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21 Songs From Your Teen Years Every Millennial Just Can't Get Out Of Their Head

by N/A, 9 years ago | 1 min read

The early 2000s were the best time to be a teenager, and these songs really captured the angst you were feeling most (or, you know, all) of the time.

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1. "Hands Down" - Dashboard Confessional

Lyrics In Your AIM Profile: "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me / So won't you kill me so I die happy"

2. "Dear Jamie...Sincerely Me" - Hellogoodbye

Lyrics In Your AIM Profile: "Should I trust the postage due? / To deliver my heart to you?”

3. "In The End" - Linkin Park

Lyrics In Your AIM Profile: "I tried so hard and got so far / But in the end it doesn't even matter"

4. "Ocean Avenue" - Yellowcard

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "When I sleep, I dream and it gets me by / I can make believe that you're here tonight"

5. "I Miss You" - blink-182

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "Don't waste your time on me you're already / The voice inside my head"

6. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - Green Day

Lyrics in your AIM profile "Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me/ Till then I walk alone"

7. "The Kill" - Thirty Seconds To Mars

Lyrics in your AIM profile: " “I tried to be someone else / But nothing seemed to change / I know now, this is who I really am inside”

8. "Sugar, We're Goin Down" - Fall Out Boy

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "I'll be your number one with a bullet"

9. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" - Panic! At The Disco

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality"

10. "Girls & Boys" - Good Charlotte

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "The girls with the bodies like boys with Ferraris / Girls don't like boys, girls like cars and money"

11. "Cute Without the 'E'" - Taking Back Sunday

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "I know you well enough to know you never loved me"

12. "My Favorite Accident" - Motion City Soundtrack

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "So we were an accident / You'll always be my favorite one"

13. "Work" - Jimmy Eat World

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "All the best DJs are saving the slowest song for last / When the dance is through it's me and you"

14. "crushcrushcrush" - Paramore

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "Let's be more than this"

15. "Complicated" - Avril Lavigne

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "You're tryin' to be cool / You look like a fool to me"

16. "Soul Meets Body" - Death Cab for Cutie

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "You're the only song I want to hear / A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere"

17. "Best of Me" - The Starting Line

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "We got older, but we're still young / We never grew out of this feeling that we won't give up"

18. "Move Along" - The All-American Rejects

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "All the pain held in your / Hands are shaking cold / Your hands are mine to hold"

19. "Sk8er Boi" - Avril Lavigne

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "He wanted her / She'd never tell secretly she wanted him as well"

20. "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" - My Chemical Romance

Lyrics in your AIM profile: “I’m not o-fucking-kay”

21. "Such Great Heights" - The Postal Service

Lyrics in your AIM profile: "Everything looks perfect from far away"

Here's the full playlist to reignite your inner angst.