| 1995 |
In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try. |
Matthew Sweet, |
Sick Of Myself |
| 1996 |
In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon. |
Dennis De Young, |
Desert Moon |
| 1997 |
In so many ways we show our pain in unison. |
Bad Religion, |
In So Many Ways |
| 1998 |
In the land of dirt and plaster, lies an army of a thousand nowhere kids. Losing ground and falling faster, into a life that no one should have to live. |
Smile Empty Soul, |
Nowhere Kids |
| 1999 |
In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling. |
Pete Townshend, |
Hiding Out |
| 2000 |
In the paper today, tales of war and of waste, but you turn right over to the TV page. |
Crowded House, |
Don't Dream It's Over |
| 2001 |
In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak. |
Kool Moe Dee, |
No Respect |
| 2002 |
In the town of broken dreams the streets are filled with regret, maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget. |
Ricky Nelson, |
Lonesome Town |
| 2003 |
In this life, things are much harder than in the afterworld. In this life, you're on your own. |
Prince, |
Let's Go Crazy |
| 2004 |
In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole. |
Randy Travis, |
The Hole |
| 2005 |
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy. |
Joni Mitchell, |
Slouching Toward Bethlehem |
| 2006 |
Into this house we're born, into this world we're thrown. |
The Doors, |
Riders On The Storm |
| 2007 |
Is it any wonder I'm null and void, is it any wonder I've got too much time on my hands. |
Styx, |
Too Much Time On My Hands |
| 2008 |
Is the mail man jerking you around? Did he put your million dollar check in somebody else's box? |
Prince, |
Pop Life |
| 2009 |
Isn't it strange how we all get a little bit weird. |
Hanson, |
Weird |
| 2010 |
It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy. |
2 Pac, |
Keep Ya Head Up |
| 2011 |
It was a pretty good year for predators. |
Don Henley, |
The Garden Of Allah |
| 2012 |
It was easier then to tell truth from lies, selling out from compromise, who to love and who to hate, the foolish from the wise. |
The Monkees, |
Shades Of Gray |
| 2013 |
It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight, somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right. |
Bob Seger, |
Fire Down Below |
| 2014 |
It's a mean old world, but its up to us to make it heaven, here and now. |
Robert Palmer, |
Mean Old World |