The 20 best songs of 2019

Memorable lyric: “I try but I get overwhelmed/ When you're gone, I have no one to tell.”

Memorable lyric: “These are black-owned things/ Black faith still can’t be washed away/ Not even in that Florida water.”

Memorable lyric: “I will treat you with the utmost respect only if you respect me a little bit, Elizabeth.”

Memorable lyric: “This earth doesn't care for what we need, what we breathe/ A frontier of green or of dust.”

Memorable lyric: “If she ever gives her careful heart to somebody new, well, it won’t be for a cowboy like you.”

Memorable lyric: “I was getting kinda used to being someone you loved.”

Memorable lyric: “No validation, no applause/ You don’t have to prove you got it when you know it’s yours.”

Memorable lyric: “A kid dies, the blacker the killer, the sweeter the news/ And if he's white you give him a chance, he’s ill and confused.”

Memorable lyric: “Am I a smoke? Am I the sun? Who decides?”

Memorable lyric: “You don't want no complication, no/ I don't want no side information/ I just need to know what's happening/ 'cause I'm for real.”

Memorable lyric: “I know what you’re gonna be/You’ll crumple it up just to see/Afraid that you’ll be just like me!”

Memorable lyric: “Anger wants a voice/ Voices wanna sing/ Singers harmonize/ ‘Til they can’t hear anything.”

Memorable lyric: “The culture is lit and I had a ball/ I guess that I'm burned out after all.”

Memorable lyric: “Vivo rápido y no tengo cura/ Iré joven pa’ la sepulture.”

Memorable lyric: “Can you see me? I’m waiting for the right time / I can’t read you, but if you want, the pleasure’s all mine.”

Memorable lyric: “Ridin' on a horse, ha/ You can whip your Porsche/ I been in the valley/ You ain’t been up off that porch, now.”

Memorable lyric: “I be drippin’ so much sauce/ Got a bitch lookin’ like Ragù.”

Memorable lyric: “Duh.”