Every Billboard Modern Rock Chart #1 through 2005, listed in order of preference.
April 3-16, 2004
Verse lyrics don't have to cohere as long as a few key phrases on the track resonate. A well-placed "we'll have Halloween on Christmas" or "stop this pain tonight" joined by a recurring "I miss you" can help you get away with a "like indecision to call you and hear your voice of treason" or an inexplicably cockneyfied reference to "moy ed." If you're lucky, these indulgent peculiarities might distract listeners as the keyb-string swells, xylophone plinks and sentimental cliches wedge into their guts.
Where are you and I'm so sorry
I cannot sleep I cannot dream tonight
I need somebody and always
This sick strange darkness
Comes creeping on so haunting every time