LCD Soundsystem

Song: You Wanted A Hit

Album: This Is Happening

Year: 2010

173 | Liz Phair

You got up out of bed

You said you had a lot of work to do

But I heard the rest in your head

And almost immediately I felt sorry

Artist: Liz Phair

Song: Fuck And Run

Album: Exile In Guyville

Year: 1993

172 | James Murphy

Talking like a jerk, except you are an actual jerk

And living proof that sometimes friends are mean

Artist: LCD Soundsystem

Song: Dance Yrself Clean

Album: This Is Happening

Year: 2010

171 | Karen O

If I make it at all,

I'll make you want me.

Artist: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Song: Warrior

Album: Show Your Bones

Year: 2006

170 | Nico

And why after every last shot,

was there always another?

Artist: Nico

Song: Eulogy To Lenny Bruce

Album: Chelsea Girl

Year: 1967

169 | Jack White

Have a doctor come and visit us

And tell us which one is sane

Artist: The White Stripes

Song: I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman

Album: White Blood Cells

Year: 2001

168 | Paul McCartney

Well, she was just seventeen,

And you know what I mean!

Artist: The Beatles

Song: I Saw Her Standing There

Album: Please Please Me

Year: 1963

167 | Dave Grohl

I'm finished making sense

Done pleading ignorance

That whole defence

Artist: Foo Fighters

Song: The Pretender

Album: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

Year: 2007

166 | Grace Slick

One pill makes you larger

And one pill makes you small.

And the ones that mother gives you

Don't do anything at all

Go ask Alice!

When she's ten feet tall!

Artist: Jefferson Airplane

Song: White Rabbit

Album: Surrealistic Pillow

Year: 1967

165 | John Cale

Home is living like a man on the run.

Trails leading nowhere, where to my son?

We're already dead,

Just not yet in the ground.

Artist: John Cale

Song: Fear Is A Man's Best Friend

Album: Fear

Year: 1974

164 | John Lennon

When I was younger

Full of ideas and broken dream (my friend)

When I was younger ah hah

Everything simple but not so clear

Artist: John Lennon

Song: Borrowed Time

Album: Milk And Honey

Year: 1984

163 | Lou Reed

I wish I was a robot, or a machine

Without a feeling or a thought

People who want to meet the name I have

Are always disappointed when they meet me

Artist: Lou Reed & John Cale

Song: Faces And Names

Album: Songs For Drella

Year: 1990

162 | Cee Lo

A wanna thank you mom and dad

For hurting me so bad

But you're the best I ever had

I wanna thank you

Artist: Gnarls Barkley

Song: A Little Better

Album: The Odd Couple

Year: 2008

161 | James Murphy

And oh...Maybe mother told you true

And there'll always be somebody there for you

And you'll never be alone

But maybe she's wrong

Artist: LCD Soundsystem

Song: New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

Album: Sound Of Silver

Year: 2007

160 | Bob Dylan

'There's too much confusion,

I can't get no relief'

Artist: Bob Dylan

Song: All Along The Watchtower

Album: John Wesley Harding

Year: 1967

159 | Win Butler

Now here's the sun, it's alright (Lies, Lies)

Now here's the moon, it's alright (Lies, Lies)

Every time you close your eyes (Lies, Lies)

Every time you close your eyes (Lies, Lies)

Artist: Arcade Fire

Song: Rebellion (Lies)

Album: Funeral

Year: 2005 

158 | Courtney Love

I want to be the girl with the most cake

He only loves those things because he loves to see them break

I fake it so real, I am beyond fake

And someday, you will ache like I ache

Artist: Hole

Song: Doll Parts

Album: Live Through This

Year: 1993

157 | Black Francis

The creature in the sky

Got sucked in a hole now

There's a hole in the sky

And the ground's not cold

And if the ground's not cold

Everything is going to burn

We'll all take turns

I'll get mine too

Artist: Pixies

Song: Monkey Gone To Heaven

Album: Doolittle

Year: 1989

156 | Andre 3000

Uh, thank God for mom and dad,

For sticking two together

'Cuz we don't know how!

Artist: OutKast

Song: Hey Ya!

