Lyrics from A to Z

With all of the hours that I've spent listening to music, I've learned I have a bit of an obsession with really well-written lyrics. There's a strange satisfaction from hearing something so well crafted. I have notes in my phone and on my laptop just dedicated to these lyrics. Seriously -- if you ever need a song lyric for anything, literally anything at all, I got you covered. I have that many lyrics both saved in my phone and also memorized. So instead of just listing song lyrics, I thought I would put together a list of my favorite lyric for each letter of the alphabet.

Some letters were more difficult than others. Some had really only one option, others had dozens. There were some tough calls to make, and I didn't want a song to hold multiple letters, so I did my best to make sure there were no doubles (except in the runner-ups), which honestly made this ten times harder. But here it is, lyrics for every single letter of the alphabet.

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A - "And I've been broken but I'm better every day" (One Love | Marianas Trench)

Runner-ups:

"A million strangers walking past and stare

I swear I'm running fast but go nowhere" (Perfect by Design | Natewantstobattle)

"And now the boys are back

The boys are sad" (Gloom Boys | Waterparks)

B - "Beat me black and blue

Every wound will shape me

Every scar will build my throne" (Throne | Bring Me the Horizon)

Runner-ups:

"Beautiful scars on critical veins" (Kids in the Dark | All Time Low)

"Brother, promise you won't leave me" (Tangled in the Great Escape | Pierce the Veil)

C - "Cast your stones, cast your judgement, you don't make me who I am" (Sometimes You're The Hammer, Sometimes You're The Nail | A Day to Remember)

Runner-ups:

"Chasing tomorrow with fire in my eyes" (The Edge of Tonight | All Time Low)

"Can we create something beautiful and destroy it?" (Disasterology | Pierce the Veil)

"Cause there's a fine line between who I am and who I want to be" (Skully | nothing,nowhere)

D - "Darling, you'll be okay" (Hold On Till May | Pierce the Veil)

Runner-ups:

"Don't wanna live as an untold story, rather go out in a blaze of glory" (Could Have Been Me | The Struts)

"Don't lose your fight, kid" (Missing You | All Time Low)

"Despite intent, a noble heart still bleeds" (The Nature of the Beast | Ice Nine Kills)

E - "Evil comes in pairs and we like what we do" (11:11 | Waterparks)

Runner-ups:

"Everybody's just fighting to fit in" (The Reckless and the Brave | All Time Low)

"Everyone eventually let's you down" (Negative Space | A Day to Remember)

F - "Fuck the blueprint, I redesign" (Gasoline | I Prevail)

Runner-ups:

"From here on out, I'm doing things for me." (I'm Already Gone | A Day to Remember)

"Funny how it rained all day" (Remembering Sunday | All Time Low)

"For diamonds do appear to be

Just like broken glass to me" (Northern Downpour | Panic! At the Disco)

G - "Growing up is a heavy leaf to turn" (Portugal | Walk the Moon)

Runner-ups:

"Get up, get up, feel your heart still beating" (One More Time | I Prevail)

"Give me a sign, I wanna believe" (The Ballad of Mona Lisa | Panic! At the Disco)

H - "Hold on tight

This ride is a wild one" (Missing You | All Time Low)

Runner-ups:

"Home is where you make it" (Chaos | I Prevail)

"He said 'son, don't stop chasing great and keep pounding the pavement" (Figure Me Out | The Summer Set)

"Had to drag you underground just so you could see my everyday view" (lights (4444) | nothing,nowhere)

I - "In the darkness

you will see the sun" (Run | Bring Me the Horizon)

Runner-ups:

"I never promised you your dream boy" ([Reboot] | Waterparks)

"I'm done with the ones that don't believe" (Deadweight | I Prevail)

"I'm just a moment so don't let me pass you by" (Outlines | All Time Low)

"It was the roar of the crowd

That gave me heartache to sing" (Disenchanted | My Chemical Romance)

J - "Just take a chance and save it for a rainy day" (We Are Ignited | Natewantstobattle)

Runner-ups:

"Just hear me out, I know you're down

When hope looks lost, there's no one to be found

But I won't give up on you" (Crossroads | I Prevail)

"Just tell me why do we worry?

When worry is never helping tell me why worry at all?" (Why Worry | Set It Off)

K - "Kill me if I end up like you" (Dive In | Pierce the Veil)

Runner-up:

"kid you're a cut above,

Always just a cut above the rest" (To Live and Let Go | All Time Low)

L - "Least I can say I stand for something" (All Signs Point To Lauderdale | A Day to Remember)

Runner-ups:

"Let's take the worst and make it better

Let's take this mess and make a home" (Cinderblock Garden | All Time Low)

"Life getting hard, I'm just trynna make it all the way through" (lights (4444) | nothing,nowhere)

"Lean on me, don't knock me over" (Me First | Real Friends)

M - "Maybe I need someone to remind me that there's good inside me and it's worth the fight." (Lethal | Point North)

Runner-ups:

"My friends still stand behind me

We stuck together through all we lost

Even when your worst surrounds me, you'll never get the best of us" (The Document Speaks For Itself | A Day to Remember)

"Maybe it's not my weekend, but it's gonna be my year" (Weightless | All Time Low)

"Mankind is a fucked up species" (death | nothing,nowhere)

N - "nobody said you ever had to be the person you're not" (Better | Point North)

Runner-ups:

"Now don't lose your fight, kid

It only takes a little push to pull on through" (Missing You | All Time Low)

