Richard's All-Time Coolest Songs List - Not in any particular order...

The Hearts's Filthy Lesson - Bowie and Reznor

"Heart's filthy lesson falls upon deaf ears..."

Concertina - Tori Amos

"I know the truth lies in between the first and fortieth drink...."

Don't Go Away - Toad the Wet Sprocket

"Don't go away, I can't feel the same without you..."

Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails

"I still recall the taste of your tears, echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears..."

Hurt - both versions, Nine Inch Nails and Johnny Cash

"Everyone I know goes away in the end..."

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

"Just one more year and then you'll be happy..."

Over Now - Alice in Chains

"Guess it's over now, I seem alive somehow..."

A Sorta Fairy Tale - Tori Amos

"I don't know what takes hold, out there in the desert cold..."

To Wish Impossible Things - The Cure

"The stars are dimmed by clouds and tears, and all i wish is gone away..."

Clocks - Coldplay

"Am I a part of the cure, or am I part of the disease..."

Spirit - Dead Can Dance

"Adversity, what have I done to you, to cause this reclusive silence that has come between me and you..."

Red Rain - Peter Gabriel

"I come to you defenses down, with the trust of a child..."

The Great Below - Nine Inch Nails

"I descend from grace, In arms of undertow, I will take my place, In the great below..."

Ghost - Indigo Girls

"Of all my demon spirits, I need you the most..."

Hands - Jewel

"In the end only kindness matters..."

Goodbye - The Sundays

"I vow that it's goodbye to the old ways..."

Crystal Baller - Third Eye Blind

"Can we try and take the high road, though we don't know where it ends..."

Season of Hollow Soul - k. d. lang

"Fate must have a reason, why else endure the season of hollow soul..."

Do What You Have to Do - Sarah McLachlan

"Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you..."

History Repeats Itself - AOS

"Wish I was standing by the shore, feel the wind blow in my face..."

mr self destruct - Nine Inch Nails

"i drag you down, i use you up, mr self destruct..."

With Tomorrow - This Mortal Coil

"When you were here I didn't think you would leave, when you were gone it was too much to believe..."

America - Simon & Garfunkel

"I'm empty and aching and I don't know why..."

Wild Horses - The Sundays (cover)

"And wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away..."

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (arguably the best song ever written)

"How I wish, how I wish you were here..."