Album: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Year: 2003

155 | Jackson Browne

I've been out walking

I don't do too much talking

These days, these days

These days I seem to think a lot

About the things that I forgot to do

And all the times I had the chance to

Artist: Nico

Song: These Days

Album: Chelsea Girl

Year: 1967

154 | George Harrison

When you've seen beyond yourself

Then you may find

Peace of mind

Is waiting there.

And the time will come when you see

We're all one

And life flows on within you and without you

Artist : The Beatles

Song: Wthin You Without You

Album: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Year: 1967

153 | David Bowie

Now hear this Robert Zimmerman

Though I don't suppose we'll meet

Ask you good friend Dylan

If he'd gaze a while down the old street

Tell him we've lost his poems

So they're writing on the walls

Give us back our unity

Give us back our family

You're every nation's refugee

Don't leave us their sanity

Artist: David Bowie

Song: Song For Bob Dylan

Album: Hunky Dory

Year: 1971

152 | Johnny Marr / Morrissey

Love, peace and harmony

Love, peace and harmony

Oh, very nice, very nice, very nice, very nice

But, maybe in the next world

Artist: The Smiths

Song: Death Of A Disco Dancer

Album: Strangeways, Here We Come

Year: 1987

151 - Bono

A woman needs a man

Like a fish needs a bicycle

Artist: U2

Song: Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World

Album: Achtung Baby

Year: 1991

150 - John Lennon

I don't expect you to understand

After you caused so much pain

But then again you're not to blame

You're just a human, a victim of the insane

Artist: John Lennon

Song; Isolation

Album: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

Year: 1970

149 - Bob Dylan

Well, I rapped upon a house

With the U.S. flag upon display

I said,"Could you help me out

I've got some friends down the way."

The man says, "Get out of here

I'll tear you limb from limb."

I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too."

He said, "You're not him."

Artist: Bob Dylan

Song: Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

Album: Bringing It All Back Home

Year: 1965

148 - Karen O

Louder, lips speak louder

Better, back together

Artist: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Song: Soft Shock

Album: It's Blitz!

Year: 2009

147 - Notorious B.I.G.

Yeah, this album is dedicated to all the teachers

That told me I'd never amount to nothin'

Artist: The Notorious B.I.G.

Song: Juicy

Album: Ready To Die

Year: 1994

146 - John Lennon

I read the news today, oh boy

Artist: The Beatles

Song: A Day In The Life

Album: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Year: 1967

145 - Michael Jackson

Don't tell me you agree with me

When I saw you kicking dirt in my eye

Artist: Michael Jackson

Song: Black Or White

Album: Dangerous

Year: 1991

144 - Andre 3000

Hope that we feel this...feel this way forever

You can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather

Artist: OutKast

Song: Ms. Jackson

Album: Stankonia

Year: 2001

143 - Justin Vernon

Come on skinny love just last the year

Pour a little salt we were never here

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my

Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer

Artist: Bon Iver

Song: Skinny Love

Album: For Emma, Forever Ago

Year: 2008

142 - Paul McCartney

And, in the end

The love that you take

Is equal to the love you make

Artist: The Beatles

Song: The End

Album: Abbey Road

Year: 1969

141 - Jack White

My friends are all dying

And death can't be lying

It's the truth and it don't make a noise

Artist: The White Stripes

Song: White Moon

Album: Get Behind Me Satan

Year: 2005

140 - John Lennon

Half of what I say is meaningless

But I say it just to reach you, Julia

Artist: The Beatles

Song: Julia

Album: The Beatles (The White Album)

Year: 1968

139 - Thom Yorke

Who's in the bunker, who's in the bunker?

Women and children first

Women and children

I'll laugh until my head comes off

I swallow till I burst

Artist: Radiohead

Song: Idioteque

Album: Kid A

Year: 2000

138 - Lou Reed

Yesterday, Daisy Mae and Biff were groovin' on the street

And just like in a movie her hands became her feet

Her belly button was her mouth

Which meant she tasted what she'd speak, ohhhh!

But the funny thing is what happened to her nose

It grew until it reached all of her toes, ohhhh!

Now when people say her feet smell, they mean her nose.

