Relationships come and go, but music will never leave you cold and alone at a party while it goes to make out with your roommate. We’ve compiled a soundtrack to the normal college relationship, taking into account all common phases: the intense love (or was it just lust?), the dating, the great sex, the horrific break and for the lucky few who manage to sit through the awkward silence at the end, the incredible post-break-up sex. Listen, enjoy, repeat. After all, college is all about trying new things, even if you’ve tried them all before with someone else.

PHASES 1-3: PUPPY LOVE

1 Calling You – Blue October
“Asking if you love me / I love the way you make it sound / calling you to see / do I try too hard to make you smile?”

2 Falling for You – Weezer
“I’m shaking at your touch / I like you way too much / my baby I’m afraid I’m falling for you”

3 Bohemian Like You – The Dandy Warhols
“It’s you that I want to please / just a casual, casual easy thing / it isn’t? It is for me / and I like you / yeah, I like you”

PHASES 4-7: DATING

4 Say Yes – Elliott Smith
“I’m in love with the world through the eyes of a girl / who’s still around the morning after”

5 Inches and Falling – The Format
“I love love / I love being in love / I don’t care what it does to me”

6 Such Great Heights – The Postal Service
“I have to speculate / that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes / like puzzle pieces from the clay”

7 Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
“If I lay here / if I just lay here / Would you lie with me and just forget the world?”

PHASES 8-11: MAKING OUT/SEX

8 Everything in Its Right Place – Radiohead
With lyrics like the title and an electronic, soothing, sensual sound, this song was made for the first sexual encounter.

9 Sexy Boy – Air
The only lyric in this song that isn’t French is the title. All the while a groovy, electronic rhythm propels the song to climax. There’s nothing more sexy than this.

10 Stellar – Incubus
“I need you to see this place / it might be the only way / that I can show you how / it feels to be inside of you”

11 Closer – Nine Inch Nails
“I wanna f-ck you like an animal / I wanna feel you from the inside”

PHASES 12-14: BREAK-UP

12 Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps – Cake
“If you really love me / say yes / but if you don’t, dear, confess / and please don’t tell me / perhaps, perhaps, perhaps”

13 Radio – Alkaline Trio
“I’m waking up all alone / waking up so relieved / while you’re taking your time with apologies / I’m making my plans for revenge”

14 This Valentine Ain’t No Saint – The Juliana Theory
“But now that you’re gone everything is all right / In fact I’m better off this way/ Now that you’re dead to me it’s all right / I’ll never throw my heart away”

HIDDEN TRACK: POST BREAK-UP SEX

15 Sexx Laws – Beck
“I wanna defy / the logic of sex laws / let the handcuffs slip off your wrists / I’ll let you be my chaperone”

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