★ Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day - Jethro Tull
(well do you ever get the feeling
that the story's too damn real
and in the present tense?)

★ The New Mythology - Elf Power
(oh, the world is like a giant burning flame
it fries you in your mind
leaves you trying to find the way home)

★ Make Another World - Idlewild
(reassure me into changing names
vision strained, seconds change
to be secure of everything
if I could make another world)

★ Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
(and you may tell yourself
this is not my beautiful house
and you may tell yourself
this is not my beautiful wife!)

★ Drowned - the Who
(I am not the actor
and this can't be the scene
but I am in the water
as far as I can see)

★ Anonanimal - Andrew Bird
(oh and I will become this animal
anomalous appendages
anonanimal, anonanimal)

★ Ariel - October Project
(let the wind and ocean water
wash across your hands
wash away the thousand footsteps
wash us all away like sand)

★ La Costa Brava - Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
(a little time I can turn your head round
a little time I can lift us out of this mess we're in)

★ Move Along - the All-American Rejects
(when all you gotta keep is strong
move along, move along like I know you do
and even when your hope is gone
move along, move along just to make it through)

★ Determination - Todd Rundgren
(I'm looking for someone
someone strong enough to believe in
everybody's looking for someone
strong enough to stand on his feet and
never break down)

★ Falling for the First Time - Barenaked Ladies
(anyone perfect must be lying
anything easy has its cost
anyone plain can be lovely
anyone loved can by lost
what if I lost my direction?
what if I lost sense of time?
what if I nursed this infection?
maybe the worst is behind)

★ Pokemon Theme - Lindsey Stirling & Kurt Hugo Schneider
(instrumental)

★ Ants Marching - Dave Matthews Band
(all the little ants are marching
red and black antennas waving
they all do it the same
they all do it the same way)

★ Hanging Upside Down - David Byrne
(hangin' on, hangin' out
there's a place for me and you
hangin' round, hangin' free
and we got nothing else to do)

★ Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
(though I respect that a lot
I'd be fired if that were my job
after killing Jason off
and countless screaming Argonauts)

★ Dim - Dada
(you shoulda told me the trouble I was in
before my life went dim)

★ Time - Pink Floyd
(and you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
racing around to come up behind you again
the sun is the same, in a relative way, but you're older
shorter of breath, and one day closer to death)

★ Action/Adventure - Andrew Bird
(so you wonder what you got your Persona for
'cause there's a two for one down at the corner store
and I wonder, could you pep it up a bit
you know, throw a fit
you go ahead and dance; I'll just sit)

★ Next Time - Barenaked Ladies
(it's a shame I have to wait until the ending
everything I've yet to break is surely bending
every vow I ever take is just pretending
that this mess I make is worth defending)

★ After the Fire - Roger Daltrey
(after the fire, the fire still burns
the heart grows older, but never ever learns
the memories smolder and the soul always yearns
after the fire, the fire still burns)

★ Soul Phrase - Persona 3 Portable
(write me an endless song
as I feel so alive
we can overcome anything in this world)

★ Scythian Empires - Andrew Bird
(five-day forecast bring black tar rains and hellfire
while hand-picked handlers' kid gloves tear at the inseams)

★ Viva La Vida - Coldplay
(be my mirror, my sword and shield
my missionaries in a foreign field)

★ Right Now - Van Halen
(catch your magic moment
do it right here and now
it means everything)

★ Second Wind - Todd Rundgren
(now that I know what to fight for
now that I need more adventure
now that I have thoughtful patience
now that I can see the future
blow like cyclone, my second wind)

★ Sister Disco - the Who
(I will choose nightmares and cold stormy seas
I will take over your grief and disease
I'll stay beside you and comfort your soul
when you are lonely and broken and old)

★ Girlfriend Is Better - Talking Heads
(I got a girlfriend who's better than that
and nothing is better than this
or is it?)

