60 phrases from indie songs to kill the longing for this musical style

Kiss me hard before you go, summer blues. I just wanted you to know, baby, you’re the best.

Lana Del Rey

So if you’re lonely, you know I’m here waiting for you.

Franz Ferdinand

We are the rebels, we are the wild youth. Running after illusions of our futures.

Daughter

Don’t take my word for it. Just look at me to know that I love you.

Angus and Julia Stone

I’m chained, my words are stuck. Fear can make you compromise. With the lights on, it’s hard to hide. Sometimes I want to disappear.

Foster The People

And I can say exactly what you want, you don’t want to be alone.

Two Door Cinema Club

Secrets I’ve been keeping in my heart are harder to hide than I thought. Maybe I just want to be yours.

Arctic monkeys

Because this is excruciating, the electricity between the two of us and this is dangerous. Because I want you so much, but I hate you. I hate you!

Daughter

Countless strange religions too, no matter which one you choose. A stubborn way to turn your back. This I tried and now I refuse.

The Strokes

Cut the strings. Are we human? Or are we dancers? My signal is vital. My hands are cold and I’m on my knees searching for the answer.

The Killers

Heaven is a place on earth with you.

Lana Del Rey

I don’t know where I belong. I don’t know where I went wrong, but I can write a song. I belong to you, you belong to me.

The Lumineers

And it’s crashing down on me, a thousand miles to the bottom of the sea. I found a place to rest my head.

Florence + The Machine

I never loved anyone completely. It was always one foot on the ground and, by truly protecting my heart, I got lost in these sounds. I hear in my mind all these voices.

Regina Spektor

And if you’re still breathing, you’re lucky, because most of us are gasping through contaminated lungs.

Daughter

Now there’s a fire in me, a fire that burns. This fire is out of control, I’m going to burn this city down.

Franz Ferdinand

The stars, the moon, they all exploded. You left me in the dark. There is no dawn, there is no day. I am always in this twilight, in the shadow of your heart.

Florence + The Machine

You know I could use someone, someone like you. At night, while you live it, I go to sleep waging wars to shake the poet and the beat. I hope this makes you realize.

Kings of Leon

What did you learn from your time in the lonely prison of your mind?

Belle And Sebastian

Everything is in order in a black hole, but nothing looks as beautiful as the past.

Arctic monkeys

Don’t make me sad, don’t make me cry. Sometimes love isn’t enough and the road gets rough, I don’t know why.

Lana Del Rey

It’s so sweet, knowing that you love me even though we don’t have to say it to each other.

Cigarettes After Sex

In the darkness I will find my creators and they will all agree that I am a suffocator.

Daughter

Honey, we both know that nights are mostly made for saying things you can’t say the next day.

Arctic monkeys

Get me out of here, I’m dying. Play a song and set me free.

Belle And Sebastian

I never knew I was a dancer until Delilah showed me.

Florence + The Machine

Baby, I’m yours and I’ll be yours until the sun doesn’t shine anymore. Yours until the poets’ rhymes run out. In other words, until the end of time.

Arctic monkeys

If I speak real slow, if I really try to clear my mind, honey, that you have my heart. Here I go!

Angus and Julia Stone

Every time I close my eyes, it’s like a dark paradise. Nobody compares to you. I’m afraid you’re not waiting for me on the other side.

Lana Del Rey

When I woke up tonight, I said, “I’m going to make someone love me.”

Franz Ferdinand

Sweet disposition. It’s never too early. Oh, total abandonment, as if no one was watching you for a moment, a love. A dream, a laugh. A kiss, a cry. Our successes, our mistakes.

The Temper Trap

I am exhausted? Should I feel this way? I’m a loser, being beaten by my own game.

Gabrielle Aplin

I’ll miss you girl and all the things we could have done.

Angus and Julia Stone

You think I’m incredibly perfect. My manners sound impeccable, but deep down I’m the same as you.

Belle And Sebastian

Because they say home is where your heart is engraved. It’s where you go when you’re alone. It’s where you go to rest your bones.

Gabrielle Aplin

We don’t care about your own flaws, talking about our own style. All we care about is talking, talking only you and me.

Peter Bjorn And John

If we could just start over, pretending that we don’t know each other.

Angel Olsen

People don’t want to be alone. They never want to be alone. They never want to be the only ones.

The Black Keys

Let’s get this started, girl. We are moving, we are moving forward. There’s a lot to change, but you always get what you want.

Two Door Cinema Club

Girl, going downstream, being dragged to the dark side, I want to be someone you can count on.

Vance Joy

Just because everything is changing doesn’t mean it’s never been this way before. All you can do is try to find out who your friends are.

Regina Spektor

Oh, hug, hug, hug, hug me tight. I’ve never been this far from home.

Two Door Cinema Club

I would probably still adore you with your hands around my neck. Or loved it the last time I checked.

Arctic monkeys

Will you still love me when I’m not young and beautiful anymore? Will you still love me when I have nothing but my aching soul?

Lana Del Rey

Said I’m strong, now I know I’m a fugitive. I love the sound of you leaving. Mascara bleeds a darkened tear.

Franz Ferdinand

My soul starts to spin again, I can’t stop feeling it.

Franz Ferdinand

Dog days are over, horses are coming. So you better run.

Florence + The Machine

You are the silence between what I thought and what I said.

Florence + The Machine

You’re too young to put all your hopes in just one envelope.

Belle And Sebastian

But we don’t have the money. Money makes the wheels and the world go round. Forget it, honey.

Belle And Sebastian

Suppose I never met you. Suppose we never fell in love.

Regina Spektor

I try to stay awake and remember my name, but everyone is changing and I don’t feel the same.

Keane

And the history books forgot about us. And the Bible didn’t mention us, not even once.

Regina Spektor

I wish we could open our eyes to see all directions at once. Oh, what a beautiful sight!

Death Cab For Cutie

I hate to see you go. I thought I had gone through this. God knows, I’ve been trying, I’m still trying.

Angel Olsen

Come on, fragile love, just last this year… And now I’m falling apart. And at the end of all your lines who will love you? Who will fight? Who will fall back?

Bon Iver

How can I be optimistic about this? We got caught and lost in all our vices. In your pose, as the dust settles around us, and the walls continue to crumble in the city we love.

bastille

All we’ve done is blind each other. Hate cannot live in this heart here forever.

Angel Olsen

God knows what is hiding in this world of few consequences. Behind the tears, inside the lies. A thousand suns slowly dying.

birdy

Please just don’t say you love me because I might not say it back. That doesn’t mean my heart stops beating when you look at me like that.

Gabrielle Aplin