Top 12 QLC Songs (as of now, at least)
In no particular order, except for #12:
1. Vienna - Billy Joel
Slow down, you crazy child/ you're so ambitious for a juvenile/ But then if you're so smart/ tell me why are you still so afraid?
2. Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
Don't let yourself go/ Everybody cries/ and everybody hurts/ sometimes.
3. Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
My heart going boom, boom, boom/ "Hey", he said/ "Grab your things/ I've come to take you home."
4. Stop This Train - John Mayer
See, once in a while/ when it's good/ it'll feel like it should/ and they're all still around/ and you're still safe and sound/ and you don't miss a thing/ 'til you cry when you're driving away in the dark.
5. War of My Life - John Mayer
Come out Angels/ Come out Ghosts/ Come out Darkness/ Bring everyone you know.
6. Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen
Ain't no angel gonna greet me/ It's just you and I my friend/ And my clothes don't fit me no more/ I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.
7. Fix You - Coldplay
Stuck in reverse.../ Lights will guide you home/ and ignite your bones/ and I will try to fix you.
8. Name - Goo Goo Dolls
We grew up way too fast/ and now there's nothing to believe/ and reruns all become our history.
9. Desperado - Eagles*
Now it seems to me some fine things/ have been laid upon your table/ But you only want the ones that you can't get.
10. Trapeze Swinger - Iron and Wine
The whole freakin' song.
11. America - Simon and Garfunkel
"Kathy, I'm lost," I said/ though I knew she was sleeping/ "I'm empty and aching and I don't know why.
12. Magdalena - Brandon Flowers
And I will know that I am clean/ And I will dance and the band will play/ In the old out to cantina/ cups will runneth over the ancient clay/ And if I should fall to temptation/ when I return to evil throes/ From Nogales to Magdalena/ As a two-time beggar I will go/ where I know I can be forgiven...
* Ang lakas maka-beerhouse, but loving the Eagles seem to be embedded in my genes. (Probably why my granpapito was hell-bent on making me study in Ateneo? Just a hunch.)