- The Beach Boys

Here I am, baby,
Come and take me,
Take me by the hand.
Show me, take me, won’t ya
Show me
Here I am, baby
Take me
Teach me
Won’t you take me by the hand
Teach me.

- Al Green

However far away,
I will always love you.
However long I stay,
I will always love you. 
Whatever words I say, 
I will always love you;
I will always love you.

- The Cure, Lovesong

You’re not my dream girl.
You’re not my reality girl.
You’re my dreams come true girl.

– Cass McCombs

Red is my favorite color
Red like your mother’s eyes after a while 
Of crying about how you don’t love her
She says, “I know I don’t deserve 
Supervised sight of her
But each day becomes a blur without my daughter” 

Fall is my favorite season
Like falling to reasoning why you crashed from on high
She says, “Why is my life so uneven 
And what have I done right 
But given you your life 
If after I led you on into that bar room?” 

“Yes” is my favorite answer
I took a dancer home, she felt so alone
We stayed up all night in the kitchen 
Doing my dishes, on and on until the dawn
She said, “I know that it’s easy to have me
But I have seen some things 
That I cannot even tell to my family pictures
And I’m full of fictions and fucking addictions 
And I miss my mother” 

She’ll never know I could never forget her
If I could write her a letter, I’d try with every line 
To say, “She still remembers your touch
And I know that it’s not much
But you still haven’t lost her”

- Okkervil River, Red

I still keep my baby teeth
in the bedside table with my jewelry
you still sleep in the bed with me,
my jewelry, and my baby teeth

I don’t need another friend
When most of them
I can barely keep up with them
perfectly able to hold my own hand,
but I still can’t kiss my own neck.

I wanted to give you everything
but I still stand in awe of superficial things
I wanted to love you like my mother’s mother’s mothers did

civilian

– Wye Oak

- Gladys Knight, Midnight Train to Georgia

I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

- Leonard Cohen

Picture fresh as water clear,
days have passed without you here
Street lights dancing on the dark
across the park
Waiting for a word from you,
waiting for a sign or two
Footsteps on the city ground,
you know the sound.

- Agnes Obel, Brother Sparrow

She says if I leave before you darling
Don’t you waste me in the ground
I lay smiling like our sleeping children
One of us will die inside these arms

Eyes wide open
Naked as we came
One will spread our
Ashes round the yard

- Iron & Wine, Naked As We Came