"After all, I'm not with you/And I know the trees go back below/High as we fly one more time/I'm not beneath the wind"
--Albert Hammond Jr.'s 'The Boss Americana,' from 2008's '¿Cómo Te Llama?'

"I wanna be a flower, not a dirty weed/I wanna smell like roses, not a baseball team"
--Katy Perry's 'One of the Boys,' from 2008's 'One of the Boys'

"I'm a venereal disease like a menstrual bleed/Threw the pencil and leak the sheet of the tablet in my mind"
--Lil Wayne's 'A Millie,' from 2008's 'Tha Carter III'

"You said I must eat so many lemons/'Cause I am so bitter"
--Kate Nash's 'Foundations,' from 2007's 'Made of Bricks'

"Engin gúmmístígvél/Hlaupandi inn í okkur/Vill springa út úr skel"
--Sigur Rós' 'Hoppípolla,' from 2005's 'Takk ...'

"Lights and music are on my mind/Be my baby one more time"
--Cut Copy's 'Lights and Music,' from 2008's 'In Ghost Colours'

"When the future's architectured/By a carnival of idiots on show"
--Coldplay's 'Violet Hill,' from 2008's 'Vida la Vida'

"Oh, her lips taste just like sunk ships/But her breasts taste just like breakfast"
--Adam Green's 'Carolina,' from 2005's 'Gemstones'

"It's all the same, we're tired of waiting, come on, then/And dedicate your love to any woman or man"
--My Morning Jacket's 'Evil Urges,' from 2008's 'Evil Urges'

"Push the fader gifted animator/One for the now and eleven for the later"
--Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Dani California,' from 2006's 'Stadium Arcadium'

"One day our generation/Is gonna rule the population"
-- John Mayer's 'Waiting for the World to Change,' from 2006's 'Continuum'

"Come join in the last hurrah/With open sores and open jaw"
-- Silversun Pickups' 'Well Thought Out Twinkles,' from 2006's 'Carnavas'

"'Cause if heaven does exist/With a kickin' playlist"
-- R.E.M.'s 'DJ at the End of the World,' from 2008's 'Accelerate'

"We take sour sips from life's lush lips/And we shake shake shake the hips in relationships"
-- Fall Out Boy's 'The Carpal Tunnel of Love,' from 2007's 'Infinity on High'

"Everybody's rappin' like it's a commercial/Acting like life is a big commercial"
-- Beastie Boys' 'Pass the Mic,' from 1992's 'Check Your Head'