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"Sometimes I laugh aloud as I think about, you asking me "Please can you help?". Can't help my self, I'm not your savior, I'm not who you want me to be." -No Use For A Name

* "Now was it really worth the pain? A couple pills make her feel sane while she lives out the story written for the part she is to play. With so much shame for her to hide, there's no more dignity, no pride. Then there will only be dark in her light of day and she will only see a reflection of her father's rejection. Nothing will change until she breaks this life-size mirror." -No Use For A Name

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* "I'm more alone with you than when I'm by myself."  -The Ataris

* "I'm growing up again. I'm learning to accept that all good things must come to an end."  -The Ataris

"I'm still here waiting there to catch you if you fall. I don't know why I care so much when I shouldn't care at all."  -The Ataris

"You think i'm just a kid but you don't fucking get it. I'm strong in my convictions and don't you forget it. So many things are left unsaid but I won't even waste my time." - The Ataris "No matter what you do, don't ever compromise what you believe." -The Ataris

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* "I liked you. You showed me exactly who I don't wanna be." -AAF

"Contrary to the matter, who you are you are not. Come with me, I'll show you Saturn. Planets don't quite align." -AAF

* "You should try not to be so courageous. These dismal moods have become contagious." -AAF

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"You want to know who I really am? Yeah so do I, yeah so do I." -Saves The Day

* "The only thing I know is awkward silence." -Saves The Day

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* "Re-read, re-write, redo, undo; I'm stuck on this page. I was born two weeks late, is that why I hesitate?"  -No Doubt

"Excuse me Mr. You've got things all wrong, you make it feel like a crime."  -No Doubt

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* "You pretend you're high, pretend you're bored. You pretend you're anything just to be adored. And what you need is what you get. Don't believe in fear, don't believe in faith, don't believe in anything that you can't break."  -Garbage

"I only smile in the dark. My only comfort is the night gone black. I didn't accidently tell you that, I'm only happy when it rains."  -Garbage

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* "This is one time that you can't fake it hard enough to please everyone or anyone at all." -Dashboard Confessional

* "Walking away. It's not the same as running, is it to you?" -Dashboard Confessional

* "When did your eyes begin to look fake? I hope you're as happy as your pretending." -Dashboard Confessional

"Please send me anything but signals that are mixed, 'cause I can't read your rolling eyes." -Dashboard Confessional

"Continually failing these trials but you stand by me nonetheless, and you won't let me sink." -Dashboard Confessional

* "But you're plastic just like everyone, just like everyone. And that face you paint is pressed, impressing most of us." -Dashboard Confessional

* "And the picture frames are facing down and the ringing from this empty sound is deafening and keeping you from sleep. And breathing is a foreign task, and thinking's just too much to ask. and you're measuring your minutes by a clock that's blinking eights." -Dashboard Confessional

"Hope has sprung a perfect dive, a perfect day, a perfect lie. A slowly crafted monologue conceding your defeat." -Dashboard Confessional

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"I hate these eyes that noticed you." -New Found Glory

* "I've learned that time can heal your wounds, but the reminder of a scar will stay" -New Found Glory

* "Maybe it's for the best. Maybe it's not for anything." -New Found Glory

"What happened to our happy ending anyways?" -New Found Glory

"I'm the calm before the storm, I'm the second before the crash." -New Found Glory

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"I won't waste my time fitting in, 'cause I don't think contrast is a sin." -Millencolin

"We will shut you out, we'll put you in doubt if you think that you're special." -Millencolin

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"Everybody sometimes has to fall." -Goldfinger

* "Who the f*ck are you to say what I can or cannot do? You talk shit about me constantly with your weak judgmental crew, spread lies about me, cry about me like its your God given task. If you spent more time thinking about me, I'd have your head right up my ass." -Goldfinger

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* "Half awake, half a world away, all my past mistakes and every wasted day proves that I'll never change, I'll always stay the same. I wouldn't have it any other way" -Less than Jake

"I know just who I am, and what's in my head is that I don't really give a damn who you think I am." -Less Than Jake

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"Take a different road, take a chance to know. There's so much more than winning. Take a different way, wait another day. Now it seems that it's too late." -Fenix TX

"Everything I've said to try and make it work has always been so misunderstood" -Fenix Tx

"I'll dream another dream of you, that's all that I can do, I'll dream another dream today, I'll dream my life away" -Fenix TX

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"There's something about the look in your eyes, something I noticed when the light was just right. It reminded me twice that I was alive, and it reminded me that you're so worth the fight." -Incubus

"Don't let the world bring you down, not everyone here is that f*cked up and cold." -Incubus

"The world's a roller coaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air." -Incubus

* "Isn't it strange that a gift could be an enemy? Isn't it weird that a privilege could feel like a chore? Maybe its me, but this life isn't going anywhere. Maybe if we looked hard enough we could find a back door." -Incubus

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* "Would it be right to say that no one ever truly listens? Or takes the time to understand what something means, Without opinion, bias, without a one-track mind." -MXPX

"Don't hate me forever, I'm better late than never. I failed you, I'm sorry. That's simply my life story." -MXPX

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"So it's safe to say that we've been here before; Heart torn out, down for the count and still come back for more. This lesson is learned too well. Though, only unlearned by the time your wounds have healed. Have you had enough?" -The Starting Line

"If I turn my back I'm defenseless and to go blindly seems senseless. If I hide my pride and let it all go on, then they'll take from me 'til everything is gone. If I let them go I'll be outdone. But if I try to catch them I'll be outrun. If I'm killed by the questions like a cancer, then I'll be buried in the silence of the answer." -Linkin Park

* "Streets are uneven when you're down." -The Doors

* "Somehow i ended up here in between where there is always the comfort of knowing I'll never be seen when i fall." -AFI

"I'd rather see the world from another angle." -Jewel

"Cause from the first time I saw you I only thought about you, I didn't know you I wanted to hold onto the things you never say to me" -Good Charlotte

"Illusion never changed into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. I'm all out of faith." -Natalie Imbruglia

"Your actions speak so loud I can't hear what you're sayin'." -Bad Religion

* "Nothing is forever; there's got to be something better than in the middle." -The Wallflowers

"Head over heals, I've fit in before, now I don't want to do it no more, I just want to be who I want to be, guess that's hard for others to see" -The Offspring