Artist: Lou Reed

Song: Andy's Chest

Album: Transformer

Year: 1972

137 - Win Butler

The only thing you keep changing

Is your name, my love keeps growing

Still the same, just like a cancer

And you won't give me a straight answer

Artist: Arcade Fire

Song: Crown Of Love

Album: Funeral

Year: 2005

136 - Jack White

I'm breakin' my teeth off

Trying to bite my lip

Artist: The White Stripes

Song: 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues

Album: Icky Thump

Year: 2007

135 - Bob Dylan

Up on Housing Project Hill

It's either fortune or fame

You must pick one up or the other

Though neither of them are to be what they claim

Artist: Bob Dylan

Song: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

Album: Highway 61 Revisited

Year: 1965

134 - Paul McCartney

You stay home, she goes out

She says that long ago she knew someone but now he's gone

She doesn't need him

Artist: The Beatles

Song: For No One

Album: Revolver

Year: 1966

133 - Karen O

Take these rings, stow them safe away

I'll wear them on another rainy day

Artist: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Song: Cheated Hearts

Album: Show Your Bones

Year: 2006

132 - Bono

True colors fly in blue and black

Bruised silken sky and burning flag

Colors crash, collide in bloodshot eyes

Artist: U2

Song: Bad

Album: The Unforgettable Fire

Year: 1984

131 - Alex Turner

Bet she's delighted when she sees him

Pulling in and giving her the eye

Because she must be fucking freezing

Scantily dressed beneath the clear night sky

It don't stop in the winter, no!

Artist: Arctic Monkeys

Song: When The Sun Goes Down

Album: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Year: 2006

130 - Michael Stipe

Hey Andy, did you hear about this one?

Tell me, are you locked in the punch?

Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis?

Hey Baby, are we losing touch?

Artist: R.E.M.

Song: Man On The Moon

Album: Automatic For The People

Year: 1992

129 - Prince

Hurricane Annie ripped the ceiling of a church

And killed everyone inside

You turn on the telly and every other story

Is telling you somebody died

Sister killed her baby cuz she couldn't afford to feed it

And we're sending people to the moon

Artist: Prince

Song: Sign o' The Times

Album: Sign o' The Times

Year: 1987

128 - Amy Winehouse

We only said good-bye with words

I died a hundred times

You go back to her

And I go back to black

Artist: Amy Winehouse

Song: Back To Black

Album: Back To Black

Year: 2007

127 - Bob Dylan

I like your smile

And your fingertips

I like the way that you move your lips

I like the cool way you look at me

Everything about you is bringing me misery.

Artist: Bob Dylan

Song: Buckets Of Rain

Album: Blood On The Tracks

Year: 1975

126 - Paul McCartney

Out of college, money spent

See no future, pay no rent

All the money's gone, nowhere to go.

Any jobber got the sack

Monday morning, turning back

Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go.

But oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go.

Oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go.

Nowhere to go.

Artist: The Beatles

Song: You Never Give Me Your Money

Album: Abbey Road

Year: 1969

125 - Ian Curtis

Why is the bedroom so cold?

You've turned away on your side

Is my timing so flawed,

Our respect run so dry?

Artist: Joy Division

Song: Love Will Tear Us Apart

Album: (single)

Year: 1980

124 - Lou Reed

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather

Whiplash girlchild in the dark

Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him

Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

Artist: The Velvet Underground

Song: Venus In Furs

Album: The Velvet Underground & Nico

Year: 1967

123 - John Lennon

How could she say to me

Love will find a way?

Gather round all you clowns

Let me hear you say

Hey you've got to hide your love away

Hey you've got to hide your love away

Artist: The Beatles

Song: You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

Album: Help!

Year: 1965

122 - Eminem

So I changed, huh?

You got a phone

Pick it up, and call me..

Artist: D12

Song: How Come

Album: D12 World

Year: 2004

121 - Mick Jagger

Oh, Angie, don't you weep, all your kisses still taste sweet

I hate that sadness in your eyes

But Angie, Angie, ain't it time we said goodbye?

Artist: The Rolling Stones

Song: Angie

Album: Goats Head Soup

Year: 1973

120 - Tupac

There's no way I can pay you back

But the plan is to show you that I understand

You are appreciated

Artist: Tupac

Song: Dear Mama

Album: Me Against The World

Year: 1995

119 - Sonny Sandoval

He was never really one of the guys.

No matter how hard he tried,

Often thought of suicide.

It's kinda hard when you ain't got no friends.

He put his life to an end,

They might remember him then.

Artist: P.O.D.

Song: Youth Of The Nation

Album: Satellite

Year: 2001