"I feel like i'm stuck in 'stand by me'"

Sometimes i wish i was still 14, when i fearlessly stood by the monitors at concerts, my boyfriend had to pick me up in his cool tacoma to take me to taco bell, and nights were spent scotch-taping all my recent pictures and magazine cutouts to my walls and friend notebooks... and i didn't have facebook...

No Use For a Name's singer is playing at Hotel Utah tonight, so Erin and i were having a bout of nostalgia about the good old days of high school "pop punk" love songs... of course, many punk fans would strangle me if i said this was punk, but heey, i'm not classifying them in the same genre... i just mean cheesy, make the girls melt love songs that a 14 year old girl would have thought of as punk... i remember playing "Looking Back on Today" by the Ataris on repeat on my boombox (yes, boombox) while burning incense and talking on AIM to 9 people at once...

check out some of my favorites, and add to the list!

1. Looking Back on Today ~ The Ataris

"Remember our first apartment? Our couch was never big enough for two. Still, we'd fall asleep in each other's arms and wake up on the floor. Now looking back it was made for me and you."

2. M&M's ~ Blink 182

"You and I should get away for awhile I just want to be alone with your smile Buy some candy and cigarettes and we'll get in my car We'll blast the stereo and we'll drive to Madagascar "

3. Cigarette ~ Yellowcard

"I blushed the first time, but you blushed the last time my eyes in your mind"

4. Letters to You ~ Finch

"These letters to you, aren't much I know But I'm not sleeping, you're not here"

5. San Dimas High School Football Rules ~ The Ataris

"Last night i had a dream that we went to disneyland, Went on all the rides, didn't have to wait in line. I drove you to your house where we stared up at the stars I listened to your heartbeat as i held you in my arms."

And thanks Megan, for reminding me of lyrics that sum up quite the opposite, but just as touching:

Clean sheets mean a lot,

To a guy who sleeps on the floor.

well I wanted your love,

and a shelf by your dresser drawer.

You tucked me in,

Stopped my tossing and turning.

But I turned back the covers,

And saw those sheets are dirty.

Even though you'll never come clean,

You know it's true.

Those sheets are dirty,

And so are you.