6. “We’re happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time.” (22)
You were probably dancing in your bedroom with your best friends, singing into hairbrushes in your underwear or something, and you realized how stupid and amazing it is to be young and dumb enough to do stupid things like sing into a hairbrush and dance in your underwear. So you played the song twice.
5. “I wish we could go back and remember what we were fighting for. I wish you’d know that I miss you too much to be mad anymore.” (I Wish You Would)
That last line hits the soft spot, and you felt like driving past that one guy’s house one more time and throwing rocks at his window in the heat of the moment. You probably had to reevaluate your life a little after that one.
4. “This is the last time you tell me I’ve got it wrong: this is the last time I say it’s been you all along: this is the last time I let you in my door: this is the last time, I won’t hurt you anymore.” (The Last Time)
Ouch. Just ouch. By the time this song was over, you thought you may have just had a heart palpitation.
3. “People like you always want back the love they pushed aside, and people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.” (All You Had to Do Was Stay)
Scream this one in the mirror at yourself occasionally if you never have, and tell yourself what a badass you are.
2. ” We fall in love until it hurts or bleeds or fades in time.” (State of Grace)
That line felt a little too familiar, and you felt your jaw drop the first time you heard it when you thought to yourself wait that’s sooo true.
1. “Then you call me up again, just to break me like a promise. So casually cruel, in the name of being honest.” (All too Well)
If you’ve never been in the car, screaming out the lyrics to this song with all the breath you have left in your lungs, I would dare to argue that you’ve never truly lived. By the end, you don’t know why, but you’re screaming, and this song sounds so good, and you can’t tell if you’re in pieces or if it just put you back together.
