Oh my Mama
She did give me fancy feet
I’ll be dancing on
And I’ll tap tap tap my toes
Into those creaking floorboards
9. Wagon Wheel – Old Crow Medicine Show
Headed down south to the land of the pines
And I’m thumbin’ my way into North Caroline
Starin’ up the road
And pray to God I see headlights
8. Chop Suey! – System of a Down
Wake up
Grab a brush and put a little, makeup
Hide the scars to fade away the, shakeup
7. Emily – Joanna Newsom
There is a rusty light on the pines tonight
Sun pouring wine, lord, or marrow
Down into the bones of the birches
And the spires of the churches
Jutting out from the shadows
6. The Flames Beyond Cold Mountain – Mono
5. Sea of Teeth – Sparklehorse
can you feel the rings of saturn on your finger?
can you taste the ghosts who shed their creaking hosts?
but seas forever boil, trees will turn to soil
4. Lower Your Eyelids To Die With the Sun – M83
3. Tornadoes – The Drive By Truckers
Pieces of that truck stop, litter up the highway, I been told
And I hear that missing trucker ended up in Kansas, or maybe it was Oz
2. He’s Dumb, He’s Simple, He’s the Pilot – Grandaddy
How’s it goin’ 2000 man?
Welcome back to solid ground my friend,
I heard all your controls were jammed,
Well it’s just nice to have you back again
1. Do You Realize – The Flaming Lips
Do You Realize that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize we’re floating in space?
Picking “Do You Realize” as the top track of the decade was incredibly easy. It has no peer in this timeframe, and is already effectively lodged in place as one of the all time classics.
She put $900 on the fifth horse in the sixth race
i think its name is “chips ahoy!”
it came in six lengths ahead, we spent the whole next week getting high
19. Xmas Curtain – My Morning Jacket
you pay to get behind her Christmas curtain.
you’re the criminal that never breaks the law
18. December’s Child – Mark Olson
newspaper roses on the side of the road
born and so soon you leave home
17. 3rd Planet – Modest Mouse
When you get to the promise land your gonna shake that eye’s hand
Your heart felt good it was drippin’ pitch and made of wood
And your hands and knees felt cold and wet on the grass to me
16. Time(The Revelator) – Gillian Welch
Darling remember from when you come to me
that Im the pretender,
Im not what Im supposed to be
but who could know, lf Im a traitor?
times the revelator, revelator
15. Playground Love – Air
I’m a high school lover, and you’re my favorite flavor
Love is all, all my soul
You’re my playground love
14. Hercules – Mercury Rev
One becomes two then before you becomes three
Words climb your tongue like a ladder to speak
Drifting as you go but you row till it seems
All is one, All is mind, all is lost and you find, all is dream
13. Black History Month – Death From Above 1979
Do you remember a time when this pool was
A great place for waterwings and cannonballs
A nice place for astrologists and blow up dolls
And on, and on…
12. Frankie’s Gun – The Felice Brothers
Work zones double fines
Don’t pass the double lines
Trailer McDonald’s rest stop trailer double wide
I saw a man hit my mom one time, really
I hurt him so damn bad I had to hide in Jersey
11. Lost Cause – Beck
There’s a place where you are going
You ain’t never been before
No one laughing at your back now
No one’s standing at your door
