Sourced and curated.

We are stardust, We are golden, And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden.

Joni Mitchell

Woodstock · 1969

★ 1.1

Song · Musical · Great American songbook

My funny valentine, Sweet comic valentine, You make me smile with my heart. Your looks are laughable, Unphotographable, Yet you're my fav'rite work of art.

Lorenz Hart

1937

★ 1.7

Hymn · Song

I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown.

George Bennard

The Old Rugged Cross · 1912

★ 1.8

A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces, An airline ticket to romantic places; And still my heart has wings These foolish things Remind me of you.

Holt Marvell

These Foolish Things Remind Me of You · 1935

★ 1.8

Song · Musical · Great American songbook

I'm wild again, Beguiled again, A simpering, whimpering child again- Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.

Lorenz Hart

1940

★ 1.8

Everybody knows the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows.

Leonard Cohen

Everybody Knows · 1988

★ 1.8

My days have been so wondrous free, The little birds that fly With careless ease from tree to tree, Were but bless'd as I.

Thomas Parnell

My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free · 1714

★ 1.9

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

John Howard Payne

Home, Sweet Home · 1823

★ 1.9

Hymn · Song

We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree, To wither and perish- but nought changeth Thee.

Walter Chalmers Smith

God, All in All · 1867

★ 1.9

Song · Musical · Great American songbook

Look for the silver lining Whene'er a cloud Appears in the blue.

Buddy DeSylva

1920

★ 1.9

Song · Film · Musical comedy (film) · Musical (film) · Musical comedy · Musical

A foggy day in London Town Had me low and had me down. I viewed the morning with alarm. The British Museum had lost its charm.

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky, Nice work if you can get it, And you can get it if you try.

A Foggy Day · 1937

★ 1.9

Song · Musical

1937

★ 1.9

Off we go into the wild blue yonder, Climbing high into the sun.

Robert MacArthur Crawford

1939

★ 1.9

We'll meet again, Don't know where, don't know when, But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.

Vera Lynn

We'll Meet Again · 1939

★ 1.9

The last time I saw Paris Her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in ev'ry street cafe.

Oscar Hammerstein II

The Last Time I Saw Paris · 1941

★ 1.9

Don't let's be beastly to the Germans When our Victory is ultimately won.

Noel Coward

1943

★ 1.9

If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

Helen Reddy

I Am Woman · 1971

★ 1.9

They'll tell thee, sailors, when away, In ev'ry port a mistress find.

John Gay

1720

★ 1.9

National anthem · Song

Germany above all.

August Heinrich Hoffman

1841

★ 1.9

In the highlands, in the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair maidens Quiet eyes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1894

★ 1.9

Song · Folk music

Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe We shall overcome, some day.

Pete Seeger

We Shall Overcome · 1962

★ 1.9

Song · Folk rock

Mother needs something today to calm her down, And though she's not really ill, There's a little yellow pill She goes running for the shelter Of her mother's little helper And it helps her on her way, Gets her through her busy day.

Mother's Little Helper · 1966

★ 1.9

All of my friends at school grew up and settled down And they mortgaged up their life One thing's not said too much, but I think it's true They just get married cause there's nothing else to do.

Still the rain kept pouring, falling on my ears, And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the rain.

Sittin' on a Fence · 1966

★ 1.9

Song · Folk rock

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Who'll Stop the Rain · 1970

★ 1.9

But you know that when the truth is told, that you can get what you want, or you can just get old.

Billy Joel

Vienna · 1977

★ 1.9

It's better to burn out Than to fade away.

Neil Young

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) · 1978

★ 1.9

Song · Film · Musical (film) · Epic (film) · Musical · Epic

Here is the thing about equality, everyone is equal when they are dead.

Gavroche

Les Miserables · 2012

★ 1.9

Song · Film · Musical (film) · Epic (film) · Musical · Epic

Without him The world around me changes The trees are bare and everywhere The streets are full of strangers.

