1. Above the Ocean — Foot Ox

“Horseshit is flowing out of my mouth
In the form of words to you
'Cause I was born with some horrible infliction
That prevents me from ever getting to know the real me”

2. Only Everyone Can Judge Me — Crywank

“Oh, did I forget your name, or make a joke and no one laughed?
Did I come across as stupid, or did I come too fast?
This isn't a brave face, this isn't a brave face
This is a mask
Now, I remember, it doesn't take much to make me feel small
And you are the man”

3. MiRRORGiRL — Black Dresses

“Tell me I can be anything, tell me I can be what you want
Tell me I just have to try hard enough, hard enough
A ghost-like shape
Is this everything I am, is this everything I am?
A paper doll
Can I be anything more than this?”

4. Signals Over the Air — Thursday

“Is this how it feels when you don't even fit into your own skin?
And it's getting tighter, everyday I'm getting smaller
If I keep holding my breath I'm going to disappear”

5. Can't Cool Me Down — Car Seat Headrest

“I crawl, I crawl, an animal to ya
It's a time of need and I need you to help me”

6. Sick Puppy — Uncle Outrage

“I'm a sick puppy, I don't know why you love me
I'm diseased, I'm obscene, I'd face-fuck anybody
I'm a sick puppy, my mind is full of ugly
Thoughts that you thought would die off by thirteen”

7. Song Against Sex — Neutral Milk Hotel

“When all the pleasure points attacking, all the looks of love were staged
And it's a lie that you've been given that just hurts you every day
So why should i lay here naked when it's just too far away
From anything we could call loving, any love worth living for
So I'll sleep out in the gutter, you can sleep here on the floor”

8. Cosmic Hero — Car Seat Headrest

“I know you wish my flesh would yield, I love you but I can’t stand the touch
And of course I’m alright with death, but why you talk about it so goddamn much?”

9. I'm A Fake — The Used

“Look at me, you can tell by the way I move and do my hair
Do you think that it's me or it's not me? I don't even care
[...]
Just look at me now, I'm a fake, I'm a fake
My stomach hurts now, and all tied off in lace
I pray, I beg for anything to hit me in the face”

10. Crab — Alex G

“Do you miss me, you sad lady? 'Cause I'm really feeling down
And if you're feeling lonesome too, I'd like it if you came around
[...]
When I was sixteen, I was dead, I was sick from being underfed
When I was twelve, all I did was cry, I saw my favorite band burn alive
When I was ten, I hated you 'cause you hurt me, it was what you knew”

1. Been a Son — Nirvana

“She should've stood out in a crowd, she should've made her mother proud
She should've fallen on her stance, she should've had another chance
She should have, been a son”

2. No Girl So Sweet — PJ Harvey

“Was I too weak? Was I a child? And can't we leave here and start again?
Said I don't mind if you take me down and I don't mind if you break it all, but
How much more can you take from me?”

3. I Hate That You’re Happy — Tiny Little Houses

“Sorry if I ever hurt you and I never kissed you enough
And I just have trouble unraveling sometimes the feelings that I've kept wound up
And I know its my own misfortune
And I didn't hold tight enough
But I find it hard to keep myself whole
Drowning in my bitter blood”

4. Every Single Night — Fiona Apple

“That I'm what I try not to be, it's got to be somebody else's fault, I can't get caught
If what I am is what I am 'cause I does what I does
Then brother get back, 'cause my breast's gonna bust open
The rib is the shell, and a heart is the yolk
And I just made a meal for us both to choke on”

5. Godhead — Garbage

“If I had a dick, would you blow it?
Would you hear me? Deceive me? Believe me?
Would you ever fucking leave me?”

1. Post Blue — Placebo

“It's in the water, baby, it's in the pills that bring you down
It's in the water, baby, it's in your bag of golden brown
[...]
It's in the water, baby, it's in the pills that pick you up
It's in the water, baby, it's in the special way we fuck
It's in the water, baby, it's in your family tree”

2. I Hate Living — Car Seat Headrest

“Oh, wasn't I the life and soul?
No no no
What drugs can I take to make me enjoy this?”

3. My Heart Is the Worst Kind of Weapon — Fall Out Boy

“Spent most of last night dragging this lake
For the corpses of all my past mistakes
Sell me out, the jokes on you
We are salt and you are the wound
Empty another bottle and let me tear you to pieces
This is me wishing you into the worst situations
I'm the kind of kid that can't let anything go”

4. Great Big ‘Fuck’ And How I’m Coping With It — Nouns

“I remember after my dad came home, it was always sad
And I swore to myself, I'd never live like that
If I'd jump into his work boots just to try them on
If I jumped right in, they would swallow me whole”

5. Ballad of Big Nothing — Elliott Smith

“All spit and spite, you're up all night and down every day
A tired man with only hours to go just waiting to be taken away
Getting into the back of a car for candy from some stranger
Watching the parade with pinpoint eyes full of smoldering anger”

6. Something Soon — Car Seat Headrest

“Biting my clothes to keep from screaming, taking pills to keep from dreaming
I want to break something important, I want to kick my dad in the shins
I was referring to the present in past tense
It was the only way that I could survive it”

7. Seen and Not Seen — Talking Heads

“He would see faces in movies, on TV, in magasines and in books
He thought that some of these faces might be right for him
And that through the years, by keeping an ideal facial structure fixed in his mind
Or somewhere in the back of his mind, that he might, by force of will
Cause his face to approach those of his ideal”

8. How Soon Is Now? — The Smiths

“I am the son and heir of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth, how can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does”

1. Fast in My Car — Paramore

“Been through the ringer a couple times, I came out callous and cruel
And my two friends know this very well, because they went through it too
The three of us were initiates, we had to learn how to deal
And when we spotted a second chance we had to learn how to steal”

2. There Must Be More Than Blood — Car Seat Headrest

“On the magazine cover, with your blue, wide eyes
Read it from cover to cover looking for ya
But these are not my people here, I think you know that
Nervous like a wild dog, waiting for the attack
[...]
There must be more than blood that holds us together
There must be more than wind that takes us away
There must be more than tears when they pull back the curtain”

3. Cry for Judas — The Mountain Goats

“Mistreat your altar boys long enough and this is what you get
Sad and angry, can't learn how to behave
Still won't know how in the darkness of the grave
Long, black night, morning frost
I'm still here, but all is lost”

1. Mean — Nicole Dollanganger

“I don't hate you for your steel-toed boots or your handcuffs
You are the way you always were, you like your cruel games
But I am not so quick to break, I count my gain in blood & pain”

2. National Anthem — Lana del Rey

“Dark and lonely, I need somebody to hold me
He will do very well, I can tell, I can tell
Keep me safe in his bell tower hotel
(Money is the anthem of success, so put on mascara and your party dress)
I'm your national anthem, boy, put your hands up
Give me a standin' ovation”

3. Hangout at the Gallows — Father John Misty

“Whose bright idea was it to sharpen the knives? Just twenty minutes 'fore the boat capsized
If you want an answer, it's anybody's guess, I'm treading water as I bleed to death
What's your politics? What's your religion?”