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My Top 10 Favorite Songs And Their Most Influential Lyrics

I love these songs and hope others can love them as well.

Victoria Irene Kellogg

Mar 21, 2016

Western Illinois University

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My Top 10 Favorite Songs And Their Most Influential Lyrics

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10. “Shake it Out” - Florence and the Machine

Favorite lyrics:

“Regrets collect like old friends, here to relive your darkest moments…. Shake it out, shake it out. It’s hard to dance with the devil on your back, so shake him off.”

9. “Epilogue” - The Antlers

Favorite lyrics: “When I try to move my arms sometimes they weigh too much to lift, I think you’ve buried me awake, my one and only parting gift. But you return to me at night just when I think that I’ve fallen asleep, your face is up against mine and I’m too terrified to speak.”

8. “R U Mine?” - Arctic Monkeys

Favorite lyrics: “I go crazy ‘cause here isn’t where I wanna be, and satisfaction feels like a distant memory. But I can’t help myself, all I wanna hear you say is ‘are you mine?’”

7. “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” - Neutral Milk Hotel

Favorite lyrics: “What a beautiful dream that could flash on a screen in a blink of an eye and be gone from me, soft and sweet, let me hold it close and keep it here with me.”

6. “Strong Hand” - CHVRCHES

Favorite lyrics: “When the pressure’s building for a great white hope, do you give up things that you love? And the pressure’s building ‘til it takes you whole, can you go back on your own word?”

5. “Best Friend” - Foster the People

Favorite lyrics: “I am here no matter where you are, I’m waiting here with open arms no matter where you are, sometimes you have to wait until it passes like a satellite or star, no matter where you are.”

4. “Undisclosed Desires” - Muse

Favorite lyrics: “I want to reconcile the violence in your heart. I want to recognize your beauty is not just a mask. I want to exorcise the demons from your past. I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.”

3. “Ask Yourself” - Foster the People

Favorite lyrics: “Well you say that dreamers always get what they desire. But I’ve found the more I want the less I’ve got. Is this the life you’ve been waiting for?”

2. “Clearest Blue” - CHVRCHES

Favorite lyrics: “Just another time that I go down, but you were keeping up, holding onto a hope you undermined, never to be reversed.”

1. “Knights of Cydonia” - Muse

Favorite lyrics: “Don’t waste your time or time will waste you.”

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