But you don't really care for music, do ya?

As I was stuck in traffic for the zillionth time this month, completely stopped during what should have been a 15 minute drive to school (seriously, I QUIT DRIVING), I became more and more grateful for the technology that allows me to listen to my Ipod while driving.

I am someone who tends to abuse music a bit. And by that I mean that when I like a song, I listen to it OVER AND OVER, until I get to a point where I can't stand the song and no longer like to listen to it. I realize this is ridiculous, but I can't help myself. That said, there are some songs that I could listen to for the rest of my life, without break, and be happy. As I was sitting, I decided that instead of cursing the state of Indiana, I would try to think of the five songs that I could listen to again and again.

The first song is Hallelujah. I realize there are countless covers of this song, but my two favorite versions are Jeff Buckley's and John Cale. Jeff Buckley's is very haunting, while John Cale sounds like he's on the verge of breaking into tears at any moment.
Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do you?
And remember when I moved in you?
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Nashville by Liz Phair. This song has touched me since the first time I heard it in middle school. I don't know what it is about this song, but I think it's beautiful. The quality of her voice is very vulnerable in this song, very unlike most Liz Phair songs.
But I can't imagine it in better terms
Than naked, half awake, about to shave and go to work...
And I'm starting to think it could happen to me like it did to you
And I'm starting to actually feel it seep through the
Slick divide now
I don't crack the door too far for anyone who's pushing too hard on me

Time by Tom Waits. I love Tom Waits. I would marry Tom Waits if he promised to sing to me every night.
So put a candle in the window
And a kiss upon his lips
Till the dish outside the window fills with rain
Just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart
And pay the fiddler off till I come back again
And it's Time Time Time
And it's Time Time Time
And it's Time Time Time
That you love

Hold On by Tom Waits. Yeah, I love Tom Waits enough that he makes the list twice! I always listen to this song when times are hard, and I need to be remembered to hold on.
Well, you build it up, you wreck it down
You burn your mansion to the ground
When there's nothing left to keep you here, when
You're falling behind in this
Big blue world
Oh you go to
Hold on, hold on
You got to hold on
Take my hand, I'm standing right here
You got to hold on

In The Aeroplane Over the Sea by The Neutral Milk Hotel. This song just makes me HAPPY. It has such a fun, upbeat tempo, and when you get down to it, the lyrics really are touching.
And one day we will die
And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea
But for now we are young
Let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we can see
Love to be
In the arms of all I'm keeping here with me

I know I said five, but I had a difficult time choosing the last two (probably because I put Tom Waits on here twice), so I'm making the last two interchangable. You know, I'd listen to one for the first half of the rest of my life, and the other for the second half.

Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens. If you've never listened to Sufjan, please do! This particular song is very pretty, in an emotional way, as it talks about the eventual end of love, due to death.
In the morning through the window shade
When the light pressed up against your shoulder blade
I could see what you were reading
Oh the glory that the lord has made
And the complications you could do without
When I kissed you on the mouth


So what are your five (or uhh, six) songs?