"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'

"If I wanna think, I'll think in my head"
-- Kate Nash's 'Mariella,' from 2007's 'Made of Bricks'

"And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket"
-- Fergie's 'Big Girls Don't Cry,' from 2006's 'The Dutchess'

"No one else can feel it for you"
-- Natasha Bedingfield's 'Unwritten,' from 2004's album of the same name

"You wear those shoes like a dove"
-- Interpol's 'Heinrich Maneuver,' from 2007's 'Our Love to Admire'

"Your love got big, your jokes got worse each afternoon/Like bacon at a bar mitzvah, like a lead balloon."
-- Ben Lee's 'Ripe,' from 2007's album of the same name