Eponine

Les Miserables · 2012

★ 1.9

Hymn · Song

O what their joy and glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see!

Peter Abelard

1142

★ 2.0

Hymn · Song

Amazing love! How can it be That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

Charles Wesley

1738

★ 2.0

Hymn · Song

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.

Cecil Frances Alexander

All Things Bright and Beautiful · 1848

★ 2.0

Only the lonely (know the way I feel).

Roy Orbison

Only the Lonely · 1960

★ 2.0

Song · Film · Musical comedy (film) · Musical (film) · Musical comedy · Musical

Pickering, why can't a woman be more like a man?

Professor Henry Higgins

My Fair Lady · 1964

★ 2.0

Song · Soul

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay, Watchin' the tide roll away, Ooh, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay, Wastin' time.

Otis Redding

(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay · 1968

★ 2.0

Song · Pop music · Rock music

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see.

John Lennon

Working Class Hero · 1970

★ 2.0

Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

Don McLean

American Pie · 1971

★ 2.0

Song · Film · Musical (film) · Epic (film) · Musical · Epic

A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now.

Eponine

Les Miserables · 2012

★ 2.0

Praised be You, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day and through whom You give us light.

St. Francis of Assisi

The Canticle of Brother Sun · 1226

★ 2.1

Get off of my cloud.

Get Off of My Cloud · 1965

★ 2.1

Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste.

It's all about the Benjamins, baby

Sympathy for the Devil · 1968

★ 2.1

Song · Hip hop

P. Diddy

It's All About the Benjamins · 1997

★ 2.1

I see friends shaking hands, saying, 'How do you do.' They're really saying, 'I love you.'

Louis Armstrong

What a Wonderful World · 1967

★ 2.2

Song · Folk rock

A man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest.

Simon & Garfunkel

The Boxer · 1970

★ 2.2

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, Or is it something worse?

Bruce Springsteen

The River · 1980

★ 2.2

Song · Film · Musical (film) · Epic (film) · Musical · Epic

Life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Fantine

Les Miserables · 2012

★ 2.2

Song · Folk rock · Folk music

Does any one know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Gordon Lightfoot

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald · 1976

★ 2.8

Song · Soul

So take a good look at my face. You'll see my smile looks out of place. If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears.

The Miracles

The Tracks of My Tears · 1965

★ 2.9

No one knows what it's like To be the bad man To be the sad man Behind blue eyes.

The Who

Behind Blue Eyes · 1971

★ 2.9

Song · Alternative rock · Rock music

That's me in the corner That's me in the spotlight Losin' my religion.

R.E.M.

Losing My Religion · 1991

★ 2.9

Song · Soul

What you want baby, I got it What you need, do you know I got it? All I'm askin' is for a little respect when you come home.

Otis Redding

Respect · 1965

★ 2.9

Nothing really matters, Anyone can see, Nothing really matters, nothing really matters to me.

Queen

Bohemian Rhapsody · 1975

★ 2.9

I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy and hungry And I am not throwing away my shot.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Hamilton · 2015

★ 2.9

Song · Great American songbook · Patriotic songs

My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From ev'ry mountain-side Let freedom ring.

Samuel Francis Smith

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) · 1832

★ 3.5

Hymn · Song

It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From Angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold; 'Peace on the earth, good will to man From Heaven's all gracious King,' The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing.

Edmund Sears

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear · 1849

★ 3.5

Hymn · Song

Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; All I have needed thy hand hath provided. Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.

Thomas O. Chisholm

Great is Thy Faithfulness · 1923

★ 3.5

In olden days, a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking, But now, God knows, Anything goes.

Cole Porter

Anything Goes · 1934

★ 3.5

Summer time and the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

Summertime · 1935

★ 3.5

Heaven,-I'm in heaven-And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek When we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek.

Irving Berlin

Cheek to Cheek · 1935

★ 3.5

Song · Musical

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round They all laughed when Edison recorded sound They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother When they said that man could fly; They told Marconi Wireless was a phony- It's the same old cry!