★ Brass in Pocket - the Pretenders
('cause I'm gonna make you see
there's nobody else here, no one like me
I'm special, so special
I gotta have some of your attention - give it to me)

★ Stage Fright - the Band
(I got fire, water, rain on my breath
and the doctor warned me I might catch a death
he said you can make it in your disguise
just never show the fear in your eyes)

★ Starman - David Bowie
(there's a starman waiting in the sky
he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds
there's a starman waiting in the sky
he's told us not to blow it 'cause he knows it's all worthwhile)

★ No Rain - Blind Melon
(you know, I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today
so stay with me and I'll have it made
and I don't understand why I sleep all day
and I start to complain when there's no rain)

★ A Friend Is a Friend - Pete Townshend
(a friend is a friend; nothing can change that
arguments, squabbles can't break the contract
that each of you makes, to the death, to the end
deliver your future into the hands of your friends)

★ I Will Not Take These Things for Granted - Toad the Wet Sprocket
(how can I hold the part of me that only you can carry?
it needs a strength I haven't found
but if it's frightening, I'll bear the cold
and on the telephone, you offer warm asylum)

★ Beneath the Mask (Rain) - Persona 5
(I'm a shapeshifter
have no face to show
please don't take off my mask, my disguise)

★ Round Here - Counting Crows
(round here we're never sent to bed early
and nobody makes us wait
round here we stay up very, very, very, very late)

★ The Naming of Things - Andrew Bird
(memories of mohair sweaters
stretched and pilled, faux distressed leather
mooses' horns and figure eights
white plastic bags in search of mates
would suffocate the land
and memories of garbage cans, memories of garbage cans
but you, you can't be found when the bell rings
you weren't there that day for the naming of things)

★ On Love, In Sadness - Jason Mraz
(sing about that oh, love is a brittle madness
sing about it in all my sadness
not falsified to say that I found God
so inevitably, will it still exist
so pale and fine, I can't dismiss and I won't resist
and if I die, well at least I tried)

★ Strange Magic - Electric Light Orchestra
(I'm never gonna be the same again
now I've seen the way it's got to end
sweet dreams, sweet dreams)

★ Clarity - John Mayer
(and I will wait to find
if this will last forever
and I will wait to find
if this will last forever
and I will pay no mind
when it won't, and it won't, because it can't)

★ Light Up My Room - Barenaked Ladies
(late at night when the wires in the walls
sing in tune with the din of the falls
I'm conducting it all while I sleep
to light this whole town)

★ Dawning Is the Day - Moody Blues
(wake up in the morning to yourself
and leave this crazy life behind you
listen, we're trying to find you)

★ O Fortuna - Carmina Burana
(well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing)

★ The Whims of Fate - Persona 5
(so we roll the dice, see where they may fall
come on, why don't we spin the wheel, see whom it may call
give in to temptation
to win it, or maybe to lose it all
who knows where the whims of fate may lead us?)

★ Rule the World with Love - Barenaked Ladies
(I need to love you with an iron fist
I need to love you with a secret list
I need to love you till you don't exist and rule the world with love)

★ Love, Reign O'er Me - the Who
(only love can bring the rain
that falls like tears from on high)

★ Hard Candy - Counting Crows
(on certain Sundays in November
when the weather bothers me
I empty drawers of other summers
where my shadows used to be)

★ Dancing Nancies - Dave Matthews Band
(I am who I am who I am
well, who am I?
requesting some enlightenment
could I have been anyone other than me?)

★ Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads
(I'm feeling okay this morning
and you know
we're on a road to paradise
here we go, here we go)

★ Tuesday's Dead - Cat Stevens
(we must try to shake it down
do our best to break the ground
try to turn the world around one more time)

★ JustaboutasIdon'tknowwhatasIthinkyoucanget - Brian Lovely
(I park the car and go and do what I do
something's gonna happen, I dunno who to
How's it going, someone asked me
I said, I forget
I'm just about as I don't know what as I think you can get)

★ Imagination - Erasure
(it's just your imagination rolling over the past
it can change your mind completely
it's just my imagination running wild and too fast
but I know it won't defeat me)

★ Danse Caribe - Andrew Bird
(you were a shameless child
bandied by still cross currents
anything but mild
yes and no just simply weren't invented yet
then one day you'd had it
exiled your close advisors)

★ Adrift - Barenaked Ladies
(crescent moon sings me to sleep
the birches bark, the willows weep
but I lie awake
I'm adrift without a snowflake)

★ Through Your Hands - John Hiatt
(so whatever your hands find to do
you must do with all your heart
there are thoughts enough to blow men's minds
and tear great worlds apart)

★ Princess - Beth Kinderman
(princess, I will let you down
you knew this from the start
I hope I've done some good here
and I've safeguarded your heart)

★ Hangin' Around - Counting Crows
(this girl listens to the band play
she says, where have you been
I been lyin' right here on the floor
well I got all this time
to be waiting for what is mine
to be hating what I am after the light has faded)

★ Anything But Ordinary - Avril Lavigne
(is it enough to love?
is it enough to breathe?
somebody rip my heart out
and leave me here to bleed
is it enough to die?
somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please)

★ Measuring Cups - Andrew Bird
(get out your measuring cups
and we'll play a new game
come to the front of the class
and we'll measure your brain
we'll give you a complex
and we'll give it a name)

★ When I Go Out With Artists - Crash Test Dummies
(the artists of the future
will make up new things, and different nomeclatures
and they'll stand before their pictures
and they'll sing, and laugh and quote from Scriptures and
when they go home, they'll dream of brilliant paintings)

★ Told You So - Barenaked Ladies
(I never jumped in and rescued you
but I wanted to)

★ Sunshine - Jonathan Edwards
(well how much does it cost
I'll buy it
the time is all we've lost
I'll try it
and he can't even run his own life
I'll be damned if he'll run mine)

★ Sufficiently Breathless - Captain Beyond
(sitting on the doorstoop
watching multi bizarre people pass me by
look through the windows to the houses
oh, they're made of sky)

★ What a Good Boy - Barenaked Ladies
(I go to school, I write exams
if I pass, if I fail, if I drop out
does anyone give a damn?
and if they do, they'll soon forget
'cause it won't take much for me
to show them my life ain't over yet)

★ I Wish I Was a Girl - Counting Crows
(in one of these dreams, you forgive me
it makes me think of the bad decisions that keep you at home
how could anyone else have changed?)

★ Baba O'Riley - the Who
(don't cry, don't raise your eye
it's only teenage wasteland)

★ Simple X - Andrew Bird
(before your neurons declare a crisis
before your trace serotonin rises
before you're reading your list of vices
perform the simplest exercises)

★ Harder Better Faster Stronger - Daft Punk
(work it harder make it better
do it faster makes us stronger
more than ever hour after
our work is never over)

★ Snow (Hey Oh) - Red Hot Chili Peppers
(went to descend to amend for a friend
all the channels that are broken down
now you bring it up, I'm gonna ring it up
just to hear you sing it out)

★ Here It Goes Again - OK Go
(I guess there's gotta be
a break in the monotony
but jesus, when it rains how it pours)

★ Life on Mars? - David Bowie
(it's about to be writ again
as I ask you to focus on
sailors fighting in the dance hall
oh man, look at those cavemen go)

★ Spaceman - Harry Nilsson
(I wanted to make a good run
I wanted to go the moon
I knew that it had to be fun
I told 'em to send me real soon
I wanted to be a spaceman
I wanted to be it so bad
but now that I am a spaceman
I'd rather be back on the pad)

★ Over the Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin
(many dreams come true
and some have silver linings
I live for my dreams
and a pocketful of gold)

★ Wavelength - Van Morrison
(you have told me about my destiny
singing come back, baby, come back
come back, baby, come back)