"Nothing's complicated if we pretend" (11:11 | Waterparks)

"Nothing comes between me and my plans" (All Signs Point To Lauderdale | A Day to Remember)

"No matter what we breed, we still are made of greed" (Demons | Imagine Dragons)

O - "Originality's a ghost" (I'm A Natural Blue | Waterparks)

Runner-ups:

"One day, I'll lose this fight

As we fade in the dark

Just remember

You will always burn as bright" (The Light Behind Your Eyes | My Chemical Romance)

"Overdose on lonely nights that were wasted" (Houdini | nothing,nowhere)

"One million branches and she loves every one" (Hold On Till May | Pierce the Veil)

"Oh, what a waste of a perfectly good, clean wrist" (Disasterology | Pierce the Veil)

P - "Paint my world a new grey

Pain comes in different shades" (lights (4444) | nothing,nowhere)

Runner-ups:

"Push me by surprise

So I can take the dive" (StopRewind | Natewantstobattle)

"Paint the walls black and scream

"Fuck the world! ‘Cause it’s my life, I'm gonna take it back"

And never for a second blame yourself" (Missing You | All Time Low)

Q - "Quiet when I'm tryna sing, quiet when I'm making beats

Quiet when I'm tryna think, sorry, I don't mean to scream

I just feel like no one really gets me and it's sad to see

'Cause someday I'ma grow up and show all of you it's meant to be" (When I Grow Up | NF)

Runner-up:

"Quick, before you skip the song

We are human after all

And we don't stay for long" (Three-Thirty | AJR)

R - "Remember me with a smile on my face, so when I'm gone you can know I'm in a better place" (nevermore | nothing,nowhere)

Runner-ups:

"Relentless you survive" (Legends Never Die | Against the Current)

"Remember all the times

All the times you felt so alive

When all the pain subsides

Lets go back there, take me back there" (Crossroads | I Prevail)

S - "So put the car in drive, and don't stop runnin' 'til you're long gone

You're gonna be alright if you just stop thinkin' it over" (Safe | All Time Low)

Runner-ups:

"Sometimes the only way out is through" (Bob Dylan | Fall Out Boy)

"Some roads you can't come back from when you extract truth from the lie" (Same About You | A Day to Remember)

"Some people are a lot like clouds, you know" (medicine | Bring Me the Horizon)

"Sometimes you gotta fall before you fly" (Who Are You Now | Sleeping With Sirens)

T - "Try to tear us apart, but know that we'll wear our scars" (Scars | I Prevail)

Runner-ups:

"That's why sad songs make me happy, 'cause I don't have to feel alone" (Sometimes You're The Hammer, Sometimes You're The Nail | A Day to Remember)

"The best of us can find happiness in misery" (I Don't Care | Fall Out Boy)

"Their weapon of choice is a poison

Made up of all the words you said" (Voices | Against the Current)

U - "Unplug the clock I'm running out of time

I'm tired of everything that I called mine" (Perfect by Design | Natewantstobattle)

Runner-up:

"Unopened windows bound to my heart

Fantasy so close feels so afar

But I long to break the lock

And live among the life we lost" (Unopened Windows | Set It Off)

V - "Voice in my head said to keep on going

Don't let 'em see you bleed, don't want your weakness showing" (Live Long Enough to Become the Hero | Natewantstobattle)

Runner-ups:

"Victim to the sands of time

Falling through the hourglass" (Hourglass | Set It Off)

"Vindicated

I am selfish

I am wrong

I am right, I swear I'm right

Swear I knew it all along and

I am flawed" (Vindicated | Dashboard Confessional)

W - "When we were young, we used to say

That you only hear the music when your heart begins to break" (The Kids From Yesterday | My Chemical Romance)

Runner-ups:

"Warm your freezing blood up against my skin" (Stick Up | Boston Manor)

"We don’t get to choose the way it ends" (Lesson In Letting Go | WhoHurtYou)

"Who can you trust when you’re alone with your thoughts?" (Heartbeat | Point North)

"We're everybody that you never thought we'd be" (Outcast | I Prevail)

X - "X-Kid, bombs away

Here goes nothing

The shouting's over and out

Over and out again" (X-Kid | Green Day)

[No runner-ups for this one, you will not believe how difficult it is to find lyrics that start with "x"]

Y - "You can't cheat death when you're digging your own grave" (Fire | PVRIS)

Runner-ups:

"You gotta hurt sometimes to learn to heal

You gotta get back up and learn to deal" (Some Kind Of Disaster | All Time Low)

"You want to see what happens when we get pissed? See a whole revolution of these fucked up kids" (We Like It Loud | Sleeping With Sirens)

"You just got to be who you are, that's all you can be" (P.A.T.T. | Against the Current)

"You know I don't remember why we stayed

A foot out the door, a foot in the grave

I guess some people try to raise the dead

Some people try to live instead" (Don't Miss Me? | Marianas Trench)

Z - "Zero friends

Followed your voices into a sea of crosses" (Today I Saw the Whole World | Pierce the Veil)

[also no runner-ups for Z because it's also incredibly difficult to find lyrics that start with a "z"]

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There you have it! The whole alphabet in song lyrics. Some letters were nearly impossible to just choose one lyric. You should've seen my original list for the letter "I." There was probably over twenty different lyrics and it took me so long to narrow it down to the ones that made this list. What do you guys think? What did I leave out? Let me know in the comments your opinion!